​​Puffer raises $18M in Series A funding led by Electric Capital and Brevan Howard Digital

Additional round participants included Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Mechanism, Lightspeed Faction, Consensys, Animoca, and GSR. The fresh funding will be used to help launch Puffer’s mainnet. Back in January, Puffer received an undisclosed investment from Binance Labs. Puffer Finance is an Ethereum liquid restaking protocol with $1.18B in total value locked.

👉🏻 coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/16/liquid-restaking-protocol-puffer-raises-18m-led-by-brevan-howard-electric-capital

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​​AutoLayer (LAY3R) has announced the integration with Balancer (BAL)

AutoLayer is now integrated with Balancer, a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol. Users can now provide liquidity to LRT Pools on Balancer with just one click. Like other AutoLayer products, these pools are boosted with AutoLayer points while generating EigenLayer points and LRT Points.

AutoLayer is the premier Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRT) finance app on Arbitrum. The project previously closed its $2.5M funding round backed by Morningstar Ventures, Kucoin Labs, Spark Digital Capital, Poolz Ventures, and others.

👉🏻 x.com/AutoLayer/status/1780174579035501033

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​​Sending Labs announces the closure of its $7.5M seed extension funding

Sending Labs, a DePIN project focused on web3 communications has raised $7.5M in a seed extension funding round. Among investors are Nomad Capital, Symbolic Capital, Wеb3.соm Ventures, Galxe, SWC Global, along with several angel investors like one Balaji Srinivasan and Yield Guild Games co-founder Gabby Dizon. The project has previously raised $12.5M in seed funding, led by Insignia Venture Partners, MindWorks Capital, and Signum Capital.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/288617/depin-project-sendingnetwork-crypto-funding

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​​TOP 10 dApps on BNB Chain by Volume (30d)

A decentralized application (dApp) is a program built on blockchain that combines a smart contract and a front-end user interface. We present the top dApps on #BNBChain by volume in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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​​Catamoto (CATA) will be listed on the PancakeSwap exchange on April 19th

Trading for the $CATA token will go live on PancakeSwap on April 19th, at 10:00 AM UTC. The project has previously conducted its IDOs on multiple platforms including Kommunitas, TenseT, Oxbull, BSCPad, and ApeTerminal. Catamoto is a community memecoin project on BNB Chain with the $CATA native token.

👉🏻 x.com/4catamoto/status/1779843073033289995

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​​Apeiron (APRS) goes live on the Gаtе.іо exchange along with the startup pool

Apeiron $APRS will be listed on Gate on April 18th, while the airdrop startup pool is already active. Users can now take part in the airdrop startup pool event and grab a share of 8,044 $APRS. Apeiron is the NFT-based play-and-earn god game, backed by Hashed, Morningstar Ventures, DeFiance Capital, Spartan Group, and others.

👉🏻 blog.apeironnft.com/p/aprs-coming-to-gateio-and-nova-east

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​​OKX (OKB) announces the launch of the X Layer L2 network on mainnet

OKX crypto exchange rolls out the public mainnet of X Layer, an Ethereum-based zero-knowledge Layer 2 network built using Polygon's Chain Development Kit. X Layer will allow users to deposit and withdraw crypto via OKX, with access to over 170 dapps. Moreover, the company confirmed that the $OKB token will serve as X Layer’s native asset to pay transaction fees on the network.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/288372/okx-launches-new-layer-2-mainnet-x-layer

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​​Sekuya (SKYA) has announced a partnership with Immutable

Sekuya teams up with Immutable, a Layer 2 network for NFTs and blockchain gaming. Under this partnership, Sekuya will use the security, optimization, and scaling solutions offered by Immutable X and Immutable zkEVM. Incubated by SingularityDAO, Sekuya Multiverse is an award-winning startup project, offering an immersive MMORPG experience set in the Novae Terrae, a 10-world universe.

👉🏻 x.com/sekuyaofficial/status/1780162839493173252

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​​Runes Terminal (RUNI) announces its partnership with BRC 20 DEX

Runes Terminal has announced a strategic partnership with BRC 20 DEX, the ultimate trading hub for BRC-20 tokens. This integration aims to help the projects deliver on Bitcoin-improving products. Runes Terminal is the first launchpad supporting the new Bitcoin token standard - Runes, to build a gate between EVMs and the Bitcoin network.

👉🏻 medium.com/@runesterminal/standard-bearers-runes-terminal-x-brc-20-dex-7907934ac6ec

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​​Andreessen Horowitz has raised $7.2B for its latest set of funds

Andreessen Horowitz closes a $7.2B round for its newest set of funds. The investment will be divided into different practices within the firm, including $3.75B for the firm's growth fund, $1.25B for its AI infrastructure, $1B for AI apps, $600M for its "American Dynamism" strategy, and another $600M for its second gaming fund. Andreessen Horowitz is one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms.

👉🏻 axios.com/2024/04/15/andreessen-horowitz-7-billion-new-funds

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​​Nuklai (NAI) will be initially listed on Gatе.іо and MEXC on April 17th

Trading for the $NAI token will go live on the Gatе.іо and MEXC exchanges on April 17th, at 08:00 AM UTC. The project has previously conducted its token sales on ChainGPT Pad, Gate.io, Ape Terminal, and WeWay. Nuklai is an innovative layer 1 blockchain infrastructure to host a collaborative data ecosystem that will fuel AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) with world-class data.

👉🏻 gate.io/article/35813

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​​Lumia (ORN) has announced its strategic partnership with Prom

Lumia joins forces with Prom, a developer of the modular ZkEVM Layer 2 that enables interoperability across various chains. Under this integration, the projects will work together to bring CEX liquidity from Binance, OKX, and others, to dApps building on Prom. Lumia is a robust liquidity infrastructure protocol interconnecting Layer 1’s and Layer 2’s with boundless liquidity from CEXs and DEXs.

👉🏻 x.com/BuildOnLumia/status/1780251370831962391

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​​Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know

This digest provides a quick overview of the most significant cryptocurrency news, that's worth your attention.

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​​Drift Protocol rolls out its governance $DRIFT token along with a 100M airdrop

Drift Protocol, the largest open-sourced perpetual futures exchange built on Solana, will distribute 100M of its $DRIFT governance token through the airdrop. Some 180K eligible users will share 100M $DRIFT (10% of the total token supply), with more TGE and airdrop details coming soon.

👉🏻 x.com/DriftFDN/status/1780213283095552507

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​​Sharpe AI (SAI) teases an upcoming launch of the Sharpe Perps DEX

Sharpe AI has announced an upcoming launch of Sharpe Perps, its ultimate decentralized perpetual exchange. The exchange aims to deliver fast execution, deep liquidity, as well as unbeatable pricing. Sharpe is an institutional-grade crypto superApp, serving as a unified frontend for intelligence, tracking, and investing in digital assets.

👉🏻 x.com/SharpeLabs/status/1780211867115262300

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BounceBit introduces the Liquid Custody solution in a strive to redefine CeDeFi

BounceBit announces the launch of Liquid Custody, backed by prominent regulated custody providers and fund managers. This innovation aims at making CeFi assets liquid and lowering the barrier to entry. Users will be able to commit their assets to centralized custody, receiving Liquid Custody Tokens (LCT) in return, which allows them to withdraw the assets. Moreover, these LCTs can be bridged to BounceBit and be further utilized through staking and restaking features.

Although the Liquid Custody will go live only on mainnet, users can enter BounceBit's early access phase and claim a free BounceClub on testnet via our invitation link. BounceBit is building a BTC restaking infrastructure that provides a foundational layer for different restaking products.

👉🏻 medium.com/@bouncebit/introducing-liquid-custody-on-bouncebit-78e5923f7687

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​​Polyhedra Network (ZK) announces a partnership with Google Cloud

Polyhedra Network teams up with Google Cloud to bring ZK proofs to developers by leveraging Blockchain Node Engine. Under this partnership, the projects will streamline ZK workloads for blockchain operations. Earlier this week, Polyhedra received a $300M investment in staked $ETH from KelpDAO. Polyhedra Network is building secure, interoperable, and scalable Web3 infrastructure with advanced zero-knowledge-proof technology.

👉🏻 x.com/PolyhedraZK/status/1780507485239177485

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​​Gaming & Metaverse Projects by Social Activity

Posts. Posts measure the number of social posts across all social channels.

Interactions include socially-driven engagements and actions such as likes, comments, retweets, and upvotes.

Social Dominance. Social dominance calculates the "share of voice" across all social media data.

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​​Centrifuge has raised $15M in funding led by Greenfield Capital and ParaFi

Centrifuge, a platform dedicated to turning real-world assets (RWAs) into loans, closes its $15M investment round led by Greenfield Capital and ParaFi Capital. Additional investors included Circle Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Arrington Capital, The Spartan Group, Wintermute Venture, Bloccelerate, Stake Capital, Gnosis, Skynet Capital, TRGC, and others. The fundraising news comes with a proposal, to build a lending market called Centrifuge Pools.

👉🏻 axios.com/2024/04/17/centrifuge-15m-seriesa-funding-round

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​​TOP 10 Social-Fi dApps by Users Activity (30d)

Let's take a look at the top 10 social-fi dApps, based on users' activity over the past 30 days, according to the DappRadar. Social-Fi brings together the principles of social media and DeFi by offering a Web3 approach to creating, managing, and owning social media platforms and the content generated by its participants.

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​​Nuklai (NAI) goes live on the Gate.іо, MEXC, and Uniswap exchanges

Trading for $NAI is now live on Gate.іо, MEXC, and Uniswap! The project has previously conducted its token sales on ChainGPT Pad, Gate.io, Ape Terminal, and WeWay. Nuklai is an innovative layer 1 blockchain infrastructure to host a collaborative data ecosystem that will fuel AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) with world-class data.

🔸IDO Price: $0.003
🔸Current Price: $0.028 (~x9.96)
🔸ATH Price: $0.032 (~x10.8)

👉🏻 x.com/NuklaiData/status/1780537633900310665

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