​​Pantera Capital intends to attract $1B investment for a new crypto fund V

The venture firm Pantera Capital seeks to raise $1B for a new crypto fund called Pantera Fund V. The new fund will be focused on startup equity, early-stage tokens and liquid tokens among others assets. Up to date, Pantera possess $5.2B in assets under management across three fund strategies.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/291035/pantera-capital-1-billion-new-crypto-venture-fund-pantera-fund-v

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​​Aark (AARK) kicks off 1000x Trading Competition with $320K in rewards

Aark has announced the launch of the 1000x Trading Competition event with the reward pool of $320K. Participants will compete across 4 leaderboards on categories including volume, PnL, survival, and winning streak. Each category is allocated with different shares of the total prize, while the total prize pool grows in correlation with the total volume in the cascade. Aark Digital is the Leverage Everything Perpetual DEX for professional traders/LPs on Arbitrum

👉🏻 aarkdigital.medium.com/1000x-trading-competition-win-from-320-000-prize-pool-31939676b1d9

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​​TOP 10 dApps on Aptos 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 #Aptos by volume in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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​​KIP Protocol’s Genesis NFT Free Mint will go live today, April 29th, at 13:00 UTC

KIP Protocol will kick off its Genesis NFT Free Mint today at 13:00 UTC. The mint will be divided into 2 stages including Guaranteed Allocation and Tiered Leaderboard Allocation, starting on 13:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC respectively. Moreover, participants of the of the Genesis Campaign Season 1 that didn’t get to mint a Genesis NFT will be rewarded with kip soulbound token. KIP Protocol is the Web3 base layer for AI, backed by Animoca Ventures.

👉🏻 x.com/KIPprotocol/status/1784568478634328294

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​​TOP NFT Projects by Social Activity

Posts. Posts measures the number of unique social posts across all collected social channels over a rolling 24-hour timeframe.

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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​​Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - Wormhole (W)

Wormhole is a cross-chain messaging protocol powering applications across Web3.

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👉🏻 app.orioleinsights.io/projects/wormhole

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​​XSwap (XSWAP) has unveiled the list of its backers and investors

Among the project's supporters are Chainlink, P2 Ventures, Maven Capital, MH Ventures, ZBS Capital, Cogitent Ventures, CSP DAO, Hasu Capital, Disrupt, Kapo Capital and pragma. The project has previously conducted the $XSWAP LBP on the Fjord Foundry platform. XSwap leverages Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol to provide cross-chain messages and token transfers, offering defense-in-depth security and a unified developer interface for seamless and scalable execution across blockchains.

👉🏻 x.com/xswap_link/status/1784531035486585004

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​​Aethir (ATH) has announced its partnership with Saakuru Protocol

Aethir joins forces with Saakuru Protocol to boost blockchain gaming with distributed GPU infrastructure. Through this partnership, the projects will allow Saakuru Labs and Game Developers building on top of Sakuru Protocol to leverage Aethir’s advanced decentralized cloud gaming servers. Aethir builds scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure for Gaming & AI.

👉🏻 x.com/AethirCloud/status/1784514409529802847

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​​Upcoming Token Unlocks

Let's take a look at the compilation of major upcoming token unlocks, diving into details such as dates, amounts, and projects related to tokens that are currently locked up, but will soon be released to the market. During this week, $DYDX, $ENA, $GAL, $MAVIA, and $PORTAL will have the biggest unlocks.

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​​Mirada AI (MIRX) has announced its partnership with UpOnly (UPO)

Mirada AI joins forces with UpOnly, a platform that offers end-to-end solutions for crypto projects. Under this collaboration, Mirada AI will integrate UpOnly's W3aaS products into their AI venture and services. Mirada AI is a decentralized AI tool, powered by AI via $MIRX, that offers image generation, face-swap, animation, LLM chat, image upscaling, and more.

👉🏻 x.com/miradaai/status/1783795671687987344

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​​Top AI-powered Projects by Market Capitalization

With the rapid growth in popularity and adoption of AI technologies, its implementation has spread into the crypto industry as well. Let's take a dive into the current state of the emerged market and examine the biggest AI-powered crypto projects.

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​​bitsCrunch (BCUT) has announced its collaboration with ZeroLend (ZERO)

bitsCrunch partners with ZeroLend, the lending market on L2s - Linea, zkSync, Manta and Blast. As part of this collaboration, ZeroLend will give away 1.66M of their governance token $ZERO to 10 lucky bitsCrunch Delegators. bitsCrunch team will randomly select 10 Delegators who delegate a minimum of 1K $BCUT.

bitsCrunch is an AI-enhanced data network that delivers NFT analytics and forensic data, backed by Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Polygon Ventures, Morningstar Ventures, and others.

👉🏻 x.com/bitscrunch/status/1784900968091615701

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​​Ultiverse will conduct the mint of Silver and Gold Chip NFT collections

The deposit phase for the mint is now live, users can deposit their funds within the first 24 hours for a 150% increase in winning chances with Silver Chip and Public Lots. The Raffle Phase will start on May 1st, at 12:00 PM UTC. After the $ULTI TGE, holders of Gold Chip NFTs will be able to burn their NFTs to receive 50,000 $ULTI tokens. Ultiverse is building the web3 social gaming metaverse, by connecting web3 with an immersive VR-compatible virtual world.

👉🏻 ultiversedao.medium.com/ultiverse-silver-and-gold-chip-nft-mint-516076989902

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​​StarHeroes (STAR) has sold 94,9K Hero NFTs, raising ~5.22M $STAR

StarHeroes has conducted the Hero NFT sale with 94,9K NFTs sold and ~5.22M $STAR raised. Some 2.61M $STAR tokens (more than 6% of the circulating supply) will be burned. Users can now grind their Heroes in the newly-launched Hero Duty Web App. StarHeroes, backed by Microsoft grant and GameSwift, is a pioneering web3 gaming experience that transcends conventional space-shooters.

👉🏻 x.com/StarHeroes_game/status/1783569023147315501

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​​Night of the Living Dead (NOD) has partnered with Creo Engine (CREO)

Night of the Living Dead (NOTLD) announces a partnership with Creo Engine. This integration aims to expand user bases and support both projects. Night of the Living Dead is an immersive blockchain-based P2E video game built on Unreal Engine.

👉🏻 x.com/Night_of_Dead/status/1784666038186951155

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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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​​EigenLayer announces the Season 1 Stakedrop of its ntaive $EIGEN token

EigenLayer has introduced Eigen Foundation, $EIGEN token, and an upcoming season 1 stakedrop. Some 15% of the EIGEN total supply allocated to the airdrop while season 1 reward will include 5% allocated to restakers, based on the snapshot taken on March 15th.

EigenLayer offers a protocol for users to deposit and re-stake $ETH from various liquid staking tokens, aiming to allocate those funds to secure third-party networks. The protocol has accumulated over $15B in TVL and has raised $164.5M in three funding rounds backed by a16z, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital and others.

👉🏻 blog.eigenfoundation.org/announcement

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​​Neon (NEON) will be listed on the Coinbase exchange today on April 30th

Trading for Neon $NEON tokens on Coinbase and Coinbase Exchange will begin today on April 30th, at 16:00 PM UTC, if liquidity conditions are met. Neon is an EVM on Solana that brings Ethereum compatibility to the Solana blockchain, enabling simultaneous access to the familiar tooling and infrastructure of Ethereum and the speed and low transaction cost of Solana.

👉🏻 x.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1784973326697263568

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​​Sophon announces its partnership with Zentry (ZENT) and Beam (BEAM)

Sophon joins forces with Zentry and Beam, two major gaming ecosystems, unite with a combined treasury exceeding $300M. Through this partnership, the projects will work along to incubate and support the Sophon ecosystem. Moreover, $ZENT and $BEAM stakers will be eligible to receive a $SOPH token airdrop. Users that will purchase at least one node during an ongoing Sophon's public node sale, will get 5,000 $ZENT airdrop. Sophon is a modular rollup leveraging zkSync’s Hyperchain technology that has recently raised $10M in funding led by Paper Ventures and Maven 11.

👉🏻 x.com/sophon/status/1784919236768407868

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​​Polyhedra Network (ZK) announces its partnership with AltLayer (ALT)

Polyhedra teams up with AltLayer, an open and decentralised protocol for rollups. Through this integration, AltLayer’s rollups will be integrated with Polyhedra’s zkBridge functionalities to enable trustless, efficient, and secure interoperability across various Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks. Moreover, AltLayer will join as a node operator for Polyhedra’s Bitcoin dual-staking AVS. Polyhedra Network is building secure, interoperable, and scalable Web3 infrastructure with advanced zero-knowledge-proof technology.

👉🏻 polyhedra.medium.com/polyhedra-network-partners-with-altlayer-to-bring-cross-chain-interoperability-to-rollups-20a614233614

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​​MilkyWay raises $5M in a seed funding led by Binance Labs and Polychain Capital

MilkyWay, a Celestia liquid staking protocol, has announced the closure of its $5M seed investment co-led by Binance Labs and Polychain Capital. Additional round participants included Hack VC, Crypto.соm Capital and LongHash Ventures. MilkyWay is also planning to launch its own token and conduct an airdrop in the coming months.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/291642/celestia-liquid-staking-protocol-milkyway-funding-token-airdrop

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