​​Top Liquid Restaking Protocols by TVL

Liquid restaking allows liquid-staking token holders to stake their tokens on EigenLayer. The total value locked in liquid restaking tokens has exceeded $15.6B. Let's explore the current leaders of the market by TVL.

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​​MicroStrategy conducts an acquisition of an additional 122 BTC for ~$7.8M

MicroStrategy, an independent publicly traded analytics and business intelligence company, acquired an additional 122 BTC for $7.8M in April, bringing company's total holding to 214,400 BTC. During the past month, MicroStrategy purchased more than 21K $BTC, worth almost $1.5B.

👉🏻 microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-announces-first-quarter-2024-financial-results-now-holds-214-400-btc_04-29-2024

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​​StarHeroes (STAR) has announces the launch of the Hero Duty Web App

StarHeroes rolls out the Hero Duty Web App, a dedicated web browser game module tailored for starheroes enthusiasts. Hero NFT holders can now develop their Heroes, gain EXP, level up, and boost their StarScore on the Public Access Leaderboard for higher $STAR rewards. Moreover, holders can earn StarForce points through $STAR staking to boost their Hero progression with bonus experience and gain extra StarScore points on the Public Access Leaderboard. StarHeroes, backed by Microsoft grant and GameSwift, is a pioneering web3 gaming experience that transcends conventional space-shooters.

👉🏻 medium.com/@StarHeroes/unleash-your-star-saga-with-the-hero-web-duty-app-07fd0a1eacd1

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​​Backed has announced the closure of its $9.5M funding round led by Gnosis

Backed, a Switzerland-based startup bridging real-world assets on-chain, raised $9.5M in a round led by Gnosis. Exor Seeds, Cyber Fund, Mindset Ventures, Stake Capital Ventures, Blockchain Founders Fund, Blue Bay Capital, and Nonce Classic also participated in the round. Backed offers tokenization services and has issued over $50M worth of tokenized RWAs including ERC-20 compatible token versions of exchange-traded funds (ETF) and individual stocks such as Coinbase (COIN) and Tesla (TSLA).

👉🏻 coindesk.com/business/2024/04/30/tokenized-asset-issuer-backed-raises-95m-as-cryptos-rwa-race-heats-up/

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​​RWA Inc. (RWA) has announced its strategic partnership with Mantra (OM)

RWA Inc. joins forces with Mantra Network, the real-world assets (RWA) Layer 1 blockchain. Under this integration, Mantra’s interoperability and regulatory experience will help RWA Inc. enterprise-grade tokenization across multiple industries. The project has previously raised $1.175M in a private funding round. RWA Inc. is an advanced tokenization ecosystem with unique features.

👉🏻 medium.com/@RWA.Inc/rwa-partners-with-mantra-to-build-a-better-tokenized-economy-8aff51745c14

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​​friend.tеch will conduct $FRIEND TGE and airdrop that will take place on May 2nd

frіend.tеch has disclosed its plans to launch $FRIEND TGE and airdrop on May 2nd, at 17:30 UTC. The project has previously completed the points snapshot, locked points balances, and blocked the unlinking or relinking users' Twitter features. frіend.tеch is a web3 social application on the Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 chain Base, which provides a platform for trading shares in Twitter accounts.

👉🏻 x.com/friendtech/status/1784957439877804037

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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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​​Binance founder Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao has been sentenced to 4 months in prison

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, a.k.a. CZ, will be serving four months in federal prison for anti-money laundering violations, two things happened. Estimated to be worth around $43B, CZ is set to become the richest person to ever serve time in a federal prison in the U.S.. Moreover, in addition to time behind bars, CZ must pay a $50M personal fine.

👉🏻 fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/30/binance-founder-changpeng-cz-zhao-sentenced-to-4-months-in-prison-will-enter-as-countrys-richest-inmate

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​​Aethir (ATH) partners with Sophon for its whitelist node sale spots

Aethir teams up with Sophon to provide Aethir node NFT holders with whitelist spots. Some 1000 Sophon nodes will be available for Aethir node owners on FCFS basis. Aethir builds scalable decentralized cloud infrastructure for Gaming & AI. 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/AethirEco/status/1785242587789439448

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​​Lends (LENDS) has announced its partnership with Paal AI (PAAL)

Lends teams up with Paal AI, a platform building innovative AI solutions through custom feeds. Under this partnership, Lends integrates a custom "Lends" bot built by Paal in our Discord channel. Lends is a cross-chain lending protocol powered by Thorchain, with 0% interest, no-liquidation loans, and savings accounts allowing users to earn a single-sided yield on $BTC, $ETH and more.

👉🏻 x.com/lends_so/status/1785368916975391213

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​​XSwap (XSWAP) has announced its upcoming listing on the Gate.io exchange

XSwap will be listed on the Gate exchange, increasing its exposure to a much broader community worldwide. The project has previously conducted its public sales on Ape Terminal, Fjord Foundry, and its native 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/1785368584400560611

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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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​​Shadow War has announced its partnership with Portal (PORTAL)

Shadow War joins forces with Portal, a cross-chain gaming platform, with a mission to onboard more players to Web3. Through this collaboration, Shadow War will be integrated within Portal, providing the Portal community with a special early access to playtest the game. Shadow War is a hybrid action title for fans of strategic pulse-pounding combat and stylish action gameplay.

👉🏻 x.com/PlayShadowWar/status/1785362733954977950

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​​Top 10 dApps on Polygon by Users Activity (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 #Polygon by volume in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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​​ZeroLend (ZEROLEND) goes live on Bitget pre-market trading today

Pre-market trading for $ZEROLEND is now live on the Bitget exchange! Users can now trade $ZEROLEND in advance, before it becomes available for spot trading. ZeroLend is a lending protocol on zkSync, Manta, Blast, Linea and Ethereum with $223M in total value locked.

👉🏻 bitget.com/support/articles/12560603809095

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​​Smart Layer (SLN) has rolled out the Redbrick launchpad staking

Smart Layer announces a launchpad staking and partnership with Redbrick. Under this integration, $SLN holders will be able to stake their tokens and assets to participate in Redbrick limited free drop of 20,000 Achievement Tokens on May 16th. Moreover, the projects will collaborate on Account Achievement Tokens, allowing users to trade achievements, in-game assets and badges earned via gameplay and other account actions. Smart Layer creates a new digital asset paradigm through its innovative token standard ERC-5169 & TokenScript.

👉🏻 x.com/SmartLayer/status/1785596936311193843

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​​Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - Chiliz (CHZ)

Chiliz $CHZ is a blockchain fintech provider for sports & entertainment that developed its Layer 1 EVM compatible blockchain and Socios.com sports fan engagement platform.

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👉🏻 app.orioleinsights.io/projects/chiliz

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​​Securitize announces the closure of its $47M funding round led by BlackRock

Securitize, the leader in tokenizing real-world assets, announced the successful completion of a $47M strategic round led by BlackRock. The investment also includes funding from Hamilton Lane, ParaFi Capital, Tradeweb Markets, Aptos Labs, Circle and Paxos. The investment coincides with BlackRock’s selection of Securitize as the transfer agent of its first tokenized fund on a public blockchain.

👉🏻 securitize.io/learn/press/securitize-announces-strategic-funding-round-led-by-blackrock

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​​Top Crypto Projects by Developer Activity in April

Dev.Activity - the development activity of a project done in its public Github repositories. Development Activity metrics are measured in a number of Github events.

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​​RWA Inc. (RWA) has established a partnership with Plume Network

RWA Inc. teams up with Plume Network, the first modular L2 blockchain dedicated for all real world assets (RWAs). This integration allows RWA Inc. to organize and accomplish industry-wide strategies that help enhance the UX and drive adoption. RWA Inc. is an advanced tokenization ecosystem with unique features, backed by Castrum VC, Maven Capital, and others.

👉🏻 medium.com/@RWA.Inc/rwa-inc-partners-with-the-plume-network-to-elevate-tokenization-sector-059d638ec164

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​​Legend has kicked off its airdrop campaign on the REY platform

Legend announces the launch of the $LEGEND airdrop program on REY, SocialFi protocol for building, rallying and rewarding web3 communities across web2 social platforms with zero friction. Users can now participate in the airdrop campaign, complete social tasks, refer friend, and grab a share of $20K prize pool. Legend pioneers Sports RWA by tokenizing athletic achievements and connecting over 60M athletes worldwide with their supporters.

👉🏻 x.com/belegends_ok/status/1784998619843870937

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