​​OpenSocial announces the closure of its $6M strategic funding round

OpenSocial, a multichain SocialFi infrastructure, has raised $6M in funding led by Framework Ventures and North Island Ventures, with participation from Moonrock Capital, Chorus One, Hivemind Capital Partners, Stratos, HV Capital, X Ventures, Gat Labes, Panga Capital, Aspen Digital and angel investors. The round brings OpenSocial's total funding raised to $26M.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/307335/opensocial-protocol-raises-6-million-in-funding-from-framework-ventures-and-north-island-ventures

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​​Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - Aave (AAVE)

Aave is a decentralised non-custodial liquidity market protocol where users can participate as suppliers or borrowers.

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👉🏻 app.orioleinsights.io/projects/aave

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​​DeXe Protocol goes live on Bybit with a new $DEXE perpetual contract

Users can now trade the DEXE/USDT pair with up to 12.5x leverage on Bybit! Earlier in July, DeXe Protocol partnered with HOT Protocol, a user-centric crypto wallet with 3M daily active users. The DeXe Protocol allows people to create and govern DAOs in a meritocratic way, with proper incentive alignment and wide flexibility.

👉🏻 x.com/DexeNetwork/status/1816445762856755224

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​​Tren Finance has announced the launch of its test network

Tren Finance kicks off its invite-only testnet for users to explore Tren and help refine its features. Early testnet users will secure a 2x points multiplier once Tren Finance transitions to mainnet. Moreover, Tren has partnered with Ionic Protocol to unlock yield and liquidity. Tren Finance is a CDP protocol designed to provide liquidity for various types of assets.

👉🏻 blog.tren.finance/testnet-live

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​​aPriori has raised $8M in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital

aPriori announces the closure of its $8M seed investment led by Pantera Capital. Among additional round participants are Consensys, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, ABCDE, Gumi Cryptos Capital, Flow Traders, Laser Digital, Chorus One, Everstake Capital and Staking Facilities, as well as, several angel investors. The seed round brings aPriori's total funding to $10M and token valuation to at least $100M. aPriori is a liquid staking platform building on the Monad blockchain.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/307499/monad-liquid-staking-platform-apriori-100-million-token-valuation-funding

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​​Kintsu closes its $4M seed funding led by Castle Island Ventures

Kintsu, a liquid staking protocol building on the Monad blockchain, raises $4M in funding led by Castle Island Ventures. Other round participants included Brevan Howard Digital, CMT Digital, Spartan Group, Breed VC, CMS Holdings, Animoca Ventures and others. The firm has also disclosed that is sMONAD liquid staking token will launch in the first week of Monad's launch.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/307487/brevan-howard-digital-monad-liquid-staking-protocol-kintsu-funding

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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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​​Kuru has announced the closure of its $2M seed investment round

Monad-based on-chain orderbook exchange Kuru has raised $2M in a seed funding round led by Electric Capital. Other participants in the round include Brevan Howard Digital, CMS Holdings, Pivot Global, Breed, Velocity Capital, Purple, and angels like Keone Hon, Jarry Xiao, and Eugene Chen. The project intends to use the fresh capital to grow its team and prepare for audits ahead of a launch on the Monad testnet.

👉🏻 kurulabs.substack.com/p/kuru-labs-raises-2-million-seed-round

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​​Itheum (ITHEUM) has partnered with Numbers Protocol (NUM)

Itheum teams up with Numbers Protocol, a decentralized protocol designed to ensure provenance for all types of creative works created by humans and AI. Under this integration, the projects will address the challenges of provenance and authenticity of the data. The Itheum Protocol provides omni-chain Data NFT infrastructure to power the AI economy with users data.

👉🏻 itheum.medium.com/itheum-and-numbers-protocol-partner-for-data-provenance-authenticity-the-future-of-ai-028197eb075e

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​​TOP Crypto Projects by Social Activity

Posts. Posts measures 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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pSTAKE (PSTAKE) is set to launch its Bitcoin Liquid Staking on July 29th

pSTAKE will roll out its Bitcoin liquid staking on July 29th with a 50 $BTC deposit cap. Built on Babylon, pSTAKE's Bitcoin liquid staking will also have a points program at the mainnet launch. Earlier in June, pSTAKE launched the solution on test network. pSTAKE Finance is a multichain liquid staking protocol backed by Binance Labs.

👉🏻 x.com/pStakeFinance/status/1816450893379997934

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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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​​Mongy (MONGY) will be listed on the Bitget exchange on July 26th

Trading for $MONGY will go live on Bitget in the Innovation and Meme zones on July 22nd, at 12:00 UTC! Deposits are now open and withdrawals will open on July 26th, at 12:00 UTC. MONGY is the meme & ecosystem coin powering an ecosystem of entertainment products.

👉🏻 bitget.com/support/articles/12560603813306

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Sharpe AI (SAI) announces the launch of Sharpe Basic Swap, powered by OpenOcean

Sharpe AI rolls out Sharpe Basic Swap, its DEX aggregator powered by OpenOcean. The solution will leverage OpenOcean's advanced smart order routing to ensure deep liquidity from 1000+ sources. Furthermore, Sharpe has joined IBM's AI Startup Program. Sharpe is an institutional-grade crypto superApp, serving as a unified frontend for intelligence, tracking, and investing in digital assets.

👉🏻 x.com/sharpelabs/status/1816365249764733331

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​​Top Blockchain Protocols by Total Generated Fees (30d)

Let's take a look at the ranking of top blockchain protocols by total fees paid by users in the past 30 days, according to the data from Tokenterminal.

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​​Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - Jeo Boden (BODEN)

Boden, meme coin about the 46th President of The USA! From sniffing people to the occasional slip-up in the pants, Boden keeps us entertained and reminds us not to take life too seriously.

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👉🏻 app.orioleinsights.io/projects/jeo-boden

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​​Self Chain unveils an upcoming $SLF airdrop to its early users

Self Chain has allocated 325K $SLF tokens as an airdrop to 800 testers, validators, and stakers. Users can now check the lists for eligibility and begin staking their $SLF. Earlier this month, the project launched its APIs, allowing users to retrieve data, submit transactions, integrate with apps, and automate interactions. Self Chain is the first Modular Intent-Centric Access Layer1 blockchain and keyless wallet infrastructure service using MPC-TSS/AA for multi-chain Web3 access.

👉🏻 blog.selfchain.xyz/testnet-participants-airdrop

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​​Top Blockchains by TVL Growth (30D)

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​​Neo has rolled out its Neo X mainnet, supported by a $20M funding program

Neo announces the launch of Neo X mainnet, its EVM-based MEV-resistant sidechain, along with the native bridge and a $20M Elevate funding program. Users can now interact with an interoperability layer through a native cross-chain bridge between EVM Neo X and NeoVM Neo N3. To support the new Neo X's ecosystem, the project has kicked off the Elevate funding program with a total grants pool of up to $20M.

👉🏻 neo.org/blog/details/4311

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​​Roxom has announced the closure of its $4.3M pre-seed funding round

Roxom raised $4.3M in pre-seed funding to launch the first stock, commodities, and futures exchange denominated in Bitcoin. The round was led by Tim Draper from Draper Associates, with participation from Borderless, Cadenza Ventures, NewtopiaVC, Kingsway Capital, 2TM, and several angel investors.

👉🏻 x.com/roxomxyz/status/1816159916794733039

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​​Illuvium (ILV) has announced the launch of its gaming ecosystem

Illuvium has conducted the public launch of its gaming universe of 3 games that are now live on Epic Games Store, Google Play, and App Store. Players can now download and enter Illuvium Zero, Illuvium Overworld, and Illuvium Arena to explore, capture, level up Illuvials, and battle it out in the arena. Illuvium is a collectible NFT RPG game on Ethereum, backed by Animoca Brands, Framework Ventures, Polygon Ventures, The Spartan Group, and others.

👉🏻 x.com/illuviumio/status/1816537026734297109

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