​​Top 10 NFT Marketplaces by Traders (30d)

An NFT marketplace is a digital platform for buying and selling NFTs. Let's take a look at some of the best-performed NFT marketplaces by the number of traders in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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BNB Chain kicks off the 4th Anniversary Ecosystem Catalyst Awards Selection

BNB Chain has announced the launch of the 4th Anniversary Ecosystem Catalyst Awards Selection. The selected projects will be split into categories including innovation excellence, DeFi excellence, gaming excellence, infra excellence, and rising star. The BAB token holders will vote through an on-chain voting process while the winners will be announced on September 10th. Moreover, participating community members will also receive exclusive rewards.

👉🏻 bnbchain.org/en/blog/the-bnb-chain-ecosystem-catalyst-awards

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​​Top 10 Blockchain Games by Users Activity (30d)

With the spread of Web3 technologies, blockchain games became the industry trend and keep on attracting the attention of gaming & crypto communities. We have made a recap of top blockchain games by users activity in the last 30 days, so let's take a look!

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​​Soulbound has announced the closure of its $4M funding round

Souldbound, a Web3 player profile, and social platform, raises $4M in funding for the Web3 social gaming ecosystem. Among round participants are iAngels, Animoca Brands, Big Brain Holdings, NGC Ventures, Panony, Delta Blockchain Fund and more. The investment will allow Soulbound to establish gaming partnerships, add social interactions, and expand streamer bounties and social questing.

👉🏻 venturebeat.com/games/soulbound-raises-4m-for-web3-social-gaming-ecosystem

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​​Top Liquid Restaking Protocols by TVL

The total value locked in liquid restaking tokens has exceeded $10.8B. Let's explore the current leaders of the market by TVL.

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​​Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - Aleph Zero (AZERO)

Aleph Zero is a layer 1 that enables teams to deploy scalable, secure, low-cost, and ZK privacy-enhanced products across multiple verticals.

Predict AZERO price movements on Oriole Insights
👉🏻 app.orioleinsights.io/projects/aleph-zero

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DIN has raised $4M in the pre-listing round, bringing its total funding to $8M

DIN, (prev. Web3Go) a modular AI-native data pre-processing layer, closes its $4M pre-listing investment round. Investors included Ankr, Manta Network, Moonbeam Network, and Maxx Capital. The funding follows DIN's previous seed round backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Shima Capital, and brings DIN's total funding to $8M. DIN builds a Data Intelligence Network to empower everyone to process data for AI and get paid.

👉🏻 x.com/din_lol_/status/1825843415424377203

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Gate Ventures has rolled out a $100M fund jointly with Blockchain Center in Abu Dhabi

Gate Ventures established a $100M Falcon Gate Ventures in collaboration with the Blockchain Center in Abu Dhabi. The fund will be aimed at driving Web3 innovation, with a targeted focus on technical breakthroughs in the Middle East, Asia, the US, and other key regions. Gate Ventures is the venture capital arm of Gate, a major cryptocurrency exchange.

👉🏻 medium.com/@gate_ventures/gate-ventures-and-the-blockchain-center-in-abu-dhabi-to-launch-falcon-gate-ventures-a-100-million-e30c3e61f033

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Corn announces the closure of its $6.7M funding round led by Polychain Capital

Corn, a super yield network built around Bitcoin, has raised $6.7M in seed funding led by Polychain Capital. Additional round participants included Binance Labs, ABCDE, Framework, Symbolic Capital, Relayer Capital, HTX Ventures, Offchain Labs, Babylon, Steakhouse Financial, and Bullet Labs, along with numerous investors. Corn's BTCN hybrid tokenized Bitcoin enhances Bitcoin's use in DeFi, allowing holders to utilize them across various DeFi applications. The project builds an Ethereum Layer 2 network focused on establishing a DeFi hub for Bitcoin.

👉🏻 x.com/use_corn/status/1825897643824001153

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Zesh (ZESH) has joined forces with the HyperGPT (HGPT) marketplace

Zesh establishes a partnership with HyperGPT, a Web3 marketplace for various AI solutions and seamless SDK solutions. Users can now participate in a dedicated giveaway via Zesh's telegram. Zesh is a unique AI-powered SocialFi suite of tools, that leverages zkML to solve major Web3 problems.

👉🏻 x.com/ZeshApps/status/1825880187432485011

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​​zkMe Network has announced the closure of a $4M seed funding round

zkMe, a provider of zero-knowledge identity verification solutions, has raised $4M in a seed round led by Multicoin Capital. Other investors in the round included OKX Ventures and Robot Ventures. The funds will be used to develop zkMe Network, a neutral ZK identity layer for Web3 developers. The network is expected to launch by the end of Q4.

Back in May 2023, the project secured $2M in its pre-seed funding from Circle, The Spartan, CMS, Fenbushi Capital, NGC Ventures, ArkStream Capital, and others.

👉🏻 blog.zk.me/zkme-secures-4m-from-multicoin-capital-to-build-fatf-and-mica-compliant-identity-solution-for-web3-applications

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Binance announces the 57th project on the Binance Launchpool – Dogs (DOGS)

Users will be able to stake their BNB and FDUSD into separate pools to farm DOGS tokens over three days, with farming starting from August 23rd, at 00:00 UTC. Binance will then list $DOGS on August 26th, at 12:00 UTC, and open trading for the DOGS/USDT, DOGS/BNB, DOGS/FDUSD, and DOGS/TRY trading pairs. Dogs is a Ton memecoin born within Telegram community.

👉🏻 binance.com/en/support/announcement/introducing-dogs-dogs-on-binance-launchpool-farm-dogs-by-staking-bnb-and-fdusd-fc967d5825774984829b96943a42fadf

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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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Clearpool (CPOOL) develops Ozean, an OP Stack-based Layer 2 for RWA yield

Clearpool has unveiled Ozean, a Layer 2 blockchain for RWA yield built on Optimism. Ozean will be powered by Caldera’s rollup-as-a-service platform and will aim to integrate real-world assets into the DeFi world. Users will be able to earn native on-chain yield through a new staking mechanism using the $CPOOL token. Moreover, the project has introduced the USDX stablecoin and a yield-bearing stablecoin, ozUSD. Clearpool is a DeFi credit and RWA lending protocol.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/312024/clearpool-develops-caldera-powered-layer-2-chain-within-optimism-ecosystem

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Sorella Labs has raised $7.5M in a seed funding round by Paradigm

Sorella Labs, a crypto startup building tools aimed at solving Ethereum's maximal extractable value (MEV) issue, closes its $7.5M seed funding led by Paradigm. Additional round investors included Uniswap Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures and Nascent. The firm closed the seed round last September but announced it on August 20th as it goes live with one of its MEV tools available. The investment follows Paradigm's previous investment in another firm addressing Ethereum's MEV problem, Flashbots.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/312222/paradigm-sorella-labs-ethereum-mev-problem

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GenLayer has secured $7.5M in its seed funding led by North Island Ventures

GenLayer, a decentralized artificial intelligence network, closes a $7.5M seed round. The round was led by North Island Ventures and joined by Node Capital, Arrington Capital, ZK Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, BlockBuilders, and Maelstrom. The YeagerAI, a developer of GenLayer, is pioneering a technological scheme called intelligent contracts, or blockchain-based systems that tap large language models connected to the internet to execute functions.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/312105/vcs-back-ai-focused-blockchain-team-building-internet-connected-smart-contracts

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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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Galxe (GAL) has rolled out the alpha mainnet of its Layer 1 chain Gravity

Galxe announces the launch of the alpha mainnet of its Layer 1 blockchain Gravity. Through this innovation, Gravity will bring all of Galxe’s products, including Quest, Compass, Passport, and the Galxe Identity Protocol, on the chain. Gravity is a Layer 1 omni-chain smart contract platform that aims to solve Web3 fragmentation.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/311762/galxe-launches-alpha-mainnet-of-its-layer-1-gravity-chain

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​​Top Crypto Wallets by Downloads in July

Crypto Wallet is a self-custody wallet, putting you in control of your crypto, keys, and data. Let's take a look at some of the best-performed Crypto Wallet by the number of downloads in July, according to the data from SimilarWeb.

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​​Lumia (ORN) has announced the closure of its strategic funding round

Lumia (prev. Orion) closes its strategic investment round led by Laser Digital, with participation from DWF Labs and TRGC. The round was composed of a mix of future Lumia $LUMIA tokens and nodes from Lumia’s successful HyperNodes sale, a first-of-its-kind technology that ensures the decentralization and security of the Lumia network upon its launch.

Lumia is a next-gen modular Layer 2 network designed to provide deep liquidity, unmatched capital efficiency, and essential infrastructure for the future Real-World Assets (RWAs).

👉🏻 blog.lumia.org/lumia-secures-funding

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​​Story Protocol has raised $80M in a Series B funding round led by a16z crypto

PIP Labs, the developer of Story Protocol, has closed a $80M Series B funding round led by a16z crypto, bringing total funding to $140M. Other investors in the round included Polychain Capital, Stability AI's SVP and board member Scott Trowbridge, K11 founder and Adrian Cheng and digital art collector Cozomo de' Medici.

Story Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain that seeks to tokenize intellectual property, making it programmable in the AI era. The mainnet launch is expected later this year. Previously, the firm raised $54M in a Series A funding round, also led by a16z crypto, with participation from Hashed, Samsung Next, and more.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/312349/a16z-crypto-story-protocol-series-b-layer-1-ip-blockchain

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