Babylon kicks off phase one of its self-custodial bitcoin staking mainnnet

Babylon, a Bitcoin staking protocol, has successfully launched the first phase of its self-custodial mainnet. Users can now stake BTC via smart contracts with 12,710 stakers already onboarded. Among projects that have joined $BTC staking on Babylon are pSTAKE Finance, Bedrock, Solv Protocol, and PumpBTC among others. Babylon is backed by Paradigm, Polychain Capital, OKX Ventures, and Hack VC among others with the total amount raised of $96M.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/312665/babylon-launches-phase-one-of-its-self-custodial-bitcoin-staking-mainnnet

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Arch Lending has announced the closure of its $5M equity seed round

Arch Lending, a financial platform that offers crypto-backed loans, raises $75M in equity and debt. The raise includes a $5M equity seed round, co-led by Morgan Creek Digital & Castle Island Ventures and joined by Galaxy, BitGo, Kenetic, Block0, Untamed Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Perpetual Value Partners, and others. The project has also received a scalable $70M loan financing facility backed by Galaxy.

👉🏻 x.com/ArchLending/status/1826616983195906452

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​​Sharpe AI (SAI) introduces the Brownian AI-powered crypto search engine on TON

Sharpe AI has announced the launch of Brownian, an AI-powered crypto search engine mini app built on the TON blockchain. Users can now start using the Brownian mini app here via the Telegram bot. Brownian marks the first project in the Sharpe AI ecosystem and is incubated by Sharpe AI. Sharpe is an institutional-grade crypto superApp, serving as a unified frontend for intelligence, tracking, and investing in digital assets.

👉🏻 x.com/SharpeLabs/status/1826904303295934935

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​​Conduit has announced the launch of its marketplace for rollup teams

Conduit Marketplace will allow rollup teams and developers to find, buy, and deploy integrations for anything their chain needs directly from the platform. Users can integrate the needed app either via one-click integration or by requesting to install. The move follows Conduit's strategy to become the rollup-native cloud platform that handles chains' needs.

👉🏻 blog.conduit.xyz/introducing-conduit-marketplace

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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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​​TOP AI Ecosystem Coins 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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​​Top Recent Crypto Fundraising Events

Presenting a list of some recent crypto fundraising events, backed by well-known investors such as a16z crypto, Binance Labs, Polychain, Hack VC, Blockchain Capital, Arrington Capital, Animoca Brands, Franklin Templeton, GBV Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Circle, Fomocraft Ventures, ZBS Capital, 1kx, Polygon, OKX Ventures, HTX Ventures, and others. Let's take a look!

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​​Orderly Network will be launched on Bitget Launchpool today, on August 26th

The staking period for $ORDER will start on August 26th, at 10:00 AM UTC. Users will be able to stake $BGB, and $ORDER until September 5th to grab a share of 2.60M $ORDER. Moreover, Bitget will list Orderly Network in the Innovation and Web3 zones, on August 26th & conduct the community giveaway with 15K $ORDER in prizes. Orderly Network is a DeFi product that serves as an order book-based trading infrastructure, providing spot and perpetual futures order book trading service.

👉🏻 bitget.com/support/articles/12560603814844

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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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​​StarHeroes (STAR) announces its partnership with Nyan Heroes (NYAN)

StarHeroes joins forces with Nyan Heroes, a play-to-earn NFT shooter game built on the Solana blockchain. Under this partnership, the projects will work along to enhance each other's offerings with more details to be announced. StarHeroes, backed by Microsoft grant and GameSwift, is a pioneering web3 gaming experience that transcends conventional space-shooters.

👉🏻 x.com/StarHeroes_game/status/1826984144129110248

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​​Top 10 dApps on Blast 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 #Blast by users activity in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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​​Sharpe AI (SAI) will be initially listed on multiple exchanges on August 27th

Trading for $SAI will go live on MEXC, Gate, Uniswap, and BingX on August 27th, at 13:00 UTC. Moreover, Sharpe AI has taken the $SAI season 1 airdrop snapshot and will roll out the eligibility checker on August 27th. Sharpe is an institutional-grade crypto superApp, serving as a unified frontend for intelligence, tracking, and investing in digital assets.

👉🏻 x.com/sharpelabs/status/1827264182938460384

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​​DOGS (DOGS) will be initially listed on multiple exchanges today, on Aug 26th

Trading for $DOGS will go live on Binance, OKX, Bybit, KuCoin, Bitget, Gate, MEXC, and other exchanges today on August 26th, at 12:00 UTC. Moreover, DOGS has been launched on Binance Launchpool with 22B $DOGS in rewards. Dogs is a Ton memecoin born within Telegram community.

👉🏻 x.com/binance/status/1825940220807618802

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​​AutoLayer (LAY3R) has announced an upcoming integration of Linea

AutoLayer teases a forthcoming expansion of its offering to the Linea network. Under this integration, AutoLayer will launch a series of restaking products ready for Linea users. AutoLayer is the LRTfi hub which offers one-click liquid restaking and staking along with other DeFi strategies and incentives, backed by Morningstar Ventures, Poolz Ventures, and more.

👉🏻 x.com/AutoLayer/status/1828017464510455811

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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, $SUI, $OP, $ZETA, $AXL, and $DYDX will have the biggest unlocks.

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​​Fetch.аі (FET) launches a new $10M Innovation Lab hub for startups

Fetch.аі has announced the launch of its Innovation Lab with a $10M fund for startups. The project will allocate $10M in annual funding for projects using the platform to build AI agents. Funding will be milestone-based, with a $1M per project, while participants are required to be in the initial stages of development and willing to integrate the platforms’ agent technology. Moreover, Fetch.аі kicks off an internship incubator and an ambassador program.

👉🏻 cointelegraph.com/news/fetch-ai-innovation-lab-10-m-fund-startups

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Chainbound has raised $4.6M in a seed funding round led by Cyber Fund

Chainbound, the crypto research and development company, announces the closure of its $4.6M seed investment led by Cyber Fund. Among other investors are Maven 11, Robot Ventures, and Bankless Ventures. The startup is working to develop a protocol called Bolt, which will enable cutting edge preconfirmations on Ethereum.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/313012/ethereum-firm-chainbound-raise-transaction-preconfirmation-protocol-bolt

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​​Coin of the Day by Market Sentiment - HyperGPT (HGPT)

HyperGPT is a Web3 marketplace for various AI solutions and seamless SDK solutions.

Predict HGPT price movements on Oriole Insights
👉🏻 app.orioleinsights.io/projects/hypergpt

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​​PayPal teams up with Anchorage Digital on $PYUSD stablecoin rewards program

PayPal and crypto custodian Anchorage Digital have partnered on a stablecoin rewards program. Through this innovation, $PYUSD holders will earn a yield on the tokens held by the crypto-native bank or in Anchorage’s institutional self-custody wallet Porto. The rewards will be paid out in the stablecoin, likely based on deposit size.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/312903/paypal-and-anchorage-partner-on-pyusd-stablecoin-rewards-program

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

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​​Ponder (PNDR) has announced its strategic partnership with ArkeFi

Ponder teams up with ArkeFi, a Real World Asset Engine for consumer goods facilitated by AI computing. Through this collaboration, the projects will conduct ross-community airdrops & more in-depth integrations.

Earlier in June, Ponder rolled out the Beta version of its platform with over 20 networks integrated into its engine. Ponder builds a solution providing a fully integrated comparison tool for crypto-based operations.

👉🏻 x.com/Ponder_One/status/1828086343831867480

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