​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. August 2023, part 3.

​​Dusk Network has released its updated roadmap today. Mainnet rollout is scheduled for March, 2024.

​​Web traffic to crypto exchanges in August 2023. According to the data from SimilarWeb in August a cumulative web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges has remained at the same level.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. September 2023, part 1.

According to CyversAlerts CoinEx seems to have been hacked atm. Around $28M being drained so far on ETH, TRON, Polygon. If you have funds there withdraw immediately.

​​Coinbase lists VeChain (VET) and VeThor (VTHO) on September 13. Trading will begin on or after 9:30 AM PT on 13 Sept 2023, if liquidity conditions are met.

​​opBNB Mainnet is going live on September 13. opBNB, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible Layer 2 chain based on Optimism OP Stack.

​​Huobi Exchange to undergo rebranding and will rename itself to HTX. Huobi’s official Twitter and Telegram accounts have been changed to HTX already.

​​ClayStack is launching the first DVT-based Ethereum Liquid Staking. According to the blog post ClayStack will incentivize early participants in CLAY token through Initial Governance Diversification program. 5% of the token supply has been reserved for this activity.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. September 2023, part 2.

​​Crypto startup Bastion raises $25M in funding round led by a16z crypto. An Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup bent on bringing blockchain technology to the corporate world has managed to raise new funds, despite the bear market in digital assets. Investors also include Nomura Group’s Laser Digital Ventures, Robot Ventures and crypto influencer Packy McCormick’s Not Boring Capital, among others.

​​The crypto gaming company Proof of Play raised $33M in a seed round, with investors including a16z crypto, Anchorage Digital and Naval Ravikant. Other participants in the round included Balaji Srinivasan, Twitch founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear, in addition to Mercury, Firebase, Zynga, and Alchemy.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. September 2023, part 3.

​​Celestia announced airdrop details that will take place later this year. The Genesis Drop invites 7,5k developers and 577k onchain addresses on Ethereum rollups, Cosmos Hub, and Osmosis to join Celestia. The Genesis Drop allocates 60M TIA (6% of total supply) across Public GitHub contributors, Modular Fellows (cohort 1), active users of the top 10 rollups by TVL and Cosmos stakers.

Binance fully exits Russia with sale to CommEX. The off-boarding process will take up to one year.

​​Subsquid is launching incentivized testnet on CoinList. 2% of total token supply is allocated as rewards. 13.3M SQD will be allocated to developers of indexers (squids) and other participating community members. Another 13.3M SQD will be rewarded to worker node operators. Subsquid is a blockchain indexing SDK and a distributed data storage.

​​Bitcoin monthly returns: 2011-2023. It was the first green September since 2016. Bitcoin is up around 4% in September 2023.

​​Top 20 most discussed cryptocurrencies on Twitter in September 2023. In the chart below you can find a share of mentions of each coin among top 150 coins by market cap.

​​StarkWare has delayed the first unlocks of its native StarkNet (STRK) token to April 2024. The new unlock date has been pushed to Apr. 15, 2024, from the previously scheduled date of Nov. 29, 2023, according to a transaction in one of the StarkWare token locking mechanism contracts carried out on Sunday, Etherscan shows.

​​Blockchain-based loyalty program for diners Blackbird Labs raises $24M in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from QED, Union Square Ventures, Shine, Variant and others and restaurant groups.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. October 2023, part 1.