Hedgehog, a protocol providing tools for dealing with fluctuating crypto transaction fee prices, has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round.

Venture capital firms Marshland Capital, Tenzor Capital, Prometeus Ventures, 3Commas Capital, and Nothing Research participated in the round.

Angel investors included Vasiliy Shapovalov, co-founder of Lido Finance; Banteg, a pseudonymous developer at Yearn Finance; and ivangbi, a pseudonymous core contributor to Gearbox.

https://twitter.com/TheHedgehog_io/status/1765355385290965024
https://www.theblock.co/post/280593/hedgehog-a-protocol-for-hedging-against-crypto-transaction-fees-raises-pre-seed-round

The Arizona state Senate has advanced a resolution that would have lawmakers and state retirement fund managers look into allocating a portion of portfolios to bitcoin ETFs.

https://blockworks.co/news/arizona-senate-crypto-retirement-funds

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam reiterated his longstanding call for Congress to pass legislation addressing regulators' jurisdictions in the crypto industry.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/03/06/congress-needs-to-act-on-crypto-regulations-cftc-chair-behnam-tells-lawmakers/

Wormhole has released Tokenomics and Airdrop Details.

6.17% (617,305,000) of the W supply has been allocated from the Community & Launch category in connection with this airdrop across 397,704 wallets following anti-sybil measures.

The airdrop included 500,000,000 W for onchain activity for users who used Wormhole ecosystem applications across the 30+ Wormhole-connected blockchains, as well as approximately 117,305,000 W for community users, such as Wormhole Discord users, various NFT communities, Monad community, and the top 10,000 Pyth stakers.

https://wormhole.com/w-airdrop-explained/

Saga’s Airdrop Claims Page is officially live.

Users will have until 12:00 UTC, March 27, 2024, to claim the Genesis drop.

https://medium.com/sagaxyz/saga-community-genesis-drop-guide-c484644b97f4
https://claim.airdrop.saga.xyz/

Backpack Exchange: “The first snapshot of the Backpack Exchange Pre-Season will be on March 18th”.

https://twitter.com/Backpack/status/1765533481311113545

Top 100 gainers in 24h: FET +45%, RNDR +39%, NEAR +35%, AGIX +34%, FLOW +21%.

https://dropstab.com/insights/top-performance

Crypto Market Daily Review ☀️

The market is growing. Market cap is $2.51T. Bitcoin is trading at $65.9K

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Bybit Launchpool has introduced Nibiru (NIBI).

Nibiru Chain is a L1 blockchain and smart contract ecosystem.

Listing Time: March 12, 8:00 UTC.

https://x.com/bybit_official/status/1765286163244339707

Apeiron (APRS), Ronin-based blockchain game, will have an ICO on the Ronin Launchpad (Impossible Finance).

APRS Sale Details:
Total Supply: 1,000,000,000
Price: $0.11 USD
Fully Diluted Valuation: $110M
Vesting: 20% unlock on TGE. 2 months cliff, then 80% block by block vesting over 18 months.
Utility: Creating Planet NFTs, creating Relic NFTs, staking, gacha

Key Dates:
wRON Staking period: 13-15 March 6:00 UTC
APRS Purchase period: 15 March 10:00 UTC to 17 March 4:00 UTC
APRS Claim period: 26 March, with the confirmed time to be announced later

https://roninchain.com/blog/posts/aprs-token-launch

Robert Kiyosaki predicts BTC to grow to $300k in 2024.

https://twitter.com/theRealKiyosaki/status/1765506264077906271

BlockFi reaches $875 million settlement with FTX, Alameda Research.

https://www.theblock.co/post/281005/blockfi-875-million-settlement-ftx-alameda

💧New Accumulation Phase Coins Backed by 🚀DWF Labs

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Near and Ankr will participate in the NVIDIA GTC 24 conference.

Ankr CEO Chandler Song and CTO Stanley Wu will attend the NVIDIA GTC 24 conference to showcase GPU cloud services in cooperation with Dell. Many blockchain founders will also go to the GTC 24, including the founder of Render, the co-founder of NEAR, etc.

https://www.nvidia.com/gtc/speakers/
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1765657501775843598

Pantera is seeking funds for the Pantera Solana Fund, which has an “opportunity” to buy up to $250 million worth of SOL tokens from the FTX estate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-07/pantera-raising-money-to-buy-250-million-solana-holding-from-ftx-sol

Aevo drop details:

▫️3% allocated to community
▫️4.5% allocated to Binance
▫️AEVO Total Supply: 1B
▫️RBN current price: $1.45
▫️AEVO FDV: ~ $1.45B

https://discord.com/channels/808777716396195851/808863574759440474/1214925355580661821

The Masa Community Sale on CoinList starts in an hour.

Price: $0.079
Supply: 63,554,660 MASA tokens (4% of the total supply)
Lockup & Release: 25% released at TGE followed by a 6-month linear vesting; centralized exchange listing is expected to occur on or around April 11, 2024
Initial Purchase Limits: $50 minimum, $2,000 maximum (USDT/USDC only).

https://coinlist.co/masa

Injective announced it is launching inEVM Layer 2 rollup solution on mainnet.

https://www.theblock.co/post/280894/injective-inevm-layer-2-launches-on-mainnet-targeting-more-ethereum-cosmos-and-solana-collaboration

Arkham: Tesla currently holds 11.51K BTC ($780M) across 68 addresses, and SpaceX holds 8.29K BTC ($560M) across 28 addresses.

https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/tesla

AshPerp launches on-chain leveraged trading on MultiversX.

AshPerp is the first decentralized perpetual trading platform on the MultiversX blockchain.

https://multiversx.com/blog/ash-perp-perpetuals-multiversx
https://twitter.com/MultiversX/status/1765775130234388805

Clearpool introduces Clearpool AI Bot in collaboration with PAAL AI.

https://x.com/clearpoolfin/status/1765414713801003101