Hedgehog Markets, a decentralized prediction markets platform built on the Solana blockchain, has announced the close of its $3.5M seed funding round.

Investors include prominent venture and digital asset firms Reciprocal Ventures, Republic Labs, Alameda Research, Divergence Ventures, MGNR, and Manna. Hedgehog also received a grant from the Solana Foundation.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210727005324/en/

NFT-based game Splinterlands raises $3.6M via private token sale.

Several crypto-native funds and ecosystem players contributed to the token raise, including Animoca Brands, Blockchain Founders Fund, Enjin, Polygon, Yield Guild Games, Gate.io, 3Commas Capital, Alpha Sigma Capital, AGE Crypto Asset Investment Fund, TechmeetsTrader and many others. Individual investors included Ran Neuner as well as the founders of Taiwan Mobile, Simplex and Sandbox.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/nft-based-game-splinterlands-raises-3-6m-via-private-token-sale

ValoraApp has raised $20M in a funding round series A led by a16z.

Backers: Kathryn Haun, Arianna Simpson, Polychain Capital, NFX, Morgan Beller, SV Angel, Jonathan Stein, April Underwood, Alex Roetter, Guy Raz, Ruzwana Bashir, Matthew Lieber.

https://twitter.com/ValoraApp/status/1420015310468435976

The Singapore-based startup EthSign has raised $650,000 in a funding round led by venture capital firm Draper Associates.

Investors: Hashkey Capital and ImToken Ventures.

EthSign is a decentralized application that records signed electronic documents on the Ethereum blockchain.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112449/ethereum-based-project-ethsign-raises-seed-funding-to-put-signed-documents-on-the-blockchain

Crypto cashback app StormX has secured $9 million in a funding round led by Optimista Capital to support its plans for a debit card and to expand across the U.S. later this year.

https://www.coindesk.com/stormx-raises-9m-in-funding-round-led-by-optimista-capital

Tokemak Degenesis Event has started.
Raised at the moment: $17M (max $48M).

https://degenesis.tokemak.xyz/
https://medium.com/tokemak/tokemak-the-degenesis-939495d9e2ff

Binance will list Clover Finance (CLV) and Quant (QNT) and will open trading for CLV/BTC, CLV/BNB, CLV/BUSD, CLV/USDT, QNT/BTC, QNT/BNB, QNT/BUSD and QNT/USDT trading pairs at 2021-07-29 06:00 AM (UTC).

Withdrawals for CLV and QNT will open at 2021-07-30 06:00 AM (UTC).

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/053a6010adc844e29e3859a460e32d12

OKEx has listed Clover.

https://www.okex.com/trade-spot/clv-usdt

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and incubator of Binance, today announced its strategic investment in NFKings, a leading NFT creatives and production company with over 100 intellectual properties (IPs), to contribute to building a sustainable digital creativity space.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684902442/Binance-Labs-Announces-Strategic-Investment-in-NFKings-NFT-Creatives-and-Production-Company

In Blockscan, users can now see whether an address is used in other chains.

https://blockscan.com/

Coca-Cola to launch NFTs in Decentraland

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/coca-cola-to-launch-nfts-in-decentraland/

Lolli has raised $10 million in a Series A financing round led by early Chime backer, Acrew Capital.

Acrew is joined by Banana Capital, Up North Management, and Animal Capital, the Gen. Z-focused venture capital fund founded by social media stars Josh Richards, Griffin Johnson, and Noah Beck.

The funding round includes investments from influencers and entrepreneurs such as Logan Paul, Chantel Jeffries, Lauren Riihimaki of LaurDIY, Kenny Beecham, and Baron Davis.

https://blog.lolli.com/lolli-closes-10m-series-a-funding-round-led-by-acrew-capital-and-top-influencers-including-logan-paul-chantel-jeffries-and-sway-house-creators/

DeFine has raised $5 million in strategic investments as part of a wider effort to onboard more companies to the NFT world.

The raise was led by Huobi Ventures, eSports entertainment company Abyss and global game developer PearlAbyss.

Several Asian blockchain funds also participated, including Draper Dragon, NGC Ventures and SevenX Ventures.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/social-nft-platform-define-raises-5m-from-asian-investors

Biconomy has raised $9M in private funding, aims to simplify crypto transactions.

Investors: Coinbase Ventures, Coinfund, True Ventures, Bain Capital, NFX, Proof Group, Ledgerprime, Huobi Innovation Labs, Primitive Ventures, Genblock and Rarestone Capital, Woodstock Fund, Eden Block, and Zee Prime Capital.

https://blockworks.co/biconomy-raises-9m-in-private-funding-aims-to-simplify-crypto-transactions/

Binance lists FLOW.
Trading: July 30, 13:00 UTC

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/d00fe25c21ef4db5afe5c12e32b4fe27

Robinhood raised $2.1 billion via its IPO.
In total, the company has sold 55 million shares at $38 each, which is the lower end of the previously expected range between $38 and $42 per share.

During the IPO, Robinhood was valued at $31.8 billion, making it one of the most valuable American companies to go public lately.

https://decrypt.co/77128/robinhood-hits-32-billion-valuation-after-2-1-billion-ipo

Livepeer, a decentralized video streaming platform built on the Ethereum blockchain, has raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

Digital Currency Group led the round, with Northzone, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Animal Ventures, and 6th Man Ventures.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112920/ethereum-video-streaming-platform-livepeer-20-million-series-b

Crypto trading and lending platform Vauld has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures
with participation from Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, CoinShares, CMT Digital, Gumi Cryptos, and Robert Leshner’s Robot Ventures.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/112912/peter-theil-valar-crypto-platform-vauld-series-a

Coinbase has listed Harvest Finance.
After the news, FARM increased by 2 times.

https://blog.coinbase.com/harvest-finance-farm-is-now-available-on-coinbase-d938c7cc773

PayPal set to launch crypto trading in the UK and may embrace DeFi

https://cointelegraph.com/news/paypal-set-to-launch-crypto-trading-in-the-uk-and-may-embrace-defi

Efinity (EFI) and Swarm (BZZ) will be available for trading on CoinList Pro, CoinList.co and the CoinList mobile app starting next week.

https://blog.coinlist.co/efinity-efi-and-swarm-bzz-trading-soon-on-coinlist/