Good Games Guild (the DAO that focus on NFTs that oftenly used in blockchain-based games and virtual product) raises $1.7M in the seed and private funding round.

Investors: OKEx Blockdream Ventures, MapleBlock Capital, LD Capital, Basics Capital, Twin Apex Capital, AU21 Capital, Alves Ventures, Kyros Ventures, Fomocraft, Titans Ventures, Signal Ventures, Scorpio VC, Master Ventures, Exnetwork, Dutch Crypto Investor (DCI), Oracle Investment Group (OIG).

https://medium.com/@goodgamesguild/good-games-guild-raises-1-7m-in-seed-private-funding-round-2ae04dc83b26

Binance has completed the 17th quarterly BNB token burn of 1,335,888 BNB (~$639.5M).

https://twitter.com/binance/status/1450112351617929221?s=28

Obol Technologies, founded by former ConsenSys exec Collin Myers, has raised $6.15 million in a seed funding round to build a crypto staking protocol.

The round was led by Ethereal Ventures, a venture fund set up by ConsenSys founder Joseph Lubin, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Acrylic Capital, and many others.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/120960/obol-technologies-seed-funding-crypto-staking-protocol

Kraken launches FLOW trading and staking for U.S. and Canadian residents on October 19.

https://blog.kraken.com/post/11551/flow-trading-and-staking-are-coming-for-the-us-and-canada/

ARPA Chain (ARPA), Bounce (AUCTION) and Perpetual Protocol (PERP) are launching on Coinbase Pro.

Trading will begin on or after 16:00 UTC October 19, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/arpa-chain-arpa-bounce-auction-and-perpetual-protocol-perp-are-launching-on-coinbase-pro-79fa40c7907f

Interactive Brokers Group, a global brokerage firm, announces its launch of cryptocurrency trading for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) in the U.S., enabling these RIAs to trade and custody Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) via Paxos Trust Company on behalf of clients.

Interactive Brokers plans to launch the service for financial advisors in other parts of the world, in the future.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211018005264/en/Interactive-Brokers-Group-Introduces-Cryptocurrency-Trading-for-Financial-Advisors-in-the-U.S

San Francisco-based remote hiring company Deel has raised $425 million in a Series D funding round.

The company valued at $5.5 billion.

Coatue led the round.

Investors: Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, the YC Continuity Fund, Spark Capital, Greenbay Ventures, and Neo.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/121019/crypto-friendly-remote-hiring-company-deel-valued-at-5-5-billion-after-series-d

TSG Capital has announced the next public sale of Chingari (GARI) on Republic on November 2nd.

https://twitter.com/TSG_Capital/status/1449801103894142976?s=20

Gate.io lists Lithium Finance (LITH).

https://twitter.com/LithiumFinance/status/1450293381737816071?s=20
https://www.gate.io/en/trade/LITH_USDT

Element Finance, the DeFi’s fixed rate protocol, has raised $32M in a Series A funding round at a $320M valuation.

The round was led by Polychain Capital.

Previous investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Placeholder, A_Capital, and Scalar Capital.

New investors: Advanced Blockchain, Republic, Rarestone, Yunt Capital, P2P Validator, Ethereal Ventures, and their limited partners; and Femboy Capital.

https://medium.com/element-finance/element-finance-raises-32m-series-a-at-a-320m-valuation-6622fab5fb40

Elrond Network has announced that Woodstock released a brand new research report on the Elrond ecosystem has announced their first significant investment into a project building with its tech, and has launched a non-custodial EGLD staking service.

https://elrond.com/blog/woodstock-strategic-investment-research-staking

Facebook has chosen Coinbase as its custody partner for its pilot of Novi, a new digital wallet that enables people to send and receive money abroad instantly, securely, and with no fees.

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-to-power-crypto-custody-for-facebooks-novi-90dc8d3f5830

FTX has listed BitDAO (BIT).

https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1449952871202557958?s=20

ARPA Chain (ARPA) and Perpetual Protocol (PERP) are now available on Coinbase.

https://blog.coinbase.com/arpa-chain-arpa-and-perpetual-protocol-perp-are-now-available-on-coinbase-343e6e7ed6f1

Clearpool has announced details of its IDO on DAO Maker.

Project Valuation: $40,000,000
Initial Market Capitalization: $1,614,000
DAO Maker Raise: $95,000 + $5,000 (Community Round)
Public Sale Price: $0.040
Allocation Size: $200

Registration: 26 October at 12:00 UTC.

https://clearpool.medium.com/clearpool-to-launch-ido-on-dao-maker-sho-public-sale-registration-begins-26-october-2021-f064564fa3a6

Coinbase has announced a partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the NBA G League, NBA 2k League, and USA Basketball.

Coinbase's logo and branding will appear during televised games for the aforementioned leagues.

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1450529041128116227?s=20
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/121316/coinbase-announces-multiyear-sponsorship-deal-with-nba-wnba

Multicoin Capital Targets $250 Million for Third Crypto VC Fund.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/multicoin-capital-targets-250-million-for-third-crypto-vc-fund

ProShares bitcoin futures ETF sees historic nearly $1 billion trading day.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/121364/proshares-bitcoin-futures-etf-sees-historic-nearly-1-billion-trading-day

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735612/facebook-change-company-name-metaverse

🔥Bitcoin has set a new all-time high, breaking the $66,000 level.

Assemble Protocol (ASM) is launching on Coinbase Pro.

Trading will begin on or after 16:00 UTC October 21, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/assemble-protocol-asm-is-launching-on-coinbase-pro-9b4c6f9c484f