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

Bounce (AUCTION) is now available on Coinbase.

https://blog.coinbase.com/bounce-auction-is-now-available-on-coinbase-7b1787f163c9

MonoX is now live on Ethereum and Polygon mainnet.

In conjunction with their referral program, MonoX is launching a retroactive airdrop.

https://medium.com/monoswap/monox-is-live-on-mainnet-44b1ec99e8fa

Sommelier Finance, a crypto project that helps automate DeFi trading, has raised $23 million in a Series A funding round.

The round was led by Polychain Capital, with participation from existing investor Alameda Ventures and new investors Zola Ventures, Byzantine Ventures, Tendermint Ventures, Secure Ventures, D1 Ventures, and Ferngrove Ventures.

https://sommelier.finance/blog/sommelier-announces-23mm-series-a-mainnet-round

Subscription for the Lazio Fan Token (LAZIO) Token Sale on Binance Launchpad Is Now Open.

After the subscription is complete, Binance will list Lazio Fan Token (LAZIO) in the innovation zone at 2021-10-21 12:00 UTC and open trading for LAZIO/BTC, LAZIO/BNB, LAZIO/TRY and LAZIO/EUR trading pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/7062300c06bb405ba0725796e65a4cd6

Binance joins Elrond as Staking Provider.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-staking-provider-binance/

Concept Art House, the creator of art for video games and nonfungible token (NFT) collectibles and partners of Dapper Labs for their upcoming UFC digital collectibles experience, has raised $25 million to create NFT art and games.

The investors include Dapper Labs, Animoca Brands, Anthos, Appworks, Blockchain Coinvestors, Fabric VC, Hashkey, Liberty City Ventures, One Football, PKO investments, Polymorphic Capital, Protocol Labs, Redbeard Ventures, Spartan Group, Jeff ‘Jiho’ Zirlin (Axie-Infinity), Gabby Dizon (Yield Guild Games), Vinny Lingham (Civic), and Kevin Lin (Twitch). Steve Aoki is an adviser.

https://twitter.com/dapperlabs/status/1450517493781516290?s=21

Cboe Agrees to Acquire ErisX, Entering Digital Asset Space with Spot, Derivatives and Clearing Platform.

https://ir.cboe.com/news-and-events/2021/10-20-2021/cboe-agrees-acquire-erisx-entering-digital-asset-space-spot-derivatives-and-clearing-platform

Injective has announced that the Injective Pro relayer has been launched.

https://twitter.com/InjectiveLabs/status/1450835129702748160?s=20

Polkadot-based privacy project Manta Network has raised $5.5M to continue scaling decentralized finance (DeFi) use cases by boosting blockchain privacy.

Investors: crypto hedge fund CoinFund, ParaFi Capital, Web 3. investment fund LongHash Ventures, CMS Holdings, Divergence, Spartan Group, Global Coin Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Zee Prime and SNZ, Digital Currency Group, Consensys, Bitcoin.com.

Angel investors included SushiSwap’s semi-anonymous core contributor 0xMaki, Dragonfly Capital’s Kevin Hu, ParaFi general partner Santiago Santos and others.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/polkadot-based-privacy-project-manta-network-raises-5-5m