NEAR Protocol is launching an $800 million ecosystem grants program.

After the news, the NEAR price increased by 32% and reached a new ATH.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/25/near-protocol-offers-800m-in-grants-in-bid-for-defi-mindshare/

The NFT toy firm OnChain Studios has raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to develop Cryptoys: a new non-fungible token (NFT) platform that combines digital toys and gaming.

Investors: Dapper Labs, Draper & Associates, CoinFund, Sound Ventures, Collab + Currency and WndrCo.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/25/a16z-leads-75m-funding-round-in-nft-toy-firm-onchain-studios/

Tesla may soon resume support for crypto payments.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/telsa-hints-it-may-soon-resume-support-for-crypto-payments

CoinList has raised $100 million in Series A funding, bringing CoinList’s valuation to $1.5 billion.

The round is co-led by early CoinList backer, Accomplice, alongside Agman.

Investors: Access Ventures, Alphemy Capital, Broadhaven Ventures, Continue Capital, CMT Digital, DFG, FBG Capital, Fenbushi Capital, executives from GoldenTree Asset Management, Hack VC, HashKey Capital, Jsquare, LD Capital, Metaplanet, Perpetual Value Partners, Rising Tide Fund, and Taavet+Sten and Imperii Partners.

https://blog.coinlist.co/coinlist-raises-100m-series-a-to-fuel-global-expansion/

Immunefi, a crypto startup that helps DeFi protocols launch bug bounty programs on its platform, has raised $5.5 million in a seed funding round.

Electric Capital and Blueprint Forest co-led the round, with Framework Ventures, IDEO Colab, The LAO, BR Capital, and North Island Ventures, also participating, among other investors.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/122010/defi-bug-bounty-platform-immunefi-seed-funding

KYVE, a protocol that enables data providers to seamlessly store and verify their data streams, has raised $2.8M.

Its second funding round led by Permanent Ventures and Hypersphere Ventures, and with contributions from Zee Prime and CMS Holdings.

Arweave, Avalanche Foundation, Interchain Foundation, NEAR Foundation, Solana Foundation and others are also involved.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/10/26/data-pipeline-protocol-kyve-raises-28m-from-industry-insiders/

UniLend Finance has announced a technical partnership with the blockchain querying service Covalent.

https://unilend.medium.com/ushering-in-a-new-era-of-transparency-with-covalent-514bcd49419b

SIPHER, a 3D live action RPG, PvE, & PvP blockchain game, secures $6.8M in the seed round.

The round was led by Arrington Capital, Hashed and Konvoy Ventures.

Investors: Defiance Capital, Signum Capital, Dragonfly Capital, CMT Digital, BitKraft Ventures, Delphi Digital, Alameda Research, Fenbushi Capital, Sfermion, Hyperchain, GBV, Kyber Network, Coin98 Ventures, YGG and Merit Circle.

https://medium.com/sipherxyz/sipher-secures-6-8m-in-seed-round-d73cbaf1ab13

Binance NFT has launched the IGO or Initial Game Offering.

DeRace became the first project.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/421499824684902953/nft/binance-nft-launches-igo-welcoming-the-next-generation-of-gaming
https://twitter.com/TheBinanceNFT/status/1452967746052902913?s=20

Drift Labs, a scalable, decentralised, capital-efficient derivatives exchange built on Solana, has raised $3.8M in the seed round led by Multicoin Capital.

Alameda Research, Jump Capital, LedgerPrime, Not3Lau Capital (Darren & Daryl Lau), QCP Capital, Robot Ventures (Tarun Chitra and Robert Leshner) and ROK Capital also participated in the round.

Notable angel investors include: Jason Choi (Spartan Capital), Julian Koh (Ribbon Finance), Loi Luu (Kyber), Celia Wan (Dragonfly Capital), Dom Tsang (Solana), Hassan Bassiri (Arca), Windra Thio (Element), Zhuoxun Yin (Coinbase/dYdX).

https://driftprotocol.medium.com/drift-labs-raises-3-8-million-in-seed-round-8c4ed64f2080

Adobe is launching a feature in Photoshop to create an image as an NFT, which will add attribution information to the image.

The software company is partnering with NFT marketplaces OpenSea, KnownOrigin, Rarible, and SuperRare to display the credentials.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/122118/adobe-partners-with-opensea-and-other-nft-marketplaces-to-display-content-credentials

Swivel Finance, a tokenized cash-flow DeFi project, has raised $3.5m to optimize Fixed-Yield Markets.

Investors: Multicoin Capital, CMT Digital, IOSG Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, SevenX Ventures, and OkEx.

New angels/advisors include: Ryan Selkis (Messari), Ajit Tripathi (Aave), Matt Batsinelas (Unnanounced / Ex-Altonomy).

https://swivel.substack.com/p/swivel-finance-raises-an-additional

The Graph Foundation has announced that Graph Node now supports indexing NEAR, a Layer 1 blockchain.

This makes NEAR the first non-EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) compatible blockchain supported by Graph Node.
NEAR indexing is available in beta on The Graph’s hosted service.

https://thegraph.com/blog/graph-near

Mastercard and Bakkt partner to offer innovative crypto and loyalty solutions.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/press/2021/october/mastercard-and-bakkt-partner-to-offer-innovative-crypto-and-loyalty-solutions/

Good Games Guild has announced the Triple IDO on Seedify, Ignition, and MoonStarter.

IDO Price: $0.3
Total Raise : $360,000
Token to be sold: 1,200,000 $GGG
Initial Marketcap: $387,750 (Exclude Liquidity Provision — At IDO Price)
Blockchain Technology: Binance Smart Chain (BSC) & Solana Chain (SOL)

MoonStarter
Token to be sold: 116,666 $GGG
IDO Allocation: $35,000
Date: November 2nd

Ignition
Token to be sold: 416,666 $GGG
IDO Allocation: $125,000
Lottery open: October 21st, 14:00 UTC.
Lottery close: October 29th, 4:00 UTC.
GGG IDO: November 3rd, 11:00 UTC.

Seedify
Token to be sold: 666,666 $GGG
IDO Allocation: $200,000
Date: November 4th

https://medium.com/@goodgamesguild/ggg-announcing-the-triple-ido-on-seedify-x-ignition-x-moonstarter-3b8143441efb

Tether will begin testing Notabene’s protocol-agnostic solution in order to combat money laundering and crime in cross-border VASP-to-VASP transactions.

https://tether.to/tether-trials-notabene-travel-rule-solution/

Gate and KuCoin will list Clearpool (CPOOL).
Trading: on October 28th at 13:00 UTC.

https://clearpool.medium.com/announcing-gate-listing-and-airdrop-program-f08a2b3d4754
https://clearpool.medium.com/clearpool-cpool-to-be-listed-on-kucoin-942cceb4637e

Tulip Protocol, a crypto yield aggregation platform built on Solana, has raised $5M in a strategic investment round.

Investors: Jump Capital and Alameda Research as lead, with participation from Amber Group, Cadenza Ventures, Fisher8 Capital, CMS Holdings, Rarestone Capital, FinTech Collective & DV Chain.

Angels: DeFi OG Darren Lau, eGirl Capital’s Fjvdb7, Orthogonal Trading Cofounder Joshua Green, Drift Protocol’s Cindy Leow & John/Noah Dummett.

https://medium.com/tulipprotocol/tulip-protocol-raises-5m-from-jump-capital-alameda-research-amber-group-cadenza-ventures-cd69db5795c8

QuickNode, the blockchain infrastructure platform for companies, has raised $35M in a Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.

Investors: Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, Soma Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, Crossbeam and Anthony Pompliano.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leading-blockchain-infra-provider-quicknode-raises-35m-series-a-led-by-tiger-global-301409773.html

CoinList has announced the Guild of Guardians token sale.

Option 1: November 10, 18:00 UTC
Price: $0.10 per token
Min/max: $100 min, $500 max
Lockup: 50% of token purchase amount becomes freely trading 40 days following sale date; the other 50% of token purchase amount becomes freely trading 12 months following the sale date
Supply: 40M tokens

Option 2: November 10, 23:59 UTC
Price: $0.075 per token
Min/max: $100 min, $500 max
Lockup: Freely trading 12 months following the sale date
Supply: 20M tokens

The registration deadline: November 7, 23:59 UTC.

https://blog.coinlist.co/announcing-the-guild-of-guardians-token-sale-on-coinlist/

Cream Finance, a DeFi lending protocol, has been hacked for over $130 million—marking the third hack suffered by the protocol.

https://decrypt.co/84590/cream-finance-suffers-third-hack-losing-over-130-million
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0fe2542079644e107cbf13690eb9c2c65963ccb79089ff96bfaf8dced2331c92