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

Kryll (KRL), LCX (LCX) SUKU (SUKU) and OriginTrail (TRAC) are launching on Coinbase Pro.
Trading will begin on or after 16:00 UTC October 28, if liquidity conditions are met.

https://blog.coinbase.com/kryll-krl-lcx-lcx-suku-suku-and-origintrail-trac-are-launching-on-coinbase-pro-3e6088c3dcb3

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, said that his government has purchased an additional 420 bitcoin, increasing the total amount bought to date to 1,120 BTC.

https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1453461587948445697?s=20
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/122360/el-salvador-announces-purchase-of-420-bitcoin-worth-nearly-25-million

Aurora DAO has announced the triple $AURORA IDO on SmartPad (Aurora), BocaChica (NEAR), and Skyward (NEAR).

Total amount of sale: 1,000,000 $AURORA

SmartPad Sale
Date: November 4
Amount: 50,000 $AURORA
Price: $1
Accepted tokens: ETH
The size of the check for a single user ranges from $50 to $200.

BocaChica Sale
Date: November 11
Amount: 300,000 $AURORA
Price: $1
Accepted tokens: NEAR
The size of the check for a single user ranges from $50 to $250.

Skyward Sale
Date: November 17
Amount: 650,000 $fAURORA
Price: non-fixed
Accepted tokens: NEAR

https://aurora.dev/blog/aurora-dao-approves-usdaurora-ido

Osmosis, a decentralized exchange in the Cosmos ecosystem, has raised $21M in a round led by Paradigm.

Other investors: Robert Leshner’s scout fund, Robot Ventures, Nascent, Ethereal, Figment and Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon.

https://thedefiant.io/paradigm-backs-cosmos-dex-osmosis/

Binance has announced the 23rd project on Binance Launchpool - Mines of Dalarnia (DAR), an action adventure play-to-earn game on Binance Smart Chain.

Users will be able to stake their BNB and BUSD into separate pools to farm DAR tokens over 30 days, with farming starting from 2021-10-29 00:00 UTC.

Binance will then list DAR into the innovation zone at 2021-11-04 08:00 UTC and open trading with DAR/BTC, DAR/BNB, DAR/BUSD and DAR/USDT trading pairs.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/28c68286fe9340cd97740774b4e13af9

Solend, an algorithmic, decentralized protocol for lending and borrowing on Solana, has announced its IDO and $6.5M raise from Polychain, Dragonfly, Race, and others.

The timing of the IDO is as follows:

Sale period: Nov 1, 12:00 UTC (deposit and withdraw)
Grace period: Nov 2, 12:00 UTC (withdraw only)
IDO ends: Nov 3, 12:00 UTC
Tokens become redeemable: Nov 3, 16:00 UTC.

Total supply: 100M SLND

https://medium.com/solend/fundraise-tokenomics-and-ido-f9536b061973

Ankr has introduced the Ankr Protocol.

The Ankr Protocol is the newest multi-product launch that includes our public RPC layer, blockchain analytics, staking solutions, and developer tools all powered by Ankr’s decentralized global network of nodes.

Ankr is also launching a $10 million grant to boost promising new projects and developers who apply for funding.

https://medium.com/ankr-network/big-news-from-ankr-new-protocol-token-use-cases-and-10-million-grant-8be7e86d31a9

ClubNFT, the company building infrastructure solutions to discover, protect and share non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital artwork, has raised $3M in the seed funding round.

The round was co-led by Galaxy Digital and Galaxy Interactive, with participation from Red Swan Ventures, CMT Digital, Sfermion, Draper Associates, Richard Entrup, and other angel investors.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nft-pioneer-jason-bailey-launches-clubnft-raises-3-million-creates-backup-solution-to-protect-collectors-and-billions-of-dollars-in-nfts-301410460.html

Alchemy, the developer platform for blockchain and Web3, raises $250M at $3.5B valuation in Series C led by Andressen Horowitz.

Lightspeed and Redpoint are joining a16z as new investors, with additional participation from existing investors Coatue, Addition, DFJ, and Pantera.

https://blog.alchemy.com/blog/alchemy-series-c-release