TOP NFT SALES CONDUCTED IN OCTOBER
The Top NFT sales list includes CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club, Autoglyphs, and Azuki collections. The most expensive NFT sale accounted for (620 ETH) ($1.52M).
Privacy blockchain project Nillion raised $25 million in funding led by Hack VC
Other investors in the funding round include HashKey Capital, Maelstrom, Animoca Brands, Chapter One, Big Brain Holdings, Manifold, GSR, and Presto. Nillion builds its service around blind computing, the processing of data without revealing its contents.
👉 coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/30/privacy-blockchain-project-nillion-raises-25m-to-expand-blind-computing
Data labeling project Sapien raised $10.5 million in a Seed funding round
The round was led by Variant with participation from Primitive Ventures, Animoca Brands, Yield Game Guild, and HF0. Sapien uses rewards on the blockchain to essentially gamify data labeling, a process integral to advancing AI-powered language learning models like OpenAI’s Chat GPT.
👉 theblock.co/post/287560/sapien-raises-5-million-for-data-labeling-with-ai-applications
Aethir (ATH), GAIB, and GMI unveiled the first decentralized AI Compute Network powered by NVIDIA's H200 Tensor Core GPUs
By leveraging Aethir's vast network, GAIB's economic layer, and GMI Cloud's expertise, the collab aims to accelerate the development of large-scale AI apps. Aethir is a GPU cloud infrastructure, positioned as an enterprise-grade AI-focused GPU-as-a-service provider.
👉 blog.aethir.com/blog-posts/aethir-gaib-and-gmi-cloud-launch-first-decentralized-ai-compute-powered-by-h200-gpus
OKX Ventures, The Open Platform and Folius Ventures jointly launched a $10M Telegram Growth Hub
Telegram Growth Hub is designed to boost innovations, expand mini-app ecosystem, and to fund & support projects. The Hub will select up to 10 projects for a two-month acceleration program. Selected teams will be eligible for funding from the $10M fund.
👉 okx.com/learn/okx-telegram-growth-hub
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.55T (+2.99%)
BTC Price: $72,488 (+1.88%)
BTC Dominance: 56.2% (+0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 77 (Extreme Greed)
Total Value Locked: $147B (+2.14%)
Chainlink (LINK) Data Streams is now live on Solana Mainnet
Solana developers now have access to high-frequency, sub-second market data backed by Chainlink's decentralized infrastructure. The launch also features GMX – Solana (GMX V2 on Solana) as a launch partner, which adopted Data Streams as its official Oracle solution.
👉 x.com/chainlink/status/1850992279068283167
Jito (JTO) launches the first phase of the (Re)staking campaign
Beginning on October 30, users can boost staking rewards by providing economic security for key Solana infrastructure via SOL and SOL LSTs assets. Jito (Re)staking cap will be set at $25 million with deposits available through the homepage, as well as VRT vault managers Renzo, Kyros, and Fragmetric.
👉 jito.network/blog/jito-re-staking-deposits-launch-phase1
Alchemy Pay (ACH) unveiled plans to launch Layer 1 chain
Alchemy Chain, built on a scalable Solana Virtual Machine, will integrate advanced Layer 2 solutions that enable seamless account mapping and data synchronization. Alchemy Pay is a company that connects the fiat and crypto economies globally.
👉 x.com/AlchemyPay/status/1850886170827161779
Crypto Events Recap, October 26-28
👉 cryptodiffer.com/feed/project-updates/crypto-events-recap-october-26-28-2024
Bored Apes' Otherside builder Improbable to develop Layer 1 blockchain Somnia
Gaming technology startup Improbable has announced plans to develop its own L1 blockchain, Somnia, which claims will process over 400,000 transactions per second with sub-second latency and EVM compatibility. Somnia to launch in Devnet in coming weeks.
👉 decrypt.co/288261/bored-apes-improbable-layer-1-blockchain-somnia
bitSmiley (SMILE) closed a $10 million Round 2 funding
Investors in round include NxGen, IBC Group, Pragma Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, DCI, KuCoin Ventures, Cypher Capital, MH Ventures, NewTribe Capital, and Kinetic Kollective. bitSmiley is a stablecoin, lending, and derivatives protocol for Bitcoin ecosystem.
👉 x.com/bitsmiley_labs/status/1850870433949835355
Tether expands its USDT stablecoin to the Aptos L1
USDT’s integration on Aptos will bring low gas fees “costing only a fraction of a penny.” Previously, Tether presented a preview of its Local AI development kit powered by peer-to-peer technology.
👉 x.com/Tether_to/status/1850855414897725638
PumpBTC announced the closure of the $10 million Seed funding round
SevenX Ventures and Mirana Ventures led the Seed funding round. Other investors include UTXO, Mantle Ecosystem Fund, Istari Venture, Arcane Group, Coinsummer Labs, 10k Ventures, Seven Seas Capital, Sharding Capital, and other angel investors. The fund will help to build a new standard in BTC yield vaults with BTC-fi.
👉 Pumpbtcxyz/pumpbtc-raises-10m-seed-funding-to-build-a-new-standard-in-btc-yield-vaults-with-btc-fi-15de7cf26a82">medium.com/@Pumpbtcxyz/pumpbtc-raises-10m-seed-funding-to-build-a-new-standard
Top 15 projects by positive market sentiment on Oriole Insights
Oriole Insights is a gamified prediction platform harnessing collective wisdom. The list of projects by Bullish expectations with a minimum of 50 predictions and 500 ORI pooled.
👉 https://app.orioleinsights.io/projects
Glif announced token airdrop and unveiled GLIF tokenomics
Glif launches its GLIF token, with 10% of supply airdropped to GLIF points holders at a 1:1 ratio. Airdrop recipients get 25% of tokens upfront, with the remaining 75% vesting linearly over 180 days. Glif is a liquid leasing platform and the largest DeFi protocol on Filecoin.
👉 x.com/glifio/status/1851338683535769913
Optimism to provide a 25M OP grant to the Kraken exchange
Kraken shared last week that it would launch a layer-2 called Ink, relying on the OP Stack framework. The 25M OP tokens grant is split into two segments: 5M OP will support engineering efforts, while the other 20M are earmarked for achieving transaction benchmarks.
👉 coindesk.com/tech/2024/10/29/optimism-foundation-agreed-to-give-kraken-425m-of-op-tokens-in-layer-2-deal/
Ozean L2 integrates with Ethena to launch USDe and sUSDe
USDe (stablecoin) and sUSDe (yield-bearing) will be integrated into Oxygen (O2), the innovative RWA liquidity layer on Ozean, alongside BTC, ETH, and SOL. USDe and sUSDe will also be integrated in the upcoming Ozean LGE, with more details to be announced later.
👉 x.com/ClearpoolFin/status/1851232152354242922
Binance introduced Binance Wealth, designed for elite customers
Binance Wealth offers a streamlined, intuitive platform for wealth managers to oversee their clients’ exposure to crypto assets. The service is offered through the global Binance platform with restrictions for US customers.
👉 binance.com/en/blog/vip/introducing-binance-wealth-the-industrys-first-crypto-exchange-solution-purposebuilt-for-wealth-managers
NATIX Network (NATIX) has rolled out its deep staking platform
The deep staking will be directly linked to voting power and network governance via NIPs (NATIX Improvement Proposals). The platform is now live and compatible with Phantom, Solflare, Trust, Brave wallets. The annual yield cap for staking rewards is 1B NATIX.
👉 x.com/NATIXNetwork/status/1851221220068397072
peaq (PEAQ) to launch its DePIN L1 protocol on November 12
peaq is a multi-chain Layer 1 capable of scaling beyond 10,000 TPS while maintaining a minimal transaction cost purposely built & optimized for DePIN and Machine RWA. Previously, it raised $20M through CoinList ICO and $23.5M in private funding.
👉 x.com/peaq/status/1850879241061036429
Bitlayer (BTR) has kicked off Mining Gala Season 3
Phase 3 of the "Genesis Mining Festival" is an event featuring $10M BTR rewards organized with RollDex, Jasper Vault, DeSyn Protocol, Avalon, VolaArk, and Lorenzo. Bitlayer is the first Bitcoin Layer 2 solution based on the BitVM paradigm.
👉 x.com/BitlayerLabs/status/1851116185116684762
DAILY CRYPTOMARKET REVIEW
Total Market Capitalization: $2.52T (+2.54%)
BTC Price: $71,169 (+3.79%)
BTC Dominance: 56.0% (+0.20%)
Fear & Greed Index: 72 (Greed)
Total Value Locked: $144B (+3.68%)
The biggest Fundraising Rounds conducted in the last 7 days
Projects that received the most funding are Sollong ($30M), a physical infrastructure network, Bluesky ($15M), a social media platform, and Gelato ($11M), rollup-as-a-servise provider.
Rollup development platform Gelato raised $11 million in a Series A+ funding
Hack VC led the round with participation from Animoca Brands, IOSG, Bloccelerate VC, among others. The latest round brings Gelato’s total fundraising to $23.2 million. The rollup also announced Kraken’s new L2 Ink blockchain as a customer.
👉 theblock.co/post/323265/gelato-raises-11-million-usd-unveils-kraken-layer-2-ink-as-customer
Top-15 tokens by Current ROI launched this Autumn
Among the top performers are DeepBook, a liquidity layer providing the infrastructure for financial projects building on Sui, Eigenpie, a Liquid Restaking Platform, and Reflection AI, a platform that simplifies the use of advanced AI tools.
FTX (FTT) drops its lawsuit against Bybit in a $228M settlement
The settlement will allow FTX’s liquidation estate to reclaim $175M in crypto held on Bybit accounts. FTX will also sell to Mirana Ventures (Bybit's investment arm) over 105M BIT tokens valued at ~$52.7M.
👉 theblock.co/post/323199/ftx-agrees-to-drop-lawsuit-against-bybit-in-228-million-settlement