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📌 April 7 (Happy Good Friday!)
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Eigenlayer Testnet announced
👉 Use their testnet here (If you need goerli eth, you can request from faucet, or drop your ETH address below and I'll send you goerli)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Injective integrated synthetic assets with Pyth
• Manifold announces collaboration with 20 []
• If you own a Koda, get your gucci pendant here
• Statement from Sentiment team on recovering 900k from Exploit
• MetaMask launches an experimental feature that will warn users when interacting with known scams (about damn time)
Mina Protocol released its roadmap: Trust Minimization, ZK-Programmability, Settlement Layer Performance, Recursive Rollups, and Road to DAOification
👀 READS
• Project on zkSync raises 921 ETH but funds stuck forever in smart contract
• Chamath 2022 Annual Letter to supporters of Social Capital
• Nansen report on Sturdy Finance
🤨 NEWS
• Japan Releases Web3 White Paper to Promote Industry Growth in the Country
• Coinbase joins fight against Tornado Cash ban
• Gitcoin will launch a new funding round from April 25 to May 9
🤑 RAISES
• Lore raises 4m strategic from Multicoin, Seed Club Ventures, North Island Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Zeneca, Mischief Ventures, Sfermion, CMT Digital, Patricio Worthalter, Spice Capital and Sublime Venture - More
• Bitkraft Raises $220.6M for Second 'Token Fund' - More
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📌 April 6
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Participated in GammaSwap's Alpha Testnet? Mint your Galaxe OAT
• Syncswap will have an airdrop
1) Go to https://discord.gg/syncswap
2) Submit your wallet on #wallet
• Participated in Increment Finance Testnet? Claim your airdrop here
• Galaxe's 2 year anniversary free mint
1) Go to https://galxe.com/
2) Click on 2-Year Anniversary Celebration on top right
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• CoW Swap launches MEVBlocker
• Swarm Markets Tokenomics Revamp and updates
• Euler released redemption plan
• Arbitrum repents
• Moonbeam experienced downtime with no new blocks
• Sui will be on Coinlist May 2nd
• Sentiment Hacker returns money
• LUSD added as borrowable asset on Optimisim
• $MYRIA live on Okex
🔨 TOOLS/RESOURCES
• For the latest market alpha and edge in the markets with the earliest updates on consumer and market data, you don't want to miss out on joining /channel/marketsAlpha
• ValoryAG/introducing-governatooorr-9edcbc212eb2">Valory introduces Governatooorr: An Autonomous AI-powered Delegate for DAO Governance
• http://WalletLabels.xyz by Aiden0x4- free tool to search Ethereum wallets by names or labels
👀 READS
• Ark Invest - Bitcoin Monthly (March 2023)
• EigenLayer Report by Nansen
🤨 NEWS
• Binance rejected Justin Sun's request to buy his stake in Huobi (If you have funds in huobi take it out to be safe)
• Bitcoin’s whitepaper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS
• Binance’s Australia Derivatives license cancelled by regulator
🤑 RAISES
• RACA raises 16m from DWF Labs - More
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📌 April 5
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• OpenSea Pro free NFT mint
• Mint Consensys's Linea L2 Mirror NFT (Free mint, ends in 75 days)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Sentimentxyz exploited for 1m on Arbitrum
• Metamask extension latest version includes support for ERC721 and 1155 tokens
• Collection.xyz live on eth mainnet
• Celo Foundation and Google Cloud partner to support sustainable Web3 startups
• Proposal to make Velodrome hub of Stargate on Optimisim
• POAPs will not be free starting on April 17th
• Coinbase offering transfers in crypto: in BTC or ETH
🔨 TOOLS
• Enter the address of the smart contract you want to understand and this decodes it for you
• Consensus Side Events Spreadsheet
• Dialetic open sources automated yield farming infra
👀 READS
• Monthly Alpha from apes_prologue
🤨 NEWS
• Paxful (P2P exchange) shut down operations
• Bob Lee: Former CTO of Square and creator of Cash App Stabbed to death in SF
• Microstrategy: Bought $29.3M of Bitcoin March 24 to April 4
🤑 RAISES
• Delphi Labs Raises 13.5m from P2P, Jump Crypto - More
• M^ZERO (infra layer) raises 22.5m seed led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Road Capital, AirTree, Standard Crypto, The SALT Fund, ParaFi Capital, Distributed Capital, Kraynos Capital, Earlybird, and Mouro Capital - More
• Satsuma (blockchain data indexing) raises 5m seed co-led by Initialized Capital and Archetype with OpenSea, Y Combinator, Homebrew and South Park Commons participating - More
• Astria (Modular blockchain) raises 5.5m led by Maven 11 with 1kx, Delphi Ventures and Figment Capital participating - More
• Finst raises 4.4m seed funding from Deribit Parent Company - More
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📌 April 4
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Zkx testnet is live (Looks legit but use a burner/hot wallet just in case)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Euler Finance recovers all exploited funds
• openeden/introducing-tokenized-u-s-treasuries-from-openeden-e40eacd9b762">OpenEden openeden/introducing-tokenized-u-s-treasuries-from-openeden-e40eacd9b762">introduces tokenized US T-bills (this is pretty cool ngl)
• Gucci x Otherside to launch KodaPendant NFT
• Aleo Introduces Testnet 3 Phase III
• Manifold building own liquid staking platform
• Allbridge hacker has returned the stolen 1500 BNB ~ $450k
🔨 TOOLS
👀 READS
• Dealing with uncertainty macro report by Nansen
🤨 NEWS
• Twitter updates website logo to Dogecoin $DOGE
• MEV attack explained by Blocksecteam
• South Korean authorities seize $160M in assets tied to Terra employees
• S&P Global looks for DeFi director
• Amazon NFT Marketplace could feature Beeple & Pudgy Penguins
• Dragonfly Invests $10 Million in Bitget
🤑 RAISES
• Li.Fi raises 17.5m Series A from Coinfund and Superscrypt
• Polyhedra Network raises 15m pre-Series A led by Polychain Capital
• Ecosapiens raises 3.5m seed from Collab+Currency, Slow Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Alumni Ventures Blockchain Fund
• LayerZero raises 120m Series B funding from a16z Crypto, Sequoia Capital, Circle Ventures, Samsung Next, OpenSea and Christie's
• Seretonin (Franklin) raises 2.9m seed from gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), CMT Digital, Arca, Sfermion, Portage Ventures, and Synergis Capital
• HaloDotSocial/we-officially-rebrand-as-halo-wallet-and-emerge-as-the-ultimate-socialfi-ecosystem-with-a-fresh-bac58cb80b2d">Halo HaloDotSocial/we-officially-rebrand-as-halo-wallet-and-emerge-as-the-ultimate-socialfi-ecosystem-with-a-fresh-bac58cb80b2d">WalleHaloDotSocial/we-officially-rebrand-as-halo-wallet-and-emerge-as-the-ultimate-socialfi-ecosystem-with-a-fresh-bac58cb80b2d">t (rebranded from kucoin wallet) raises undisclosed amount from KuCoin Ventures, IDG, HashKey Capital and others
• TopGoal_NFT/web3-football-metaverse-topgoal-secures-millions-in-investment-from-dwf-labs-124afce4f9a4">TOPGOAL secures undisclosed amount from DWF Labs
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📌 April 2
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Mint Sui Bluemove NFT - Verify your twitter, discord, and sui address and you can mint
• Try out Caldera testnet
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Arbitrum Proposal for 1B in $ARB to be in control by 3 initial directors
- Proposal link
- Thread detailing why you should vote against by Blockworks Research
• 1inch proposal to allocate $900k in $ARB to purchase Lambo (LMAO)
• Allbridge hacked for 570K (peanuts and unused by ppl i know, nth to worry bout)
• RabbitX Airdrop Ann (Not sure if worth can try if you have time)
🔨 TOOLS
• Dune dashboard on Rollup Economics (Key metrics to eval health of roll-ups)
👀 READS
• 0xshinchannn deep-dive into flatcoins (as usual shinchan delivering)
• Trader Joe's Novel Take on Concentrated Liquidity by Delphi_Digital (TJ liquidity pools are innovative)
• gr1zzlytrades on gainzy dumping 45m of RLB (lmao gainzy)
• How will Ethereum's multi-client philosophy interact with ZK-EVMs? by Vitalik (big brain stuff)
🤨 NEWS
• Kraken x Williams Racing
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April 2023 Unlocks Calendar
Check out the upcoming unlocks for this month - Hope it's helpful for yall 🙂
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📌 March 31 (Thanks for the feedback on the poll, will be using this new format, enjoy!)
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Dew.gg Genesis Airdrop (NFT aggregator for polygon - Currently by invite only / Backed by Circle, Polygon Labs, and others)
Here are 5 invites (once used it will appear as invalid)
1) https://dew.gg/join?i=3D4AacFx
2) https://dew.gg/join?i=UDsYdg4N
3) https://dew.gg/join?i=uDJt9T9n
4) https://dew.gg/join?i=VZhHkw7P
5) https://dew.gg/join?i=vDyk5G8u
• Everything you need for the upcoming zkSync airdrop by Miles Deutscher
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Unstoppable Domains Launches AI-Generated Avatars (Honestly no idea why they're doing this, cash grab imo)
• Aave To Launch on Polygon zkEVM
• Subspace's stressnet Is live
• Aurora has partnered with Arctic
• Level Finance Votes to Transferring $200M to Treasury
• 1inch Wallet app has added support for Ledger and WalletConnect v2
• Raydium Proposes $2M Bug Bounty Fund
• Huobi x Gala Games
🔨 TOOLS
• HK Web3 Fest Side Events Guide
• Bypass any paywall through 12ft
👀 READS
• punk6529 on AI and Crypto
• Tony_intern on explaining DeFi
• Delphi_Digital on layer 2 activity
• An Overview of the DeFi Options Landscape by Threesigma
• A New Era for Bitcoin by Binance Research
🤨 NEWS
• Worthalter hacked for 3+m in RPL
• FTX EU opened a website to allow former European customers to submit withdrawal requests
• Citi sees $4 trillion market potential for tokenized assets, calls it blockchain’s ‘killer use-case’
• Justin Sun Lost His Diplomatic Status
• Argentinian Airline Issues Every Ticket as an NFT
• Larry takes over as CEO of the Block
🤑 RAISES
• Ledger raises 109m funding
• Turbos Finance (DEX on Sui) raises undisclosed investment from Jump Crypto
• apM coin (customer rewards management) raises 5m from DWF Labs
• Polytrade (Global trade) raises 3.8M seed funding round led by Alpha Wave, Matrix Partners, Polygon Studios and CoinSwitch Ventures, with participation from Singularity Ventures and GTM Ventures
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📌 March 29
✔️ Actionable
CalendarDefi/mainnet-guide-zksync-era-712f3f0af065">zkSync Era Mainnet guideCalendarDefi/mainnet-guide-zksync-era-712f3f0af065">, potential airdrop
Use zkEVM Linea - https://docs.linea.build/category/use-linea
🔑 Project updates
Shanghai mainnet on epoch 194048, Apr 12, 2023
Metamask on false rumours
Injective has officially integrated FX pairs on-chain
FTX email regarding account balance and potential claims (Check your emails)
Coinbase has added a futures tab
De.Fi scanner is live on Gnosis
Ironfish tokenomics paper is live
Ankr becomes a validator for Celestia incentivized testnet
🔨 Tools
Legendary Monthly Calendar - https://twitter.com/layerggofficial
Crypto events worldwide - https://cryptoevents.xyz/
🗞 News
Substack is raising a community round
Safemoon not so safe... LP hacked for 8m
Signature Bank's crypto clients given till april 5 to withdraw funds out
Circle brings USDC to Cosmos
Stables has partnered with Fireblocks
💸 Raises
Conduit raises 7m seed from Paradigm - More
EigenLayer raises 50m series A from Blockchain Capital, Electric Capital, Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Finality Capital Partners, and Coinbase Ventures - More
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March 28
✔️ Actionable
It's being rumoured that Metamask will take a snapshot by March 31st
- If you want to be eligible for potential airdrop, swap on Metamask (Please take note swap fees are 0.82%... weigh the r/r)
Hold a Toucan NFT from shell protocol? You can wrap it now for points
SCB 10X Bangkok Blockathon (Apr 29 - May 5) is calling for developers. Free flight and accommodation support for oversea teams
🔑 Project updates
THORChain: potential vulnerability with THORChain dependency that may affect THORChain
Otherside announces launch of Legends of the Mara (LOTM), expected to launch in May
Euler attackers returned more funds, totaling 15,476.1 ETH and 10.7 million Dai
Shiba Original Vision (SOV) Airdrop is live
Quoll will deploy on Arbitrum 6 April
ConsenSys announces Public Testnet of zkEVM Linea
Bounce Finance supports Polygon zkEVM
Mango Markets Considers Raising Interest Rates for Popular Tokens
🔨 Tools
Risk analysis of protocols (state validation/data availability/upgradeability/sequencer failure/validator failure)
👀 Reads
Hitchhiker’s guide to rollups as a service
Apes_Prologue on ARB airdrop
🗞 News
Binance and CZ sued by the US CFTC for allegedly breaking trading and derivatives rules
CZ's response to CFTC Complaint
ZeroSync Association Brings Zero-Knowledge Proofs to Bitcoin
Galaxy Digital reports $1 billion loss
OKX announced the establishment of a Hong Kong entity and is applying for a virtual asset license
💸 Raises
Cega raises 5m seed extension from Dragonfly Capital, Pantera Capital and Robot Ventures - More
Landvault raises 3M Series B extension from The Sandbox, Gemini Frontier Fund, HodlCo and Kingsway Capital - More
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March 26 (Meh news day, go smell the flowers 🌸)
✔️ Actionable
Have some STG staked? Be sure to vote on governance here
ZkSync Crew3 Quest
🔑 Project updates
Euler hacker has returned 51000 Eth to Euler finance
Coinbase's Base Requesting For Builders in areas like Flatcoins/Onchain Rep/Onchain LOB/Safer Defi
Cream Finance identifies TradeOgre in being complicit to Oct 2021 exploiter
Radiant Proposal is up to help those affected by misleading UI
👀 Reads
Travel The EVM Ecosystem With LayerZero For A Potential Airdrop by the Defiant
MEV and restaking talk by Sreeram from Eigenlayer
🗞 News
DWP Bank, which owns approximately 1,200 German banks announced its new platform, wpNex, which enables all affiliated banks to offer their customers Bitcoin and, in the future, various other digital assets
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March 24
✔️ Actionable
Register your email for shanghai capella commemorative NFT
Get early access to the Argent zkSync Era account
🔑 Project updates
zkSync Era Mainnet Alpha is live
Injective testnet has integrated Pyth Network
DRPC Launches Decentralized RPC Network for Ethereum Apps
The Graph Integrates on-Ramp to Enable Direct Fiat Payments
Quasar Mainnet Launch
👀 Reads
Hinderburg Research on the Block
How Venture Capital can avoid the next SVB Fiasco
EigenPhi on MEV
🗞 News
Congress Introduces Bill proposing Bitcoin Mining's Aid to Energy Goals and Economic Growth
Ziglu Courting Buyers After Robinhood Deal Collapses
Ethereum Foundation Doubles Bug Bounty to Half a Million Dollars as Shapella Upgrade Nears
💸 Raises
Radix Reaches 400m val in New Token Round - more
BH Digital raises 9m for its Nova Digital Opportunities fund - more
Character AI raises 150m series A led by a16z, with participation from Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, SV Angel, and A Capital - More
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📌 Every resource you need for the Arbitrum Airdrop in 10 Hours 🔵
DAO contracts deployment addresses
• https://docs.arbitrum.foundation/deployment-addresses
Exact Countdown to Claim
• https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/16890400
Blockworks Research Dashboard
• https://dune.com/blockworks_research/arb-airdrop
Satoshisss Dashboard
• https://dune.com/satoshisss/arbitrum-airdrop-2
Henrystats Dashboard (Arbitrum Metrics)
• https://dune.com/Henrystats/arbitrum-metrics
Pre-approve your ARB tokens and add them also in your metamask tutorial
• https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1638666007916040195
DefiLlama team built a page to claim, pre-approve & sell all your $ARB airdrop in one transaction(Degen Mode)
• http://swap.defillama.com/arb
What if website crashes when you want to claim?
1) Go to arbiscan contract → https://arbiscan.io/address/0x67a24CE4321aB3aF51c2D0a4801c3E111D88C9d9#writeContract
2) Click Write contract tab, click Connect to Web3, Connect your MetaMask
3) Click 1. Claim, and write transaction.
4) Approve transaction on Metamask and you have your $ARB!
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March 21
🔑 Project updates
Tron partners Arkham Intel
AAG Staking 2.0 is live
Render Network migrating to Solana
Polygon Labs and Immutable partners to introduce Immutable zkEVM, powered by Polygon
Coinbase has added Arbitrum (ARB) to its roadmap
DWF Labs purchased $15 million worth of Synthetix's native token SNX on March 16 with a further purchase of $5 million to follow
Starknet announced the Provisions Committee, which is responsible for planning, overseeing and executing the provision of the Starknet ecosystem token
Dfyn Version 2 Goes Live
🔨 Tools
The Crypto VC List 2023
Learn how to claim $ARB airdrop using etherscan contract (Best to use when front end is down or overwhelmed with traffic)
👀 Reads
Nansen Marco Update: We are in a Regime Transition Phase
🗞 News
EOS Network Ventures has committed $20 million to build Dapps and games on EOS blockchain
OKBChain will be a L2 Chain of Ethereum, starting from side chain technology and will develop to ZK technology
OKX will no longer provide services or allow users to open new accounts in Canada starting on Mar. 24” citing “new regulations.”
DefiLlama has resolved the internal team conflicts and decided to cancel the fork
💸 Raises
Pixelcraft Studios (Creators of Aavegotchi) raised $30 million in a multiyear token sale
Metatime raises 11m seed from Yildiz Tekno GSYO and others - More
Auros secures $17M investment - More
Carbonable raises 1.2m seed led by Ethereal Ventures and La Poste Ventures - More
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March 19
🔑 Project updates
DefiLlama team forking defillama
Venus Protocol informs about an exploit. If you ever approved any of your tokens to those contracts or interacted with BSCex/SwapX/LaunchZone revoke the allowance as soon as possible
Akash GPU Marketplace will be in private Testnet next week
🔨 Tools
Approvals.xyz, new product by Stelo team with funding round led by a16z
Analyse tokens/liquidity pool/transfer flows on Blockpour
👀 Reads
Research paper on the shift of Central Banks' reserves to BTC and gold
Arbitrum Airdrop Analysis by Flip_Research
🗞 News
Swiss Officials and UBS Group AG racing to put together a deal to take over/break up Credit Suisse
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March 17
✔️ Actionable
Want to earn 1000$ in BTC? Balaji giving away to 1k tweets that bring attention to "whats's happening"
🚨Degen yield farm play 🚨 (just sharing some degen plays for those interested. Always be careful and take appropriate caution)
- https://www.lsdx.finance/ (Invested by foresight ventures) /
Rewards your ETH staking with $LSD token. I used a burner wallet to stake some $ETH
🔑 Project updates
SuccintLabs introduces Telepathy (zkSNARK interop protocol for ETH)
LinksDAO wins bid for Spey Bay Golf Club
Orca (Dex) to Block US Traders From Website
BlockSec blocked/frontrunned the ParaSpace attack of 2900 ETH
Huobi will list Arbitrum (ARB) on March 23rd
Binance swaps out BUSD for USDT & TUSD in SAFU Fund
HyperOracle Published whitepaper
🔨 Tools
21 must-know DeFiLlama features you should be using by the DefiEdge
Arbitrum Airdrop Analysis dune dashboard by Blockworks
👀 Reads
Nansen x Arbitrum (How they worked together to develop Arbitrum's airdrop distribution)
Bull vs Bear Marco Livestream by Delphi Digital
Arthur Hayes - Kaiseki
🗞 News
US Congressman says "Biden Administration weaponizing market chaos to kill crypto"
Blockchain Association Seeks Documents on Crypto 'De-Banking' From FDIC, Fed
A class-action suit has been filed against “FTX influencers,” seeking $1 billion because they “promoted FTX crypto fraud without disclosing compensation.”
SVB files for chapter 11 bankruptcy
💸 Raises
Soul Wallet raises 3m from Struck Crypto, Gamer, NGC, Dispersion Capital, Alchemy, Ankr, Signum Capital, and many angels investors - More
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📌 Claim your Early Base Builder NFT
1) Go to https://apetimism.com/launch
a) Create New Project
b) Chose Base Goerli / Create
c) Go to Smart Contract Tab, fill anything and Deploy Contract
d) Copy Smart Contract address into https://quests.base.org/quest
e) Mint your free EARLY BASE BUILDER NFT
CoW Swap just launched MEVBlocker
CoW Swap, in collaboration with
Beaver Build and Agnostic Relayer, announces MEVBlocker.
Essentially, a free RPC endpoint that *pays users* to protect themselves from MEV.
Website: https://mevblocker.io/
Learn More: https://twitter.com/CoWSwap/status/1643614395002499073
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OpenSea launches OpenSea Pro
Free OpenSea Gemesis NFT
Eligibility: If you bought any NFT on gem before March 31, 2023
Mint here: https://opensea.io/collection/gemesis/drop
Thread: https://twitter.com/opensea/status/1643315429530816513
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📌 April 3
Shameless plug for @kirbycrypto on Twitter, would really appreciate a like/RT
👉 https://twitter.com/kirbyongeo/status/1642774103240192001
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Follow me on Lens - https://lenster.xyz/u/suzhu
(drop your lens in the comments and I'll follow back - hearing rumours about following being a condition/boost/req for lens airdrop)
• Bridge to zkSync - https://bridge.zksync.io/
(Bridge > $100, trade weekly between tokens, send tokens between diff wallets)
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Element Finance rebrands to DELV
• PancakeSwap Version 3 launches on BNB Chain and Ethereum
• Yuga labs's HV MTL site
• Liquid staking coming to $INJ
🔨 TOOLS
• RWA token list
👀 READS
• 0xTindorr on an underrated narrative - RWA
• Sandwich/mev bots targetted by sophiscated actor, losing $25m
thread by hudsonjameson on ^
🤨 NEWS
• Arbitrum sells tokens amid 77% disapproval
• Citi Bank report says inflection point for crypto adoption is here
• Bybit working to establish core asian business in HK
• Justin Sun discussed stake sale in Huobi
• GMO Financial Holdings Buy 10% of Crypto Hedge Fund AWR Capital
🤑 RAISES
• Alchemy Pay raises 10m from DWF Labs - More
• Re7 Capital & Republic Crypto launches 100m fund for investing in liquid tokens
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📌 April 1
🧑💻 ACTIONABLE
• Mega thread covering layer 2 projects with potential airdrops by its_airdrop
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
• Introducing Universal Frontend - nazar_ilamanov
• zkSync Era malfunctioned, no block generated for three hours
• MakerDAO marks the beginning of Endgame Era
🔨 TOOLS
• This is how your tweets are ranked in twitter's algo code
👀 READS
• LSD Narrative incoming: By Nansen Research
🤨 NEWS
• Bittrex shutting down
• Justin sun announces intention to purchase BTC from US gov at 10% discount
• Twitter algo published on Github
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April 2023 Crypto Calendar by Layergg
this is an amazing resource! 👍👍👍
P.S. We're going into Q2 2023 already, dang! Time flies.
📌 March 30
🤣 PROJECT UPDATES
Sui announced their permanent testnet
Sound.xyz releases Sound Swap
Alchemy Pay partners with Okx
Binance lists $RDNT
Injective, Eclipse bring Solana Applications to the Cosmos Ecosystem
Upbit lists $ARB
Lido to Cease Staking on Polkadot, Kusama in August
Algorand to Help Developers Transition to Web3 With AlgoKit
🔨 TOOLS
ETHTokyo Calendar - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Al1n8hVY8zZAXm2enscHY9Nr9ouN0kclolpLPbOM_Y/edit#gid=0
👀 READS
On Airdrops by Joel John (decentralized.co)
OnchainEdge on Altcoin angst
🤨 NEWS
Trader Joe Fastest-Growing DEX
Gemini preps overseas derivative exhange to offer perp futures
OKX will open an office in Australia
Mercado Libre now allows users in Chile to buy Bitcoin
Unicef testing concepts for a prototype DAO
🤑 RAISES
Hydra Ventures DAO raises 10m from investors 1kx, Collab+Currency, ConsenSys and Seed Club - More
Fetch.ai raises 40m from DWF Labs - More
Econia Labs raises 6.5m seed funding led by Dragonfly, with participation from Lightspeed Faction, Wintermute Ventures, Hudson River Trading and Flow Traders - More
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🚨 Update on Metamask snapshot rumours
Metamask clarifies that there is no snapshot on March 31
Doesn't hurt to have a transaction or two on the swaps for potential future eligibility for a $MASK airdrop :)
Tweet 👉 https://twitter.com/metamask/status/1640763000947703833~~~~~
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March 27
✔️ Actionable
Polygon zkevm mainnet beta launch, in 4 mins (22:00PM SGT)
- Claim/Mint this NFT on fairxyz
👉 https://fair.xyz/collection/polygonZKEVM
🔑 Project updates
Avalanche C Chain stopped producing blocks for around 80 minutes
DYDX to Launch Private Testnet
Gucci partnership with Yuga Labs (Gucci will play a role in Otherside and 10KTF)
Kokomo's Devs ‘Exit Scam’ for 4m in wbtc
Coinbase Calls for Efforts to Create Inflation-Proof Stablecoins
Huobi MOU with Fireblocks
Coinbase intends to start donating to pro-crypto candidates in US elections
Ankr x Luganodes
Binance announces opening of Binance’s blockchain hub in Georgia
🔨 Tools
Database of funding rounds
FTX Customers Search Tool
👀 Reads
Cryptopunk owner accidentally burns their cryptopunk
Cryptoshiro_ on projects you don't want to miss
Nasdaq's Digital Asset Strategy
🗞 News
Bank of Communications Co., Bank of China Ltd. and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank have either started offering banking services to local crypto firms or have made inquiries to the field
CNBC delisted Credit Default Swap data for 5 banks including JP Morgan and Bank of America
MicroStrategy Acquired 6,455 Bitcoins for Approximately $150.0 Million, at an Average Price of $23,238 Per Bitcoin
💸 Raises
Hadean (Metaverse infrastructure developer) raises 5M Series A from Ericsson Ventures, Metrea Discovery, VU Venture Partners, Sanctor Capital and Tirta Ventures - More
Narwhal Finance (dex) raises 1M seed led by Animoca Ventures, with participation from Hailstone Ventures and various angel investors - More
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March 25 (slow day today, go touch some grass this weekend fam)
🔑 Project updates
Consensys Announcement of Announcement (Something on 28/3)
Magic Eden Forms Web3 Games Collective With Leading Publishers, Communities
dHedge to acquire DeFi protocol mStable following governance vote
Swerve Finance still subject of $1.3 million live governance hack
👀 Reads
Dan Finlay Explains How MetaMask Will Become The Google of Web3
🗞 News
Animoca Brands Cuts Target for Metaverse Fund to $800M
💸 Raises
Particle Network (Middleware Platform) raises 7m from ABCDE, Animoca, Longhash Ventures, GSR Ventures and HashKey - More
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March 23 (sorry for the late update, busy with $ARB as you all are)
On Coinbase Being Served Wells Notice
Brian (CEO) Thread
Paul (CLO) Thread
Coinbase's Blog
🔑 Project updates
Sui Mainnet will launch in Q2 of this year
Ronin Wallet Social Login is available
ConsenSys MetaMask Institutional to Add Staking Marketplace
Burnt Finance is rebranding to Burnt and will launch its own blockchain Xion
Nimiq integrates gas-abstracted USDC transactions on Polygon
Aavegotchi to release own blockchain with Polygon Supernets
🔨 Tools
Airdrops and Wallets Dune Dashboard
Bitcoin Ordinals Analysis
👀 Reads
What is Wrong with Real World Asset Tokenization Today? by Jack Callahan
Listen: Delphi Digital x Caitlin Long Podcast
Listen: How to manage risk in the coming recession - David Rosenberg (Hidden Forces)
🗞 News
DO KWON ARRESTED LFGGGG
Telegram Users Can Now Transfer USDT Through Chats
Celsius custody customers can receive up to 72.5% of their deposited crypto back
Coinbase Will Soon Support the ARB-USD Trading Pair
Xapo Bank Becomes the First Fully Licensed Bank to Enable USDC Deposits and Withdrawals
💸 Raises
LiquidStack raises Undisclosed Series B from Trane Technologies - More
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March 22
✔️ Actionable
Mint Glass Pass (.glass) domain if you minted glass NFT or signed the manifesto
$ID claiming is live at https://space.id/voyage. Deposit is live on Binance
🔑 Project updates
Sushi served with SEC Subpoena, Jared requesting 3m for legal fees (LOL)
Angel protocol proposal post Euler Hack
PleasrDAO to burn unisocks token and real socks with uniblocks
GMX Proposes Deployment on Coinbase's Base Blockchain
Magic Eden Releases Bitcoin NFT Marketplace
Nexon taps polygon for NFT game Maplestory Universe
Sony has filed for a patent that would make NFTs transferable between different games and consoles
👀 Reads
Founder of Monero might be an FBI Informant
What is Gains Network? By The Defiant
0xShinchan thread on Prepo
What market structure says about BTC dominance by Deribit Insights
🗞 News
Coinbase has integrated the Brazilian government’s payment system Pix and started allowing crypto purchases with Brazilian reals
IRS to formalize tax treatment of NFTs as collectibles, similar to other art
Bitget Acquires Controlling Stake in BitKeep With Additional Investment at $300 Million Valuation
💸 Raises
Seed Club Ventures raises $25 million committed to investing in DAOs, with the venture community including Multicoin Capital, Delphi Digital and Dragonfly - More
Tomi (alternative internet network) raises 40m in round led by DWF labs - More
Turnkey (Crypto security) raises 7.5m seed from Variant, Sequoia and Coinbase - More
Gryfyn (custodial wallet) raises 7.5m from Liberty City Ventures, Leadblock Partners, Mind Fund and GameFi Ventures - More
CCP Games (Blockchain Game) raises 40m in seed led by a16z with other participants including Makers Fund, Bitkraft, Kingsway Capital, Hashed and Nexon - More
OP3N (Social Platform) raises 28m Series A led by Animoca Brands with Dragonfly Capital, Galaxy Digital, Republic Crypto and New Enterprise Associates’ Connect Ventures - More
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March 20 (Not much going on today 😐)
✔️ Actionable
Check your eligibility for the space.id airdrop and read the full announcement here
🔑 Project updates
Huobi has announced its new strategic partner, iMe
Binance will list Arb
🔨 Tools
Dexcheck CryptoBoard
👀 Reads
Rollups aren't real - Jon Charbonneau
🗞 News
Taiwan will announce at the end of March that exchanges and cryptocurrencies will be managed by the Financial Supervisory Commission. First, the industry will self-regulate, while referring to international norms, and finally establish a special law
MICROSOFT HAS REPORTEDLY PARTNERED WITH CONSENSYS TO PROVIDE A BUILT-IN CRYPTO SWAP FEATURE BETWEEN ETH, DAI, UNI, USDC, AND USDT
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March 18
🔑 Project updates
Immutable just announced that a legendary partnership is coming
ParaSpace Update on the Hack
Ripple partners with Blockchain Founders Fund to accelerate Web3 adoption
Trader Joe Liquidity Book V2.1 just around the corner for arbinauts
Euler attacker is returning ETH to Euler finance. 3000 Ether was returned so far
Microsoft seems to be adding crypto wallet to edge browser
🔨 Tools
LlamaZip launched on Arbitrum
👀 Reads
Sector Finance report by Nansen
Arbitrum Deep Dive by Flip_Research
🗞 News
Bybit announces ARB spot listing
DigiFT, announced the issuance of the first Perpetual Bond Referenced Token, the underlying asset is Barclays 8% Perpetual Bond and held in custody with Citibank
Academic study flags 186 banks as vulnerable to a run as Silicon Valley Bank was
Crypto bank Protego didn't meet requirements for national trust charter
UK government is coordinating an emergency meeting with tech firms, who are expected to call for state intervention to avoid the failure of hundreds of firms following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
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ParaSpace Protocol Paused (Investigation Ongoing)
NFTs supplied to the protocol are safe.
Thread: https://twitter.com/ParaSpace_NFT/status/1636617953599946752
BlockSec blocked/frontrunned the attack of 2900 ETH
https://twitter.com/BlockSecTeam/status/1636621097495044096
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