​​Kiln has announced the closure of its $17M funding round led by 1kx

Kiln, an institutional crypto staking platform, raises $17M in a funding round led by 1kx. Among other investors are Crypto.соm, IOSG, Wintermute Ventures, KXVC, LBank, Kraken Ventures, GSR, and Avon Ventures. Kiln plans to use the fresh funds to expand globally, including growing its APAC division following the opening of its regional headquarters in Singapore in Q1. Back in 2022, Kiln raised another $17.6M in the funding round, backed by ConsenSys and the venture arm of Kraken.

👉🏻 x.com/Kiln_finance/status/1747955061412471096

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​​Coin of the day by social activity - Filecoin (FIL).

Filecoin is the largest decentralized data storage marketplace, protocol, and cryptocurrency.

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​​Apeiron has announced the launch of the $ANIMA airdrop campaign

Apeiron kicks off the $ANIMA airdrop campaign, allowing users to come in and earn Airdrop Points. Old and new players from now until Apeiron TGE expected in February can now start accumulating APs by completing the in-game tasks. Apeiron battle demo is now available through the Epic Games Store. Apeiron is the NFT-based play-and-earn god game, backed by Hashed, Morningstar Ventures, Spartan, GuildFi, Infinity Ventures Crypto, SkyVision Capital, and more.

👉🏻 blog.apeironnft.com/come-one-come-all-apeirons-anima-airdrop-kickoff-4ef9d126ee5a

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​​Coti (COTI) has announced the launch of its $25M Ecosystem Growth Fund

Coti, a blockchain developer known for operating projects on Cardano and its own network, establishes its new $25M (400M COTI tokens) Ecosystem Growth Fund. The new fund will accelerate the development of privacy-focused initiatives, with Soda Labs as the first project to be granted. Moreover, the fund will encompass developers, partners, and grant programs, fostering a holistic growth strategy for the COTI V2 ecosystem. Earlier in December 2023, Coti announced its plans to expand to the Ethereum ecosystem with a Layer 2 network.

👉🏻 chainwire.org/2024/01/18/coti-launches-25m-ecosystem-growth-fund-to-accelerate-privacy-on-ethereum

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​​Total Value Locked (TVL) in Manta Network

Let's take a look at the general TVL overview of the whole #Manta ecosystem, diving into the rankings of top chain's protocols by TVL, their market share, and current market stats. According to the data from DefiLama, LayerBank leads by TVL, followed by Shoebill, Quickswap, ApertureSwap, Steer Protocol, and others.

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​​BeFi Labs announces its upcoming IDO on the AIT Protocol launchpad

BeFi Labs to become the first project, launched via the AIT Launchpad, with more sale details to be announced soon. To be eligible for the sale, users need to stake the $AIT token. BeFi Labs is a native BRC-20 & Ordinals trading terminal with rapid transactions and zero fees. The project has previously conducted its IDO on Ape Terminal and BRC App.

🔸IDO Hardcap: $25,000

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​​👑 Dear community, CryptoDep will host an AMA with AIT Protocol $AIT team on Friday, 19th of January, at 13:00 UTC in the CryptoDep Chat

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AIT Protocol is the inaugural data infrastructure dedicated to data annotations and the training of AI models, incubated by PAAL AI and Metabros.

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​​Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know

This digest provides a quick overview of the most significant cryptocurrency news, that's worth your attention.

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​​SatoshiVM (SAVM) gets listed on the Uniswap decentralized exchange

Trading for the $SAVM token is now live on Uniswap! SatoshiVM has conducted its ILO on the Bounce Launchpad and the record-breaking IDO on Ape Terminal, with $389M assets connected and 55,000+ IDO applicants. SatoshiVM is a decentralized Bitcoin ZK Rollup Layer2 compatible with the EVM ecosystem and uses native BTC as gas.

🔸IDO Price: $0.05
🔸Current Price: $8.50 (~x170)

👉🏻 x.com/SatoshiVM/status/1748133312915231166

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​​Saros (SAROS) will be listed on multiple exchanges after the airdrop announcement

Trading for the $SAROS token will go live on KuCoin, Bitget, HTX, Bybit, MEXC, BTSE, and Gate today, on January 19th, at 11:00 AM UTC. Moreover, Saros has announced a snapshot and token airdrop of 5% of the total SAROS supply that will be airdropped on January 19th. Saros is a Solana-based unified Suite of DeFi products with three fundamental building blocks: SarosSwap (AMM), SarosFarm, and SarosStake, in which SarosSwap is the core of the entire ecosystem.

👉🏻 x.com/Saros_Finance/status/1748272911553806364

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​​TOP Crypto Projects by Social Activity

Posts. Posts measures the number of social posts across all social channels.

Interactions include socially-driven engagements and actions such as likes, comments, retweets, and upvotes.

Social Dominance. Social dominance calculates the "share of voice" across all social media data.

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​​Ta-da enters the KYC phase of its $TADA public sale on xLaunchpad

The KYC phase for the $TADA public sale on xLaunchpad is now live and will last till February 2nd. Users can now complete the KYC verification using the xPortal app. This phase will be followed by the $TADA lottery tickets purchase phase, which will start on February 7th.

Ta-da, incubated by Morningstar Ventures, is a "talk-to-earn" Web3 app, that connects businesses that need datasets for AI training with individuals who could earn tokens by recording and checking voice data.

🔸 Token Sale Price: $0.022
🔸 Public Sale Hardcap: $1,100,000
🔸 Initial Diluted Valuation: $22,000,000
🔸 Vesting: 25% at TGE

👉🏻 twitter.com/xLaunchpadApp/status/1748040093372195212

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​​Coin of the day by social activity - 5ireChain (5IRE).

5ireChain is a layer-1 EVM compatible smart contract platform that focuses on developing a for-benefit blockchain ecosystem based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations (UN).

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​​Root Protocol has raised $10M across two seed rounds led by Animoca Brands

Root Protocol, a digital identity service aiming to unify access to Web3 platforms, raises $10M across two seed rounds at a $100M valuation. Additional rounds' investors included Signum Capital, Ankr Network, CMS Holdings, and several angel investors. Root Protocol is building a Web3 operating system that will serve as a digital identity aggregator, becoming “a one-stop station for all things decentralized identity” to make accessing different Web3 platforms a more seamless process.

👉🏻 coindesk.com/web3/2024/01/19/one-stop-station-digital-identity-service-root-protocol-raises-10m-seed-funding

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​​Top DeFi Projects by Developer Activity

Dev.Activity - the development activity of a project done in its public Github repositories. Development Activity metrics are measured in a number of Github events.

Daily Active Addresses (DAA) - the number of unique crypto addresses interacting with (sending or receiving) a particular coin on a daily basis.

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​​PECLand (PECL) public and private sales will go live on GameFI on January 24th

PECLand will hold its public and private $PECL sales on the GameFi platform on January 24th. To join the sale, users need to stake $PEC to reach one of these ranks on GameFі.оrg: Rookie, Elite, Pro, Legend. PECLand, incubated by Icetea Labs, builds the first BRC20 UGC open-world gaming platform with Play-to-Earn, DeFi, and SocialFi features, uniting BRC20 and BNB Chain ecosystems through cross-chain technology.

Public Sale Details:
🔸IDO Price: $0.00012
🔸IDO Hardcap: $50,000
🔸Initial Market Cap: $440,000
🔸 Vesting: 100% at TGE

Private Sale Details:
🔸IDO Price: $0.00008
🔸IDO Hardcap: $100,000
🔸Initial Market Cap: $440,000
🔸 Vesting: 20% at TGE, cliff 1 month, block by block in 6 months

👉🏻 gamefi.org/insight/unlock-the-first-brc20-ugc-open-world-with-150-000-pec-public-private-sale-by-pecland

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​​Conflux (CFX) announces the launch of its EVM-compatible Bitcoin Layer 2 solution

Conflux Network has introduced its EVM-Compatible Bitcoin Layer 2 Solution. The network will have the following key features: BTC as the native currency for gas fees, bridge of various asset types from Bitcoin, unparalleled security for third-party smart contracts, and enhanced credibility through BTC staking in the PoS consensus protocol. Testnet launch is expected for February/march 2024, while mainnet is scheduled for May 2024.

👉🏻 medium.com/conflux-network/unlocking-the-potential-of-bitcoin-introducing-conflux-networks-evm-compatible-bitcoin-layer-2-4d1a13c0bbd8

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​​Coin of the day by social activity - Chainlink (LINK)

Chainlink $LINK is the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web.

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​​Top Recent Crypto Fundraising Events

Presenting a list of some recent crypto fundraising events, backed by well-known investors such as Polychain, CoinFund, Animoca Brands, Robot Ventures, Ava Labs, Hashkey, Maven 11, Borderless, 1kx, IOSG, Wintermute, CMS, Ankr, OKX Venturs, Crypto.сom, Kraken, Ripple, and others. Let's take a look!

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