​​Portal has announced the closure of its $34M seed funding round

Portal, a startup building a Bitcoin-based cross-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) and wallet, has raised $34M in a seed funding round. Investors in the round included Coinbase Ventures, Arrington Capital, OKX Ventures, and Gate.іо. Previously, it raised $8M in a round backed by Shima Capital, LD Capital, Genblock Capital, Krypital Group, and others.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/275033/bitcoin-dex-portal-seed-funding-coinbase

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​​Binance Labs makes an investment in the Puffer Finance liquid restaking protocol

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has made an investment in Puffer Finance, an Ethereum liquid restaking protocol built on EigenLayer. Puffer will utilize the funds to develop its Layer 2 network and introduce Puffer's native liquid restaking token, pufETH, to BNB Chain users.

👉🏻 binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-invests-in-puffer-to-support--the-next-generation-of-decentralized-liquid-restaking-5382326849903026647

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​​The Biggest NFT Sales of the Past 30 Days

In this post, we highlight the largest Non-Fungible Token (NFT) sales that have occurred over the past month, delving into the details of each sale, including the specific NFT that was sold, and the price it fetched. Data from DappRadar.

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​​Starknet and Celestia have partnered on data availability for Layer 3 ecosystem

Starknet joins forces with Celestia to improve data availability for Layer 3 chains. Through this collaboration, Starknet will use Celestia for data storage, aiming to minimize gas costs. Starknet developers plan to use the Blobstream data availability (DA) layer, a key component of the Celestia ecosystem. In 2023, Starknet announced its plans to allocate over 1.8B $STRK tokens to the foundation’s Provisions Committee, and user rebates.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/275052/starknet-celestia-data-availability-layer-3

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​​bitsCrunch (BCUT) has partnered with LiveArt

bitsCrunch partners with LiveArt, the Web3 platform for art, backed by Binance Labs. The partnership aims to shape the NFT market by providing IP protection and advanced blockchain analytics to help brands protect their IP. To celebrate this, 20 NFTs of LiveArt upcoming Limited Edition NFT Offering ‘Icons’ will be giving away.

bitsCrunch is an AI-enhanced data network that delivers NFT analytics and forensic data, backed by Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, Polygon Ventures, and Chainlink. bitsCrunch previously conducted token sale on Coinlist and announced the launch of $BCUT token on February 20th.

👉🏻 x.com/bitsCrunch/status/1752279772514971669

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​​Top Crypto Projects by Developer Activity in January

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.

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​​MixMob (MXM) will be listed on the KuCoin exchange, on February 1st

Trading for the MXM/USDT trading pair will be live on KuCoin, on February 1st, at 15:00 UTC. Deposits are now open and withdrawals will open on February 2nd, at 10:00 AM UTC. Moreover, the project will give out 63M $MXM tokens via an airdrop, including buyers of MixBot NFTs and players of the game’s incentivized beta. MixMob is a Solana-powered card strategy battle racing game, backed by Morningstar Ventures, Solana Ventures, Arthur Hayes, Maven Capital, IOSG Ventures, Genblock Capital, Merit Circle, and others.

👉🏻 kucoin.com/announcement/en-mixmob-mxm-gets-listed-on-kucoin-world-premiere

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​​SatoshiVM (SAVM) introduces its roadmap for 2024-2025 and beyond

SatoshiVM has released its roadmap for 2024-25 with plans to launch its alpha mainnet and start partner dApps deployment scheduled for Q1 2024. Throughout 2024, SatoshiVM plans to conduct the second phase distribution of tokenized NFTs, develop a rollup model and rollup contracts, and collaborate with cross-chain protocols, among other objectives. SatoshiVM is a decentralized Bitcoin ZK Rollup Layer2 compatible with the EVM ecosystem and uses native BTC as gas.

👉🏻 twitter.com/satoshivm/status/1752005443965317251

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​​Uncorrelated Ventures raises $315M for crypto and software-focused fund

Bain Capital-backed VC firm Uncorrelated Ventures has raised $315M for a new fund focusing on software and crypto. The firm will allocate around 80% of the new fund to early-stage traditional software investments and 20% to crypto startups. It has previously backed crypto projects including Compound, Cosmos, dYdX, Helium and Uniswap.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/275150/uncorrelated-ventures-315-million-crypto-software-fund

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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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​​Jupiter (JUP) will have a primary on multiple exchanges today, on Jan 31st

Jupiter Exchange $JUP will be primarily listed on Binance, OKX, KuCoin, Bybit, HTX, Bitget, Bitfinex, Gate, and other exchanges today, January 31st, at 15:30 UTC. The project's $JUP airdrop will also go live today at 15:00 UTC. Jupiter is a DeFi protocol on Solana, offering a suite of features including DEX Aggregation, Limit Orders, DCA, Bridge Comparator, Perpetuals Trading, etc.

👉🏻 binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-will-list-jupiter-jup-with-seed-tag-applied-7b5c643c3d8a4c9a9d443b1ceefb0015

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​​bitsCrunch finishes its incentivized testnet with 100K participants

bitsCrunch has successfully completed its incentivized testnet, rewarding 100,000 participants with 10.6M $BCUT (1.06% of total supply). Moreover during the testnet phase, the project saw over 75,000 testnet customers and 9,000 operators, 860,000+ contribution proposals, and 100,000 testers across 160 countries that have completed over 5 million testnet activities.

Backed by Coinbase Ventures, Animoca Brands, Morningstar Ventures, Polygon Ventures, and Chainlink, bitsCrunch is an AI-enhanced data network that delivers NFT analytics and forensic data. bitsCrunch previously conducted token sale on Coinlist and announced the launch of $BCUT token on February 20th.

👉🏻 blog.bitscrunch.com/celebrating-the-success-of-bitscrunch-incentivised-testnet-ae4229879855

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​​Gaming & Metaverse Projects by Social Activity

Posts. Posts measure 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 partners with PulsarMoney for its social payment & vesting solutions

Under this integration, Ta-da will use Plusars' solution to launch $TADA vesting, social pay, and more. Pulsar Money is Web3 Protocol that provides real-time, on-chain financial tools leveraging Smart Contract technology.

User can now complete the KYC verification for the $TADA sale on the xLaunchpad. Ta-da is a "talk-to-earn" Web3 app backed by Morningstar Ventures, MultiversX, GBV Capital, Alpha Protocol Ventures, and others.

👉🏻 twitter.com/ta_da_io/status/1752336984251519199

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​​Top Projects by Price Performance in January

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​​Total Value Locked (TVL) in zkSync Era Ecosystem

Let's take a look at the general TVL overview of the whole #zkSync Era 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, SyncSwap leads by TVL, followed by Mute, ZeroLend, Velocore, Maverick, and others.

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​​NAVI Protocol has raised $2M in a round co-led by Hashed, OKX Ventures & dao5

Other investors include in the funding round included Mysten Labs, Comma3 Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Benqi, Gate.іо, GeekCartel Capital, Nomad Capital, Coin98 Ventures, Cetus Protocol, Maverick, Viabtc, Assembly Partners, Hailstone Labs, and LBank Labs. NAVI Protocol is the first native one-stop liquidity protocol on Sui $SUI with over $150M in TVL.

👉🏻 medium.com/@navi.protocol/navi-protocol-raises-2m-from-okx-ventures-dao5-and-hashed-e9b0eb8026b3

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​​Coins That Have Reached New ATH in January

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​​BeFi Labs partners with Inscribe to enhance cross-chain assets availability

BeFi Labs has announced a partnership with Inscribe, a cross-chain inscription marketplace. Through this collaboration, projects aim to bolster cross-chain access to BRC20 and Ordinals in BeFi's trading terminal. BeFi Labs is a native BRC-20 & Ordinals trading terminal with rapid transactions and zero fees. It has already conducted its IDOs on Ape Terminal, BRC App, and AIT Launchpad.

👉🏻 twitter.com/BefiLabs/status/1752675544032805023

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​​Ripple’s Co-founder loses ~$112.5 worth of $XRP from several personal XRP accounts

As a result of unauthorized access to some of Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen's personal $XRP accounts, 213M $XRP tokens worth ~$112.5M have been withdrawn. The outgoing funds were then sent to the crypto exchanges MEXC, Gate, Binance, Kraken, OKX, HTX, and HitBTC.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/275367/ripple-co-founder-reports-unauthorized-access-to-some-personal-xrp-accounts

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​​Zetachain (ZETA) will be listed on Coinbase and Coinbase Exchange today

Trading of Zetachain $ZETA token on Coinbase will begin today on January 31st, once liquidity conditions are met. ZetaChain is a new Layer 1 focused on interoperability that aims to unite multiple blockchains, backed by CMT Digital, Blockchain com, Jane Street Ventures.

👉🏻 twitter.com/CoinbaseAssets/status/1752736561282629674

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