​​Aethir (ATH) has announced the launch of its first NFT drop

Aethir kicks off the first drop of NFT checker node licenses, rewarding all nodes operators with purchasers done before April 10th, 12:00 UTC. All nodes purchased before the cut-off will receive their NFT checker node licenses in the first batch on April 12th, at 8:00 AM UTC. Moreover, for a whole week after the NFT drop, all DAO communities, launchpads, and regional partners will be able to distribute NFT checker node licenses to their communities from Aethir's official website.

👉🏻 x.com/AethirCloud/status/1777539552678424810

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​​Sharpe AI (SAI) has unveiled the details of its upcoming IDO on the AIT Launchpad

The $SAI IDO will follow the $AIT staking + raffle model with a staking snapshot to be done on April 10th. To be eligible for the allocation, users need to stake their $AIT in the 56 days public pool. AIT Protocol has recently introduced new staking tiers for the AIT Launchpad.

Sharpe is an institutional-grade crypto superApp, serving as a unified frontend for intelligence, tracking, and investing in digital assets. The project has previously announced its IDO on Ape Terminal.

🔸IDO Price: $0.02
🔸IDO Hardcap: $100,000
🔸Initial Market Cap: $1,616,667
🔸Vesting: 20% TGE, 2 months cliff, 8 months linear

👉🏻 x.com/aitprotocol/status/1777406408482336792

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​​Top 10 NFT Marketplaces by Volume (30d)

An NFT marketplace is a digital platform for buying and selling NFTs. Let's take a look at some of the best-performed NFT marketplaces by volume in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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Monad announces the closure of its $225M funding round led by Paradigm

Monad, a decentralized Layer 1 smart contract platform, has raised $225M in an investment round led by Paradigm. Additional round participants included Electric Capital and Greenoaks. With the fresh funds in hands, Monad aims to build a layer-1 blockchain to challenge competitors such as Solana and Sui. The project has previously raised $19M in seed funding led by Dragonfly Capital.

👉🏻 fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/09/monad-paradigm-greenoaks-jump-crypto-funding-225-million

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​​Mezo has raised $21M in the Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital

Mezo, a Bitcoin L2 network by the Thesis venture studio, raises $21M in funding led by Pantera. The investment has also featured participation from Multicoin, Hack VC, Draper Associates, Parafi Capital, and Primitive among others. Mezo also launched the Proof of HODL points program, where the longer users' Bitcoin deposits are stored, the more a contributor’s HODL Score multiplies.

👉🏻 fortune.com/crypto/2024/04/09/21-million-series-a-mezo-bitcoin-layer-2-hodl-hodlers

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​​Ponder One (PNDR) has announced the partnership with Hybrid (HYB)

Ponder has teamed up with Hybrid, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain enriched with specialized data layers for AI. Ponder builds a solution providing a fully integrated comparison tool for crypto-based operations. The project previously announced its $PNDR token IDOs on Ape Terminal and WePad.

👉🏻 x.com/Ponder_One/status/1777381570388660307

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​​Top DePIN Projects by Revenue (30d)

DePIN is an acronym, short for Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks. Networks that use crypto-incentives to efficiently coordinate the buildout & operation of critical infrastructure.

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​​Mystiko Network has announced its partnership with Merlin Chain

Mystiko announces a strategic partnership with Merlin Chain, a native Bitcoin layer 2 network. Through this collaboration, the projects will work together to make Bitcoin more scalable. Mystiko SDK, the universal ZK SDK, features scalability, interoperability, privacy, and AI for every blockchain/dapp all at once. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Samsung Next, Hashkey, Mirana, Coinlist, Morningstar Ventures, and others, the project has conducted the $XZK token sale on the Coinlist platform.

👉🏻 x.com/MystikoNetwork/status/1777637492344455563

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​​DeXe Protocol has announced its liquidity partnership with DWF Labs

DeXe Protocol DAO has passed the on-chain proposal for a liquidity partnership with DWF Labs. This innovation aims to enhance DeXe Protocol’s popularization among community, improve liquidity, drive the decentralized governance in DeXe Protocol DAO, and promote the adoption of DeXe technology across the ecosystem.

Earlier this year, DeXe Protocol launched its bug bounty program on Immunefi with a total reward pool of 500K $DEXE. The DeXe Protocol allows people to create and govern DAOs in a meritocratic way, with proper incentive alignment and wide flexibility.

👉🏻 x.com/DexeNetwork/status/1777682917893816438

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​​Sekuya announces an upcoming $SKYA TGE on the SingularityDAO Launchpad

Sekuya has annunced a forthcoming launch of its native $SKYA token on the SingularityDAO Launchpad. The SingularityDAO Launchpad offers guaranteed spots for $SDAO token stakers, with 5 different staking tiers available. Moreover, in order to participate, users will be required to complete a KYC/AML verification. Incubated by SingularityDAO, Sekuya Multiverse is an award-winning startup project, offering an immersive MMORPG experience set in the Novae Terrae, a 10-world universe.

🔸TGE Price: $0.02
🔸Initial Market Cap: $523,500

👉🏻 medium.com/singularitydao/singularitydao-launchpad-sekuya-skya-token-generation-event-7cc884fb15e9

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​​OpenTrade announces the closure of its $3.2M seed investment round

OpenTrade, a web3 institutional lending and yield products platform, raises $3.2M seed funding round. Among investors are a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX), CMCC Global, Draper Dragon, Ryze Labs, and Plassa Capital. OpenTrade is built on the payment and DeFi infrastructure from Circle.

👉🏻 x.com/opentrade_io/status/1777728984215629953

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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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​​EigenLayer announces the launch of its protocol and EigenDA on mainnet

EigenLayer rolls out its protocol on mainnet alongside with the launch of the EigenDA solution. EigenLayer will be initially launched in a beta version with restricted feature set. EigenDA, the first AVS to launch, is built by Eigen Labs as a way to help other blockchain protocols store transaction data and other information. The project will open the onboarding process for rollups to EigenDA on the mainnet after the operator set and restaker delegations stabilize.

EigenLayer offers a protocol for users to deposit and re-stake $ETH from various liquid staking tokens, aiming to allocate those funds to secure third-party networks. The protocol has accumulated $13.3B in TVL and has raised $164.5M in three funding rounds backed by a16z, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital and others.

👉🏻 blog.eigenlayer.xyz/mainnet-launch-eigenlayer-eigenda

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​​XSwap (XSWAP) has announced its partnership with FuelOnBlast

XSwap teams up with FuelOnBlast, a streamlined platform for creators to easily design and launch their own tokens. XSwap has recently integrated Chainlink, enabling $LINK transfers between Ethereum and Base. XSwap leverages Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol to provide cross-chain messages and token transfers.

👉🏻 x.com/xswap_link/status/1777728264661819636

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​​HashKey Group has announced an upcoming launch of its Layer-2 chain

HashKey Group discloses its plans to launch a Layer 2 chain called HashKey Chain. The network will incentivize ecosystem contributors with its native $HSK token. HashKey Chain will adopt zero knowledge-proof technology, with the testnet scheduled to go live within the next six months, and mainnet within a year. Moreover, the chain will be powered by HashKey Cloud, a web3 infrastructure provider and a unit of the HashKey Group.

👉🏻 theblock.co/post/287214/hashkey-ethereum-layer-2

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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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​​Mystiko.Network has announced the launch of its airdrop campaign

Mystiko.Network kick off its airdrop campaign, focused on social and on-chain tasks. Users can now participate in the campaign by joining the project's Discord and claiming Discord airdrop roles for completing social & on-chain tasks. Mystiko SDK, the universal ZK SDK, features scalability, interoperability, privacy, and AI for every blockchain/dapp all at once. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Samsung Next, Hashkey, Mirana, Coinlist, Morningstar Ventures, and others, the project has conducted the $XZK token sale on the Coinlist platform.

👉🏻 medium.com/@Mystiko.Network/unlocking-the-mystiko-airdrop-campaign-your-guide-to-participation-b471d11f6527

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​​Catamoto announces its upcoming IDO on the Ape Terminal platform

Registration for the $CATA IDO on Ape Terminal is now open! Catamoto will also hold its IDO on the Tenset platform starting from April 12th. Catamoto is a community memecoin project on BNB Chain with the $CATA native token.

🔸IDO Price: $0.000587
🔸IDO Hardcap: $200K
🔸Initial Market Cap: $11.7M

👉🏻 launch.apeterminal.io/project/catamoto

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​​Nuklai announces a partnership with the OORT decentralized cloud solution

Nuklai joins forces with OORT, an advanced decentralized cloud solution for AI. In terms of this partnership, the projects will cooperate to explore more use cases for data sharing in traditional industries. Moreover, Nuklai will integrate OORT services and become its preferred data partner. Nuklai is an innovative Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure to host a collaborative data ecosystem that will fuel AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) with world-class data.

👉🏻 x.com/NuklaiData/status/1777752629034008610

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​​Top 10 dApps on zkSync Era by Users Activity (30d)

A decentralized application (dApp) is a program built on blockchain that combines a smart contract and a front-end user interface. We present the top dApps on zkSync Era by user activity in the last 30 days, according to the data from DappRadar.

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​​Manta Network introduces the first cohort of zk Accelerator Program

Manta Network has unveiled the first nine projects selected to participate in the zk Accelerator Program. Launched in partnership with Celestia and Polygon, a six-week program will be focused on nurturing scalable use cases that drive the adoption of Web3. Among program's participants are Filemarket, Reclaim Protocol, Gull Network, Nimble Technology, Vooi, Magpie Protocol, Firefly Dex, Wallchain, and Rivalz. The projects will gain access to funding opportunities through grants, investments, and partnerships, along with multiple pitch chances at zkDay, regular meetups, webinars, and networking events. Manta Network has recently launched Manta AI, in partnership with Celestia, ORA, and Hyperbolic.

👉🏻 x.com/ZK_Accelerator/status/1777432552111817166

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