​​Agoric has raised $32M during private fundraising round and launched Phase 0 of its mainnet. Placeholder, NGC Ventures, Spartan Group, Compound VC, Acrew Capital, Figment, and ChorusOne are among investors. Agoric is a Cosmos-based smart contract platform. Public sale TBA.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. Nov 2021, part 2.
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​​UXD Protocol is having uncapped public auction starting November 12th. 3% of the total UXD supply to be sold to the public without ceiling price. Users will have 48h to deposit and withdraw USDC in the price is too high. No grace period. The token price will be adjusted based on the amount of USDC deposited. Uncapped auctions are the most risky as a user can get unreasonably high price.

​​BitCountry has started public sale pre registration on November 12th. Pre-whitelisting is live till November 20th. There will be 3 rounds: 2 rounds for crowdloan participants & active community members. Third round is open for anyone interested. Public sale details TBA. BitCountry aims to develop platform for user-created metaverses & games.

​​Blockchain gaming platform Forte raises $725M in Series B funding. The round was led by Sea Capital and Kora Management with support from Animoca Brands, Huuuge Games, Overwolf, Playstudios, Warner Music Group, Razer, Cosmos, Polygon Studios, Solana Ventures, a16z, and Tiger Global.

​​SingularityNET ecosystem project, NuNet will have a public sale round on OccamRazer and Launchpool. Launchpool registration will be available on Nov 15th. OccamRazer registration opens on Nov 18th. 2% of the total supply to be sold on both platform for $600k. Vesting: 50% at TGE and 25% during 2 months. NuNet aims to build a decentralized computing power and storage platform.

​​Some of the upcoming TGEs/sales/auctions/listings you should know about.

​​Binance lists BENQI (QI) on November 15th. QI/BTC, QI/BNB, QI/BUSD, and QI/USDT trading pairs will go live at 08:00 (UTC).

​​Binance will offer BENQI (QI) farming on Binance Launchpool as of November 16. Users will be able to stake their BNB, AVAX and BUSD into separate pools to farm QI tokens over 30 days, starting Nov 16. QI trading is already live on the platform.

​​Multi-chain DEX aggregator ParaSwap launches its own token and will airdrop 150M PSP. 150 million tokens, or 7.5% of the PSP’s total supply of 2 billion, will be airdropped to 20,000 early users. PSP will enter the market with the airdropped tokens as initial circulation supply.

​​Binance Labs has revealed a list of participants of its 3rd Incubation Program. Applications for the 4th Incubation Program are open.

​​Gold Fever will have a token sale on Huobi Primelist on November 19th. 1.7M NGL (1% of total supply) to be sold. 50% to be sold via lottery (2,465 lucky slots) and another 50% will be sold via proportional model among HT holders. NGL/USDT trading pair will go live on the same day, November 19th. Gold Fever is a survival RPG hybrid that creates a decentralized economy around its limited resources and various NFT items.

​​Alchemix (ALCX), Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Gala (GALA), mStable USD (MUSD) and Power Ledger (POWR) are launching on Coinbase Pro. Trading will begin on or after 9AM Pacific Time (PT) Tuesday November 16, if liquidity conditions are met.

​​Subscription for the FC Porto Fan Token (PORTO) public sale on Binance Launchpad is now open. Users will have 3 hours to subscribe by committing their BNB tokens between 2021-11-16 06:00 AM (UTC) and 2021-11-16 09:00 AM (UTC).

​​KuCoin lists Numbers Protocol (NUM), Ambire AdEx (ADX), Kava Swap (SWP), MANTRA DAO (OM) and Trust Wallet Token (TWT). TWT trading will start at 9:00 on November 17 (UTC). ADX, SWP and OM trading will go live at 10:00 on November 17 (UTC). NUM trading will start at 13:00 on November 18 (UTC).

​​Deloitte will be using Avalanche on its new disaster recovery platform. According to the blog post new cloud-based platform leverages Avalanche blockchain to improve security, speed and accuracy of Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursements.

​​Persistence ecosystem project pSTAKE Raises $10M in a strategic funding round. Three Arrows Capital, Sequoia India, Galaxy Digital, Defiance Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, The Spartan Group, Alameda Research, Sino Global Capital, Tendermint Ventures are among investors. pSTAKE will also allocate 6% of the total genesis supply for various airdrops to be distributed based on the snapshots taken on 2nd September 2021. pSTAKE is a liquid staking solution that unlocks the potential of staked PoS assets.

​​Ethereum Layer 2 developer StarkWare raises $50M at $2B valuation. Sequoia Capital was leading the round with participation from existing investors, including Paradigm, Three Arrows Capital, Alameda Research, and Founders Fund. StarkWare is set to launch StarkNet later this month.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. Nov 2021, part 3.

​​Waterfall DeFi has released its mainnet on Binance Smart Chain on November 17th. Waterfall DeFi is a decentralized protocol that brings risk tranching to the DeFi landscape. The startup will offer retroactive airdrop for early users.

​​KuCoin Labs launches $100M venture capital fund to empower metaverse projects. The money is also available for entities that develop blockchain-based games, nonfungible tokens, and decentralized applications. In addition, Kucoin will also provide business incubation services.