​​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.

​​Privacy focused Nym Network has closed $13M Series A round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Crypto). Other investors include Digital Currency Group, Tayssir Capital, Huobi Ventures, HashKey, Fenbushi Capital, and more than two dozen operators of validator nodes.

​​Ardana (DANA) will get listed on Gate, BitMart and MEXC on November 22. The trading will go live at 2PM UTC. Ardana aims to build a Cardano’s stablecoin hub, and to bring DeFi primitives to Cardano ecosystem.

​​Oasis launches $160M Ecosystem Fund. The fund will be launched in collaboration with a host of major venture capital firms, including Dragonfly Capital Partners, Draper Dragon Fund, Electric Capital, FBG, Jump Capital, Kenetic Capital, NGC Ventures and Pantera Capital.

​​ConsenSys, a developer and service provider focused on Ethereum, has closed a $200M round of funding at a $3.2B valuation. New investors include Marshall Wace, Third Point, ParaFi Capital, and Think Investments, who joined follow-on participants including Animoca Brands, Coinbase Ventures, and HSBC. This round follows a $65M raise, announced in March 2021, which included JPMorgan, Mastercard and UBS. 
ConsenSys products include MetaMask, an app and web browser extension that lets users hold and manage digital tokens, and connect with other blockchain-based applications.

​​Injective Protocol announced $120M liquidity incentive program. The news follows the recently announced mainnet release and aims to bring liquidity and traders to Injective Protocol.

​​Voyager Token (VGX) is launching on Coinbase Pro on November 18th. Trading will begin on or after 9AM Pacific Time (PT), Thursday November 18, if liquidity conditions are met.

​​Huobi Global will list Unicly (UNIC) on November 18th. The UNIC spot trading (UNIC/USDT) will open when the deposit volume meets the demand of market trading.

​​Genopets (GENE) will get listed today on FTX, MEXC, Bybit, PancakeSwap and Raydium. Trading is expected to go live at 12:00 (UTC). Genopets aims to build a Play-to-Earn NFT game on Solana. The startup will enter the market with 3M GENE initial circulating supply. ICO price: $0.8.

​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. Nov 2021, part 4.
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​​Chromia, Mines of Dalarnia and My Neighbor Alice will launch $80M Metaverse Grant Program. The funds will be available to developers who wish to create add-ons, utilities, and standalone games that interact with the two flagship titles and the Chromia gaming ecosystem at large.

​​Acala has won the first parachain auction on Polkadot. More than 32M DOT has been committed by Acala supporters. Acala is building an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform optimized for DeFi on Polkadot.

​​MonkeyBall will have a public sale round on November 30th on StarLaunch. KYC is open till Nov 26th. Sale registration: Nov 27th. 1% out of 1B total MBS supply will be available for sale at $0.04. Users will need native StarLaunch tokens in order to participate. MonkeyBall aims to develop ​​Solana-based play-to-earn NFT game and metaverse.

​​Impossible Finance will host stake & earn campaign for Popcorn DAO. Users can get xPOP tokens by staking IDIA token from November 19 till December 1. 300k xPOP (0.3% of total supply) will be airdropped to stakers. Popcorn will also have Liquidity Bootstrapping Event starting November 29. The startup aims to build a DeFi yield optimizer that will allow users to allocate a share of their yields to high-impact social causes.

​​Boba Network (BOBA) gets listed on FTX, MEXC, Bitfinex, BitMart and Poloniex on November 19th. Trading on FTX and MEXC is already live. Boba is an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible Layer 2 Optimistic Rollup that helps Ethereum smart contracts scale. BOBA is currently trading around $5 per token.