Assemble Protocol (ASM) is now available on Coinbase.

https://blog.coinbase.com/assemble-protocol-asm-is-now-available-on-coinbase-5411d68dfd2b

Playboy launches new NFT project, Rabbitars.

Playboy Rabbitars will be available for purchase for 0.1953 Ethereum on the official Playboy Rabbitar site using crypto or U.S. dollars (USD) via three different sales:

A pre-sale for whitelisted Eth-paying collectors will take place Sunday, October 24th-Tuesday, October 26th.

The public sale for Fiat/USD-paying collectors will take place Tuesday, October 26th (following the end of the whitelist sale).

The public sale for Eth-paying collectors will take place Wednesday, October 27th.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/10/20/2317683/0/en/Playboy-launches-new-NFT-project-Rabbitars.html

Binance will list Tranchess (CHESS) in the Innovation Zone and will open trading for CHESS/BNB, CHESS/BTC, CHESS/BUSD and CHESS/USDT trading pairs at 2021-10-22 06:00 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/75ee0166b3ec43aba2266ef98893dd56

Sotheby’s joined a $20 million seed round investment in Delaware-based NFT studio Mojito.

Other investors: Future Perfect Ventures, Creative Artists Agency and NEA’s Connect Ventures.

The investment values the firm at $100 million.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabelcontreras/2021/10/21/sothebys-makes-first-crypto-investment-backing-nft-startup-using-ethereum-blockchain/

The Associated Press will make its trusted economic, sports and race call datasets available to leading blockchains via Chainlink, the world’s largest decentralized network of oracles, enabling smart contracts on any blockchain to securely interact with the AP's real-world data.

https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2021/ap-chainlink-to-bring-trusted-data-onto-leading-blockchains

Animoca Brands has raised $65M at $2.2B valuation.

Investors in the round included Liberty City Ventures, Ubisoft Entertainment, Sequoia China, Dragonfly Capital, Com2uS, Kingsway Capital, 10T Holdings, Token Bay Capital, Smile Group, Tess Ventures, MSA Capital, Octava Fund, Adit Ventures, Summer Capital, Sigitech Holdings, Black Anthem Ltd, Mirana Corp, and Justin Sun.

https://www.animocabrands.com/animoca-brands-raises-usd65000000-at-usd2200000000-valuation

Immutable X has announced that as of 22 October 2021 midnight UTC, they are performing a supply split of IMX pre-launch so that every 1 token is now worth 100.

https://immutablex.medium.com/important-announcement-imx-token-split-640771a6f999
https://etherscan.io/token/0xf57e7e7c23978c3caec3c3548e3d615c346e79ff

Valkyrie Funds launches the Valkyrie Bitcoin Strategy ETF (Nasdaq: BTF) focused on Bitcoin futures.

https://www.wflx.com/prnewswire/2021/10/22/valkyrie-funds-launches-valkyrie-bitcoin-strategy-etf-btf-focused-bitcoin-futures/
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/funds-and-etfs/btf

Beniamin Mincu, founder and CEO of Elrond Network, has announced that the Maiar DEX is launching in November.

https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1451475321316855809?s=20

Parallel, an NFT sci-fi card game, has raised $50M at a $500M valuation from Paradigm.

Previous investors include Chad Hurley (Co-Founder of YouTube), Focus Labs, OSS Capital and Yunt Capital.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/nft-sci-fi-card-game-parallel-raises-at-500m-valuation-from-paradigm/

Proximity Labs, a research and development firm, announced the creation of a $350 million grants vehicle to help build decentralized-finance applications on the NEAR blockchain, where it is focusing its efforts.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-21/a16z-backed-blockchain-gets-350-million-grants-vehicle-for-defi

FTX has listed ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO).

https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1451544758657060877?s=20
https://ftx.com/trade/BITO/USD

Timeswap, a fully decentralized AMM based money market protocol, has published the article about its new project and it has also announced its seed round led by Multicoin Capital with participation from Mechanism Capital and Defiance Capital.

https://medium.com/@TimeswapProtocol/introducing-timeswap-fully-decentralized-amm-based-money-market-protocol-e95910739c8e

Genopets, an NFT game powered by Solana, has raised $8.3m in seed funding round to bridge the physical and digital world.

This round of seed funding was co-led by Konvoy Ventures and Pantera Capital, with participation from Old Fashion Research, Alameda Research, Solana Capital, Xoogler Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Collab+Currency, Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, OliveX, Hyper, CMT Digital, DeFi Alliance, Eniac Ventures, CMS Holdings, GBV Capital, Yield Guild Games, Merit Circle, Bitscale Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Evernew Capital, Fundamental Labs, Valhalla Capital, Cinchblock, Raptor Capital, and Magnus Capital.

https://medium.com/@genopets/genopets-raises-8-3m-in-seed-round-funding-to-bridge-the-physical-and-digital-world-d884adc2cc97

Decentralized exchange (DEX) ZkLink has closed a $8.5 million funding round led by Republic Crypto to help ramp up for its market launch later this year.

Other participants in the funding round included Arrington Capital, DeFi Alliance, Huobi Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Morningstar Ventures, GSR and Marshland Capital.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/10/22/decentralized-exchange-zklink-raises-85m-ahead-of-market-launch/

XanPool, a Hong Kong-based payments infrastructure firm that provides crypto on and off-ramp services, has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round.

Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures led the round.

CMT Digital and Taavet Hinrikus, founder and chairman of Wise (formerly Transferwise), also participated in the round, among other investors.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/121730/peter-thiel-valar-ventures-xanpool-crypto-funding

3.1 million email addresses with accounts on the cryptocurrency market capitalisation website CoinMarketCap were reportedly discovered being traded on hacking forums.

Whilst the email addresses were found to correlate with CoinMarketCap accounts, it's unclear precisely how they were obtained.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#CoinMarketCap

Worldcoin, the startup from the former president of Y Combinator and CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman, has raised $25 million at a $1 billion valuation.

Institutional investors include Andreesen Horowitz (Series A Lead), 1confirmation, Blockchange, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Day One Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Fifty Years, Hypersphere, HASHED, Kenetic Capital, Multicoin, Three Arrows Capital, and more.

Angel investors include Reid Hoffman (Co-Founder of LinkedIn), Sam Bankman-Fried (Founder of FTX), Denis Nazarov (formerly a16z, founder of Mirror.xyz), Jesse Walden (formerly a16z, Founder of Variant Fund), and the founders and early team members from Solana, multiple Ethereum projects, Polkadot and Web3 Foundation, and more.

Worldcoin built a new device called the Orb. The Orb captures an image of a person’s eyes, which is converted into a short numeric code. After that, people receive their free share of Worldcoin.

https://worldcoin.org/
https://venturebeat.com/2021/10/21/worldcoin-launches-a-global-cryp

Binance Futures will launch USDT-margined CTSI perpetual contracts with up to 25x leverage at 2021-10-26 03:30 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/aa4a4f5e4f1344ae921ad13c90d7a21f

FTX has listed Aurory.
AURY is now trading around the IDO price.

https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1452304354715869192?s=20
https://ftx.com/trade/AURY/USD

eNaira, the Bitt-developed central bank digital currency (CBDC), has officially rolled out in Nigeria.

Citizens and residents of Nigeria are now the first on the continent of Africa to use a legal tender digital currency for their daily financial transactions.

https://blog.bitt.com/bitt-develops-africas-first-cbdc/