Music brands Billboard and Universal Music Group are partnering to launch ChartStars, an NFT based project of digital collectibles built on the Flow blockchain.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/136095/billboard-and-universal-music-group-partner-to-launch-nft-project

Digital Currency Group announces $250 million Share Repurchase Program for Grayscale Litecoin Trust, Grayscale Horizen Trust, Grayscale Zcash Trust, and other Grayscale Products.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220302005278/en/Digital-Currency-Group-Announces-250-Million-Share-Repurchase-Program-for-Grayscale%C2%AE-Litecoin-Trust-OTCQX-LTCN-Grayscale%C2%AE-Horizen-Trust-OTCQX-HZEN-Grayscale%C2%AE-Zcash-Trust-OTCQX-ZCSH-and-other-Grayscale-Products

1inch Network adds a P2P feature, which facilitates secure crypto swaps between individual users.

https://blog.1inch.io/1inch-adds-a-p2p-feature-dec37e68a1f7

Rarify, an NFT infrastructure startup, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by crypto investment firm Pantera Capital at a $100 million valuation.

Other investors included Eniac Ventures, Greycroft, Hyper and Slow Ventures.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/03/pantera-capital-leads-10m-investment-in-nft-infrastructure-startup-rarify/

Subspace Labs, a developer of Subspace Network, announced the completion of a US$32.9 million strategic financing round led by Pantera Capital.

Investors: Coinbase Ventures, Crypto.com, Alameda Research, ConsenSys Mesh, KR1, Hypersphere Ventures, Stratos Technologies, Alumni Ventures Blockchain Fund, GSR Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Bixin Ventures, Definancex, Candaq, Vendetta Capital, Illusionist Group, NGC Ventures, Cabin VC, Gate Ventures, OneBlock Capital, and Automota Network.

https://medium.com/subspace-network/subspace-labs-raises-32-9-million-to-bring-internet-scale-to-web3-b0fdd4dffe7e

CoinList has announced the Axelar Token Sale.

The Axelar Token Sale begins on March 9, 18:00 UTC with one sale option.

Price: $1.00
Min/max: $100 min, $750 max
Lockup: Tokens unlock on/around May 11, 2022, followed by a 9-month linear release
Supply: 50M

The registration deadline for the Axelar Token Sale is March 7, 18:00 UTC.

https://blog.coinlist.co/announcing-the-axelar-token-sale-on-coinlist/

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested $70M in Lido Finance, a staking provider.

https://twitter.com/a16z/status/1499447054069817352

metaENGINE, a Web 3 gaming platform, has raised $4 million in the seed funding round co-led by Lemniscap and Jump Crypto.

Polygon Studios, Insignius Capital, Future Fund, CoinDCX Ventures, Efficient Frontier and others participated in the funding round.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/04/lemniscap-jump-crypto-lead-4m-bet-on-gamefi-firm-metaengine/

Praxis, a city-building startup, has raised $15M in a Series A funding round led by Paradigm.

Investors: Apollo Projects, Alameda Research, Three Arrows Capital, and Robot Ventures, and others.

https://www.praxissociety.com/content/praxis-raises-15mm-series-a-led-by-paradigm

ArDrive, a file storage app, has raised $17.2 million in a funding round to build a decentralized alternative to accessing the Arweave permaweb.

Investors: Blockchain Capital and Sino Global.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/03/ardrive-raises-17m-to-make-arweaves-data-storage-blockchain-more-usable/

MetaMask began banning all wallets related to Iranian IP addresses.

https://nftnew.net/metamask-is-banning-all-wallets-related-with-iranian-ip-addresses/

Mechanism Capital co-led a $2.5 million pre-seed round for Diagonal, a platform aiming to make it easier for Web 3 companies to process subscriptions.

MetaCartel Ventures, The LAO, Coinbase Ventures and other investment firms joined the funding round; angel investors Ryan Selkis, Anthony Sassano and others were also involved.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/03/04/diagonal-raises-25m-for-web-3-subscription-payments/

OKX has announced a partnership with the Manchester City Football Club.

https://go.okx.com/manchester-city

IndiGG has announced the partnership with FTX gaming.

https://twitter.com/YGGIndia/status/1500674680537038848

FTX now supports native Terra UST.

https://twitter.com/FTX_Official/status/1500471259578056710

Binance Futures will launch USDT-margined ANC perpetual contracts with up to 25x leverage at 2022-03-08 03:30 UTC.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/8b6376b0ce804eb79017f35cb2eb9ac1

FTX announced the establishment of FTX Europe.

https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/ftx-continues-global-expansion-with-the-establishment-of-ftx-europe-823982418.html

DeFi architect, Fantom Foundation technical adviser and Yearn.finance founder Andre Cronje has left the decentralized finance (DeFi) space reeling after deactivating his Twitter account.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/defi-godfather-cronje-quits-as-tvl-and-tokens-tank-for-related-projects

Binance announced the launch of Bifinity as its official fiat-to-crypto payments provider.

Bifinity supports over 50 cryptocurrencies and major payment methods such as VISA, Mastercard and more.

https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-launches-payments-technology-company-bifinity-421499824684903541

Immutable has raised $200M in a Series C funding round led by Temasek.

Investors: Mirae Asset, ParaFi Capital, Animoca Brands, Declaration Partners, Tencent Holdings and others.

The NFT startup valued at $2.5 billion.

https://twitter.com/Immutable/status/1500832924442128387

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