Crypto Daily Digest - April 20th

DeFi

• Aave V3 liquidity mining on Avalanche is now live. Source
• Data: NFT on Flow sales down $165 million in March compared to the same month last year. Source
• Decentralized derivatives protocol Perpetual Protocol tokenomics proposal passed. Source
• Decentralized ETF Protocol DeFund to Airdrop 50 Million $DETF. Source
• The Graph Foundation donated $1.25 million in its fifth round of grants. Source
• Ethereum core developers said Ethereum mainnet shadow fork test will be conducted this Saturday. Source
• Chainlink Labs Collaboration Report: Blockchain technology will play an important role in combating climate change. Source
• Capital management platform StakeDAO launched $CRV Liquid Locker. Source
• Binance launches Portfolio Margin program. Source
• Ronin Network attacker addresses have transferred a total of 38,293 $ETH (about $114.8 million). Source
• Auto-Staking Protocol MaxAPY Finance appeared Rug Pull. Source
• Cosmos EVM Compatible Center Evmos is scheduled to go back online on April 26th. Source
• RSS3 releases second round of early incentive airdrop rules announcement. Source
• Optimism Token price page appears on Coinbase. Source
• Terra Eco-Revenue Protocol Retrograde will be launched in two phases starting May 2. Source
• MakerDAO will start integrating StarkNet in four phases on April 28. Source
• Interoperability protocol Connext releases token $NEXT and plan to airdrop. Source
• Musk is willing to invest between $10 billion and $15 billion of his own cash to take Twitter private. Source
• 21Shares and ETF securities launch the world's first Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in Australia. Source

Policy & Regulation

• El Salvador's bid for Bitcoin bonds sinking as IMF deal 'Practically Dead': former central bank president. Source
• IMF warns Russia could use Bitcoin mining to evade sanctions. Source
• IMF says capital control powers should include crypto. Source

NFT

• Coinbase has released its Ethereum NFT marketplace in beta. Source
• Pop star Justin Bieber shows the five types of his NFT. Source
• NBA to begin minting Ethereum NFT series The Association. Source
• Axie Infinity says land staking system in progress. Source
• Yuga Labs may auction Otherside metaverse land. Source
• NFT infrastructure provider Project Galaxy's official Discord is under attack. Source
• The Sandbox has partnered with American heavy metal band Slipknot to create KNOTVERSE. Source
• Louis Vuitton NFT game Louis: The Game releases version update. Source
• World of Women drops 3D versions of NFT clothing designed by The Fabricant on its owners. Source
• Bored Ape Chemistry Club floor price has reached 54.4 $ETH. Source
• NFT trading marketplace LooksRare has launched an on-list rewards program that allows users to earn $LOOK rewards for listing NFTs for sale. Source
• mfers official companion NFT series CREYZIES completed snapshot, airdropped CREYZIES NFT to every mfers holder. Source
• The Chicago Board Options Exchange has filed a trademark application for CBOE DIGITAL. Source

Fundings

• Spruce, a digital identity company, has closed a $34 million Series A round led by a16z. Source
• NEAR ecosystem NFT infrastructure Mintbase closes $12.5M Series A funding round. Source
• Solana ecosystem lending protocol Hedge closes $3.7M seed round with participation from Pantera Capital and others. Source
• Aura FAT raises $115 million in Nasdaq IPO. Source
• Blockchain project incubator Launchblock.com receives investment from Animoca Brands. Source
• Messari, a pillar of the crypto ecosystem, invests treasury funds in Circle Yield. Source
• Pollen mobile closes seed funding round for its next-generation decentralized wireless network. Source