Crypto Daily Digest - April 21st

DeFi

• Decentralized financial ecosystem ZEED under attack. Source
• Blockchain infrastructure network Biconomy has introduced $BICO staking. Source
• Ribbon Finance will launch the Ribbon Covered Call Fuse Pool. Source
• Terra ecosystem DeFi protocol Anchor changes $ANC airdrop rules. Source
• NEAR Ecosystem stablecoin $USN is now live on NEAR public testnet. Source
• Decentralized derivatives protocol SynFutures Protocol launch the V2 Beta testnet. Source
• Fantom wallet fWallet v2 beta now released. Source
• Crypto fund DeFi Wonderland releases SushiSwap overhaul proposal. Source
• Ronin Network attacker transferred 21,629 $ETH again. Source
• NEAR ecosystem Algorithm stablecoin $USN will be launched by the end of this month. Source
• DeFi lending protocol Bastion will launch governance token $BSTN. Source
• Sushiswap launches permissionless multichain launchpad MISO v2. Source
• Element Finance, a fixed-rate lending protocol, launched Fixed Rate Zaps Feature. Source
• Lending platform Fountain releases Q2 roadmap and will launch DEX aggregator. Source
• dYdX will be fully decentralized with the launch of dYdX V4 by the end of 2022. Source
• Asset management firm Simplify Asset Management has applied to the U.S. SEC to launch a bitcoin strategy ETF. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Belarus adopts legal procedure for seizure of Illicit cryptocurrency. Source
• Binance will not offer Russian Citizens crypto assets over 10,000 EUR. Source
• U.S. Treasury sanctions Russian bitcoin miners as war enters its third month. Source

NFT

• NFT Project Moonbirds floor price rises to 30 $ETH. Source
• Data: Coinbase NFT marketplace 24 hours of trading volume was 8.48 $ETH. Source
• OpenSea now supports Metaplex Certified Collections (MCC) in the Solana beta. Source
• Coinbase Partners with 0x Protocol to power its new NFT marketplace. Source
• Sotheby's Natively Digital 1.3 series art auction supports $DOT payments. Source
• Budweiser's official Twitter account has been renamed to Budweiser.beer.eth. Source
• Soccer superstar Neymar bought Mutant Ape Yacht Club #10953 for 55 $ETH. Source
• BlockSecAlert: NBA The Association NFT contract has minting vulnerable. Source
• MTR Corporation to build virtual space with The Sandbox. Source
• OpenSea has filed NFT and cryptocurrency-related new trademark applications for its name and sailboat logo. Source

Fundings

• Aurora-based DeFi Protocol Bastion Closed $9 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Three Arrows Capital. Source
• NFT Lending Protocol MetaLend Announces Closed $5 Million Seed Round Led by Pantera Capital. Source
• Alameda Research as a strategic partner and investor into the Klaytn blockchain ecosystem. Source
• Scroll, an Ethereum scaling project, has announced $30m in funding in Series A round led by Polychain Capital. Source
• NFTBank operator closes approximately $12 million series A funding round led by Hashed. Source
• SoundMint, a music NFT platform, has closed a $1.7 million seed round led by Animoca Brands. Source
• The TON Foundation raised more than $1 billion $TON from users to advance its ecosystem. Source
• Data collecting startup Privy has raised $8.3m in seed round, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Blue Yard Capital. Source
• Cricket NFT platform Rario has closed a $120 million funding round with participation from Animoca Brands and others. Source
• Crusoe Energy, a clean energy mining startup, closed a $350 million Series C round of funding at a $1.75 billion valuation. Source
• Decent Labs launches DAO with crypto investing giants at $56m valuation. Source
• Veteran game investor Jon Goldman has raised a $50 million venture capital fund dubbed Tower 26 to invest in extended reality startups. Source
• IPOR Labs, a provider of blockchain derivatives software services, closes $5.55 million in funding led by Arrington Capital. Source
• Korean metaverse startup DoubleMe raises $25m backed by Samsung. Source
• NFT project Boss Beauties closes $4.4 million seed round led by Offline Ventures. Source