Crypto Daily Digest - April 26th

DeFi

• Optimism has officially announced its native token $OP and will conduct multiple rounds of airdrops. Source
• ChainSwap announces integration with Solana and Cosmos. Source
• Grayscale Investments LLC plans expansion into Europe. Source
• Coinbase Cloud partners with Acala Foundation to support liquidity staking. Source
• Crypto Custodian Fireblocks adds support for Terra. Source
• DexGuru launches vote on proposal for airdrop of $GURU tokens. Source
• CityCoins expands services with 11 new incubation projects. Source
• Decentralized RPC protocol Pocket Network will be extended to the Fantom Network. Source
• Dozens of OpenSea-related phishing sites are stealing users' wallet helpers. Source
• Iconic Funds' EOS ETP listed on the Stuttgart stock exchange in Germany today. Source
• Bybit to offer crypto options trading to customers. Source
• Fidelity Investments plans to allow investors to put a bitcoin account in their 401(k)s. Source
• THORSwap, a decentralized cross-chain trading protocol, will launch $vTHOR in early May. Source
• Celer Network announced that Celer Inter-chain Message (Celer IM) framework has launched on mainnet. Source
• SushiSwap has released its Sushi 2.0 community proposal. Source
• Evmos tweeted that its launch was delayed by 24 hours after the team met with validators. Source
• Ronin Network attacker has transferred 65% of stolen funds. Source
• Trader Joe to launch NFT marketplace Joepegs soon. Source
• The CME has listed 11 new CME CF Cryptocurrency Reference Rates and Real-Time Indices. Source
• Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann set to launch crypto startup. Source
• dYdX is not blocking users with Russian IP addresses. Source
• Solana-based DEX Orca launches centralized liquidity pools Whirlpools. Source

NFT

• Rapper Chris Brown to launch The Auracles series NFT. Source
• PeckShield tweeted that 765.3 $ETH and 91 NFTs were stolen in BAYC Instagram exploit. Source
• Gem Lead Developer: Airdrop Still Possible After OpenSea Acquisition. Source
• The NFT project Akutars has been partially airdropped. Source
• Genie founder said Genie hasn't launched tokens and warned users of fake tokens. Source
• Meta's first physical metaverse-themed store will open on May 9. Source
• Yuga Labs new project Otherside requires KYC to mint in ApeCoin. Source
• 0xFish won the James Jean Special Edition NFT for 109.1221 ETH. Source
• S.Korean music sharing platform to use NFTs for copyright protection. Source
• NFT Worlds changed the mint date for NFT Worlds Genesis Avatars. Source

Fundings

• 0x Labs has closed a $70 million Series B financing round with participation from Pantera Capital and others. Source
• Vertex Protocol closed $8.5 million seed round led by Hack VC and others. Source
• SNACKCLUB closed $9 million seed round with participation from Animoca Brands and others. Source
• NFT project Moonbirds raised $10m in funding led by Reddit's Co-Founder Ohanian. Source
• NFT project Metakey closed a $3.5 million round of funding at a $50 million valuation led by Animoca Brands. Source
• Fintech company Afriex closes $10 million series A funding round co-led by Sequoia China and Dragonfly Capital. Source
• NFT God Game Apeiron closes $10 million seed round led by Hashed. Source