Crypto Daily Digest - April 28th

DeFi

• Kusama's first five parallel chain slots will expire next month. Source
• Ribbon Finance announces the launch of version V3. Source
• PandaDAO announced that they will be airdropping $PANDA to all wallets that hold $PEOPLE on the Ethereum chain. Source
• Evmos-based DEX Diffusion Finance launched on mainnet and will airdrop $DIFF to the Uniswap community. Source
• Snapshot vote on Perpetual Protocol's proposal to launch on Terra is live. Source
• Project Galaxy ($GAL) will launch on Binance Launchpool. Source
• Evmos based AMM Cronus Finance live on mainnet and announced $CRN tokenomics. Source
• Cosmos ecosystem EVM Hub Evmos relaunched. Source
• Aave founder Stani's twitter account was suspended. Source
• Ronin Network releases security breach report. Source
• Terraform Labs members propose to provide incentives to $UST LP on Evmos. Source
• DEUS Finance attacker has transferred 5,541 $ETH to Tornado.Cash. Source
• LINE's blockchain subsidiary LVC changes name to LINE Xenesis. Source
• Edward Snowden helped create Zcash Privacy Coin. Source
• Project Galaxy allows users to check the number of $GAL airdrop on May 1. Source
• Web3 social platform CyberConnect may launch token. Source
• Certihash to develop an enterprise suite of Blockchain security tools with IBM. Source
• PeckShield: Deus Finance Hit by Flash Loan with at Least $13.4M Loss. Source
• Musk said Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption, so no one can spy on or hack messages. Source
• Samsung Asset Management will launch a blockchain ETF in Hong Kong, China in the first half of this year. Source
• PeckShield has detected $ANA rugged. $ANA dropped -91%. Source
• Data firm Kaiko acquires Kesitys in quantitative analytics push. Source
• DeFi trading platform Hashflow introduces bridgeless cross-chain swaps. Source
• Goldman Sachs says it is exploring the tokenization of real assets. Source

Policy & Regulation

• The Central Bank of Russia has proposed allowing stock exchanges to trade cryptocurrencies. Source
• Finland plans to donate seized Bitcoins to Ukraine. Source
• Bahamas Prime Minister expresses support for crypto industry. Source

NFT

• STEPN Is Live on OpenSea. Source
• Moonpay will launch "minting-as-a-service" NFT platform HyperMint. Source
• Data: Total NFT transactions on the Solana chain surpassed $2 billion. Source
• Data: 3,146 ENS domain names sold on OpenSea yesterday. Source
• Millennium Hotels and Resorts to Launch Virtual Hotel on Decentraland. Source
• Celer Network partners with gaming metaverse Ultiverse to launch cross-chain NFTs. Source
• The former Moonbirds COO says he did not violate the rules by purchasing rare Moonbirds NFTs. Source
• Meta metaverse division Reality Labs lost $2.9 billion in the first quarter. Source

Fundings

• New York State Department of financial services encourages virtual currency business entities to adopt blockchain analytics services. Source
• SX Network closed $9.5 million funding round led by Polygon and Hack VC. Source
• NFT tools provider Venly closes $23M series A funding round with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others. Source
• OurSong closed $7.5 million funding round led by Infinity Ventures and Animoca Brands. Source
• B2B payment platform Tribal raised $41m in funding with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others. Source
• Propy Teams with Abra to offer property purchases Backed by Crypto. Source
• OneFootball closed $300 million series D funding round led by Liberty City Ventures. Source
• Amulet Protocol closed $6 million reed Round with Animoca Brands and others. Source
• Smart contract wallet Argent raised $40M in Series B with participation from Paradigm and others. Source