Crypto Daily Digest - March 21st

DeFi

• Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin shares thoughts on EIP-4844. Source
• Umbrella Network reward pool on BNB Chain and Ethereum is tapped, hackers profit $700,000. Source
• Sunny Aggregator launches first liquidity staking governance derivative on Solana. Source
• Cross-chain DEX aggregation protocol li.finance attacked, hackers profit around $600,000. Source
• BreederDAO releases white paper, will issue tokens in Q2. Source
• Aave community launches proposal to add $sAVAX to Aave v3. Source
• SushiSwap launches community proposal Sushi Legal Structure, plans to create an association or foundation for Sushi DAO. Source
• BNB Chain Grant Round-1 global hackathon is about to start. Source
• Leveraged mining platform Alpaca Finance to launch Automated Vaults. Source
• Rari Capital enters into a DAO agreement with OlympusDAO. Source
• Australia is about to enact new crypto regulations. Source
• SubQuery expands its data indexing solution to support Avalanche. Source
• NFT lending protocol BendDAO tweeted to announce the launch of $BEND airdrop and IFO. Source
• FTX establishes local presence in Australia. Source
• Klaytn Docs is now open source. Source
• BlockFi and Swan Bitcoin said Hubspot data breach had no impact on operations. Source
• Malaysia Comms Ministry proposes adopting cryptocurrency as legal tender. Source
• Goldman Sachs, Galaxy Digital announce milestone over-the-counter crypto trade. Source
• Cryptocurrency exchange FTX plans to enter the UK market and has entered into talks with UK regulators. Source
• Sifu, former CFO of Frog Nation, transferred about 1,000 $ETH to Tornado Cash. Source
• Micro income streams investment app Amasa enters into a partnership with Animoca Brands. Source

NFT

• Solana NFT trading marketplace Solanat to launch Launchpad soon. Source
• Time Magazine will accept ApeCoin for digital subscription payments. Source
• NFT project WW3Apes had rug pull. Source
• Samsung's ad agency will launch NFT and NFT trading market. Source
• Netmarble F&C has partnered with game engine Unity on the development of a metaverse platform. Source
• Qualcomm announces $100M Snapdragon Metaverse fund. Source

Fundings

• KlayCity closes $3.75m seed round led by Animoca Brands and Krust. Source
• Distributed computing protocol Gensyn closes $6.5m seed round led by EdenBlock. Source
• Meta-universe platform Oorbit closed $5m funding round with Mark Cuban and others. Source
• Encrypted data company The TIE closed $9m series A funding round led by Blizzard. Source
• DeFi protocol Struct Finance closes $3.9m seed round with Avalaunch and others. Source