Crypto Daily Digest - March 2nd

DeFi

• Ukrainian officials tweeted that they will airdrop to the addresses of users who donate to them, and a snapshot will be taken at 16:00 UTC on March 3. Source
• Structured product Ribbon Finance announced the launch of sAVAX Vault in partnership with BENQI, a liquidity market protocol on Avalanche. Source
• Evmos official tweeted that it now supports users to check the number of Airdrop tokens. Source
• Web3 project Mask Network announced its 2022 Roadmap. Source
• Upbit KRW and BTC marketplaces listed Threshold ($T) on March 2nd at 9:00am UTC. Source
• 0x Protocol v4 NFT swap support is now live on Ethereum mainnet. Source
• Decentralized trading protocol Injective Protocol announces the launch of Instant nINJa Listings. Source
• $LUNA passes Ethereum to become second-largest staked asset. Source
• Arcade announced a partnership with Crypto.com Capital. Source
• Coinbase Cloud supports Moonriver Network and Moonbeam Network staking nodes. Source
• Solend has announced the launch of Star Atlas Pool. Source
• DeFi Fixed Interest Protocol Pendle will launch Project Permissionless. Source
• Ukraine cryptocurrency donation statistics, totaling more than $50.97 million. Source
• Total cryptocurrency market cap back to $2 trillion. Source
• Zepz, TransferGo, Remitly suspend money transfer services to Russia. Source
• Wirex announced the integration of Avalanche (AVAX) into its ecosystem. Source
• Cosmos liquidity staking protocol Quicksilver plans to launch its testnet in the second quarter. Source
• Cardano-based media incubator Flickto officially launched its ISPO Remastered initiative. Source
• CME Group will launch micro-sized Bitcoin and Ether options. Source

NFT

• World of Women #5672 sold at Christie's for £567,000 (about $750,000). Source
• NFT trading platform LooksRare has announced that it has integrated the NFT rarity ranking tool Rarity Sniper. Source
• Dolly Parton creates the 'Dollyverse', releases NFTs, book with novelist James Patterson. Source

Fundings

• According to Bloomberg, February 26, 2022, crypto financial services firm Blofin closed a new round of $50m in funding led by KuCoin and followed by SIG and Matrix Partners China. Source
• Tenderly closed a $40m Series B round with Coinbase Ventures and others. Source
• Dialect has closed $4.1m in funding led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Capital. Source
• DNABLOCK has closed a $7m second seed round led by Animoca Brands and others. Source
• Parcl, a Solana-based real estate platform, closed a $4.1m seed round led by Archetype. Source
• Hashstack Finance closed a $1m seed round with Moonrock Capital and others. Source
• NFT trading platform KnownOrigin closed $4.85m in funding. Source
• Hiro Capital launches second €300m (/$340m) videogames and metaverse technologies venture fund. Source
• Electric Capital raises $1b in new crypto fund, which may have a lock-up period of up to 10 years. Source
• Shift4 will acquire The Giving Block, a crypto donation marketplace, for an upfront payment of $54m. Source