Crypto Daily Digest - March 31st

DeFi

• Alpha Finance Lab, a DeFi platform, announced that it has rebranded as Alpha Venture DAO. Source
• Binance Becomes Official Crypto Exchange Partner of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Source
• Fantom to launch Solidity language compatible virtual machine FVM. Source
• ApeCoin DAO's five initial proposals close voting, $APE token stake and distribution proposal fails. Source
• Castle Finance developers found a critical vulnerability in Jet Protocol, which has now been fixed. Source
• Lending protocol Voltage Finance was attacked and hackers made about $4 million in profits. Source
• Acala and its pioneering network Karura to integrate with Wormhole. Source
• Decentralized lending network Ola Finance was hacked and the hackers made about $3.6 million in profit. Source
• Ocean Protocol launches V4 public beta, solves rug pull issue with unilateral stake and adds data NFT. Source
• Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao on the cover of Fortune magazine. Source
• South Korean blockchain platform Klaytn mainnet activates Ethereum equivalence. Source
• TreasureDAO Discord Server Has Been Hacked. Source
• Atlas DEX v2.0 is live. Source
• IOST announces the launch of Entroverse, an EVM-compatible Ethereum cross-chain project. Source
• The Sandbox, OpenSea named to TIME's list of the 100 most influential companies of 2022. Source
• Ukraine pushes for membership in European blockchain partnership. Source
• Crypto asset manager Hashdex goes live with web3 ETF. Source
• Dogcoin founder Billy Markus criticizes the metaverse project SHIB: The Metaverse. Source
• Bitcoin mining difficulty has risen to a record high of 28.59T. Source

NFT

• Azuki distributes airdrops to its NFT holders. Source
• DeFi Kingdoms: Crystalvale goes live. Source
• Meta opens metaverse engineering center in Canada, will hire 2,500 employees. Source
• Boxing champion Mike Tyson to serve as Metalk DAO community ambassador. Source
• Axie Infinity to Delay Origin Release Due to Hacking Incident. Source
• NFT minting platform DROPP announces token features and tokenomics. Source
• Sandbox entered into a partnership with Mauer to raise 2 million dollars for residents of Ukraine amidst the invasion of the country by Russia. Source
• Samsung taps Nifty Gateway to create smart TV NFT platform. Source
• Taiwanese singer JJ Lin shows off his Azuki NFT on Instagram. Source

Funding

• P2E game startup Battlebound closed a $4.8m round of funding led by a16z. Source
• Terra-based NFT marketplace OnePlanet raises $3.3m round led by Hashed. Source
• Soccer metaverse game Footium closed $3.35m seed round with Animoca Brands and others. Source
• Metaverse protocol Caduceus closes $4m Series A funding round. Source
• Decentralized order flow marketplace DFlow closes $2m seed round led by Multicoin Capital and Framework Ventures. Source
• Fintech company Cross River Bank closes $620m funding round led by a16z and Eldridge. Source
• Decentralized collaboration app Skiff completes $10.5m Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Source
• Composable Finance completes $32m Series A round with Coinbase Ventures and others. Source