Crypto Daily Digest - March 9th

DeFi

• Avalanche Foundation announces $290 million Avalanche Multiverse Incentive program. Source
• Goldman Sachs is offering Galaxy Digital‘s ETH funds to interested clients. Source
• FTX will list IndiGG ($INDI) at 14:00 UTC on March 10th. Source
• DeFi Kingdoms launches its Subnet DeFi Kingdoms Blockchain (DFK Chain). Source
• BNB Chain announced hackathon with $10m prize. Source
• Balancer launches a vote on a new proposal to refund additional $wstETH collected to liquidity providers. Source
• Olympus DAO bonded marketplace Olympus Pro now expands to Optimism. Source
• Evmos upgrade failure analysis report: core team upgrade too fast to cause the failure. Source
• Liquidity staking protocol pSTAKE entered the Cosmos ecosystem via IBC. Source
• Crypto.com has now restricted access to its lending products to users in 41 countries. Source
• Wormhole now supports the Fantom network. Source
• Astroport launches a community proposal to upgrade the bLUNA-LUNA pool. Source
• Kava Network has gone live with Ethereum Co-chain Alpha in beta. Source
• EGL has announced its shutdown and will return all staked $ETH. Source
• Biden asked the entire official staff to conduct an assessment of the risks and pros and cons of crypto assets and technology. Source
• The U.S. Treasury Department plans to launch a crypto education initiative. Source
• Polymesh offers $25m in developer grants to Kick-Start security token projects. Source
• Musk mentioned Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a social media posting. Source
• Oracle solution Pyth Network has partnered with Wintermute. Source

NFT

• The Sandbox Alpha Edition Beta S2 is live on the macOS. Source
• Peer-to-peer file sharing platform LimeWire to relaunch as NFT marketplace. Source
• Ledger launches hardware NFT wallet and opens pre-orders. Source
• BAYC Whale n0b0dy.eth Buy BAYC #3666 for 250 ETH. Source

Fundings

• AngelList Venture closed a $100m round of funding at a $4b valuation led by Tiger Global. Source
• WalletConnect closed $11m series A funding round with Coinbase Ventures and others. Source
• Web3 infrastructure startup EthSign closed $12m in funding with Sequoia Capital and others. Source
• Blockchain game Ascenders closed a $6.4 million private round led by Three Arrows Capital. Source
• Metaverse fashion company UNXD closed a $4m round of funding led by Animoca Brands. Source
• DeFi derivatives protocol Cega Finance closed a $4.3m seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. Source
• KurateDAO, the Web3 content database, closed a $6.85m seed round led by Polychain Capital. Source
• Bitcoin miner Blockmetrix closed $43 million Series B funding round. Source
• Kado, a stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, closed $5.4 million seed round led by Hashed. Source