Crypto Daily Digest - September 30th

DeFi

• Decentralized exchange Hashflow will launch $HFT on November 7th. Source
• Aurora will pay $1 million in $AURORA tokens to two white hat hackers each. Source
• Harmony will allocate towards Horizon Bridge recovery starting in October. Source
• PeckShieldAlert tweeted that the price of $SBB on PancakeSwap drops 77%. Source
• Synthetic asset lending protocol Alchemix goes live on Optimism. Source
• Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures launches V2 Closed Alpha. Source
• DeFi insurance protocol Degis partners with GMX. Source

CeFi

• Swiss National Bank official: Central banks can push DeFi into mainstream. Source
• BlackRock plans to launch an ETF targeting metaverse companies. Source
• Celsius creditors move to subpoena lending firm Equities First. Source

Infrastructure

• Phase 1 of Nightshade is live on NEAR mainnet. Source
• Multichain integrates with Solana testnet. Source
• Avalanche will launch AvalancheGo update Banff. Source
• Chainlink releases Chainlink Economics 2.0. Source
• Celer Network will build more and more cross-chain use cases with their ecosystem projects. Source
• Axelar Network integrates with BitKeep Wallet. Source
• BitKeep Wallet adds support for Kava Network. Source

Metaverse & NFTs

• NFT marketplace Element has announced a partnership with HistoryDAO. Source
• OpenSea partners with Warner Music Group on music NFT drops. Source
• Shiba Inu ecosystem game Shiba Eternity will be launched on October 6th. Source
• PeckShieldAlert: Twitter accounts of DigiDaigaku and its CEO was compromised. Source

Policy & Regulation

• Chief fintech officer at Monetary Authority of Singapore: Resolute crackdown on crypto speculation. Source
• Binance registers as a Financial Service Provider in New Zealand. Source

Fundings

• Circle announces the acquisition of payment platform Elements. Source
• According to TechCrunch, Uniswap Labs plans to raise $100m to $200m at about $1 billion valuation. Source