| Ukraine Confirms Airdrops to Donor Addresses; Offchain Labs Launches AnyTrust Chains (March 3)
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Before diving into the discussion, we would like to stress that Arbitrum One will remain a trustless rollup, as always. The team will continue to dedicate resources to improving the Arbitrum One protocol and ecosystem and will not stop these efforts in any way.
Offchain Labs Launches AnyTrust Chains: Cheaper, Faster L2 Chains With Minimal Trust Assumptions
According to official news, Offchain Labs, the developer of Arbitrum, an Ethereum expansion solution, announced the launch of AnyTrust Chains, which will run with Arbitrum One. The specific details and roadmap will be announced in the future.
Offchain Labs said that in order to have a viable blockchain-based business, especially in the field of games, some applications need to further reduce costs, or extract NFT assets faster, so they launched AnyTrust Chains, which allows lower costs and more Fast withdrawals in exchange for minimal additional trust assumptions. The main advantage of AnyTrust over sidechains is that it is built on top of Ethereum, so much less trust is required.
Before diving into the discussion, we would like to stress that Arbitrum One will remain a trustless rollup, as always. The team will continue to dedicate resources to improving the Arbitrum One protocol and ecosystem and will not stop these efforts in any way.
cryptocurrency
Data Shows Bitcoin Premiums Up to $20,000 on Russian Peer-to-Peer Exchanges
Grayscale parent company DCG announces a $250 million buyback plan for trust products such as GBTC
Grayscale (Grayscale) parent company Digital Currency Group, Inc (DCG) announced that the board of directors has authorized DCG to implement a share repurchase plan:
1. Grayscale LTC Trust (LTCN) with a maximum amount of US$30 million;
2. Grayscale ZEN Trust (HZEN) with a maximum value of US$10 million;
3. Grayscale ZEC Trust (ZCSH) with a maximum value of US$10 million;
4. The other six publicly listed Grayscale products with a maximum value of USD 200 million: Grayscale BCH Trust (BCHG), Grayscale BTC Trust (GBTC), Grayscale ETC Trust (ETCG), Grayscale ETH Trust (ETHE), Grayscale Grayscale XLM Trust (GXLM), Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC).
Investment and Financing
The decentralized trading protocol 0x Protocol v4 NFT trading tool is now available on the Ethereum mainnet, and other 0x integrated chains will be supported in the future.
GameFi and NFTs
Animoca Brands: Following legal advice, is cutting service to Russian users
According to reports, Animoca Brands Corp. Ltd, one of the largest chain game companies, is cutting its services to Russian users. Animoca co-founder Yat Siu said in an interview that this decision will affect subsidiaries such as Gamee and Lympo, but he said that the number of Russian users is not enough to have a material impact on the company's performance.
“The legal advice we have received is that we now have to impose some restrictions,” Siu explained. “Russia is now a sanctioned country like North Korea. When we end up doing business in these areas, we ourselves may be financially The system is excluded."
LooksRare launches NFT rarity ranking function
The NFT trading platform LooksRare announced a partnership with the NFT rarity ranking tool Rarity Sniper to launch the rarity ranking function.
NFT market Magic Eden has completed the Magic Ticket airdrop, holders can join MagicDAO
Magic Eden, the NFT market on the Solana network, announced that it has completed the airdrop of Magic Ticket. Holders can apply to join MagicDAO to participate in platform governance and more rewarding activities.
Magic Eden also released the MagicDAO roadmap, which will be built in three aspects: reward activities, governance and community operations in the future.
CryptoPunk #5364 was donated to a Ukrainian Ethereum wallet, possibly worth $200,000
CryptoPunk #5364 was donated to the official Ukrainian Ethereum wallet address (0x165cd37b4c644c2921454429e7f9358d18a45e14) on Tuesday.
The NFT is estimated to be worth around $200,000, according to crypto analytics firm Elliptic. NFT valuation site DeepNFTvalue puts it at $233,000.
It is reported that the most recent sale of CryptoPunk #5364 occurred in February 2021, at a price of 16.19 ETH (worth more than $31,000). After the then-buyer 0x67c443 donated CryptoPunk #5364, he still holds 7 CryptoPunks.
PUMA replaces Twitter avatar with Cool Cats series NFT
The sports brand PUMA replaced the Twitter avatar with the Cool Cats series NFT. At the same time, PUMA also reposted multiple NFT series of tweets that interacted with it.
Investment and Financing
Encrypted financial service organization Blofin raises USD 50 million, led by KuCoin, followed by SIG and Matrix Partners China
Tenderly, a blockchain infrastructure startup, completed its $40 million Series B round of financing, led by Spark Capital, Accel, Point Nine Capital, Abstract Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap, Daedalus, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Optimism co-founder Jinglan Wang, Eric Ries, founder of Long-Term Stock Exchange, and Tihomir Bajic, CEO of LTSE Software participated in the investment. The financing is used to continue to expand its product offerings to acquire users, form partnerships, and recruit technical and sales talent.
Blofin and TokenInsight founder Matt said that the funds raised this time will be used to introduce trading, technology, product, operation, compliance talents, develop and iterate trading infrastructure, innovative products and services, mobile products, and carry out multi-country compliance and operations Work. (Bloomberg)
Tenderly, a blockchain infrastructure startup, completed its $40 million Series B round of financing, led by Spark Capital, Accel, Point Nine Capital, Abstract Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap, Daedalus, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, Optimism co-founder Jinglan Wang, Eric Ries, founder of Long-Term Stock Exchange, and Tihomir Bajic, CEO of LTSE Software participated in the investment. The financing is used to continue to expand its product offerings to acquire users, form partnerships, and recruit technical and sales talent.
In addition, Tenderly CEO Andrej Bencic said that the company's revenue increased by 500 times year-on-year, and the number of users increased by 420 times year-on-year. (TechCrunch)
Nested Finance completes $7.5 million in financing, led by billionaire Alan Howard, with participation from Republic Capital and others
Nested Finance, a popular DeFi social platform, completed $7.5 million in financing, led by billionaire Alan Howard, former president of Republic Capital, Kenetic Capital, CMT Digital, Polychain Capital Joseph Eagan, Earn co-founder Lily Liu, StakeDAO, REKT, Blackpool's Founder Julien Bouteloup and early contributors to Curve participated in the investment.
According to official news, Melos Studio will conduct the first public sale of Melos tokens at Tokensoft at 2:00 pm UTC time on March 1, 2022 (10:00 pm Beijing time). Melos tokens run on the Ethereum chain (ERC-20). The public sale price of each Melos token is 0.05 USDT, and the total fundraising amount is 500,000 USDT, accounting for 1% of the total amount of tokens. The Public Sale will be completed when the fundraising amount reaches 99.9%. This Public Sale has 6,600 participants, so the lottery system was adopted, and the final number of winners was only 530.
Digital art company Bigverse completed tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing, led by Nut Capital. This round of funds will be mainly used to increase talent introduction, product research and development, service system upgrades and market layout. According to reports, Bigverse is a Web3.0 technology company, which owns the NFT China Trading Platform, Metaverse NFT Gallery, and Metaverse Auction House. (36 krypton)
Dialect, a message notification project on the Solana chain, completed a $4.1 million seed round of financing, led by Multicoin Capital and Jump Capital. (CoinDesk)
Solana-Based Real Estate Platform Parcl Closes $4.1M Seed Round Led by Archetype
According to official news, Parcl, a blockchain-based real estate platform, announced on Tuesday the completion of a $4.1 million seed round of financing led by Archetype, Dragonfly Capital, ParaFi, Shima Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Ventures, Slow Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Tribe Capital And FJ Labs participated in the vote.
According to reports, Parcl is a start-up company that digitizes real estate investment through the Solana blockchain.
Chain Game Ecosystem Web3Games Completes $4 Million in Financing, Led by DAO Maker
The blockchain game ecosystem Web3Games completed a $4 million financing, led by DAO Maker, LD Capital, NEAR Foundation, CoinUnited.io, 3Commas, Assembly Partners, Blockspaper, MetaX Ventures, MEXC, Spark Digital Capital, etc. participated in the investment. The new funds will be used to speed up the development cycle and facilitate the launch of the token.
Game Guild Cosmic Guild Completes $3 Million Financing Led by Crypto.com Capital
The game guild Cosmic Guild completed $3 million in financing, led by Crypto.com Capital, and participated by Fundamental Labs, Mirana Capital, and Istari Ventures. Funding will be used to build teams of competitive players and foster a community of streamers.
News Cardano ecological DEX AdaSwap completed $2.6 million in private equity financing, led by iAngels, Shima Capital, GBV, Efficient Frontier, Pluto Digital, Coti, Banter Capital, Stardust, Finova, "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot, producer Jaron Varsano Wait to vote. (Coin Quora)
The GameFi project AQUANEE has completed more than 2 million US dollars in financing, and M6, Polygon, Mindfulness, Israel Mysterious Family Fund, HG Venture, Cipholio, BitMart, etc. participated in the investment. (Asia One)
Exorde Labs, a Web3 data mining platform, recently announced the completion of token financing of USD 1.2 million. Protocol Labs, Blackdragon, Outlier Ventures, Vespertine Capital, Palar Capital, Insignius Capital, etc. participated in the investment, and will start the second round of financing in the next few months.
DeFi lending protocol Hashstack Finance announced the completion of a $1 million seed round of financing, with participation from GHAF Capital Partners, Moonrock Capital, Kane & Rao Group, Nimrod Lehavi, MarketAcross, and Chainridge Capital. The new funds will be used to continue developing Open Protocol, attract top talent, and grow the community.
It is reported that Hashstack Finance is a DeFi platform, and the Open Protocol developed by it aims to enter the DeFi lending market by providing low-mortgage loans.
Music NFT project Melos Studio completes public offering financing of US$500,000
According to official news, Melos Studio will conduct the first public sale of Melos tokens at Tokensoft at 2:00 pm UTC time on March 1, 2022 (10:00 pm Beijing time). Melos tokens run on the Ethereum chain (ERC-20). The public sale price of each Melos token is 0.05 USDT, and the total fundraising amount is 500,000 USDT, accounting for 1% of the total amount of tokens. The Public Sale will be completed when the fundraising amount reaches 99.9%. This Public Sale has 6,600 participants, so the lottery system was adopted, and the final number of winners was only 530.
global policy
EU official: EU is studying whether encrypted assets are used to bypass sanctions on Russia
Foreign media: European Parliament removes 'PoW ban' wording from MiCA bill after backlash
According to German encryption media BTC-ECHO, the new version of the Encrypted Assets Market (MiCA) legislation has removed controversial wording that may ban PoW-based cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
MEP Stefan Berger, who was in charge of passing the legislation, confirmed on Tuesday that the ban on PoW descriptions has been withdrawn. Presumably, the move will advance a vote on the MiCA bill. Negotiations have now resumed, but no date has been set, Berger said.
South Korea's Constitutional Court Upholds Law Banning Gamers from Buying and Selling Cryptocurrencies and NFTs
South Korea's Constitutional Court has upheld a law that would ban gamers from buying and selling cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and seeks to punish those who trade cryptocurrencies and items related to video games.
South Korean courts plan to evaluate and dispose of virtual assets owned by bankrupt individuals or companies under the Inheritance and Gift Tax Act. It is reported that the virtual asset research team of the Seoul Bankruptcy Court in South Korea plans to release the "Guidelines for Handling Virtual Assets in Bankruptcy Cases" in the first half of this year. This is a guide to the handling of virtual currencies that may occur in bankruptcy events, including the definition of virtual assets, virtual asset inquiry methods in personal and legal person bankruptcy events, virtual asset evaluation methods, virtual asset exchange rate methods, etc.
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Airbnb CEO: Crypto Payments Are Being Researched, But Not Soon
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky spoke to CNBC about cryptocurrencies and his company’s efforts to help refugees in Ukraine. Asked if Airbnb would support cryptocurrencies, Chesky replied: "Personally I certainly support the idea of cryptocurrencies. I think it's a very interesting technology. Earlier this year, I asked the community on Twitter if Airbnb could What’s coming out in 2022, what’s that going to be? And the number one answer is [increasing] cryptocurrency payments, so we’ve got a team working on that.”
