Select observations of the day:
Pocket Worlds plans to expand its metaverse digital worlds ecosystem to an Avalanche subnet - source
Ribbon Finance announced the launch of V3, supports double leverage strategy, improved auction mechanism and permissionless vault - source - medium
Deus Finance was exploited for $13.4M on Fantom using a flash loan. The second time in two months where $3M was stolen - source - hack method
Blockchain real estate platform Propy has partnered with Abra to allow customers to obtain home loans using their cryptocurrency holdings - source
Edward Snowden reveals he was one of six who helped launch Zcash - source
OneFootball closed $300M Series D funding round to “enable clubs, leagues, federations and players to release digital assets and fan-centric experiences based on blockchain technology.”- source
Binance Futures launching USDT-Margined DAR perps - source
Plus more, as always - The best time to prepare is when the markets are down. The sun will shine on us again
- Time moves differently in crypto. Crypto is an intricate game filled with various players operating across multiple time frames and with varying agendas. Day in, day out, the pieces are moving all across the board. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Here’s a small glimpse of what has happened so far today in our little crypto bubble -
Chain News:
Deus Finance Was Exploited for $13.4M on Fantom using a flash loan. The second time in two months where $3M was stolen - source - hack method
Argent Raises $40M to Make Crypto Wallets Easier to Use via non-custodial wallet without needing to remember a complicated seed phrase - source
Transaction volume of ENS domain names reached 788.55 ETH yesterday, largest single-day transaction record, and the main transactions were 4-digit domain names attributed to BAYC holders wanting to have ENS domain names that match their numbers - source
Option strategy protocol Ribbon Finance announced the launch of V3, supports double leverage strategy, improved auction mechanism and permissionless vault - source - medium
Seven blockchain infrastructure companies have added support for Pyth Network, an oracle service on the Solana blockchain: Everstake, P2P, Syndica, Figment, Triton1, Coinbase Cloud, and Blockdaemon - source
Telegram adding crypto payments by allowing its 550 million users to send and receive toncoin within the messaging app - source
Deribit announced that SOL options will be launched on May 9th - source
TOKEMAK: $APE token will be included in $TOKE’s CoRE3 - source
Algorand Awards Flare 7-Figure Grant To Develop a Bitcoin Bridge - source
Evmos is live - details for the rektdrop - source
BFP-67: Barn Raise Proposal has passed with 100% of the 58M Stalk that voted approving the Barn Raise, a public ten-day fundraiser beginning May 2 - source
The 1inch Network has announced the integration of Transak, a fiat on ramp aggregator, into the 1inch Wallet - source
AstridDAO, the decentralized stablecoin on Astar for Polkadot, is going to launch at 12PM UTC 04/28 - source
Ronin exploit that occurred on March 23rd Official post mortem - source
Balancer: Staking on L2s is live. LPs for eligible Pools who don’t stake by the end of day today (4/27) will lose out on incentives - source
Edward Snowden reveals he was one of six who helped launch Zcash - source
Bitcoin hashrate hits an all-time-high - source
Binance will offer Project Galaxy (GAL) farming on Binance Launchpool April 29th - source
KuCoin Spotlight will host Aurigami (PLY) public sale starting April 29th - source
Forward Protocol (FORWARD) has partnered with iMe Smart Platform (LIME) - source
H2O, the non-pegged, decentralized stable asset backed by OCEAN, is now live on Ethereum mainnet - source
AXIA, the team behind the novel message-to-earn approach of AXChat, announced the mainnet launch of its blockchain and native currency on April 28th - source
ShapeShift Integrates Cosmos Functionality for Native Wallet Users - source
Ex0t1c: release of the first platform built on top of Thales protocol and deployed on Optimism - source
Launching the Signata DAO & dSATA - source
Metaverse News:
Pocket Worlds, Builder of Metaverses with 8 Years of Experience and 2M+ Monthly Users, to Launch First-Ever Metaverse Subnet on Avalanche - source
John Legend's Our Happy Company Raises $7.5 Million for NFT Music Platform, OurSong. Animoca Brands and Infinity Ventures led the seed round for the company - source
DeGods will obtain all of the top-tier Ethereum NFT ownership stakes in Killer 3s, one of the teams in Ice Cube’s 3-on-3 basketball league - source
With $18M in Sales in One Day, data suggests Solana had its best single day of NFT trading volume to date as Okay Bears beats out VeeFriends, Meebits, and more - source
Ragnarok: Phase II of the sale will begin for Pixel members today at 7pm CET - source
'Magic: The Gathering' Creator to Design New Game Mode for 'Blockchain Brawlers' - source
McLaren Automotive enters the metaverse space with the launch of Web3 platform - source
News:
BlackRock Launched Blockchain ETF with Major Holdings on Coinbase and Marathon Digital - source
Bitrefill to Launch Service Letting US Users Pay Bills With Crypto - source
Blockchain real estate platform Propy has partnered with Abra to allow customers to obtain home loans using their cryptocurrency holdings, potentially widening the financial use cases of digital assets - source
Meta’s Reality Labs division posted a $2.9 billion loss in Wednesday’s Q1 earnings call, but Zuckerberg remains optimistic about future profitability from the Metaverse - source
FTX announces $1 billion charity fund and first print ad campaign starring Gisele Bundchen - source
The bitcoin mining company, Riot Blockchain, will create a power station in Texas that will supply up to 1.7 gigawatts of energy - source
Flexa Introduces Flexa Payments for Accepting Instant Digital Currency Payments From Any App - source
Raises:
OneFootball has closed its $300M Series D funding round led by Liberty City Ventures to “enable clubs, leagues, federations and players to release digital assets and fan-centric experiences based on blockchain technology.”- source
Mangata Finance Raises $4.2M to Build Out Its Secure, No-Gas Cross-Chain DEX - source
Crypto wallet firm Venly raises $23 million in Series A funding - source
New Listings:
Decentral Games (DG) Gets Listed on KuCoin - source
Bitgert (BRISE) Gets Listed on KuCoin - source
Green Satoshi Token (GST) Gets Listed on KuCoin - source
Binance Futures Will Launch USDT-Margined DAR Perpetual Contracts with Up to 25X Leverage - source
New trading pairs are now available in the Crypto.com Exchange: COMP/BTC, RUNE/BTC, MBL/BTC, PYR/BTC
New ETH trading pairs are now available in the Crypto.com App: XML, SUSHI, RUNE, and GRT