Select observations of the day:
JPEG’d lending protocol launching on the 27th: allows obtaining a line of credit using NFTs as collateral. The first supported collection will be Cryptopunks with a $5m debt ceiling
Evmos team met with the validators earlier and decided to push launch again by 24 hours to Wednesday, 27th April
Upcoming Joepegs marketplace with NFT launchpad capable of supporting Dutch Auctions, Ascending Auctions, Flat Mints and Whitelists
RAGNAROK fair auction: tomorrow 5:00 PM UTC April 27th
Everseed Genesis Mint to be revealed & tradable on MagicEden today at 4:20 PM UTC
BreederDAO (BREED) LBP public sale on Copper Launch
Bitcoin unable to hold the 40k region
Plus, more as always. Markets are blah, like they have been for a while. Make sure you drink enough water today
- 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:
The JPEG’d lending protocol is launching on Wednesday, April 27th. The first supported collection will be Cryptopunks with a $5m debt ceiling - source
Sushi 2.0: A Restructure For The Road Ahead - source
Crypto tax calculation platform Koinly added Terra (LUNA) wallet support to make tax calculation easier for LUNA holders - source
Evmos: team met with the validators earlier and decided to push launch by 24 hours to Wednesday, 27th April - source
Investors in the Fireblocks' Early Access Program put up close to $500 million into the Terra DeFi ecosystem in a week since integration went live - source
Joepegs Marketplace: What To Expect: NFT Launchpad capable of supporting Dutch Auctions, Ascending Auctions, Flat Mints and Whitelists - source
Flashbots MEV data live on Dune: makes MEV data accessible to the web3 community - source
Anysniper approved wallets are getting drained - source
How to easily verify whether LP is locked directly on-chain (without using any external tools) - source
Launching Futureswap v4.1 on Avalanche with Trader Joe as first AMM - source
~65% of the stolen funds have been transferred out of the Ronin Network exploiter's wallet, including 22% (~39,700 $ETH) has already laundered via TornadoCash - source
Synthetix Incentivizes sUSD Liquidity On Optimism With Lyra - source
The Stacks Ventures project incubator accepted 11 new projects to help make CityCoins more appealing to global mayors who want to utilize a digital asset to receive rewards and bolster their economies - source
Steak Hut Finance: Rocket Joe Launch Partner #6 - Joe Wars participant - source
Polkadot name system: PNS - a Substrate-based decentralized domain name system launches on Moonbeam Network - source
Crypto.com Supports Akash’s Network Upgrade. Temporary suspension of AKT transfers on 26 April 2022 - source
Bybit will offer options trading to customers but has not specified an exact launch date - source
Spin launched the first order book spot DEX on NEARProtocol to Mainnet - source
Binance has completed the network integration of BIFI (Fantom), REEF (Reef), USDC (Ronin) and USDT (Polygon) - source
SnailTrailGame IDO Registration Closes April 26th - source
Celer IM Launches on Mainnet: A New Era for Inter-chain dApps Begins - source
In an effort to boost throughput and Dapps performance on the Cardano network, IOHK developers raised the network’s block size by 8kb, from 80kb to 88kb - source
Arbitrum Developer PSA: planning a contract upgrade on Wednesday in preparation for Nitro's new and improved retryable ticket system - source
BreederDAO (BREED) public sale on Copper:Token Pool Allocation: 75,000,000 Starting rate: $1.5 - source - guide
Outlier Ventures announces partnership with Terraform Labs to launch the Terra Base Camp Accelerator programme - source
SpiritSwap anniversary- DEX & DeFi suite on Fantom - source
Chainflip Protocol Designs Refresh - source
Public Beta : Invitation from EdgeSwap: Ethereum-based layer 2 trading protocol, adopts the ZK Rollup tech - source
Pocket announces expanding censorship-resistant decentralized RPC to Fantom - source
Defi strategy:Lock your ASTRO with Spectrum and earn higher yield in UST - source
Trader-focused DEX Hermes Defi, who received a $175,000 investment from Momentum 6, will soon launch on Harmony Protocol - source
Mad Meerkat Unveils BURROW Launchpad Details & Utility - source
Move-To-Earn Token FITFI on Avalanche has achieved a 50x increase over the price of DAOMaker IDO ($0.0049) after it was launched on OKX and Bybit today - source
Metaverse News:
Yuga Labs' new project Otherside will be launched at 4/30. Users who have passed KYC verification need to use ApeCoin for Mint, but still need to pay some ETH as gas fee - source
RAGNAROK fair auction: 5:00 PM UTC April 27th - source
Everseed Genesis Mint to be revealed & tradable on MagicEden at 4:20pm UTC - source
Meta will open a virtual reality hardware retail store in the San Francisco, providing interactive demos for the company’s hardware products - source
Vulcan’s Phalanx: NFT Avatar Collectibles With Solid Usecases. How Vulcan’s Phalanx Works, Avatar Buffs and Rare Items - source
PalmNFT - The Bat Cowl Collection presale is live - Priced at $300 USD - source
Mines of Dalarnia will officially launch on mainnet on April 26th - source
NFL Releases 2022 Draft 'Virtual Ticket' NFTs on Flow - source
Skybreach Land Sale Move - source
News:
Fidelity to reportedly allow 401(k) retirement savings accounts to invest 20% of their savings portfolio in Bitcoin without the need to open a crypto exchange account - source
Raises:
Vertex Protocol, a decentralized FX protocol for multi-currency spot and derivatives trading, has closed an $8.5 million seed funding round ahead of its planned launch this summer - source
0x Labs has closed a $70 million Series B financing round led by Greylock Partners at an undisclosed valuation. Also included investors such as Pantera, Jump Capital, OpenSea, and Jared Leto - source
Entertainment company Mad Realities raises $6M to create decentralized media. The seed round was led by Paradigm - source
$5.55m in strategic funding to build the IPOR Protocol as the base of the DeFi credit markets - source
NFT lending platform Flowty has closed $4.5M seed round - source
GamerGains $5.8 Million seed round for Solana Play-and-Earn Platform Supporting Web2 Games - source
Neobank Cogni dives into web3 as it raises $23 million - source
New Listings:
Hexagon Finance to auction FLAKE tokens in LBP auction on Copper Launch on Avalanche - source - tokenomics
Aurigami coming soon to Bybit launchpad 2.0 - source
Solice announces Solice Land Public Sale on April 26th, Mint price: 400 SLC - source
Coinbase and Coinbase Pro will list Oasis (ROSE) on April 26th - source
EpiK Protocol (EPK) Gets Listed on KuCoin on April 27th - source
Plutonians (PLD) Gets Listed on KuCoin on April 27th - source
$DEIP to be listed on MEXC Global on May 5th - source
FreshCut IDO on Polkastarter on May 10th - source
Huobi Global will list Voxies (VOXEL) on April 27th - source
New ETH trading pairs are now available in the Crypto.com: AAVE, CELR, MANA and SKL
PAXGUSD, GLMRUSD, ANCUSD, and REEFUSD Perpetual Contracts Are Now Available on Crypto.com - source
More crypto.com new pairs: AERGO/BTC, ALI/BTC, KSM/BTC, STX/USDC, AUDIO/USDC, OGN/BTC, EPS/BTC, 1INCH/BTC, AAVE/BTC, ALICE/BTC