Select observations from the day:
Class action lawsuit accuses Uniswap Labs and its investors of allowing fraudulent activity. Following the trend of OpenSea and others being sued
Ava Labs, the main developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is reportedly raising $350 million in new funding at a $5.25 billion valuation
Terraform Labs has gifted 10M LUNA ($880M) to the Luna Foundation Guard to help boost the stability of the stablecoin UST
US Officials tie North Korean hacker group to Axie's Ronin exploit $625M theft
Solana NFTs heading to Rarible following OpenSea debut. Joining other supported blockchains, including Ethereum, Flow, Tezos, and Polygon
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41.3 billion
Plus more, as always - highlighting the busy activity in this space and showing how crypto is for better or worse, slowly encroaching more into day to day life
- 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:
Class action lawsuit accuses Uniswap Labs, its investors of allowing fraudulent activity on the DEX protocol - source
Ava Labs, the main developer of the Avalanche blockchain, is reportedly raising $350 million in new funding at a $5.25 billion valuation - source
Terraform Labs has gifted 10M LUNA ($880M) to the Luna Foundation Guard to help boost the stability of the stablecoin UST, will likely go toward the foundation’s goal of acquiring additional collateral - source
US Officials Tie North Korean Hacker Group to Axie's Ronin Exploit - source
Bybit platform announces integration with zksync to support deposits and withdrawals of ETH, DAI, USDT and USDC - source
Moonbeam, the top destination for multi-chain apps on Polkadot, has announced the availability of the Bifrost native token, BNC, on Moonriver through an XCM Integration - source
LooksRare Security Audit by Trail of Bits did not uncover any significant flaws that could result in the compromise of a smart contract, a loss of funds, or unexpected behavior - source
Arweave integration live on Avalanche, users will now have access to 200-plus years of data storage at affordable prices - source
Crypto data service Nansen announced Thursday that it is adding support for transactions on the Solana blockchain - source
Cardano to increase transaction throughput as Vasil hardfork gets scheduled for June - source
Jet Governance module is now live on mainnet. Users can: Claim Airdrop, Stake/Unstake, Vote (soon) - source
Nansen - introducing Web3 Wallet Authentication. Users can now sign in with Ethereum wallet - source
Opera Expands Crypto Browser to iOS for Access to 9 Blockchain Ecosystems. The integrated noncustodial crypto wallet supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Celo, StarkEx, IXO, Ronin and Nervos - source
Uniswap Labs announces Swap Widget, which allows developers to easily embed Uniswap swapping functionality, allowing their users to seamlessly swap tokens, join a community or DAO, wrap assets, and more, without leaving their apps - source
Babylon.finance - Introducing Gasless Deposits - source
Coordinated disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Girault, Bulletproofs, and PlonK - source
Solana Ventures announces winners of Solana Riptide Hackathon. Cronos, an on-chain task scheduler that allows users to schedule instructions, received the Grand Champion prize of $65,000 in USDC - source
Ronin hacker transferred 3302.6 ETH and then transferred a total of 1400 ETH to Tornado Cash at this address fourteen times - source
Deep dive into Ellipsis V2.0 upgrade - source
THORSwap V2’s Open Beta is live. New user interface - source
Solidly gauge - critical vulnerability that allows removing all earned rewards for all users - source
Terraform Labs Launches Global Founder Fellowship with Participating Partners including JUMP Crypto, Delphi Digital, Outlier Ventures, and More - source
Introducing Osmosis Frontier - where chaos reigns and UX takes a back-seat to the full permissionless listing and curation of assets - source
Tribe Convex Pool (#156) - FIP-89 has been executed and new collateral types are now live: - CRVcvxFXS: 24.80% APR - cvxCRV: 42.55% APR - CRVrETHwstETH: 6% APR - source
Introducing Chai Money Market, the premier non-custodial lending protocol on Boba network and Aurora - source
DEX Aggregator 1inch Expands to Fantom Network - source
The 1st phase of SeatlabNFT's upcoming IDO will take place on Skywardfinance from 24th-30th May, with a cap of 2,535,000 $SEAT - source
WOOFi has launched on Fantom, continuing its journey into the multichain world - source
Astarter Pad announces invitations for its beta Launchpad mainnet test. Application duration: 12 - 17th, April - source
UST incentives on Hermes Protocol just went live - source
Metaverse News:
Solana NFTs Now Heading to Rarible Following OpenSea Debut joining a growing list of supported blockchains, including Ethereum, Flow, Tezos, and the recently Polygon - source
Line, Japan’s number 1 super app launched its own NFT marketplace, adding to list of crypto-ready features. Will offer approximately 40,000 NFTs to its 90 million users - source
Check Point Researchers find security flaw in Rarible: Users could have lost all their NFTs - source
Astronaut Launches 1st NFT, Raises $500K To Help Ukraine Fight Russia - source
‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280 - source
NFT Polygon-based ticketing platform YellowHeart took to Las Vegas this week for its first collaboration with MGM Grand Resorts, selling a collection of NFT tickets to a run of Jabbawockeez dance performances - source
Animoca Brands to acquire Darewise, the indie game company developing “Life Beyond” - source
AMC and Orange Comet Launch Daryl Dixon Motorcycle NFTs Dropping on April 14th - source
Help Write Archie Comic Books With Palm’s Archieverse Ethereum NFTs. The 66,666 horror-themed NFTs unlock access to a virtual writers' room, with holders’ ideas tapped to create future comics - source
Nouns DAO Backs NFT Crowdfunding Effort for Indie Film 'Calladita'. The deal is thought to be the first on-chain proposal for a DAO to fund a feature film - source
News:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41.3 billion in cash at $54.2 a share and plans to take the company private - source
Circle will apply for the U.S. crypto bank charter in ‘Near Future’ - source
Texas regulators order virtual casino to stop selling NFTs. The State Security Board considers the sale of 11,111 NFTs a “high-tech fraudulent securities offering.” - source
Ledger has partnered with cryptocurrency tax software platform ZenLedger to integrate its crypto tax reporting solution into Ledger’s interface application Ledger Live - source
Gemini crypto exchange launches credit card in United States. Users can get their cashback reward in over 60 different cryptocurrencies - source
NBA star, Spencer Dinwiddie, has partnered with Bitrefill to create Bitsneaks, a pair of kicks that display Bitcoin's price in real time and costs $41,000 - source
Amazon CEO says not adding cryptocurrency as payment option anytime soon. Might be possible to sell NFTs on its e-commerce platform - source
Raises:
Web3 'follow' app Context announces $19.5 million seed round. Variant Fund and Sam Altman led the round, which also included founders and execs from Quora, Vine and Phantom - source
Skynet EGLD Capital Fund Raises $40 Million to Invest in the Elrond Ecosystem from Spark Digital Capital, Morningstar Ventures, and Binance Institutional - source
Ethereum Push Notification Service Raises $10M at $131M Valuation. The company hopes to address the lack of cross-blockchain communication with easy messaging tools - source
South Korean Smart Contract Auditing Platform Soohoo.io Raises $4.5M. The startup works with Samsung and LG - source
New Listings:
Impossible Finance has announced the twelfth IDO —Aurigami Token Sale - source
Huobi Global will list NYM (NYM) on April 15 - source
Threshold (T) Gets Listed on KuCoin on April 15 - source
Woonkly Power (WOOP) Gets Listed on KuCoin on April 15 - source
Bold Point, NFT-based P2E RPG game, $BPT will be listed on Trader Joe today - source
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