Select observations from the day:
Optimism projects spike on rumors of token airdrop. Coinbase has added a price page for Optimism token
LooksRare listing rewards: New listing rewards program to boost liquidity. 250,000 LOOKS per day will be distributed among everyone with eligible listings from the top 25 collections
DYDX will be 100% decentralized by EOY
NBA free minting its upcoming Ethereum NFT collection of 18,000 NFTs called The Association. NFT traits will evolve over the course of the playoffs based on each player’s real life performance
Plus more, as always. Announcements, partnerships, incentive programs, raises, institutions and brands getting involved with crypto. It’s a busy space
- 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:
Beanstalk Farms offered a whitehat bounty to exploiters and outlined its plans moving forward should it be unsuccessful - source
Blockchain interoperability protocol Connext unveils token, plans airdrop, snapshots for these have already been completed - source
Binance is launching the Portfolio Margin Program, which consolidates the margin balances of USDⓈ-M Futures, COIN-M Futures and Margin accounts - source
Optimism-based projects spike on rumors of token airdrop, Coinbase has added a price page for Optimism token - source - mirror article
LooksRare Listing Rewards: List NFTs, earn LOOKS. New listing rewards program to boost liquidity. 250,000 LOOKS per day will be distributed among everyone with eligible listings - source
Ethereum developer Lion dapplion tweeted that a second merge test will begin on Saturday. The first was the Mainnet shadow fork test on April 11 - source
Launch of JPEG Bonds. Olympus DAO created a novel product known as bonding that builds Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL). Jointly launching a bond program for JPEG with administration by Olympus DAO - source
LFJOE: Vector Finance Enters the JOE Wars, launching a JOE Rush program, where 500,000 VTX will be up for grabs - source
$koo could be part of $caw and Ryoshi's new ecoystem - source
Yeti Finance Launches on Avalanche, Expanding Borrowing Strategies and Liquidity - source
DYDX will be 100% decentralized by EOY - source
Gnosis Chain announced that the hard fork has been successfully performed, and the implementation of the bridge token has been upgraded to strengthen the defense against reentrancy attacks - source
MakerDAO, the 4th largest DeFi protocol as per TVL rankings with $14.24 billion in locked value, deploys on L2 StarkNet on April 28th to enhance functions of DAI stablecoin - source
Dappradar x Oasis Accelerator Announces Ecosystem Partnerships - source
C2X($CTX): LP Providing April 20 - source
Astar will give away 4.5M ASTR in Total OR 1.5M ASTR per ERA as staking rewards - source
amsterDOT: 4 days of conf & hack sessions organized by some of the leading projects of the Polkadot and Kusama ecosystems. $300,000+ of combined rewards - source
PolarisDAO Launches on Karura Swap, 700,000 ARIS in Liquidity Mining Rewards - source
Perp V2 will Implement a vote-escrow model, or vePERP and update the growth level programs to work in tandem with vePERP, liquidity mining (incentivise LPs) and liquidity acquisition (borrow stables) - source
Introducing the SynFutures V2 Testnet: several new trading products and features, contributing to a much-improved experience for both users and LPs
PancakeSwap has started the MasterChef v2 migration, and the staking users need to complete the migration. MasterChef v2 will have better scalability, better control and flexibility over CAKE emissions - source
Defillama launching a defi and crypto focused wiki - source
KIP 13 - $KWENTA Launch Distribution - source
Retrograde will commence with a two stage launch, beginning on the 2nd May 2022 - source
PEGASUS guarded mainnet live on Optimism. Get rewarded for using Pegasus’s interest rate perp trading platform - source
Nebula Protocol: on-chain proposal to initiate the $NEB Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP) event is now live for voting - source
Mars Protocol: new forum proposal (MRC-3) would boost the credit lines for 2 leveraged yield farming strategies in the Fields of Mars by as much as 4x - source
Lend Flare v2 Update: Code has been finished and hand over to peckshield - source
Wonderland: [WIP #7] - TheSkyhopper+Bastion Treasury Management - source
White Whale, Arbitrage Platform built on Terra, is considering joining the Astro Wars - source
STAX finance pre-release update: Progress continues to be made on this all-new portal to the Temple-Frax LP - source
fWallet v2 beta now released - source
Project Insight: Marinade - The First Liquid Staking Protocol on Solana - source
400 new projects and 100K new wallets in a month on Cardano - source
Metaverse News:
Coinbase NFT Marketplace has launched a beta version to support Ethereum NFTs, with 0 market fees currently. Only available to a small group of people and requires an invitation code to get started. More than 8.4 million email addresses were on the waitlist - source
NBA Announces 'Dynamic' Ethereum NFTs for Playoffs. The 18,000 NBA NFTs have traits that will change based on athlete performance - source
Snoop Dogg Brings Digital Weed Farms to the Metaverse. The rapper and his son dive deeper into NFTs with a collection that adds utility to NFT real-estate - source
Tony Hawk Auctions Iconic Skateboards with Accompanying NFTs - source
Sushiswap($SUSHI) - Sushimi NFT Mint April 20 - 9AM EST - source
Investors Poured $2.5B Into Crypto Games in Q1 2022 - source
Bifrost will launch Polkadot Crowdloan on April 22 - source
SkateX & Drippies Collaboration - source
United Arab Emirates airliner, Emirates, announced plans to launch NFT and experiences in the metaverse. The launch aligns with UAE’s digital economy and virtual assets initiatives - source
Hyundai Motor Issues First Community-Based NFT among the Automakers, Highlighting Its Mobility Solutions in the Metaverse in collaboration with the ‘Meta Kongz’ NFT brand - source
LUNILAND is a Metaverse on Terra Blockchain integrated with $LUNI token and LUNILAND NFTs. Round 2 of LUNILAND plot sales is now taking place - source
News:
Australia’s first Bitcoin ETF could attract $1 billion after launch next week - source
Binance.US awarded money transmitter license in Puerto Rico - source
El Salvador’s Bid for Bitcoin Bonds Sinking as IMF Deal 'Practically Dead' - source
Hello Pal International Inc., a provider of international live-streaming, language learning and social-crypto platform, announced cryptocurrency mining operations in Australia - source
Shiba Inu Accepted as Means of Payment by Swiss Consulting Firm - source
Raises:
Flipside Crypto, a blockchain analytics company, has raised $50M. The round was led by Republic Capital - source
Binance Labs has participated in the $30 million fundraising of Gold House Ventures, the debut fund of Gold House - source
Mintbase Raises $7.5M Series A + $5M NEAR Program Grants Pool to Pioneer Utility NFT Infrastructure - source