Daily Alpha and Sumnary. 18, April, 2024
Defi
Aavegotchi’s utility token is now live on Base
OMNI airdrop went live yesterday and lists on Binance
Yuga Labs has offloaded IP for its games HV-MTL and Legends of the Mara as part of a refocusing effort.
Paradigm's head of security, Samczsun, launched SEAL-ISAC, a new initiative of the SEAL Org. It connects individuals with experts on crypto cybersecurity threats and responses.
As BTC halving is close by, Stacks plans a major upgrade on April 16 to boost speed
Mantra has launched an $11M incubation program at the Dubai World Trade Center, in collaboration with Virtuzone, to support RWA projects. The program offers financial support, mentorship, and access to a global investor network.
Contango Digital Assets reached the first close on their $10M seed fund with $5M in investments. The fund aims to advance blockchain-AI convergence. Investors include XVentures, Quantstamp CEO, SingularityNet CFO, WonderFi CEO, early LPs in Digital Currency Group and Polychain Capital, and Vanta DAO.
Suku, in partnership with Alchemy and Privy, has introduced SukuPay: a free non-custodial global money transfer tool that requires no initial setup (thanks to its AA) or fees. Built on Polygon PoS network using $USDC
ICP implements threshold-Schnorr to enhance BTC defi by allowing direct signing of Schnorr signatures for various fxns, aiming to be BTC L0
L1 Core Chain introduces non-custodial BTC staking. “For the first time, BTC can be a yield asset, w/o the need to leave existing BTC architecture.”
Zignaly announce ZIGChain L1 on Cosmos and a $100M eco development fund.
Mysten Labs partners with BytePlus, the VC tech arm of TikTok parent company ByteDance, for data and AI collaboration in Web3 games and socialFi on Sui. ByteHouse data warehouse will be used to boost performance and delivery for users.
Kraken launch new wallet
Polyhedra partners with Google Cloud to bring ZK proofs to developers. Polyhedra Proof Cloud has completed over 40M ZK proof tasks for zkBridge
Lido launched the Simple DVT Module for Ethereum staking, incorporating DVT from Obol and SSV Network. This initiative aims to diversify node operators by including solo and community stakers, increasing the number of node operators by 600%
Bullish on Intentx. max farm ena sats, $mnt and intentx airdrop
Worldcoin launching its L2 this summer
usualmoney raise $7M led by IOSG Ventures and Kraken Ventures to disrupt Tether’s stablecoin dominance and has received $75M TVL commitment to launch $USD0
Bullish on this one. Gameswift memecoin
You should be max farming this one. Launching $TIA style
Merlin Chain announced to secure new investments co-led by Spartan Group and Hailstone Labs and native token will be listed on OKX today
