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Blossom Capital’s Newly Launched $432 Million Fund to Focus on Crypto Startups
18.1.2022
Blossom Capital, the London-based venture capital firm founded by Candice Lo, Imran Ghory, Mike Hudack, and Ophelia Brown plans to dedicate more funds to the growing cryptocurrency ecosystem. On January 18, Blossom announced a new fund worth $432 million, and a third of the capital will...
Polygon Implements Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559; MATIC Dives Today
18.1.2022
The popular Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 scaling solution Polygon (MATIC) has implemented EIP-1559, an Ethereum Improvement Proposal brought forth as a more efficient fee mechanism to Ethereum's first-price auction fee calculating system.
At 10 UTC on Tuesday morning, Polygon is trading at USD 2.17...
Ethereum EIP-1559 upgrade launches on Polygon to burn MATIC
18.1.2022
MATIC supply is likely to become deflationary once fee burning commences according to estimates by the Polygon team
Value Locked in Defi Jumps 2.3% in 7 Days, Ethereum NFT Sales Dominate, Fantom TVL Jumps 26%
15.1.2022
On Saturday, January 15, 2022, the value locked in decentralized finance (defi) protocols across a number of blockchains has increased from $233.95 billion since January 8, to $239.44 billion. Curve’s total value locked (TVL) dominance today is 9.76% with its $23.38 billion TVL. Meanwhile...
Ascending channel pattern sets Polygon (MATIC) up for a potential 30% rally
13.1.2022
A bullish technical analysis pattern and the potential approval of the EIP-1559 proposal could back MATIC’s attempt to rally to a new all-time high
QuickSwap founder: L2s are the path to mass adoption
12.1.2022
175-Year-Old News Cooperative the Associated Press Plans to Launch NFT Marketplace
11.1.2022
On January 10, 2022, the Associated Press (AP), the American non-profit news cooperative founded in 1846, has announced the news agency is launching a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. The AP NFT market was built by the distributed ledger technology provider Xooa and on top of the Polygon...
Zero-knowledge scaling tech Plonky goes live on Polygon
11.1.2022
The move comes after Polygon allocated $1 billion to the advancement of zero knowledge technology
Unstoppable Domains’ New Feature Allows Ethereum, Polygon Login With NFT Domains
11.1.2022
Unstoppable Domains, a US-based company that's building blockchain domain names, launched ‘Login with Unstoppable,’ describing it as the first functional non-fungible token (NFT) single sign-on service for Ethereum (ETH) and Polygon (MATIC) – with more than 50 companies supporting it...
Associated Press to launch Polygon-based photography NFT platform
11.1.2022
The initial NFT drop will include award-winning photographs of subjects like space, climate, and war from AP photojournalists
Terra Proposal Seeks to Expand UST Stablecoin to 5 Different Defi Protocols
10.1.2022
On January 6, Terra Research announced a proposal to expand the network’s stablecoin asset terrausd (UST) across a number of different protocols on Polygon, Ethereum, and Solana. Terra’s governance blog post discusses how the proposal to leverage $139 million of UST can bolster...
Top 20 NFT Marketplaces Where You Can Buy & Sell Digital Collectibles
7.1.2022
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are (still) booming, with new marketplaces appearing almost every week to meet the growing demand. That can make it tricky for newcomers to know where to safely buy and sell virtual items and crypto art.
Read on to discover a list of 20 leading NFT marketplaces across...
Polygon network activity spikes as NFT sales reach new height
6.1.2022
Polygon's NFT market continues to attract users, though the demographic is more aligned to gaming companies and developers than collectibles as on the Ethereum network
NFTb and Polygon Studios Have Entered Into a Strategic Partnership
6.1.2022
NFTb, the System for Digital Owning, has partnered up with Polygon Studios to accelerate the progress of GameFi initiatives on Polygon by offering solutions for initiatives to release on the Polygon ecosystem. NFTb & Polygon Studios will collaborate closely to make sure that initiatives going...
Number of Devs on Solana, Polygon, Cardano & Co Growing Faster Than on Ethereum
6.1.2022
Looking at the number of developers, blockchain platforms known in the crypto community as "Ethereum Killers" are growing at a faster rate than Ethereum (ETH) did at similar points in its history. However, Ethereum is still by far the largest ecosystem, retaining 30% of full-time developers...
Defi Lending Startup Aave Launches Permissioned Platform to Entice Financial Institutions
5.1.2022
On January 5, the open-source non-custodial decentralized finance (defi) lending platform Aave launched a permissioned version of the protocol aimed at institutions. The platform dubbed Aave Arc will leverage Fireblocks as the first whitelister as the platform aims to help bridge traditional...
Leading NFT Marketplace Opensea Raises $300 Million, Firm’s Post-Money Valuation Taps $13.3 Billion
5.1.2022
Leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Opensea announced the firm has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round led by Paradigm and Coatue. Opensea’s latest capital raise has propelled the company to a $13.3 billion post-money valuation. Opensea Raises $300 Million, Commands...
Polygon (MATIC): the Scaling Solution Token Could Hit New ATH
5.1.2022
Polygon, formerly known as Matic, is a popular framework and layer-2 scaling platform. It offers great features by enhancing the interoperability of the Ethereum blockchain and other compatible networks. Indeed, the price is stable and less volatile, so it gained lots of traffic this year. It...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch in 2022: BTC, ETH, BNB, AVAX, MATIC
5.1.2022
Bitcoin and altcoins had a stellar year, but how might ETH, BNB, AVAX and MATIC perform in 2022?
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of December, Q4, and 2021
3.1.2022
2022 is here, and it’s time to take a look at how the market has performed not just over the past month, but also in the 4th quarter of 2021, and during the full year behind us. And to summarize it all in one sentence: 2021 was mostly a good year for the crypto market, although it certainly...