The buyout contract for the B20 NFT bundle is live, meaning that 20 single-edition Beeple NFTs are back on the market in a winner-takes-all lot. B.20 bundle is a collection of ultra-rare NFTs including 20 one-of-one Beeples, a 3LAU soundscape, and prime real estate in Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, and Somnium Space. This bundle backs the B20…

Step Finance, a Solana app which aggregates users’ DeFi activities across the blockchain’s open finance ecosystem has raised $2M in a round led by Alameda Research, Three Comma Capital and others. “The biggest problem in the Solana ecosystem is how most projects are siloed from one another,” Step co-founder Georga Harrap wrote in a press…

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced yesterday that it will mint six NFTs on financial services company Crypto.com’s new NFT platform. The NFTs will each mark the first trade of a company on its IPO day. The six companies, Spotify, Doordash, Roblox, Snowflake, Coupang and Unity are all software companies which have had their…

Defiant Media Inc., the creator of The Defiant, closed a $1.4M pre-seed round to build the leading information company at the intersection of tech and finance, from investors including IDEO CoLab Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, MetaCartel Ventures, Defiance Capital, Mechanism Capital, GBV Capital, and angels including Anthony Pompliano, Mariano Conti, Andrew Keys and many…

When I first read about the $69M NFT being sold at Christie’s, I thought it was incredible. But I certainly did not think it was relatable. It’s literally a fine art auction. Which, for most people, is up there with yachts and islands as symbols of the ultra rich. And this is the story being…

In this week's episode we interview 0xMaki, an anonymous DeFi developer contributing to SushiSwap and Yearn Finance protocols. We talk about growing Sushi beyond its drama-filled beginnings as a fork of Uniswap, into a DEX that can hold its own as the second-most active trading platform in Ethereum DeFi. He goes into the main pieces…

zCloak Network, a Polkadot-based and privacy-focused computing platform, announced it closed a $1.3M seed round led by IOSG Ventures and Hypersphere Ventures. Other notable participants include KR1, DFG, Advanced Blockchain AG, PAKA Fund and Digital Renaissance Foundation. zCloak Network enables computation and analysis of personal data without sending them to 3rd party servers with the…

DeFi lending protocol C.R.E.A.M. Finance is launching a protocol-to-protocol flash loan product through its Iron Bank, with the aim to increase capital efficiency and expand the scope of decentralized finance. DeFi protocols will now be able to take out flash loans ––uncollateralized loans that need to be repaid at the same block that they are…

Immutable X, an NFT-focused layer 2 solution on Ethereum from the team behind the NFT trading card game Gods Unchained, has launched a test version of the network. Gods Unchained players have exclusive access for the time being.  Immutable X offers gas-free NFT minting, trading, and collecting, as well as near-instant transaction times. Immutable X…

dYdX  launched its cross-margined perpetuals product on a Layer 2 scaling solution powered by blockchain software developer StarkWare.  The move is significant as it highlights how some of Ethereum’s most well-known DeFi projects are migrating to scaling solutions amid rising gas costs to operate directly on Ethereum’s Layer 1. $10M Trading Volume StarkWare co-founder and…