Accelerators supporting startups that focus on or utilize non-fungible tokens, here described as NFT startups, include both newly established Web 3 accelerators as well as historical players in the accelerator space. In addition, many of these accelerators are associated with venture funds that have invested in NFT startups. Accelerators are a well-developed funding and development…

DeFi is regaining its footing in March after a market-wide plunge at the end of February. The DeFi Index Pulse is up 14% this week after dropping more than 20% in the last week of last month. Total value locked (TVL) too, is on the rise in March after a weeklong 20% tumble  to $36B…

InsurAce, the Singapore-based insurance protocol, raised $3M in a token-based funding round led by Alameda Research and HashKey Capital. Investors from the project’s $1M seed round, DeFiance Capital, ParaFi Capital, Hashed and Signum Capital, also participated. The round was completed with institutional investors, including, IOSG Ventures, ImToken Ventures, LongHash Ventures, HashGlobal, Tembusu Partners, Factorial Ventures,…

The DeFi Pulse Index (DPI) has added Sushiswap’s Sushi token to its set of assets.  DPI now includes 12 tokens, with Sushi comprising 8% of the index’s total value. The only three project’s with tokens representing higher allocations are Uniswap, Aave, and Synthetix, with 30, 19, and 13% respectively. The projects launched within a month…

Ubisoft, the video game company behind major franchises like Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry,  has entered the NFT arena with its newest mobile game, One Shot League. This marks the first time that a major gaming studio has developed a video game revolving around NFTs.  One Shot League is a collaboration between Ubisoft and Sorare,…

Compound Finance has introduced a prototype blockchain which allows users to borrow on one chain against collateral on another chain. When the blockchain, called Gateway, is live, users will be able to, for example, deposit Polkadot’s native DOT token, and borrow Ether against that collateral, freely using that ETH in the Ethereum ecosystem. This contrasts…

Deposits in Yearn Finance’s DAI vault are rising after synthetic assets protocol Alchemix started using Yearn for its backend last week.  Alchemix deposits quintupled to almost $130M from less than $25M on Feb. 27, when the protocol launched. The surge pushed Yearn to raise its Dai vault limit to 300M from 100M. The move shows…

An unknown developer has deployed a smart contract called “Tinenanmen_Square”  (mis-spelling Tiananmen Square), a censored topic in China, on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), with the implied intention of testing just how decentralized the chain really is.  The smart contract is a game where users can mint TANK tokens starting at 1,000 TANKs, and going down…

As high-profile NFT sales gain unprecedented mainstream visibility, the crypto space seems to be primed for an influx of newcomers. Just two days into March, and it’s clear this is going to be another record-setting month with major NFT auctions already making waves.  Beeple The first is Beeple’s “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” NFT which…

3LAU smashed the single NFT auction record on Saturday night after selling $11.6M of NFTs by tokenizing his debut album Ultraviolet in partnership with Origin Protocol. The bespoke auction portal – nft.3lau.com – allowed the top 33 bidders to earn exclusive Ultraviolet album NFTs of varying rarities. These tiers ranged from “Platinum” for the top…