🏎 Metis Joins Ethereum Layer 2 Race With $100M Ecosystem Fund

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• Metis Joins Ethereum Layer 2 Race With $100M Ecosystem Fund
• Trailblazer THORChain Accidentally Front-runs THORSwap Community in Latest Woe

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• Reddit co-founder to invest $100 million in social media on Solana: The Block
• Neon Labs, developer of Ethereum virtual machine on Solana, raises $40 million: The Block
• Tim Cook has invested in cryptocurrency personally, but Apple has no plans to do so: New York Times
• OpenSea: The Reasonable Revolutionary: The Generalist
• Binance Will List Ethereum Name Service (ENS): Binance
• To celebrate our 1 year anniversary Art Blocks is donating 1 million dollars to charity: Art Blocks
• The main thing we noticed about building on Fantom is that teams in the space are always open to talking and collaborating with each other: Fantom

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• Metis Joins Ethereum Layer 2 Race With $100M Ecosystem Fund
• ConsenSys Founder Joe Lubin Teases MetaMask Token $MASK
• EXCLUSIVE: New NFT Discovery Platform Raises $2M From Spartan and Sequoia

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Layer 2s

🏎 Metis Joins Ethereum Layer 2 Race With $100M Ecosystem Fund

LAYER 2 SOLUTION The competition to become the dominant Optimistic Rollup Layer 2 solution just got a new player and a $100M fund boosts its chances. Metis is joining the fray, where Arbitrum and Optimism have so far ruled. The project is set to launch its mainnet the week of Nov. 15 and is also launching a $100M fund, which Metis describes as a “decentralized autonomous company” (DAC), called Genesi, to support projects which join its ecosystem.

DAOs Genesi will be allocated across a wide range of high-potential projects in all major crypto verticals including, DeFi, gaming, and DAOs, according to a press release provided exclusively to The Defiant.

$100M ALLOCATION A committee consisting of Metis and its investors, which include Digital Finance Group and Master Ventures, will be in charge of allocating the $100M. Metis is led by co-founders Elena Sinelnikova, Kevin Liu, and Yuan Su and also has Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin’s mother, Natalia Ameline on staff as a technology researcher.

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Cross-chain DEXs

😫 Trailblazer THORChain Accidentally Front-runs THORSwap Community in Latest Woe

ACCIDENT Drama continues to hang over the trailblazing cross-chain decentralized exchange protocol THORChain, with the protocol’s treasury accidentally front-running the highly anticipated token offering of its platform, THORSwap.

OFFLINE The incident comes within one month of THORSwap relaunching services for four of its five supported networks after THORChain went offline for several weeks. It suffered two major hacks just three months after entering its guarded “chaosnet” launch.

LAUNCH ShapeShift CEO and THORChain backer Erik Voorhees proclaimed that the protocol’s April launch was a bigger event for crypto than Coinbase’s IPO in April. “Thorchain goes live tomorrow,” he tweeted on Apr. 12. “Native cross-chain decentralized exchange. Never been done before.”

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Links

🔗 Reddit co-founder to invest $100 million in social media on Solana: The Block

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will be investing in building out a form of decentralized social media using the Solana blockchain, according to an announcement today.

🔗 Neon Labs, developer of Ethereum virtual machine on Solana, raises $40 million: The Block

Neon Labs, a crypto startup building an Ethereum virtual machine (EVM) on Solana, has raised $40 million in a private token sale round.

🔗 Tim Cook has invested in cryptocurrency personally, but Apple has no plans to do so: New York Times

While Apple might not offer users a way to pay with cryptocurrency anytime soon, its leader has invested in it personally.

🔗 OpenSea: The Reasonable Revolutionary: The Generalist

The marketplace behind NFT mania is just getting started.

🔗 Binance Will List Ethereum Name Service (ENS): Binance

Binance will list Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and will open trading for ENS/BTC, ENS/BNB, ENS/BUSD, and ENS/USDT trading pairs at 2021-11-10 07:00 (UTC).

Fantom Foundation @FantomFDN"The main thing we noticed about building on Fantom is that teams in the space are always open to talking and collaborating with each other. The two factors that stood out were support and the tight knit and engaged community." @Spirit_Swap fantom.foundation/blog/fantom-ec…3:49 PM ∙ Nov 9, 2021740Likes157Retweets

Art Blocks @artblocks_ioTo celebrate our 1 year anniversary Art Blocks is donating 1 million dollars to charity - 300k of that total will be picked by the community. The top 30 posts with the most✅on 11/15 will receive an on-chain donation from Art Blocks through @endaomentdotorg before 11/27 👇

Art Blocks @artblocks_ioNovember 27th is Art Blocks' 1-year anniversary, crazy right? To celebrate this wild ride, we thought it would be a great time to donate to charity. But we need your help (in Discord). 👇 https://t.co/YpSGjoOlAH https://t.co/mG9Bl7Yx5z10:06 PM ∙ Nov 9, 2021186Likes33Retweets

Most Read in The Defiant

Metis Joins Ethereum Layer 2 Race With $100M Ecosystem FundThe competition to become the dominant Optimistic Rollup Layer 2 solution just got a new player and a $100M fund boosts its chances.

ConsenSys Founder Joe Lubin Teases MetaMask Token $MASKOne of web3’s most essential tools may be getting a token. Joseph Lubin, founder of Ethereum incubator ConsenSys, set off speculation a token for the non-custodial wallet MetaMask is imminent after tweeting, “Wen $MASK? Stay tuned.”

EXCLUSIVE: New NFT Discovery Platform Raises $2M From Spartan and SequoiaNFTs are crypto’s most visual offering, but exploring them is still largely driven by text searches. A project coming out of stealth this week aims to change that.

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