Press Releases

Pangolin Partners With Olympus, Becomes the First DEX on AVAX to Launch a Bonding Program

Frankfurt am Main, Germany  — November 30, 2021 — Pangolin, the community-driven decentralized exchange for Avalanche (AVAX) and Ethereum (ETH) assets with fast settlement, low transaction fees, and democratic distribution, has announced a formal partnership with Olympus to create a unique, bonding program and co-marketing push. The partnership with the Olympus Pro bond marketplace means […]

Polkadex Migrates Native Token PDEX From ERC-20 to Substrate

London, UK — November 30, 2021 — Polkadex, the order-book exchange for DeFi built on Substrate, is announcing the listing of its native token PDEX on Gate.io, which signals the start of the migration from the ERC-20-based PDEX. Launched on mainnet at the end of September, Polkadex has now officially launched its native PDEX token, which […]

BlockchainSpace Lands $2.4M In Strategic Funding To Onboard 20,000 New Guilds In The P2E Metaverse

Singapore — November 30, 2021 — BlockchainSpace, a guild hub for play-to-earn (P2E) communities, announced a $2.4 million strategic funding round today. Coming hot on the heels of last month’s seed round, the funds will be used to onboard the next 20,000 guilds worldwide and accelerate growth in the rapidly expanding NFT gaming industry. Morningstar Ventures […]

Flurry Finance Deploys on Polygon After Hitting $3 million TVL in Just a Month of Launch

Hong Kong — November 26, 2021 —Flurry Finance, a DeFi protocol that offers efficient cross-chain yield farming to the DeFi community, is all set to deploy its utility token RHO and its governance token FLURRY on the Polygon network on 1st December 2021. Since announcing its partnership with Polygon in August to optimize yield farming, […]

Blockamedia Announces Collaboration With University of Rijeka for Platform Upgrade

Zagreb, Croatia — November 24, 2021 — Blockademia, the Croatian startup that certifies documents with blockchain technology, has announced a partnership with the University of Rijeka to improve its platform. Thanks to the collaboration, which is going to start immediately, students from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Rijeka are going to participate […]

Impermanent Loss, Crypto’s Silent Killer, Threatens the Core Tenets of DeFi: Bancor

Zug, Switzerland — November 22, 2021 – Bancor, one of the original creators of DeFi, is aiming to fix the issue of impermanent loss, one of the industry’s most pressing problems. When Bancor launched the first-ever DeFi liquidity pool in 2017, the project’s founders saw a tragic flaw in their invention: when a token rises […]

MoonPay Closes $555m Series A Round at $3.4B Valuation

Record investment in payments infrastructure puts company on path to give the next billion people access to the crypto economy by 2030 November 22, 2021 — MoonPay Inc., the leading global crypto payments infrastructure provider, announced it has closed a $555m Series A financing round led by Tiger Global Management and Coatue, with participation from […]

New Research From Elliptic Shows DeFi Fraud and Theft Losses Reach $10.5 Billion in 2021

New York / London — November 19, 2021 — Billions of dollars have been stolen from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, a flourishing alternative financial system that replaces traditional intermediaries with software running on blockchains, according to new research by Elliptic. Elliptic’s report DeFi: Regulation, Compliance and the Growth of DeCrime reveals that as of November […]

Crypto-Powered Privacy Solution Nym Raises $13 Million, Led By Andreessen Horowitz

Neuchâtel, Switzerland — November 18, 2021 — European privacy startup Nym Technologies has successfully closed its third investment round. Led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Crypto), this $13 million financing round included participation from leading venture capital firms Digital Currency Group, Tayssir Capital, Huobi Ventures, Hashkey, and Fenbushi. Following a Polychain-led round and hiring Chelsea Manning as […]

APENFT Partners with WINK to Enter GameFi World with “WIN NFT HORSE” IGO on Binance

  Singapore — November 15, 2021 — APENFT, one of the largest and most popular NFT platforms, has partnered with WINK, a popular decentralized oracle that aims to integrate the real world with the blockchain space, to enter the GameFi world with WIN NFT HORSE. WIN NFT HORSE will officially launch a close beta test on […]

Kart Racing League Announces Public Sale of Governance Token

  Gainesville, FL — November, 12, 2021 — Blue Monster Games, the gaming studio behind the non-fungible token (NFT) driven Kart Racing League, has announced the public sale of their highly anticipated $KRL governance token will start on Friday, November 12th at 2:00 PM UTC. Kart Racing League will be amongst the first 3D NFT-based games […]

Circle Launches Venture Fund To Support Early-Stage Blockchain Projects & Companies

Circle Ventures to identify, capitalize and catalyze the best developers, protocols, standards and novel business models to raise global economic prosperity Boston, MA — October 9, 2021 — Circle Internet Financial, LLC today announced the launch of Circle Ventures to invest in compelling, early-stage blockchain projects and companies that further Circle’s mission to raise global economic […]

Bakkt Expands Cryptocurrency Offering to Include Ethereum

Alpharetta, GA — November 5, 2021 — Bakkt Holdings, Inc., a digital asset platform, announced that it is offering users and partners the ability to buy, sell, and hold Ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, starting soon. Users can also send Ethereum to family and friends directly through the Bakkt App. With the […]

Mythical Games Raises $150M in Series C Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz at $1.25B Valuation

Investment Will Usher in New Age of Innovation in Player Ownership and Virtual Collection, Bringing Play-to-Earn Videogames into the Mainstream via the Mythical Platform Los Angeles, CA, November 4, 2021 — Following a Series B raise of $75 million less than four months ago, Mythical Games, a next-generation gaming technology studio, today announced a $150 […]

NFT Labs Raises Over $2m In Private Funding For ITSMYNE, IDO On CardStarter Soon

Singapore — November 2, 2021 — NFT Labs is proud to announce the completion of a private round valued at $1,062,600 for it’s ITSMYNE marketplace. Furthermore, the team will organize an Initial DEX Offering (IDO) through the CardStarter platform. That IDO will help achieve a fair distribution of the project’s native token. NFT Labs and its […]

OpenOcean Atlantic Will Enhance And Disrupt Ethereum DeFi Come November 1st

  Road Town, British Virgin Islands  — November 1, 2021 — OpenOcean Atlantic, the long-awaited upgrade of OpenOcean, will go live on the Ethereum network today, November 1, 2021. Users will benefit from maximum returns on swap rates that blow other DEX aggregators out of the water. In addition, OpenOcean prides itself on transparency regarding trading […]

BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) Officially Launched, Super Representatives Election Announced

San Francisco — October 30, 2021 — TRON, one of the world’s largest and most popular blockchain-based operating systems, and BitTorrent, the leader in peer-to-peer protocols and products, announced the official launch of BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) on October 30th, 2021. BTTC marks TRON and BitTorrents’ first-ever foray into the cross-chain field, heralding the advent of a […]

P2P Marketplace Bistroo Adds Crypto Payments to Disrupt the Traditional Food Sector

  Eindhoven, Netherlands — October 28, 2021 — Bistroo, the peer-to-peer food ecosystem based on blockchain, is delighted to announce that merchants now have the option to accept payment in multiple cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC,) Ethereum (ETH,) and Binance Coin (BNB.) This move significantly extends the existing payment options, which include fiat currency and the platform’s […]

ThorChain Completes Security Audits, Returns Fully Operational with Five Blockchains

October 28, 2021 — Contributors to THORChain, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol, announced today that the protocol has completed a full recovery after summer exploits that revealed vulnerabilities in parts of its Ethereum bridge code. After completing two security audits by Trail of Bits and Halborn, THORChain’s development team and dedicated security team have executed […]

Drops Announces Upcoming NFT Lending Platform to Boost Market Liquidity

Vilnius, Lithuania — October 27, 2021 — Drops announced today the upcoming launch of its NFT lending platform, with the testnet set to mark the initial phase of its mainnet launch. The Drops NFT lending ecosystem seeks to bridge the liquidity gap in NFT markets by enabling participants to use their metaverse items as loan collateral. […]