The Tomorrow Fund_

Created BY ANIMAL VENTURES / WARBURG SERRES

Crypto-native founders and companies are redefining our digital world with new ways to conduct commerce, community, trade, and lifestyle. The Tomorrow Fund was built by Tom Serres and Bettina Warburg to support the next generation of projects fueling the transition to Web3.

Tom and Bettina are still at the forefront of this transformation, helping founders at the earliest stages through their growth into global digital brands. The Tomorrow Fund, in realization mode today, funded 63 world-class projects from Web3’s core infrastructure to middleware and apps.

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Airstack

Airstack is building Web3 data and tooling and infrastructure for developers.

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Alethea.AI

Alethea AI is building a decentralized protocol to create an Intelligent Metaverse inhabited by interactive and intelligent NFTs (iNFTs).

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Anymal Protocol

Anymal Protocol is a secure, scalable, and accessible blockchain-based solution for the animal care industry.

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Apexti

Apexti is a data indexing service for blockchains.

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Astar

Astar Network is a dApp hub on the Polkadot network that supports Ethereum, WebAssembly, and Layer 2 solutions like zk-rollups.

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Beem

Beem is a Web3 media platform focused on video streaming for creators.

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Binance US

Binance US is a regulated retail exchange for US investors.

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer crypto-asset and electronic payment system that is decentralized, transparent, and cryptographically secure.

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Blockdaemon

Blockdaemon is an infrastructure provider focused on staking, node infastructure and custody for digital assets.

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Blocto

Blocto is a cross-chain smart wallet and suite of DeFi and NFT applications designed to trade, swap and manage digital assets.

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Burrow

Burrow is a lending application built on the Near network.

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Calimero Network

Calimero Network is a private computation and permissioning environment for the Near network.

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Centrifuge

Centrifuge is a Polkadot network parachain focused on real world assets.

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Ceramic

Ceramic is a decentralized data network that brings unlimited data composability to Web3 applications.

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Clover Finance

CLV is a substrate-based Layer 1 infrastructure platform with EVM-compatibility and cross-chain interoperability.

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Code and State

Code and State is a venture studio focused on growing projects on top of the Internet Computer Protocol.

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Coin Metrics

Coin Metrics powers institutional data and analytics for crypto-assets and Web3.

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CoinFund Liquid Fund

The CoinFund Liquid Fund is a long-oriented liquid fund of digital asset investments.

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Community Gaming

Community Gaming is a Web3-based gaming infrastructure and tournament platform.

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Composable Finance

Composable Finance is a parachain building interoperable infrastructure for DeFi on the Polkadot network.

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CyberPrep

CyberPrep is building a privacy preserving environment on top of the Bitcoin network to support specific DeFi applications.

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Departure Labs

Departure Labs is building payments middleware on the Internet Computer Protocol.

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Ethereum

Ethereum is the first Layer 1 protocol for smart contracts and decentralized applications.

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Few and Far

Few and Far is an NFT marketplace built on the Near Network.

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Figment

Figment is a crypto-asset staking service and network infrastructure provider.

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Flow

Flow is a Layer 1 blockchain network focused on digital collectibles and experiences.

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Foundation

Foundation Devices is building open hardware and infrastructure to enable digital soverenity.

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GameGPT by Prism

Rainmaker is a Web3 play-to-earn discovery platform with hundreds of games, ratings, and earnings forecasts.

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IndexZoo

IndexZoo delivers index products for crypto-assets using composable DeFi tooling.

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Infinity Swap

Infinity Swap is a decentralized exchange built on the Internet Computer Protocol.

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Interlay

Interlay is building a Polkadot network parachain focused on DeFi services for Bitcoin.

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Internet Computer Protocol

The Internet Computer Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain network bringing greater efficiency, speed and decentralization to computation and data storage.

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Ledger

Ledger delivers secure custody infrastructure for retail consumers and businesses.

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Livepeer

The Livepeer Token (LPT) supports Livepeer, an Ethereum-based protocol delivering decentralized video transcoding.

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Livepeer, Inc.

Livepeer is a decentralized video infrastructure network.

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Lukso

LUKSO network is an open and interoperable Layer 1 blockchain network for phygital and digital worlds.

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Meta Pool

Meta Pool is a liquid staking solution for the Near network.

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Metaversal

Metaversal is a venture studio which co-produces, curates, and invests in NFT collections.

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Mino Games

Mino Games is an industry-leading gaming company transforming the Web3 gaming landscape.

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Mintbase

Mintbase is a Near-based NFT launchpad and marketplace for developers.

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Moonbeam

Moonbeam is an EVM-compatible parachain for building cross-chain applications on the Polkadot network.

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Near

NEAR Protocol is a Layer 1 blockchain network enabling scalability through sharding.

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Niche

Niche is a social media ecosystem that creates interest-based, members-only clubs built on the Near protocol.

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Nomad

Nomad is a Layer 2 cross-chain communication and bridge protocol.

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Parallel Finance

Parallel Finance is a DeFi parachain focused on crowdloans, lending and staking on the Polkadot network.

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Petastic

Petastic leverages the benefits of blockchain technology to create a secure and transparent platform for pet owners and other stakeholders in the pet industry.

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PlayEmber

PlayEmber is a hyper-casual game studio rapidly introducing Web3 features and primitives into existing mobile games.

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Polkadot

Polkadot is a Layer 1 blockchain network connecting multiple specialized parachains into a unified network architecture.

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Radworks

Radicle is a decentralized code repository transforming open-source code management.

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Ready Games

Ready Games is creating social gaming infrastructure for the Web3 play-to-earn economy.

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Roketo

Roketo is a real-time financial streaming platform built on the NEAR protocol.

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Shadow

VIV3 is an NFT marketplace built on the Flow protocol.

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Solsten

Solsten is an analytics firm using neuroscience and AI to transform the way games are built and distributed.

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Somnium Space

Somnium Space is a virtual reality world designed to be a "metaverse" combined with a blockchain economy.

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The Graph

The Graph is an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data and making it easily accessible with GraphQL.

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Tibles

Tibles is a digital collectibles platform transforming your favorite past times into digital collectible experiences.

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Unique Network

Unique Network is a Polkadot network parachain optimized for marketplaces, games and dApps with advanced features.

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VITRUVEO

Decentology is building a smart contracts marketplace for developers to discover, build, and monetize Web3 applications.

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XMTP

XMTP is a Web3 open communication protocol, enabling secure messaging between wallets and dApps.

6/7/22

The Graph’s Hosted Service Integrates First Cosmos Chain: Cosmos Hub

he Graph’s hosted service has completed a beta integration of its 35th chain and third non-EVM network: Cosmos Hub.

The Graph

Article

6/7/22

Astar Network Offers Support to Builders Via AWS Activate

Astar Network has introduced AWS Activate by Amazon Web Services to extend support to the startups registered for the incubation program. The integration has been organized to further the development, growth, and adoption of the Polkadot ecosystem.

Astar

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6/7/22

Binance.US Launches New Staking Product, Empowering Customers to Do More With Their Money While Earning up to 18% APY

America’s home to buy, sell, trade, and convert digital assets with some of the lowest fees in the industry - today unveiled its new staking platform, Binance.US Staking, with an “auto-restake” feature.

Binance US

Article

6/7/22

IndexZoo Product Announcement

A Sneak Peek into IndexZoo’s Leverage Token

IndexZoo

Article

6/6/22

Permissionless Smart Contract Deployment is live on Flow

Smart contract deployment on mainnet is now permissionless, which means anyone can deploy a contract to mainnet, without review.

Flow

Article

6/6/22

What’s new on Mintbase: May 2022

There’s been some major changes to our forever royalties & split revenues feature and we brought back our redeemer

Mintbase

Article

6/3/22

XBorg and Community Gaming Announce Strategic Partnership

Community gaming to sponsor forthcoming XBorg tournaments, becoming the primary platform for XBorg Esports competitions.

Community Gaming

Article

6/2/22

$BRRR is Now Unlocked: What Does This Mean?

$BRRR is now withdrawable and transferable, ready for a new life out in the world!

Burrow

Article

6/2/22

Meta Yield Proves its “Kickstarter for NEAR” Model with Successful PembRock Fundraising Campaign

PembRock Finance was the first project to launch on Meta Pool’s new fundraising platform, Meta Yield.

Meta Pool

Article

5/29/22

Introducing “Dev to Earn”

How web3 provides novel methods for software developers to become fractional owners by taking actions deemed valuable

Ready Games

Article

5/27/22

NEAR in May: 10m Wallets Surpassed

The month of May marked a huge milestone for the NEAR ecosystem, as the protocol surpassed the 10 million wallets created mark.

Near

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5/25/22

Somnium Space leads a 4M$ Series A round at Lynx.

The funding round was led by Somnium Space and followed by early supporters of Lynx, with participation of other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.

Somnium Space

Article

5/25/22

We Powered India’s First-ever Web3 Mega Metaverse Summit!

Today, this growing collective has amassed the strength of 1,500 members, who’ve come together to organize an event the region has never seen before - NamasteyNFT Bengaluru 2022, a 2-day extravaganza that united more than 10,000 participants, including 300 artists, 20 speakers, and 15 startups.

VITRUVEO

Article

5/25/22

AstridDAO Partners with Tech Giant Microsoft

Exciting news from the Astar ecosystem. The project AstridDAO being built on Astar has officially announced a partnership with Microsoft.

Astar

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5/25/22

Infura Brings its Leading ETH Dev Platform to NEAR Protocol

ConsenSys, the Ethereum incubator and enterprise company, has announced a partnership between the NEAR Protocol and Infura, the leading Ethereum development platform.

Near

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5/24/22

Binance.US Joins TRUST

Binance.US is proud to be a U.S. member of TRUST alongside more than 30+ crypto companies.

Binance US

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5/23/22

Flower Power DAO App: V0.5 Launch

The BTC Flower project has launched a fully on-chain DAO on the Internet Computer.

Internet Computer Protocol

Article

5/21/22

Coinbase Cloud, Figment Back New Liquid Staking Protocol

New offering developed by Alluvial is designed to meet compliance and security standards for institutions

Figment

Article

5/20/22

Coinbase lists developer-friendly blockchain token FLOW

Coinbase lists developer-friendly blockchain token FLOW as part of this new listing initiative

Flow

Article

5/19/22

May 2022 Newsletter

Another month, another exciting Blockdaemon announcement! We’re thrilled to announce our new ETH Staking Dashboard.

Blockdaemon

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5/19/22

Krishna Juvvadi Joins Binance.US as Vice President, Head of Legal

In this role, Krishna leads the day-to-day operations of the company’s legal department, helping to support the organization’s continued build out and advancing its efforts to become the most compliant digital asset platform in the United States.

Binance US

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5/18/22

An Open Invitation to the Terra Community

The NEAR Foundation strives to create a stable environment for developers, founders and community members to realize their vision of an Open Web world.

Near

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5/17/22

Figment and Coinbase Cloud Collaborate to Support Founding Team of First Ever Institutional Liquid Staking Protocol

We're excited to announce that Figment, in conjunction with Coinbase Cloud, is supporting a group of experienced founders and operators who have formed Alluvial to build a new enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol that is intended to be governed by a DAO with broad industry participation.

Figment

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5/15/22

Make Unlimited Amount Of Streams With Our New Smart Contract

Our team is excited to announce the release of the new version of our smart contract which enables you to operate an unlimited number of streams.

Roketo

Article

5/15/22

INTERACTING WITH BITCOIN PRIVATELY

One of the first things most people hear about Bitcoin is that it’s “Private internet money” or “Untraceable Cash for criminals.” But spend more than 5 minutes to understand how the network functions and you’ll quickly see that these assertions are incorrect and can often lead newcomers into a false sense of security when interacting with Bitcoin.

Foundation

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5/12/22

Emerald City DAO - the First Protocol DAO of the Hyperverse

Today, we are pleased to announce that Flow protocol-based Emerald City DAO will be the first protocol DAO of the Hyperverse.

VITRUVEO

Article

5/11/22

Blockdaemon’s New Chief Technology Officer Chris Sharp

With over 23 years of experience in the tech industry building some of Apple’s top product and service line-ups like the Find My iPhone App (FMiP), eSIM, and Apple Pay — Chris is just getting started and ready for his next challenge to help Blockdaemon scale, streamline, and optimize our technology offering.

Blockdaemon

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5/10/22

Dapper Labs Debuts $725M Ecosystem Fund for Flow Blockchain Development

A16z, Coatue and Union Square Ventures are all committing money.

Flow

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5/10/22

FLOW LAUNCHES $725 MILLION ECOSYSTEM FUND TO DRIVE INNOVATION ACROSS THE FLOW ECOSYSTEM

Flow, the Web3 platform powering next-generation games, apps and digital assets including NBA Top Shot and NFL All Day, today announced a new $725 million Ecosystem Fund designed to hypercharge innovation and growth across the Flow community.

Flow

Article

5/9/22

dApps group from "DeCartel" hold an attractive campaign on Astar Network

DeCartel is a new type of alliance, which is formed by several promising DeFi dApps, led by Starlay Finance, No.1 TVL on Polkadot and ArthSwap, No.2 TVL on Astar Network.

Astar

Article

5/8/22

FalconX Executes First-Ever Staking Yield Swap with Figment, Unlocking New Opportunities By Pioneering a Brand New Crypto Derivatives Market

FalconX, a digital assets and cryptocurrency platform for institutional investors, today announced it is the first in the industry to execute a staking-yield swap with Figment, providing institutions exposure and safe access to new forms of yield and investment strategies.

Figment

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5/6/22

Ready Games Raises $3M to Bring Web 2 Gaming to the Web 3 World

The initiative could lead to a sizable increase in the number of NFT games in Apple’s App Store.

Ready Games

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5/5/22

Community Gaming and Fractal Partner to Host the Second Official Fractal Cup

This Cup features ev.io, the first of many Solana-based games on Community Gaming as they work to incorporate the popular blockchain into their platform.

Community Gaming

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5/5/22

stNEAR integrates with Polaris Finance

Meta Pool and Polaris Finance announced the creation of a new pool $stNEAR <> $POLAR on Polaris Finance with algorithmic stablecoin $POLAR pegged to $NEAR

Meta Pool

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5/3/22

Graph Day: The Biggest Web3 Conference in San Francisco

Hear from founders Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin, Sam Williams of Arweave, Yaniv Tal of The Graph and Edge & Node, Michael Sena of Ceramic, Sara Reynolds of Uniswap, Eva Beylin of The Graph Foundation, Arjun Bhuptani of Connext, Abbey Titcomb of Radicle, and Tegan Kline of Edge & Node, venture capitalists Craig Burel of Reciprocal Ventures, Jake Brukhman of Coinfund, and Jeff Morris Jr. of Chapter One, plus moderators Camilla Russo of The Defiant and Chjango of dWeb Foundation as they join over 30 other speakers and panelists to share their perspectives and expertise.

The Graph

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4/28/22

Blockdaemon Integrates FTX Pay

Customers will be able to purchase blockchain nodes using FTX Pay’s innovative payment platform. This will let customers pay with either crypto or USD.

Blockdaemon

Article

4/25/22

Internet Computer Basics — Part 1: Principals and Identities

Essential concepts that developers need to know to begin interacting with the Internet Computer and building simple apps.

Internet Computer Protocol

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4/19/22

Metaguild Partners with Community Gaming

Community Gaming and Metaguild both utilize blockchain technology to remove hurdles in the competitive gaming scene and are dedicated to the long-term sustainability of the Web3 gaming community, improving its infrastructure while lowering the barrier to entry for new players.

Community Gaming

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4/19/22

The Graph Foundation Allocates $1.25M in Wave 5 of Grants, Marking Over One Year of Grants

Continuing its mandate to support The Graph ecosystem into 2022 and beyond, The Graph Foundation is excited to announce the allocation of $1.25 million in this latest wave to a diverse group of over 30 grantees to continue the evolution of the ecosystem by improving the protocol, supporting dapps building on The Graph, creating new tools and growing the community.

The Graph

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4/18/22

Mintbase Raises $7.5M Series A + $5M Grants Pool to Pioneer Utility NFT Infrastructure

Mintbase is announcing a $12.5 million round in series A funding ($7.5M VC +$5M NEAR grants program) led by Woodstock Fund

Mintbase

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4/13/22

Blockdaemon Adds Notable Investors

Citi Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Telstra Ventures, and Invicta Growth

Blockdaemon

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4/13/22

This VR Company Wants to Give You the Chance to 'Live Forever' in the Metaverse

Somnium Space says it can download enough personal data to create a lifelike digital avatar that remains long after you've died.

Somnium Space

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4/12/22

Nomad Raises $22M Seed Round for Security-first Interoperability

we’ve raised ~$22M at a $225M valuation in our seed round, led by Polychain and with participation from 1kx, Ethereal, Hack VC, Circle Ventures, and others.

Nomad

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4/7/22

Community Gaming closes $16m Series A round

Esports tournaments platform Community Gaming has closed a $16m (~£12.25m) Series A funding round, led by SoftBank Group.

Community Gaming

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4/6/22

Near Protocol Raises $350M

It’s Near’s second nine-figure raise this year.

Near

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4/6/22

Binance.US Raises First Funding Round at $4.5B Valuation

The $200 million fundraise will be used to ramp up marketing ahead of a public listing in “the next two to three years,”

Binance US

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4/5/22

Introducing Graph AdvocatesDAO — a Decentralized Body Overseeing Community Grants & the Advocates Program

The Graph community is taking an exciting step in decentralizing ecosystem efforts and grants with the launch of a community DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) — the Graph AdvocatesDAO.

The Graph

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4/5/22

Coin Metrics Raises $35M

Series C Funding to Enhance Crypto Data Offerings

Coin Metrics

Article

4/1/22

Crypto.com App Lists Alethea

Listing Announcement

Alethea.AI

Article

4/1/22

Astar (ASTR) price doubles as the network prepares to add 15 new projects in April

ASTR price booked a 100% gain following a $22 million fundraise and a recently announced plan to launch 15 projects in April.

Astar

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