Author: Stephan

London, UK, 30th November, 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 was previously built as an Ethereum-based ERC-20, a temporary solution while the platform was in testnet. Polkadex users will be able to migrate from ERC-20 to the native chain until Q1 2022, after which the ERC-20 will be disabled. The earlier the migration, the larger the…

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE, 30th November, 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 led the round, with participation from backers including Crypto.com, Alameda Research (FTX), Kingsway Capital, OkEx Ventures and Unity Gaming.  BlockchainSpace is a metaverse platform building tools that empower play-to-earn gaming communities to increase their performance, access capital, grow their earnings and live up to their…

Paris, France, 30th November, 2021, –Colony, a community-driven accelerator evolving into a decentralized autonomous organization that’s aiming to generate rapid growth in the Avalanche ecosystem, announced it has raised $18.5 million in seed funding.  The round was led by The Avalanche Foundation and saw participation from Shima Capital, Hashkey, GBV Capital and Bixin Ventures. Members of the Avalanche community also participated in the round. Colony’s mission is to deploy capital within the Avalanche ecosystem to fund the most promising early-stage projects, provide liquidity for DeFi protocols, maintain an Index on top of Avalanche projects and validate networks through stacking capabilities.…

Miami, FL, 30th November, 2021, Miami, FL, November 30, 2021 –A Florida-based blockchain gaming company called Blue Monster Games has just brought on Miguel Palencia as their Lead Advisor. Miguel is the chief operating officer of the QTUM Foundation, the organization behind the QTUM cryptocurrency and blockchain, which is one of the world’s top blockchain networks. In addition, their cryptocurrency is amongst the top-100 in the world, with a market cap of about $1.5 billion and daily trading volumes over $300 million. Miguel is a cryptocurrency veteran, with over 8 years of experience in this very new field. He started…

ZAGREB, CROATIA, 30th November, 2021,  — Blockademia, the Cardano-based platform for issuing and verifying documents, has announced its partnership with Mercuri International Croatia, a sales consultancy and coaching leader. The Croatian branch of the sales-centric firm is partnering with Blockademia to issue original and verified documents and certifications for their programs and courses. This will give participants of Mercuri programs a perpetual and unfalsifiable proof of the results achieved during the courses, utilizing the power of the Cardano blockchain. Blackademia was born to develop an innovative method of issuing and verifying documents and certificates, especially targeted for educational institutions and…

Miami, Florida, 26th November, 2021, – Planet Fashion, a leading fashion media and event production consultancy, announced it is teaming up with The Lewis Trust and O Events UK to launch functional NFTs that serve as VIP passes for an all-inclusive travel package to Monaco during the Formula 1 Grand Prix and Monaco Swim Week in May 2022.  The NFTs for authenticated digital artworks celebrating the F1 Grand Prix and Monaco Swim Week are unique, also functioning as VIP access cards for an all-inclusive travel experience to both events. The package bundles the comfort of a private charter flight from…

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 26th November, 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, Flurry Finance has achieved a number of key milestones including: Mainnet launched on the Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) networks Product launched on BSC network Garnered $3 million in total value locked (TVL) within a month of product launch  Flurry Finance’s much-anticipated…

Midtown, Gibraltar, 25th November, 2021, Panther Protocol, an end-to-end privacy solution that creates privacy for DeFi and Web3 users across public blockchains, has raised over 22 million as part of their Public Sale. This brings the total amount raised to $32 million. “This raise as part of our public sale demonstrates a huge demand for an interoperable, compliance compatible privacy protocol.” says Panther Protocol CEO and co-founder Oliver Gale. “We are grateful for this overwhelming interest in our project and are confident that this signals the importance of Panther’s mission – enhancing freedom and privacy for DeFi and Web3.” Through…

ZAGREB, CROATIA, 24th November, 2021, — Blockademia, the Croatian start-up that certifies documents with blockchain technology, is going to collaborate 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 in a hackathon to test Blockademia’s platform in order to find eventual weak points and improve them.  The Croatian Cardano-backed blockchain platform has been developed to guarantee the authenticity of documents and valuable files, with particular attention to educational certificates.  Users can issue original documents and…

Singapore, Singapore, 19th November, 2021, – Celer’s cBridge, the multi-chain network that enables instant and low-cost value transfers into Ethereum and its Layer2s, has surpassed $1 billion in total cross-chain transaction volume and assets bridged. Celer’s cBridge has shown steady and rapid progress since launching in July 2021, reaching a daily peak of $25 million in assets bridged on November 17. The introduction of layer two rollups such as Arbitrum and Optimism in September was the main driver behind cBridge’s growing popularity.  Celer’s cBridge fills the gap in interoperability brought by next generation L2 solutions. Despite offering excellent benefits to…

Singapore, Singapore, 19th November, 2021, DoraHacks, a decentralized global developer community and open-source incentive platform, has secured $8 million in strategic investment from Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and innovation incubator of Binance. DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and one of the world’s most active Web3 developer communities. It provides Web3 native on-chain toolkits to help developers around the world raise funding for their startups. In 2021 so far, more than 1,000 projects in the DoraHacks community have received over $12 million in grants and donations from worldwide supporters. Bill Chin, Head of Binance Labs Fund, commented on…

Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 18th November, 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 a security auditor, this round signals the interest of mainstream venture capital in the growing demand for privacy solutions.  Nym’s revolutionary “mixnet” is the only technology that can defeat nation-state level mass surveillance where the adversary can observe every internet packet in a network at scale,…

San Francisco, United States, 17th November, 2021, Portal, a self-hosted wallet and true cross-chain Layer-2 DEX built on Bitcoin, has announced a strategic partnership with Polygon, popularly known as Ethereum’s Internet of Blockchains, to give new impetus to Bitcoin usability in the DeFi ecosystem. Portal offers fast, private, and secure atomic swaps between Bitcoin and other digital assets. Both Polygon and Portal are committed to enabling users to move their digital assets seamlessly across the DeFi ecosystem with the lowest possible fees. Portal will facilitate WBTC/BTC and POS-WBTC to BTC swaps on its decentralized exchange. Polygon will run a facilitation…

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, 16th November, 2021, Transient Network, a Smart Contract Global Marketplace, has launched its much-anticipated TSC-Core mainnet on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and HECO Chain networks. The TSC-Core DApp provides the ability for anyone, anywhere, anytime to create and manage Next-Gen Contracts with no coding skills or tools required.  With features like transfer, deposit, and digital signature, TSC-Core lets users create self-executing contracts for a wide range of use cases including startup funding, rental agreements, invoices, will contracts, and much more. The DApp’s clean and intuitive interface makes smart contract creation as easy as filling up a…

ZUG, Switzerland, 15th November, 2021, — Minima, the completely decentralized protocol designed for mobile devices, has reached a new milestone of 7,000 Complete nodes, distributed all over the world, in more than 100 countries.  As a result, Minima’s completely decentralized network now has more than half of Bitcoin’s Full node count, which currently stands at approximately 11,800 nodes. With the recent growth in network adoption, Minima anticipates launching its Mainnet in 2022.  Minima’s brand new consensus mechanism, known as Transactional Proof-of-Work, enables all users to run a Complete node on their mobile device, as both a validator and a block…

Kyiv, Ukraine, 11th November, 2021, Subsocial, the social network for the Polkadot ecosystem, is thrilled to announce it will be bidding for one of the coveted parachain slots on Kusama. As such, Subsocial also invites KSM holders to participate in its crowdloan campaign in return for generous rewards in the projects’ native SUB tokens, which have extensive and growing utility in the Subsocial platform.  Since launching the first parachain auctions in June, Kusama has successfully onboarded eleven projects and is developing a thriving, interoperable eI cosystem of applications. As a social network at the heart of the Polkadot and Kusama…