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06-02 18:55BlockBeatsShare to:

ZK-EVM Kakarot completed the pre-seed round of financing, StarkWare and Vitalik participated in the investment

BlockBeats news, on June 2, ZK EVM Kakarot launched by Starknet completed the pre-seed round of financing. StarkWare, LambdaClass and other institutions and angel investors such as Vitalik Buterin, Nicolas Bacca, Rand Hindi participated in the investment. The specific investment details and amount have not yet been disclosed .

06-02 11:29BlockBeatsShare to:

The BGB Empowerment Rights "Super Airdrop" launched by Bitget has released two phases of airdrops of DONS and PIP

According to BlockBeats news, on June 2, Bitget launched the BGB super airdrop event on May 8, 2023. Holding BGB can share all the new currency airdrops listed on Bitget. Two airdrops have been issued to eligible BGB holders, including 625,000 DONS airdrops on May 26 and 55,000 PIPs on May 31. Users need to ensure that the BGB daily holdings are ≥ 4,000 BGB within 15 consecutive days before the new currency is listed for trading in order to qualify for air investment. The BGB held by the user is only used for reward calculation and will not be frozen. In addition, Bitget has recently updated the BGB white paper, launched multi-address recharge and address book functions, and announced the addition of a pledged BGB withdrawal fee-free service. At the same time, it is also considering adding a BGB repurchase and destruction mechanism in the future.

PIP+0.31% ($0.2618)

06-02 09:58BlockBeatsShare to:

OpenAI CTO has deleted the previous airdrop Token tweet, suspected account stolen

BlockBeats news, on June 2, the Twitter account of OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati was suspected of being stolen and used to promote encryption scams. The twitter account has deleted a previously posted tweet that supports viewing a token (driven by an artificial intelligence-based language model) for air investment qualifications through an attached link. Ella Irwin, Twitter's director of trust and safety, said she left Twitter on Thursday.

06-02 09:32BlockBeatsShare to:

Microsoft Signs Billion-Dollar AI Computing Deal with Former Ethereum Miner CoreWeave

BlockBeats news, on June 2, according to CNBC citing people familiar with the matter, Microsoft has signed an artificial intelligence computing power agreement with the former Ethereum mining company CoreWeave, which may be worth (at least) billions of dollars. Both Microsoft and CoreWeave declined to comment. BlockBeats previously reported that CoreWeave announced on April 22 that it had completed a $221 million Series B round of financing at a valuation of $2 billion, led by Magnetar Capital, with participation from Nvidia, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and former Apple executive Daniel Gross. New York-based CoreWeave, which specializes in graphics processing unit (GPU)-based cloud computing services, has been at the heart of artificial intelligence (AI) services like OpenAI's ChatGPT.

06-02 08:43BlockBeatsShare to:

Foreign media: Baiyu Capital no longer participates in Huobi affairs in any way

BlockBeats news, on June 2, according to Protos reports, Hong Kong asset management company About Capital Management (Baiyu Capital) told the media in May that the company "no longer participates in Huobi affairs in any way." The company declined to comment further on the acquisition of crypto trading platform Huobi last October. BlockBeats previously reported that Justin Sun will spend about US$1 billion in November 2022 to acquire about 60% of Huobi’s equity through Baiyu Capital.

HT+0.65% ($2.9737)

06-02 08:20BlockBeatsShare to:

Aleo ecological encryption wallet development platform Demox Labs completes $4.5 million in financing, led by HackVC

BlockBeats news, on June 2, according to Axios reports, the encrypted wallet development platform Demox Labs completed a financing of 4.5 million US dollars, led by HackVC. It is reported that Demox Labs will support the development of various products for the programmable privacy network Aleo. Demox Labs' first product is Leo Wallet, a privacy protection wallet, and has produced a set of smart contract development tools Truffle.

06-01 18:34AICoinShare to:

Binance Futures Will Launch USDⓈ-M COMBO Perpetual Contract with Up to 20x Leverage

06-01 16:30AICoinShare to:

The Hop Protocol community has passed a proposal to airdrop approximately 860,000 HOP to 35 witch hunters

AICoin Newsletter Shane Fontaine, co-founder of the cross-chain bridge protocol Hop Protocol, initiated the proposal of "distributing HOP airdrops to witch hunters" which has been voted through, with a final support rate of 100%. According to the proposal, 869,566.51 HOP tokens will be distributed to 35 witch hunter addresses, which helped the project party remove Sybil attackers from the Hop airdrop when Hop DAO launched last year, allowing Hop DAO to retain nearly 3.5 million Hop tokens that would otherwise fall into Sybil hands, the planned airdrop is 25% of these tokens.

HOP-9.07% ($0.08009)

06-01 14:02BlockBeatsShare to:

LBank Labs announces investment in well-known fund management company Sparkle Ventures

BlockBeats news, according to official news, LBank Labs announced the completion of investment in Sparkle Ventures, a well-known fund management company. GP members of the fund include Sébastien Borget, co-founder and COO of The Sandbox, Yat Siu, founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, Julien Pageaud, former head of strategic investment and technology at Nomura Digital, and former technical lead of the Tezos blockchain protocol People Thibaut Chessé. Its investments include DeFi SaaS platform Kiln.fi, data analysis software AbsoluteLabs.io and ZKP system Polyhedra.network, etc. It is reported that Sparkle Ventures is the sixth fund in LBank Labs FOF strategic investment, and plans to continue to expand FOF investment in the next few months to strengthen the coordination and network effect between investment portfolios.

06-01 13:59BlockBeatsShare to:

BlockNews Completes $2 Million Financing, Led by Hong Kong Capital Thoughtcast Capital

BlockBeats news, on June 1st, BlockNews completed US$2 million in financing. This round of financing was led by Hong Kong capital Thoughtcast Capital. Part of the new funds will be used to carry out BlockNews Kuala Lumpur operations and technology distribution, aiming to improve project incubation, planning, Packaging, seagoing and overseas legal compliance, and business service quality such as Dapp development. It is reported that the BlockNews Singapore office has opened for business reception at the end of May 2023. It has previously carried out offline conference work in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and other cities and achieved good results.

06-01 12:39BlockBeatsShare to:

Affected by the listing of Upbit, GRT rose above $1.5 for a short time

BlockBeats news, on June 1, according to OKX market data, affected by the news of Upbit’s listing of GRT, GRT’s short-term rise exceeded $1.5, and the current price is $1.42, with a maximum increase of nearly 15% within 15 minutes.

GRT+6.58% ($0.141)

06-01 12:34BlockBeatsShare to:

Upbit will list The Graph (GRT)

BlockBeats news, on June 1, according to official news, Upbit will add The Graph (GRT) in the Korean Won (KRW) market, and only support Ethereum network recharge.

06-01 10:56AICoinShare to:

News Express: Hong Kong established a virtual asset rating agency, Binance banned French users from trading privacy coins due to supervision

AICoin newsletter 1. Disk data: The total market value of cryptocurrencies has evaporated by 31.403 billion US dollars in the past 24 hours. BTC has fallen by 3.51%, with an amplitude of 2.63%. 2. News review: 1. The Hong Kong Virtual Assets Rating Agency (HKVAC) was officially established, and plans to launch virtual asset indices and virtual asset exchange ratings. The chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission said that the guidelines for virtual asset trading platforms take the protection of investors as the primary consideration ; 2. The Korean Financial Supervisory Authority opened a cryptocurrency investment fraud reporting center; 3. The BitMart Hong Kong trading platform was launched to provide virtual currency trading services for Hong Kong users; 4. Binance banned French users from trading privacy tokens on the grounds of regulatory requirements. Ann responded to the layoffs by reassessing whether there are suitable talents for key positions; 5. The Russian Ministry of Finance believes that cryptocurrencies are too risky for most Russians. 3. Focus today: 1. The licensing system for virtual asset service providers in Hong Kong has come into effect; 2. The Beijing government technical committee released a white paper on Web 3.0.

BTC-2.76% ($26,910)

06-01 10:39ForesightShare to:

Swell Network has launched the Voyage airdrop event and will distribute 50 million SWELL

According to Foresight News, the Ethereum pledge agreement Swell Network has launched the Voyage airdrop plan and will distribute 50 million SWELL (5%). Users can now collect pearls by staking swETH and providing liquidity, and then later this year Token Generation Event (TGE) will be converted into SWELL at that time.

ETH-1.11% ($1,873)

06-01 10:13BlockBeatsShare to:

Hong Kong-based digital asset custodian First Digital announces the launch of programmable stablecoin FDUSD

BlockBeats news, on June 1, Hong Kong digital asset custody institution First Digital Trust announced the launch of a new stable currency First Digital USD (FDUSD). FDUSD will be issued by FD121 Limited, a subsidiary of First Digital Limited, a trust company. First Digital's focus remains firmly on promoting transparency and trust. FDUSD is a programmable stablecoin capable of executing financial contracts, custody services and insurance without intermediaries. BlockBeats previously reported that in May last year, First Digital Trust, a digital asset custodian of Hong Kong financial services company Legacy Trust, announced the completion of a US$20 million financing round. Nogle and Kenetic Capital participated in this round of financing.

06-01 08:58BlockBeatsShare to:

Esports organization M80 completes $3 million seed round to explore Web3 product development

BlockBeats news, on June 1, according to Decrypt, the e-sports organization M80 announced the completion of a $3 million seed round of financing, led by ExpertDojo, with participation from VT Technology Ventures and Practical Venture Capital. The funds will be used to explore Web3 products and Increase the presence of the M80 in esports competitions, content creation and consumer products. It is reported that M80 has only been established for 6 months, and currently has a professional e-sports team, covering competitive games such as Valorant, Rocket League, Rainbow Six: Siege and Street Fighter. M80 is exploring DAOs with collective voting using cryptocurrencies.

06-01 08:20BlockBeatsShare to:

LSD Stablecoin Protocol Prisma Finance Completed Financing, Curve Founder, OKX Venture, etc. Participated

BlockBeats news, on June 1st, LSD stable currency agreement Prisma Finance completed a round of financing, the specific amount was not disclosed, Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov, Convex Finance founder C2tP, FRAX Finance, Conic Finance, Tetranode, Llama Airforce, CoinGecko founder People, OKX Ventures, DeFiDad, MrBlock, Impossible Finance, 0xMaki, GBV, Agnostic Fund, founder of Swell Network, Adam Cochran, research director of Eden of The Block, Ankr Founders, MCEG, Eric Chen, etc. participated in the investment, and Prisma supports mortgages of various types of Ether Mint stablecoins on Fang Liquidity Collateralized Derivatives (Frax, Lido, Rocket Pool, Binance, and Coinbase). And Prisma's over-collateralization model supports automatic repayment, allowing the use of Ethereum pledge income to automatically repay debts.

05-31 20:24ForesightShare to:

Wallet-as-a-service provider Magic closes $52 million funding round

According to Foresight News, wallet-as-a-service provider Magic has completed $52 million in financing, led by PayPal Ventures, and participating investors include Cherubic, Synchrony, KX, Northzone and Volt Capital. Magic provides secure, instant non-custodial wallet creation. Users can create wallets instantly through existing email, social, SMS or federated logins. At present, Magic has generated more than 20 million wallets, and its SDK is used by more than 130,000 developers.

05-31 20:22BlockBeatsShare to:

Web3 Wallet Magic Completes $52M Funding Led by PayPal Ventures

BlockBeats news, on May 31, Web3 wallet Magic announced that it had raised $52 million in strategic financing led by PayPal Ventures, with Cherubic, Synchrony, KX, Northzone and Volt Capital also participating. The new funding round brings the company's total funding to more than $80 million. To date, Magic has generated over 20 million unique wallets and its SDK is used by over 130,000 developers. Magic is a wallet-as-a-service provider that helps businesses onboard users to web3 through instant non-custodial wallet creation. It uses email or social login while removing the need for seed phrases and browser extensions - making it indistinguishable from the standard web2 experience everyday users are used to.

05-31 19:56BlockBeatsShare to:

BitKeep Wallet opens the zkSync mining journey, and the interaction can get ZKBG

BlockBeats news, on May 31, Web3 multi-chain wallet BitKeep started a large-scale interactive event called "zkSync Nuggets Journey" at 18:00 today, and the interaction can get ZKBG. Through the one-stop landing page, the zkSync Era project entry, introduction, interactive tutorials and other information are aggregated to help users easily and conveniently complete the ecological project interaction and unlock the official future air investment qualification of zkSync Era. At the same time, the event also provides generous rewards such as ZKBG points and popular project airdrops. BitKeep Wallet has now fully supported the zkSync Era ecosystem, including mainnet access, asset deposit and withdrawal, Swap multi-chain exchange, K-line market, DApp ecological aggregation and other dimensions. Users can manage zkSync on the mobile terminal and web plug-in side Assets on Era, Token single-chain and multi-chain transactions.