Daily News - May 26, 2022
TLDR:
StarkWare touches an $8B valuation. a16z raises $4.5B for its latest cryptofund. $1.4M phishing hack involving 29 MoonBird NFTs.
Treasure:
John Patten, the creator of TreasureDAO, will be providing a presentation on “Finding Resilience in a Bear Market” tomorrow at 7 PM EST. (Source)
OpenSea Trading Volume:
Ethereum dips another 2.0% and closes the day at $1,951.21! OpenSea trading volume breaks its recent downtrend and closes the day with $28.94M in daily volume (+7.2%).
News:
StarkWare, an Ethereum scaling solution built using zero-knowledge proofs, raised $100M in its latest funding round led by Greenoaks and Coatue. (Source)
a16z, a venture fund founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, raised $4.5B for their latest cryptofund. (Source)
Paradigm launches a fellowship for those under 23 years old! Successful applicants will travel to San Franciso from August 3 to August 7 and hang out with the Paradigm team. (Source)
Mirror, a decentralized writing protocol, launches Writing NFTs! (Source)
$1.4M worth of NFTs is stolen following a phishing exploit involving 29 MoonBirds. (Source)
Notable Sales:
Goblintown #8995 is sold for 69.42 ($135,289.17)! This is the #1 rank from the entire GoblinTown collection. (Source)
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