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Tech

Sei, Blockchain Designed for Trading, Goes Live but 'Frustration' Mounts Over Airdrop

The buzzy blockchain project's SEI token saw a flurry of trading as it debuted on several crypto exchanges, but there was much confusion over the status of a promised token "airdrop" to early adopters of the network.

Sei Labs co-founder Jay Jog (CoinDesk TV)

Tech

Wormhole Launches New Blockchain Connecting to Any Cosmos Appchain

The Wormhole Gateway is designed to make it easier for developers and users to on-ramp liquidity into the Cosmos ecosystem.

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Markets

Stride Blockchain Will Move to ATOM-Powered Security Model

Stride's native token STRD trades 0.7% higher as the transition is expected to beef up the liquid staking protocol's security by several thousand percent.

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Finance

Binance Labs, CoinFund Lead $10M Round for Smart Contract Infrastructure Firm Neutron

The startup provides smart contract infrastructure for the Cosmos ecosystem.

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Tech

Blockchain Staking Provider Chorus One Expands to Peer-to-Peer Network Urbit

Chorus One's bet on Urbit's future growth is described by executives as a natural extension of the company's staking services on blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos and Polkadot.

Josh Lehman, executive director, Urbit Foundation, spoke at Consensus 2023 in Austin, Texas, in April. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi-Focused Layer 1 Berachain Raises $42M Series A at $420.69M Valuation

The round was led by Polychain Capital and included participation from venture capital firms Hack VC, dao5, Tribe Capital, Shima Capital, CitizenX and Robot Ventures.

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Tech

Developers Block Potential ‘Eight-Figure’ Exploit Involving Cosmos-Based Ethermint

Ethermint enables the use of Ethereum smart contracts within the Cosmo ecosystem and is employed by several chains, including Cronos, Kava and Canto.

Two RPC interfaces for Polygon and Fantom were impacted in a DNS hijack attack. (Mika Baumeister/Unsplash)

Finance

DeFi Hub Nibiru Chain Valued at $100M After $8.5M Seed Funding Round

The startup will launch its mainnet and stablecoin this summer.

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Cosmos-Based DeFi Protocol Quasar to Start Mainnet After Raising More Than $11.5M

Quasar is optimized for managing DeFi investments across multiple blockchains.

Quasar logo (Quasar)

Finance

Layer 1 Blockchain Canto’s Daily Active Addresses and Transactions Dips 89% in February

In face of the recent drop in network activity, Canto’s total value locked has held steady at $189 million.

Canto daily active addresses and transactions (Artemis)