June 20: Farworld Labs, the Farcaster-native gaming company, has closed its $1.75 million pre-seed funding round, co-led by Lemniscap and Variant. According to the team: “The funding will enable Farworld Labs to expedite the rollout of upcoming Q3 releases, including the highly anticipated launch of the Farcade platform in conjunction with top-tier studios and developers. Built on decentralized social media protocols, the Farcade is a platform and suite of tools for developers to build crypto-native games that integrate with onchain social, making games instantly playable within social media feeds with…
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SEC fines Van Eck $1.75m for influencer’s role in ETF launch
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has imposed a hefty $1.75 million civil penalty on prominent investment adviser Van Eck Associates Corporation. In a Feb. 16 statement, the SEC disclosed that during Van Eck’s 2021 launch of a new exchange-traded fund (ETF), the VanEck Social Sentiment ETF, the investment firm did not fully disclose the involvement of a well-known social media personality in the marketing of the product. SEC is making VanEck pay a $1.75m fine bc they didn’t disclose to fund board that “well-known and controversial” social media…
Tron Adds 1.75M New Addresses In Last 7 Days As TRX Rebounds
TRON (TRX) took a heavy hit during the first half of November following unfortunate events such as the implosion of FTX, an exchange that was once considered the third largest in the world. According to data provided by Coingecko, from its $0.064 price on November 6, TRX went on a steady decline until it plummeted to $0.046 on November 14. After that, the cryptocurrency managed to stage a rebound and continues to do a relatively good job at recovering its losses. In fact, at the time of this writing, TRON…