Data shows the Bitcoin funding rate has increased to a relatively high positive value recently, something that could lead to a long squeeze in the market. Bitcoin Funding Rate Becomes Positive As Open Interest Rises Up As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC funding rate has a positive value at the moment. The “open interest” is an indicator that measures the total amount of positions currently open in the Bitcoin futures market. When the value of this metric is high, it means there is a…
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Decentralized Oracle Empiric Network Launches With $7M Funding Round
The centralized oracle structure was more practical from a technological standpoint, avoiding the high gas, or transaction, fees and slow throughput of the main blockchain. StarkWare’s creation of StarkNet provided lower fees, improved transaction speeds and the ability to perform on-chain computations. Source
A DAO for Diseases: How Vibe Bio Plans to Retool Biotech Funding
Vibe Bio’s founder wasn’t passionate about creating a DAO – but decentralizing drug research could fix a thorny, tragic problem. Source
Paradigm Leads $16M Funding Round for Hang
“Hang offers brands a new way to offset these acquisition costs and increase the value of their existing user base, by harnessing the unique advantages of NFT technology to transform the relationship they have with their customers and build a new one rooted in shared incentives, reciprocity and community,” he added. Source 16MfundingHangLeadsParadigm CryptoX Portal
Monopoly Millionaire Game Raised $1 Million in Seed Funding – Press release Bitcoin News
press release PRESS RELEASE. Monopoly Millionaire Game, a marine-themed GameFi that involves island construction, cultivating, shooting and more, announced that it has completed a seed funding of 1 million US Dollar. By this round of funding, MMG was valued at 10 million US Dollar. Mirana Ventures led the seed funding round. Other notable investors included Kernel Ventures, Mint Ventures, Crypto J, and Ventorylabs. MMG Team said it will use the fund to help realize the MMG GameFi vision and attract more users to participate in the Web3 games. In MMG,…
Crypto Custodian Copper Soon to Close Delayed Funding Round: Sources
Copper’s Series C round will value the company around $2 billion, according to two sources. Source
Web 3 Startup Mysten Labs Aiming For $2B Valuation in Latest Funding: Report
The startup founded by veterans of Facebook’s crypto unit is reportedly raising at least $200 million led by FTX Ventures. Source
Crypto broker goes bankrupt, Bitcoin miner capitulates and China VC funding soars
Those of us anxiously awaiting a summer relief rally for Bitcoin (BTC) may have to wait a little while longer. The bear market is still cleansing us of our excess — and revealing the most toxic players in our industry. I’ve talked to you about Terra (LUNA) — now renamed Terra Classic (LUNC) — Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, BlockFi — what about Voyager Digital? The crypto broker filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, putting hundreds of thousands of creditors on high alert. This week’s Crypto Biz newsletter dissects Voyager’s bankruptcy…
Bitcoin Funding Rates Are Climbing As Price Continues To Struggle
Bitcoin has been struggling over the last couple of weeks and funding rates have responded in different ways to the price. Instead of a rise in funding rates when the price had begun to plummet, they had stayed muted and had even begun to decline, especially during the past week. However, this is changing as the price of the digital asset has begun to take a turn for the better. Funding Rates Recover Bitcoin funding rates declined to one of their lowest points last month and this had been when…
Animoca Brands Leads $32M Funding Round for Planetarium Labs
The Libplanet technology was used in the open-source online role-playing game Nine Chronicles, which has more than 300,000 users and backers that include Animoca Brands, Binance Labs and Ubisoft. Nine Chronicles will launch a “Chapter 3” update next week with a slate of new features, including dual staking programs and player championships, Seo said. Source