Announcements

Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to integrate NFTs into the Instagram platform, but it’s still unclear what this will look like. The news continues Meta’s narrative that it is moving closer to its proposed ‘metaverse’ goal. According to Engadget, NFTs are coming to Instagram, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told SXSW. “We’re working on bringing NFTs…

Ex-Meta employees have secured a $200 million funding round from crypto VC giants to develop their own version of the notorious crypto project Diem. Recently, Meta (formerly Facebook) abandoned its grand plans to create a digital currency and sold the remaining assets to Silvergate Capital for $182 million. The deal showcased how Meta is left…

Gauntlet, a DeFi financial-risk modeling platform for crypto lending, raised a new round of funding that pushed its valuation to $1 billion. The company plans to use the capital injection to scale the platform to operate on multiple networks and expand into new areas such as gaming. On March 14, Gauntlet said that it had…

Ethereum software company ConsenSys, which created MetaMask, and Infura, raised an additional $450 million, doubling its valuation in four months. ConsenSys Software Inc will use its new funding to bring in more people from traditional finance. Ethereum software company ConsenSys announced on March 15 that it has raised a $450 million Series D round led…

Blockchain firm Enjin announced the launch of Efinity, the first parachain on the Polkadot network dedicated to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and gaming. In the works since last summer, the Efinity parachain is courting games on existing smart-contract blockchains. Efinity’s ecosystem is set to be home to over 100 blockchain-based games and applications, the first of…

Blockchain-data analytics company Chainalysis announced a fast-tracked launch of two free screening tools to help provide sanctions oversight to the crypto industry. According to the blog post provided by Chainalysis on Thursday, the screening tools include two main components of new tracking software that will assist exchanges in screening wallets and transactions for activities that…