News preview:
ZK Nation: ZK airdrop token redemption will be open at 15:00 on June 17th, Beijing time
Tether to launch new category of digital asset products on June 17
IO.NET's IO token claim will end at 19:00 on June 18
Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock approximately 54.38 million tokens at 6:00 pm Beijing time on June 19, accounting for 7.05% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$20 million;
Binance becomes the only defendant after Nigeria drops tax charges against Binance executives; next hearing will be held on June 19
Coinbase International is expected to launch BOME and NOT perpetual contracts on June 20
SPACE ID (ID) will unlock approximately 78.49 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on June 22, accounting for 18.23% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$44 million;
June 17
Exchange:
Binance will perform wallet maintenance on BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) at 15:00 on June 17, which is expected to take 2 hours
Binance will perform wallet maintenance on BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) at 15:00 (ET on June 17). To support this maintenance, Binance will suspend deposits and withdrawals of BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) at 14:55 (ET on June 17). The maintenance is expected to take 2 hours, and deposits and withdrawals will be automatically resumed after the maintenance is completed.
Project dynamics:
ZK Nation: ZK airdrop tokens will be available on June 17
ZK Nation posted on the X platform that it has updated its FAQ document to explain 15 airdrop-related questions. The ZK airdrop token collection time will start at 7:00 am UTC on Monday, June 17 (15:00 Beijing time).
Tether to launch new category of digital asset products on June 17
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said on the X platform that after a year of hard work, Tether will launch its new category of digital asset products on Monday, June 17.
Chiliz Chain: Dragon8 hard fork to take place on June 17
Chiliz Chain, a blockchain solution for sports and entertainment, tweeted that the Dragon8 hard fork will take place at 16:00 on June 17, Beijing time. According to previous news, Chiliz's Dragon8 hard fork originally scheduled for May 21 was not carried out as planned, and only one of the two planned hard forks was successfully implemented. In addition, Binance will suspend Chiliz (CHZ) network deposit and withdrawal services on the same day to support its network upgrade and hard fork.
Nostra Announces Token Economics: 11% of Token Supply to be Airdropped to the Community on June 17
StarkNet Ecosystem Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform Nostra announced the launch of its token NSTR, calling it the fairest issuance in DeFi. The total number of NSTR tokens is 100 million, all unlocked at launch. A liquidity bootstrap pool (LBP) event will be held from June 10 to 13, with all proceeds used for the liquidity of decentralized exchanges (DEX). The token generation event (TGE) will be held on June 17, including airdrops. NSTR will serve as the governance token of the Nostra ecosystem, giving community members significant voice.
Renzo Co-founder: Users are expected to be able to request withdrawals on June 17/18
Lucas Kozinski, co-founder of Renzo, a liquidity re-pledge protocol, said that the team is currently discussing the last few projects in order to publish the audit results. It is expected that users will be able to request withdrawals after the EigenLayer custody period ends on June 17/18. Earlier news, the liquidity re-pledge protocol Renzo plans to launch a major upgrade to support ezETH withdrawals in May. Several auditing companies audited the code of the protocol mainnet withdrawal contract. Some of the audit work will be completed in May.
Lumoz will launch Node Sale, pre-sale and whitelist registration activities will start on June 17
Modular computing layer & ZKRaaS platform Lumoz announced that it will launch the sale of zkVerifier Node worldwide. The node pre-sale and whitelist registration activities will be officially launched at 3 pm Beijing time on June 17. Participants are advised to prepare in advance. As an important part of the Lumoz network, Lumoz zkVerifier Node is mainly responsible for verifying the execution results. The upper limit of Lumoz zkVerifier Node sold this time is 100,000, and it is on a first-come, first-served basis. All users around the world can participate in the whitelist registration, purchase and participate in the operation of the entire network, thereby earning 40 million Lumoz points (before the mainnet is launched), 25% Lumoz Token mining (after the mainnet is launched), and Lumoz ecological new chain potential token airdrops and other multiple rewards.
ZKX reminds users to claim all ZKX tokens, including trading rewards, before the June 17 snapshot
Derivatives trading protocol ZKX tweeted a message reminding users to claim all unclaimed ZKX tokens in their profiles, including trading rewards, badges, and clans, before the snapshot on June 17, 2024. ZKX also stated that for users whose Yakuza, Clan, and OG Badges NFTs are stuck in their Argent and Braavos wallets, due to technical difficulties in transferring to ZKX accounts, users need to fill out the corresponding form so that the official Airdrop 2 rewards can be sent to the user's account on TLE. The deadline for filling out the form is 20:00 on June 11.
Token unlocking:
ApeCoin (APE) will unlock approximately 15.6 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on June 17, accounting for 2.48% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$15.8 million;
Nym (NYM) will unlock approximately 2.96 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on June 17, accounting for 0.37% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$400,000.
June 18
Project dynamics:
IO.NET’s IO Token Claims Will End on June 18
The IO token of the decentralized artificial intelligence computing and cloud platform IO.NET was opened for claiming at 19:00 on June 11 and will end at 19:00 on June 18.
Sotheby’s will auction multiple NFT collections from Three Arrows Capital on June 18
Several NFTs once owned by the bankrupt hedge fund Three Arrows Capital will be auctioned at Sotheby's on June 18, including 1 golden gorilla BAYC, 2 MAYC and 1 BAKC. Three Arrows Capital has invested a lot of money in NFTs. In February last year, the liquidator of Three Arrows Capital stated in a court document that it planned to sell a large number of NFTs valued at millions of dollars to make up for some of the losses.
NFT lending protocol NFTfi will open NFTFI token claims on June 18
NFTfi Foundation, an NFT lending protocol, announced the launch of the governance token NFTFI and released the token economics. NFTFI is a native ERC-20 token with a token supply of 2 billion and an estimated initial circulation of 220 million. In NFTfi Rewards Season 3, the project allocated 30 million NFTFI, which can be claimed through the NFTfi claim portal after Season 3 ends on June 18.
Atomicals Protocol: ARC20 partial token coloring protocol upgrade scheduled for June 18
Bitcoin ecosystem project Atomicals Protocol said on the X platform that the ARC20 partial token coloring protocol upgrade has been set at block height 847,000 (approximately June 18, 2024). All developers and services are now ready to test node upgrades. If developers need it, the activation block height will be postponed for another 4 weeks (approximately July 15, 2024) in about 8 weeks.
Liquidity staking platform ClayStack will gradually cease operations, ETH is expected to be withdrawn on June 18
Liquidity staking platform ClayStack announced that it will cease operations. The company said that due to lack of resources and lack of product-market fit, after more than 3 years of continuous operation and more than 6 product audits, they decided to make this difficult decision. To ensure the best interests of the community, ClayStack has entered a withdrawal-only mode and the user platform will be gradually shut down. All nodes have been exited and ETH is expected to be withdrawn on June 18. The team will answer questions and provide assistance via Discord.
Token unlocking:
Manta Network (MANTA) will unlock approximately 6.67 million tokens at 5:30 pm Beijing time on June 18, accounting for 2.05% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$8.3 million;
June 19
Exchange:
Binance becomes the only defendant after Nigeria drops tax charges against Binance executives; next hearing will be held on June 19
The tax charges filed by Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla have been dropped. The FIRS agreed to amend the charges and Binance is now the sole defendant in the case. The money laundering trial remains on schedule and Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla will continue to lead the case. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for June 19, and Gambaryan remains in custody at Kuje Prison.
Project dynamics:
PancakeSwap: Lista DAO IFO sale will start on June 19
Decentralized trading platform PancakeSwap tweeted that the Lista DAO IFO sales time is from 17:30 on June 19 to 17:30 on June 20, Beijing time. The conditions for participating in the IFO are: Private sales: PancakeSquad NFT holders or users with ≥1,500 points. Public sales: veCAKE holders.
Token unlocking:
Pixels (PIXEL) will unlock approximately 54.38 million tokens at 6:00 pm Beijing time on June 19, accounting for 7.05% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$20 million;
June 20
Exchange:
Coinbase International is expected to launch BOME and NOT perpetual contracts on June 20
Coinbase International Exchange posted on the X platform that Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced will launch BOME and NOT perpetual contracts. The BOME-PERP and NOT-PERP markets will be open at or after 17:30 on June 20, 2024 (GMT+8).
Project dynamics:
Starknet Foundation: STRK token airdrop claims are now open, the deadline is June 20
The Starknet Foundation announced on the X platform that the STRK token airdrop application in the Provisions program is now open, with a deadline of June 20, 2024.
Lista DAO will launch LISTA token TGE and airdrop on June 20
LSDfi and CDP solution Lista DAO tweeted that they will launch the LISTA token TGE and airdrop on June 20, and users will have 30 days to claim the airdrop. In addition, the official said that the airdrop claim process will be announced before June 20.
BNB Chain will conduct BSC mainnet Haber hard fork on June 20
BNB Chain said on the X platform that the BSC mainnet Haber hard fork will be carried out at 14:05 on June 20. Validators and node operators need to upgrade to the latest version before the hard fork. Haber only supports one BEP: BEP-381 (precompiled secp256r1 Curve support).
LayerZero Foundation may announce major news on June 20
LayerZero Labs published an article introducing the LayerZero Foundation's X account. The LayerZero Foundation released its first tweet with a picture showing "06.20.2024", which may indicate that major news will be announced on June 20.
Flow to deploy Crescendo network upgrade on testnet on June 19
The Crescendo network upgrade is coming soon, which will bring EVM Equivalence and Cadence 1.0 to Flow. The upgrade is carried out in four phases. The first phase of the upgrade will start from May 22 to 23, and the first phase will focus on testing the transaction check logic; the second phase will be from May 29 to 31, further improving the application; the third phase will be from June 5 to 8, the final check before the big action; the fourth phase will be from June 12 to 17, to ensure that everything goes as expected; on June 19, the Crescendo network upgrade will be deployed on the test network. On June 20, Flow will activate the EVM function on the test network.
June 21
Project dynamics:
Hero shooter BloodLoop will launch Season 1 of the "Play-To-Airdrop" event on June 21
Hero shooter BloodLoop will launch the first season of the "Play-To-Airdrop" season event on June 21. Players can participate in the game from June 21 to 23 and June 28 to 30, and earn points by completing daily and weekly tasks. Points will be converted into $BLS tokens after the season ends and airdropped to the player's bound wallet. Players who want to participate must first mint a 7-day battle pass, and the registration deadline is June 20. It should be noted that starting from the second season, registration will require a $BLS fee, which will go directly into the reward pool.
June 22
Token unlocking:
SPACE ID (ID) will unlock approximately 78.49 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on June 22, accounting for 18.23% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$44 million;
June 23
Project dynamics:
Optimism's fourth round of retroactive fundraising will allocate 10 million OPs to reward Superchain developers, and voting will start on June 23
Optimism announced on the X platform that the fourth round of retroactive fundraising will allocate 10 million OP to reward Superchain developers. The detailed dates are as follows: the registration period is from May 23 to June 6, the application review process is from June 6 to June 18, the voting period is from June 23 to July 8, and the results and grant delivery time is July 15.
Bitlayer launches the first Dapp ranking competition, which will end on June 23
Bitcoin L2 project Bitlayer announced that the first Dapp ranking competition of the developer incentive airdrop plan will be officially launched on May 23, and the specific activity time is from May 23 to June 23. This competition will allocate token airdrops worth 20 million US dollars to projects deployed to the Bitlayer mainnet according to their ecological contribution. All airdrops will be issued daily in the form of Bitlayer gems and exchanged for Bitlayer Token (BTR) according to the rules after TGE. According to the Dapp competition rules, projects can increase their contribution to the Bitlayer ecosystem by increasing TVL, increasing user interactions, increasing the number of valid users, and improving the popularity list, and obtain more Bitlayer gems. In addition, projects can choose to allocate airdrop rewards to participating users. If fully allocated, the rewards received by the project will be automatically distributed to users after the end of the competition. In addition to airdrop rewards, Bitlayer has also set up a $2 million listing fund and a $100 million liquidity fund to fully support ecological projects.
