Welcome to the 43rd edition of Sharding Weekly, featuring news, narratives, and primary market financing!
Highlights
Puff Dragons NFT Series Already Listed on Element, Holder May Receive Cook’s Allocation
You can now earn iBGT on the Infrared testnet
ZAP is now live on Base, creating a new way to issue tokens
Unleashing creative potential: Heurist ai describes how AI is revolutionizing pixel art game development
You can deposit Pump $pumpBTC into Fuel to earn points and native benefits of the Babylon chain
Entanglefi created a simple diagram to explain how Gorplescoin’s bridge uses Photon messaging.
news
Taiwan's stock market faces its worst drop since 1967, echoing similar market turmoil in Japan, which hasn't seen such a drop since 1987.
BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, and MicroStrategy Have Not Sold Their Bitcoin Despite Market Crash
Capula Management, Europe's fourth largest hedge fund, disclosed its holdings of $500 million in spot
Arthur Hayes on the election and Bitcoin: “Trump or Harris, it makes no difference”
A hacker filed a Ronin Bridge issue and saved nearly 4,000 ETH
BlackRock files for spot Ethereum ETF
Donald Trump Jr. says: “We’re about to shake up the crypto world with something huge
Michael Saylor Says He Personally Owns Over $1 Billion in Bitcoin
Ethena Labs adds support for Solana and brings their synthetic USDe to Solana
Ripple wins partial victory as judge rules XRP trading on cryptocurrency exchange, not securities offering
Federal Reserve to Charge Customers Banks Fees for Digital Asset Activities
Putin signs law legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia
Judge approves $12.7 billion settlement between FTX and CFTC, ending 20-month litigation
Sizechad of Ethereum L2 Arbitrum Ecosystem Promotes SCAM $RTR, TOKEN Reaches $150m Market Cap
Regulators Delay Listing Decision on Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index ETF
OKX CEO reiterates that any account interacting with sanctioned entities will be blocked
Celsius sues Tether for $2.4 billion in Bitcoin
The IRS released an updated version of its draft 1099-DA, the form that will be used to report gains from brokerage transactions starting in 2025.
Maker plans to delist WBTC due to Bitgo’s custody change
Gemini joins Coinbase in opposing CFTC proposal to ban prediction markets
Narrative
A review of how DeFi and Curve handle the nuclear bomb thrown at the market
Why did the market crash?
The Yen Carry Trade and Its Consequences
Everything You Need to Know About Oracles
Everything you need to know about RaaS
Token Migration 101
Thoughts on Jump’s Alleged Departure from Cryptocurrency
New Economic Model for Dapp Tokens: How to Generate Cash Flow
The next big leap in artificial intelligence?
Why $ETH is still fundamentally overvalued
ZK Market Map
Chain Abstract Market Map and Ecosystem Overview
The First BTC L2 Shared Network Ownership: GOATRollup
Polymarket: An election-oriented success story
History repeats itself?
Lack of narrative -> Create new narrative
Primary Market
GameFi
Cartridge gg - Completed 7.5mA round of financing, led by BITKRAFT VC
0xcurio - Completed $5.7m (total $8.7m) Seed Round Led by BainCap Crypto and SevenX Ventures
Moonveil Studio Completes $3.6M (Total $9M) in Funding, Led by TheSpartan Group
Pentagon GamesXP - Completed $6m Seed Round Financing
DeFi
elmnts Completes 2m Pre-Seed Financing
Zothdotio Completes $4M Strategic Round of Financing
Solayer Labs receives investment from Binance Labs
VesselFinance Completes $10m Seed Round Financing
Quantlytica Completes Private Placement of $1.09M
Blockchain infrastructure
Khalani Network completes $2.5m seed round led by Ethereum VC
DeAgentAI Completes 6m Seed Round of Financing
buildnexio completes $2.2m Pre-Seed financing led by Lattice Fund
Blockchain Services
Andrena wifi completes $18m extended Series A financing, led by Dragonfly
UniWorlds io receives investment from Unisat wallet
Blockscoutcom receives $3m seed round led by 1kxnetwork
TONX Studio received 4m financing, led by Snzholding and SummerEverest
375ai Completes 5m Seed Round of Financing
chain
Lyncworld Completes $1.5M Pre-Seed Round of Financing
