1. Aligned Foundation completes $1 million community financing; 2. Starpower, a DePIN startup, completed a $2.50 million financing; 3. Verifiable AI company Rena Labs completed a $3.30 million pre-seed round of financing; 4. Listed company Sol Strategies announced the completion of 27.50 million Canadian dollars private placement financing, funds will be used to expand SOL reserves.
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits in the week of January 4 201,000, expected 218,000, and the previous value 211,000.
The number of initial jobless claims in the United States recorded 201,000 in the week to January 4, the lowest since the week of February 17, 2024.
On January 1, BYD: New energy vehicles sold 514,809 units in December 2024 and 4,272,145 units in 2024, a cumulative increase of 41.26% year-on-year.
KULR launched a bitcoin reserve, spending $21 million to buy about 217 bitcoins.
After recently falling below the $91,000 mark, BTC rallied strongly this weekend and is currently retreating slightly to around $96,000. In the process, veteran trader Peter Brandt reiterated his bullish view on BTC and stated that it could continue to rise in the future. Additionally, other on-chain indicators also suggest that BTC has good momentum going forward. In a recent analysis, Brandt stated that BTC could reach $108,358 in the coming days. However, he also cited technical charts as a w...
According to the official announcement, the Eigen Foundation awarded 1 million EIGEN tokens to AltLayer. AltLayer said that the tokens will be used directly to give back to the community. The first 500,000 EIGEN tokens will be distributed to reALT holders and pledgers starting this week. The remaining 500,000 EIGEN tokens will be distributed when Eigen Layer's V2 reward mechanism goes live on its mainnet in 2025.
Symmio, a decentralized derivatives protocol, announced that it has completed a $3.10 million financing round, with investors such as Spartan Group, Orbs, MCLB and Blockchain Founders Fund investing about $2.10 million in it. MS2 Capital, GMoney and Prime Ventures are early investors in the company.
DeFi Protocol Compound is launching a $1 million bug bounty program on Immunefi. Rewards will range from $1,000 to a maximum of $1 million depending on the severity of the discovery.
Decentralized Web3 communication platform Dechat completed a $1 million financing, and Mindspace Solutions participated in the investment. The valuation information has not been disclosed yet. The new funding is intended to support the construction of its Web3 communication protocol, allowing users to chat, explore, and trade digital assets within and across applications, while leveraging blockchain technology to ensure privacy and security.
According to Bloomberg End Point data, FBTC had a net inflow of $106.10 million yesterday.
Data show that in the past 4 hours, the whole network liquidated 54.3911 million dollars, of which multiple single liquidated 41.5471 million dollars, empty single liquidated 12.844 million dollars.
Arbitrum announced the launch of the $1 million Trailblazer Grant Program to attract developers with innovative ideas to deploy impactful AI Agents or other AI products based on Arbitrum, including complex transaction Agents, DeFi Agents, community engagement Agents, multi-functional smart contract Agents, and more creative ideas to further unleash AI innovation within the Arbitrum ecosystem.
According to Lookonchain, a whale address holding 22.31 million MOODENGs recently spent 6,365 SOL (about $1.38 million) on 23.13 million AVAs. It is reported that the whale address spent 34,979 SOLs (about $5.10 million) to purchase 22.31 million MOODENGs between September 23 and October 9, with an unrealized profit of more than $4 million (peaking at $9.40 million).
According to HODL15 Capital data, Fidelity FBTC had a net inflow of $301 million yesterday.