The Ethereum Push Notification Service (EPNS), based in Mumbai and recognised for its web3 push notifications, has raised $10.1 million in Series A funding, valued at $131 million. Jump Crypto led the round, which included Tiger Global, Sino Global Capital, Polygon Studios, and Zee Prime Capital, as well as 25 additional investors. With this, EPNS … Read more
Blockchain startup Kandola, which offers a real-time decentralized chip-to-cloud IoT protocol and real-time NFT, has raised a pre-seed round of $450K from a marquee list of investors including AlphaWave Global, Sandeep Nailwal (founder of Polygon), Harsh Rawat (EPNS) among others. The funding round also witnessed participation from Arcanum Capital, a seed-stage VC firm focused on investments … Read more
Mobile marketing analytics platform Adjust and app intelligence provider Apptopia today released its Fintech Deep Dive: Digital Currencies 2022 Playbook, a look at the key drivers of crypto currency app adoption in 2021. The report reveals that global crypto app growth skyrocketed 902% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2021, with standout markets by growth … Read more
FTX Trading Limited, and West Realm Shires Inc., the companies behind FTX.US and FTX.COM respectively announced a long-term partnership with four-time Grand Slam singles champion, Naomi Osaka. In addition to becoming an FTX global ambassador, Osaka will receive an equity stake in FTX Trading Limited and will be receiving compensation in crypto. The four time Grand Slam … Read more
Binance today announced that it has been granted a Virtual Asset License to enable it to operate within Dubai’s ‘test-adapt-scale’ virtual asset market model as a base for expansion into the region. Under the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) initial regulatory phase, which includes rigorous regulatory oversight and mandatory FATF compliance controls, Binance will be permitted to … Read more
Dexalot, a new project building a decentralized order book exchange on Avalanche, has collected $7 million in funding led by Avalanche’s Blizzard Fund (“Blizzard”) and with participation from a number of Avalanche ecosystem players and DeFi investors. In addition to Blizzard, Avalanche ecosystem investors include Avalaunch, Colony, Benqi, AVentures, and Avascan. Other partners who joined … Read more
Aqarchain.io a blockchain-powered real estate asset tokenization platform, launched the NFT Marketplace for its MetaVerse AqarLand. Aqarchain.io whose aim is to create a decentralized ecosystem where investment in real estate is as easy as investing in shares on the stock market. This aim is achieved by minting real estate NFT and fractionalizing it. This is … Read more
Rario, the world’s first officially licensed cricket digital collectibles platform today announced that Australian white-ball captain, Aaron Finch is the latest on the growing list of cricketing superstars to have signed an exclusive contract with them. Aaron joins the likes of Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan, Smriti Mandhana, Rishabh Pant, Rashid Khan, Jason Holder, Quinton De Kock, M Siraj, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shafali Verma as player … Read more
RtistiQ will present the Digital NFT versions of Raja Ravi Varma’s (RRV) works The Coquette and Reclining Nair Lady, two of his most famous paintings. With the originals considered to be National Treasures and unable to be brought out of India, the NFT versions will be auctioned online on the RtistiQ platform from 17 February … Read more
Three Arrows Capital funds a $12.5 million strategic fundraising round for Stader Labs. The most recent boost puts the company’s value at $450 million. Stader is a non-custodial, smart contract-based staking platform that helps retail and institutions simply identify and utilise staking solutions. It was founded in April 2021 by Amitej Gajjala, Sidhartha Doddipalli, and … Read more
In a first-of-its-kind initiative to maximize the monetary potential of memes in the blockchain ecosystem, MemeChat, India’s top meme-creating platform known for viral memes, has launched The Meme Club – an NFT marketplace (TMC). The platform will provide meme creators, collectors, and other interested parties to buy and sell memes globally via NFT (non-fungible tokens). … Read more
India’s first social crypto-token by the country’s leading short-video app went live on 12 crypto exchanges. Short Video app Chingari’s first-ever social token $GARI witnessed record-breaking 24 hours trading volume that crossed the $100M mark. On the day of its listing the desi crypto-token gain of Rs. 750 Crores across 12 major crypto exchanges. These … Read more
The Mumbai-based photographer and multimedia artist Akshita Gandhi listed her first NFT – “Gaia.” It is part of a series of NFTs that playfully tackle the pertinent topics of female representation and sustainability. The NFT, which promotes environmental awareness, is a 10-second video listed on the marketplace Throne with a starting price of 0.45 ETH. An artwork … Read more
Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), essentially blockchain-certified digital art, have been gaining immense popularity among brands, artists, celebrities, etc, both in India and globally. India’s leading media conglomerate Viacom18’s Youth, Music and English Entertainment (YME) cluster, is all geared up to set its foot in the rapidly growing digital space of non-fungible tokens with the announcement of the NFT marketplace Fullyfaltoonft.com, … Read more
Diginoor, an Indian NFT marketplace that launched with Rajinikanth movie NFTs, announced $1 million in its seed funding. The round saw participation from Contrary Capital, Polygon Fund, Sandeep Nailwal, Kunal Shah, Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi (MD at Embassy Capital), and others. Founded in 2021 by Chennai based teenage entrepreneurs- Shaamil Karim & Yash Rathod, Diginoor aims … Read more
Sahicoin, the world’s first crypto native social platform, has raised $1.75 million in the latest seed round led by Alameda Ventures (FTX), Better Capital Ventures, and other institutional investors. The fresh round of funding will be deployed to scale the team across engineering & product, and grow the platform. Founded by IIT Kanpur alumni, Amit Nayak, Ankush Rajput, and … Read more
