TLDR Crypto 2022-05-06

Haun Ventures is leading a $50 million funding round in Zora, an NFT platform looking to challenge OpenSea. Zora was founded as a service that offered artists the means to sell digital tokens tied to physical artifacts, but it has since pivoted to building an open-source protocol that allows anyone to create an NFT marketplace. It uses an open and on-chain protocol to manage NFTs rather than a centralized database. The funding round values Zora at $600 million.

RainbowKit is a tool for adding wallet integration to decentralized apps. It supports the best-in-class user experience for all wallet connection flows. RainbowKit handles wallet connection and management. It is easily customizable and it supports any EVM-compatible chain out-of-the-box.

Curve Finance has integrated with Aurora, Near protocol's Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layer. Curve users will be able to connect to the Aurora network on their Ethereum wallets and access liquidity pools. $7.5 million in grants will be allocated to Curve to help establish its presence in the Aurora ecosystem. The integration will add a layer of DeFi composability and liquidity to Aurora.

Binance has committed $500 million to Elon Musk's recent bid to acquire Twitter. Other investors have also committed a total of around $7.1 billion towards the acquisition. Musk plans to introduce an edit button, make Twitter's code open-source, and eliminate spambots. He has hinted at adding crypto payments for Twitter's premium Blue service.

This Twitter thread contains many resources about NFTs. It includes articles on music NFTs, trading, virtual land, the metaverse, and much more. A link to an older thread full of resources about NFTs is available.

This Twitter thread contains many resources about NFTs. It includes articles on music NFTs, trading, virtual land, the metaverse, and much more. A link to an older thread full of resources about NFTs is available.

Gaming is one of the fastest-growing verticals in crypto. Crypto-native gaming creates a better gaming experience for players and a better development experience for game studios. It has allowed the play-to-earn economy to surface from a gray-market area into a natively supported feature. This article discusses crypto games, the open economy, how it affects gamers and developers, and more.

Gaming is one of the fastest-growing verticals in crypto. Crypto-native gaming creates a better gaming experience for players and a better development experience for game studios. It has allowed the play-to-earn economy to surface from a gray-market area into a natively supported feature. This article discusses crypto games, the open economy, how it affects gamers and developers, and more.

Anvil is a blazing-fast local testnet node implementation from Foundry written in Rust. It can deploy and test contracts from frontends or over RPC. Anvil supports all major ETH namespace RPC APIs, as well as Hardhat's state overrides, evm_mine, evm_snapshot, geth/parity style traces, and more. It is now available on all Foundry-supported platforms.

Coinbase NFT saw less than 150 new signups on its first day, according to data from Dune Analytics. The market saw 150 transactions on opening day, amounting to around $75,000 traded. There are already many competitors in the NFT marketplace space. The timing of the launch may have been an issue, with crypto remaining firmly in a bear market.

This article is a translation of a lecture by a Chinese whale about 3 and 4-digit ENS domain name NFTs. Ethereum Name Service allows people to associate their crypto identity with a human-readable address. Its recent sale of 3 and 4-digit domain names came with a lot of hype. The lecture discusses the history of domain NFTs, Bored Apes, why these NFTs are popular, and what everyone is trying to accomplish.

This article is a translation of a lecture by a Chinese whale about 3 and 4-digit ENS domain name NFTs. Ethereum Name Service allows people to associate their crypto identity with a human-readable address. Its recent sale of 3 and 4-digit domain names came with a lot of hype. The lecture discusses the history of domain NFTs, Bored Apes, why these NFTs are popular, and what everyone is trying to accomplish.