- Decentralized mobile network service provider REALLY announced the completion of a $18 million seed funding round, with Polychain leading and participation from Floodgate founding partner Mike Maples Jr. REALLY also launched a mobile phone plan comparison tool, allowing individuals to compare 56 carriers and 379 plans and switch to the one that suits them.
- Avalon Corp, a metaverse gaming platform, has completed a $13 million financing round led by Bitkraft Ventures, Hashed, Delphi Digital, and Mechanism Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Yield Guild Games, Merit Circle, Avocado Guild, and Morning Star Ventures.
- DWF Labs has announced a $10 million investment in Conflux, made through the purchase of CFX tokens from project teams and the foundation reserve. The funding will be used to support Conflux’s technology development and expand its user base. This investment is part of Conflux’s plan to expand its ecosystem around Hong Kong’s new Web3 policies.
- Decentralized social project Bluesky, which is backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has released an invitation-only test version on the App Store. According to data from app intelligence company data.ai, Bluesky’s iOS app made its debut on February 17, 2023, with over 2,000 installations.
- Numerai, a hedge fund competition platform, announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding for its AI-based hedge fund. The company’s founder, Richard Craib, said that Numerai has received support from former Renaissance Technologies executive Howard Morgan, and with a new donation fund and funding from several US managers, the company now manages nearly $300 million in assets.
- Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has released a “plan to improve network upgrades” which includes improving the Solana upgrade process, establishing a response team, improving the reboot process, and focusing on stability.
- Crypto lending institution Voyager announced on Twitter that the vote for the company’s Chapter 11 plan has ended and has been finalized. Among the participants, 97% of customers (representing 98% of the total number of claims) voted in favor of the plan.
- Celestia has launched its incentive testnet program, Blockspace Competition, with the first phase starting on March 7th.
- Foresight News has released its official commemorative NFT series called Foresight Pyxis. The series includes “Foresight Pyxis”, “Foresight Pyxis OG”, and “Foresight Pyxis Team”.
- OKX announced a plan for dealing with the significant price fluctuations of CELT, stating that it will conduct an airdrop for users who bought CELT tokens (including spot and flash exchange) between 12:00 on February 25th and 12:00 on February 28th and incurred losses, with a total of 3,014,381 USDT being airdropped. For eligible users, the platform will distribute the airdrop to their funding accounts within 48 hours.
