Welcome to the 77th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This week’s issue covers events between January 16th and January 23rd, 2022.
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🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
- Aave recently announced governance V3 for their platform, with free voting, integration with the SnapshotX system, and more.
- OlympusDAO established $OHM as a liquid asset on Balancer, with projects now being able to maximize their protocol-owned liquidity in $OHM.
- Copper also became the first platform recently to add $OHM as an option for collateral, introducing an option for projects who partnered with Olympus to use Copper as a launch option for their LBP.
- Ideamarket recently announced both their governance token, $IMO, launching 2/2/2022 along with an airdrop, and their roadmap for the future.
- CryptoStats revealed itself on January 18th, with their project goal being the creation of a neutral source for crypto metrics, managed by the community.
- With increased interest in the Fantom blockchain, 0xDAO has announced itself, aiming at being a DAO ecosystem for Fantom.
- Mechanism Capital recently launched a new $100M fund, with the main focus being on P2E gaming investment, and partnerships with studios.
- Burnt Finance recently raised $8M, with the lead investor being Animoca Brands.
- PlotX closed a $5M funding round, co-led by Polygon and Hashed, to help enlargen the play-to-earn ecosystem.
💱 DEX Report
- Multichain recently announced that there was a critical vulnerability that affects 6 cross-chain tokens, with risk for users if they approved the token before.
💎 NFT News
- Big Daddy Ape Club, a Solana NFT project, rug-pulled investors of $1.3M, even when they had civic ‘verification’.
- Walmart looks like it’s about to enter the metaverse, with plans to create its own crypto, and a collection of NFTs for Walmart.
- OpenSea confirmed its acquisition of Dharma on January 18th, with Dharma Lab’s Hollander being picked for the role of CTO. The deal was estimated to fall between $110M and $130M.
- NFTX introduced inventory staking on the 20th of January, allowing people to add their NFTs to a vault and stake their position to get part of the vault fees.
- Metaplex, an NFT marketplace builder for Solana, raised $46M, with the project looking to increase its operations after its release in 2021.
- POAP inc, a project aimed at preserving memories as digital records minted as an ERC-721 token, raised $10M in funding.
Thanks for reading, and be sure to catch the 78th issue of The Defiprime Post out this time next week! 👋♦️👋
