Magic Eden Opens "Diamond" Airdrops for Early Ethereum Users | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Binance to list VANRY 1–50X USDT-M perpetual futures on March 14, 1:30 AM (GMT+8).

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Magic Eden opens "diamond" airdrops for Ethereum users who started their journey with Magic Eden. Users can connect their wallet to receive a "diamond" if they were active from 2017.
• L2BEAT researcher donnoh.eth discloses data that the cost of using calldata for the zkSync Era sequencer was around 0.115 ETH before blobs and has dropped to around 0.013 ETH after the implementation of blobs, representing a decrease of around 88%.
• PancakeSwap developers say V4, which is expected to launch in Q3 this year, will add four features to its automated market maker (AMM) to make on-chain trading cheaper and more efficient for users.
• Swell Network to utilize several EigenLayer features to launch a Layer 2 rollup chain.
• BNB Chain announces the launch of its Airdrop Alliance Program designed to give back to the community and encourage active participation from community members.
• The total supply of ether.fi tokens (ETHFI) is 1 billion, with an initial circulating supply of 115.2 million tokens, of which 2% will be allocated to the Binance Launchpool, and 11% will be allocated to airdrops.
• Polyhedra Network, a Web3 full-stack interoperability infrastructure project, suffers a wallet access vulnerability on BNB Chain where attackers withdrew $1.4 million, including $700,000 worth of THE tokens, and then exchanged all tokens for BNB.
• Entangle, a cross-chain DeFi protocol, announces that the NGL token claim page is now live.

3. Financing Trends:

• Fjord Foundry, an LBP platform, raises $4.3 million in seed round funding led by Lemniscap, with participation from Mechanism Cap, Zee Prime Cap, Castle Capital, and several angel investors.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• South Africa to license around 60 cryptocurrency platforms by the end of March, making it one of the first countries on the continent to require digital asset trading platforms to obtain operating licenses.