ETHFI Season 2 Claims Now Live | Cryptocurrency Trends

1. Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Binance HODLer Airdrops launches its first project, Banana Gun (BANANA). This token airdrop program rewards BNB holders with token airdrops based on historical snapshots of their BNB balances. By subscribing to BNB on Simple Earn, users automatically qualify for HODLer airdrops (as well as Launchpool and Megadrop rewards).

2. Cryptocurrency Trends:

• Cryptocurrency trading firm Wintermute Trading is currently in discussions for a new funding round. The company plans to sell $100 million worth of shares and intends to issue new shares, but the exact amount has not yet been determined. Negotiations are ongoing and details have not been finalized.
• Lens plans to release its ZKsync public testnet in the next one to two months, with the goal of migrating to the ZKsync network in Q4. Lens V3 will be deployed shortly after the network migrates to ZKsync.
• On July 18, the Indian cryptocurrency trading platform WazirX was hacked, with its multisig wallets on the Ethereum network compromised. A total of $234.9 million was been transferred to the new address. Each transaction's caller was funded by Tornado Cash.
• The ether.fi Foundation announces that the ETHFI Season 2 claims are now live.
• IoTeX releases a new 2.0 whitepaper, marking a significant strategic upgrade from a Layer 1 chain to a "DePIN modular open ecosystem". Through modular infrastructure, a unified modular security pool (MSP), and an innovative economic flywheel model, IoTeX will pave the way for rapid growth in the trillion-dollar DePIN sector.

3. Financing Trends:

• Truvius, a cryptocurrency investment platform, raises $3.2 million in pre-seed round funding led by Galaxy Ventures, with participation from New Form Capital, Chainview Capital, and undisclosed angel investors.
• Zivoe, a real-world asset (RWA) credit protocol, raises $8.35 million in a funding round with participation from Andrew Keys, Iceberg Capital, and Concave.
• Liquidium, a Bitcoin Ordinals lending platform, announces on X that it has raised $2.75 million in seed round funding with participation from Wise3 Ventures, Portal Ventures, Asymmetric Capital, CMS Holdings, Newman Capital, NGC Ventures, AGE Fund, VidenVC, and others.
• Chainbase, a blockchain data network, raises $15 million in Series A funding co-led by Tencent Investment Group and Matrix Partners China. Other investors include Folius Ventures, Hash Global, JSquare, Mask Network, and Bodl Ventures.
• Allium, a blockchain data provider, raises $16.5 million in Series A funding led by Theory Ventures.
• OKX Ventures announces a strategic investment in zkLink. zkLink Nova, developed by zkLink, is a multi-chain aggregated Layer 3 network based on zero-knowledge proof technology.

4. Regulatory Trends:

• On July 18, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced the list of participants of the stablecoin issuer sandbox.
• According to Cointelegraph, a U.S federal judge approves a class-action lawsuit against cryptocurrency and stock trading platform Robinhood. The judge orders Robinhood to pay $9 million to settle a lawsuit regarding its "refer-a-friend" program, which enabled the sending of unsolicited text messages in Washington.