Fluid Protocol is excited to announce a $3.9M seed fundraise to build out $USDF, the native stablecoin for @fuel_network.

Magma is excited to announce a $3.9M seed fundraise to build out MEV-powered Liquid Staking on @monad_xyz. For more than a year we’ve been native to the Monad ecosystem, building the community oriented liquid staking protocol.

📢Validation Cloud is thrilled to announce @TrueGlobalVCs as our lead investor with a contribution of $10M to scale AI for Web3. This investment supports the expansion of our AI product to bring seamless access to Web3 data for networks & applications. 🔗eu1.hubs.ly/H0dfGHd0

Today, we’re announcing our vision for LIFI 2.0 We see @lifiprotocol as core infrastructure that solves crypto’s deepest liquidity problems – at scale, across chains. LIFI 2.0 combines aggregation with an intents protocol and native support for any interop token standard.

Our amazing new and existing supporters include: @1kxnetwork, @bloccelerate, @coinfund, @Maven11Capital, @FLAMINGODAO, @Collab_Currency, @LongHashVC, @recvcx, @DCGco, @galaxyhq, @TheLAOOfficial, @ThePunkDAO, @fcslabs, @BHDigitalAssets ... 2/6

On-chain history in the making! Tonyherrera.eth took the largest-ever on-chain loan using real estate in Los Angeles. Discover the story in this video by Minh.

An alliance is forged 🫱🟡🫲 @babylonlabs_io and SatLayer unite to unlock DeFi for Bitcoin—and Bitcoin for all! 🟨 As Babylon’s designated restaking partner, SatLayer pushes BTC liquidity & security beyond PoS chains, to the full stack of apps & infra 🫵Build on devnet now 🔽

@eigencloud launches on mainnet today, taking the first steps towards our vision of building the verifiable digital commons! ----------- Ethereum is the verifiable internet. Rollup is the verifiable web server. AVS is verifiable SaaS. Eigenlayer is the verifiable cloud. ----------- When you want to build an application, you build an application server. -> When you want to build a verifiable application, you build a rollup. The internet enables applications to communicate with each other. -> Ethereum enables rollups to verifiably communicate with each other. Building all the components of your application for your server is hard, so application servers integrate SaaS solutions, which solve specialized problems. -> Building all the components of your rollup yourself is hard, so rollups can leverage AVS to solve specialized problems in a verifiable manner. Hosting your server and SaaS yourself is hard, so you use a cloud provider, who leverages economies of scale to run all your software. -> Running your own rollup and services verifiably is hard, so you can leverage eigenlayer to verifiably run your rollups and AVS. ----------- Welcome to the verifiable digital commons! -----------

Thrilled to announce our $12.5m in seed funding to build universal verified computing for all! Thank you to our lead investor @polychain as well as @ABCDELabs, @bloccelerate, @genventurecap, @robotventures, and @SamsungNext for supporting us! We also want to give a shout out and thank some of our angel investors @shumochu, Harish Devarajan, @drakefjustin, @sreeramkannan, @kiss_computers, @gpl_94, @yilongl_megaeth, @cjliu49, @lucianmincu, Karthik Raju, and @CommonPrefix

We'll be working with Women 2.0 in 2019 to start conversations about women in #blockchain and #crypto. Our first article focuses on celebrating the incredible accomplishments of 11 women in blockchain this past year! Give it a read here: bit.ly/2PLvXdl

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 FOX Corp. launches the 1st enterprise L2 ⛓️ chain On 🟠 Gelato, powered by @0xPolygon CDK Fox Corp., a top US media company, launches Verify L2 to help media firms like @TIME track online content use See how Verify modernizes brand trust & content licensing ↓

2020 was a roller coaster year for everyone. Very proud of our team for crossing this important milestone and closing the fund to bet and support blockchain adoption !!! 🔥 Thank you to everyone from @bloccelerate team, and special thanks to Sam Yilamz @materionaut 🙏🏻

Validation Cloud is proud to announce the closing of our oversubscribed $5.8 million funding round🎉 We plan to increase the number of networks we serve, continue to build a multi-dimensional team, & expand our product capabilities. 👉 @DefiantNews: eu1.hubs.ly/H07QBZG0

1/ Introducing Slashing - Testnet Launch Slashing Testnet is officially live. 🗡️ This proposed protocol upgrade (ELIP-002) introduces slashing, a critical tool for AVSs to enforce cryptoeconomic commitments.

I am beyond excited to announce the promotion of Theo Fields to General Partner @Bloccelerate !!! Finding exceptional talent is one of the hardest jobs of any firm, and we sure struck gold when we found Theo while he was still finishing his MBA at @MITSloan in early 2022. Prior to that, Theo Fields led product development at @EYnews helping @MSFTBlockchain build the first its kind XBox blockchain IP & royalty platform for 100+ million users. In the short three years, @Theo_for_sure has been with Bloccelerate, he has grown from an Investment Associate Intern, to an Investing Partner, to now a General Partner - role he 100% earned with his hard work and dedication. He led more than 14 deals including investments in @lifiprotocol @jumperapp , @satlayer, @elixir, @Hydrogen_Labs and others. What makes Theo special ? #1. Theo is a team player. He puts the team goals and priorities first. This is an exceptionally rare quality in young, smart, ambitious individuals, and Theo 100% has it. #2. Theo is one of the most intellectually curious people you will ever meet. He has the right balance of vulnerability to admit he doesn’t know something, but also the curiosity to learn, which is very hard to find. It makes him exceptionally good at this job! #3. Founders LOVE Theo. We often joke that if we need to win a founder over, we need to let him/her talk to Theo because he is the most “likable” person one will ever meet. This “likability” is not surface level - he listens to founder needs and always adds value. Here is an example of what one of the founders, Richard Ma, CEO & Founder at @Quantstamp, Inc. said about Theo: “Theo is one of the most hardworking and astute analytical minds in the web3 venture space. His promotion to GP will contribute to a bright future for @bloccelerate VC. Onwards and upwards!" Please join me in congratulating Theo Fields on this well-deserved promotion!!! 🚀

Where will the value accrue in the blockchain space? That is the question @KateMitselmakhe (@bloccelerate) and @victorpascucci3 (@lightbank) plan on answering for you during their fireside chat on the main stage. #ConferenceDay1 #VoB2019

Update: All time @lifiprotocol volume hit $9 billion 🙏

ECOSYSTEM NEWS: Sovereign Chain developing team @pisquared raises $12.5M in seed funding round led by Polychain. Other investors include @SamsungNext, @drakefjustin (core Ethereum dev), @lucianmincu (MultiversX co-founder), @sreeramkannan (EigenLayer founder).

@bloccelerate #bcvcsummit Institutional Investors’ Perspective on Web 3 @arradhak of @Investcorp @tracyfong of Albourne @LaurenAbendsch of @CoinbaseInsto @marcmynome of @AccoladePrtnrs Discussing how we are early and poised for growth. So, winter or summer, GM everyone!