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The global crypto market cap is $1.74T 1.62%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $111.94B 0.73%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 41.56% 0.03%▲. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $38,614.09 | 1.97% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $2,800.59 | 1.59% ▲ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $415.89 | 1.39% ▲ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $1.82 | 2.38% ▲ | | 5 | Dogecoin DOGE | $0.3909 | 5.09% ▼ | *Prices as of 3:30 p.m. ET.
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 The Solana Foundation, in partnership with South Korean ROK Capital, launched a $20M Solana Fund. The fund was established to support the growth of Solana-based infrastructure projects. More: - Beyond infrastructure, the capital will also fund projects related to Web3, DeFi, and NFTs.
- ROK Capital has previously invested in Solana-based projects, including Mercurial Finance, Synthetify, Symmetry, and Parrot.
- Solana projects have seen a massive increase in funding over the past year, with companies like OKEx and MXC also establishing their funds to help support Solana projects.
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Symantec’s Norton 360 announced plans to add ETH mining tools as part of its security suite. Norton stated that the mining tool provides a way to mine crypto without disabling security apps. More: - The mining application “Norton Crypto” is a first for the company, which typically focuses on anti-virus and anti-malware applications.
- Rewards from ETH mining would be stored in a cloud-based wallet to keep earnings safe in the event of hard drive failure.
- The new Norton Crypto is expected to be added in the upcoming weeks. Waitlist users are beginning to be invited to use the feature as early as today.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Filecoin FIL | $88.32 | 25.35% ▲ | | 2 | THETA THETA | $9.40 | 17.14% ▲ | | 3 | Internet Computer ICP | $126.47 | 16.91% ▲ | | 4 | Theta Fuel TFUEL | $0.4105 | 14.34% ▲ | | 5 | The Graph GRT | $0.9121 | 13.97%▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Mdex MDX | $2.35 | 6.18%▼ | | 2 | Dogecoin DOGE | $0.3909 | 5.09%▼ | | 3 | Decred DCR | $157.57 | 4.47%▼ | | 4 | Helium HNT | $15.30 | 3.98%▼ | | 5 | Huobi Token HT | $16.80 | 3.92%▼ | *Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100. Prices as of 3:30 p.m. ET.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Impossible Finance, DEX/Incubator: $7M ⮕ The “Y Combinator of DeFi” raised funding in a seed round co-led by True Ventures, CMS Holdings, Alameda Research, and Hashed. Participants included Sino Global Capital, IOSG, Divergence, GBV, Primitive, Coin98, The LAO, and others. More: - Several angel investors have shown support for the project, including Polygon’s Sandeep Naiwal, Coingecko’s Bobby Ong, The Block’s Larry Cermak, and Compound’s Calvin Liu.
- The protocol launched April 9 on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) but plans on expanding to a multichain offering on both Ethereum and Polygon.
- Impossible’s entrance into BSC DeFi protocols came just after two other BSC protocols, BurgerSwap and PancakeBunny, fell victim to flash loan attacks totaling $52.2M.
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 |  | Griffin McShane is a J.D. candidate currently living in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Providence College, where he studied both computer science and business. Griffin aspires one day to go to the moon and bring some of his altcoins along for the ride. |   | | Editor | Sheena Vasani is a professional tech writer, creator, and UC Berkeley, Dev Bootcamp, and Thinkful alumna who writes Inside Dev and Inside NoCode. She recently launched Affordable Mental Help, a directory listing free and low-cost mental health resources. You can contact her at sheenavasani1[at]gmail.com. | |
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