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The global crypto market cap is $1.36T 1.28%▼ with a 24-hour market volume of $60.06B 0.77%▲. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 45.55% 0.08%▲. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $32,714.43 | 1.44% ▼ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $1,985.18 | 2.64% ▼ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $309.78 | 1.60% ▼ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $1.28 | 2.63% ▼ | | 5 | XRP XRP | $0.6246 | 0.27% ▼ | *Prices as of 2:00 p.m. ET.
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 Buenbit, Exchange: $11M ⮕ The Series A funding round was led by Libertus Capital and participated in by FJ Labs, Amaiya management, Alec Oxenford, and Galaxy Digital. More: - Buenbit is an Argentina-based crypto exchange with around 380,000 users.
- The fresh funding will be used to expand operations to Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and Mexico. The expansion is expected to increase Buenbit’s user base by 165%.
- 60% of Buenbit’s trading volume comes from the DAI stablecoin. The exchange plans to launch functionality for USDC, USDT, and BUSD by the end of the year.
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 ClayStack, DeFi/Staking: $5.2M ⮕ CoinFund and ParaFi Capital led the SAFT funding round, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Solana Foundation, Animoca Brands, and others. More: - ClayStack is a liquid staking protocol that allows users to stake crypto without sacrificing liquidity by issuing derivative tokens.
- The startup will support Polygon (MATIC), Ethereum 2.0 (ETH2) and The Graph (GRT) at launch and Near (NEAR) and Solana (SOL) after its release.
- ClayStack has received a total funding amount of $5.3M. It previously raised $100,000 in a pre-seed funding round last year.
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Axie Infinity AXS | $21.87 | 23.20% ▲ | | 2 | Harmony ONE | $0.08412 | 8.75% ▲ | | 3 | Hedera Hashgraph HBAR | $0.1801 | 8.15% ▲ | | 4 | OKB OKB | $10.75 | 5.14% ▲ | | 5 | Tezos XTZ | $2.89 | 3.92%▲ | ▼ TOP LOSERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Synthetix SNX | $11.36 | 8.77%▼ | | 2 | Terra LUNA | $7.24 | 5.99%▼ | | 3 | EOS EOS | $3.93 | 5.76%▼ | | 4 | Celo CELO | $2.83 | 5.63%▼ | | 5 | XinFin Network XDC | $0.08449 | 4.99%▼ | *Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100. Prices as of 2:00 p.m. ET.
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 Connext, DeFi/Swap: $12M ⮕ The seed funding round was led by ConsenSys Mesh and 1kx, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, okEx Ventures, eGirl Capital, Hashed, and others. More: - Connext offers an interoperability network within the Ethereum ecosystem that lets users swap Layer-2 and Ethereum-based tokens.
- The startup launched at the start of this year and currently has $40M in weekly volume from its 40,000 users.
- Connext previously raised $3.7M in other funding rounds, bringing its total funding to date to $15.7M.
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 Shipyard Software, DeFi/DEX: $21M ⮕ $4M of the fresh funding was raised in a Polychain Capital led funding round participated in by 0x Labs, 1inch, DeFi Alliance, Quantstamp, and others. More: - The remaining $17M in fresh funding was pledged by liquidity providers, including Polychain Capital, Nascent, Three Arrow Capital, and others.
- Shipyard Software will use the fresh funding to develop Clipper: A DEX it launched at the beginning of this month.
- Clipper offers an optimized trading experience for smaller retail investors.
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 Superfluid Finance, DeFi/Streaming Payments: $9M ⮕ The seed funding round was led by Multicoin Capital and participated in by DeFinance Capital, Delphi Digital, DeFi Alliance, Divergence Ventures, Semantic Ventures, and others. More: - Superfluid is an Ethereum-based streaming payments protocol on the Ethereum, Polygon, and xDAI blockchains.
- The streaming payments protocol allows users to send payments from one account to several accounts concurrently.
- Superfluid’s fresh funding will be used to increase its team and develop applications for subscription payments, salaries, and rewards.
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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 | Aaron Crutchfield is based in the high desert of California. Over the last two decades, he has spent time writing and editing at various local newspapers and defense contractors in California. When he's not working, he can often be found looking at the latest memes with his kids or working on his 1962 Ford. | |
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