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The global crypto market cap is $1.63T 4.75%▲ with a 24-hour market volume of $78.68B 1.20%▼. Bitcoin's dominance is currently 45.75% 0.20%▼. CURRENT PRICES BY MARKET CAP | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Bitcoin BTC | $39,736.59 | 4.34% ▲ | | 2 | Ethereum ETH | $2,693.00 | 8.59% ▲ | | 3 | Binance Coin BNB | $334.34 | 3.86% ▲ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $1.38 | 0.78% ▲ | | 5 | XRP XRP | $0.7305 | 2.94% ▲ | *Prices as of 4:00 p.m. ET.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Aspen Digital, Investment Platform: $8.8M ⮕ The pre-Series A funding round was led by RIT Capital Partners and Liberty City Ventures with participation from Cherubic Ventures, Somerley Capital, Token Bay, and others. More: - Aspen is a Hong Kong-based startup offering digital asset management for institutional investors.
- The platform provides users with aggregated offerings of other crypto service providers through a single, centralized portal.
- Aspen plans to use the fresh funding to expand both its team and its international presence.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Krystal, DeFi/Multi-Chain Platform: $6.6M ⮕ The seed funding round was led by Hashed and participated in by Signum Capital, BlockTower, Crypto.com, Arrington Capital, DeFi Alliance, Coin98, and others. More: - Krystal is a DeFi platform that aggregates DEX protocols into a consolidated user interface.
- The startup enables users to access over 40K different tokens through its current interrogations of KyberDMM, Uniswap (V2, V3), SushiSwap, PancakeSwap (V1, V2), and QuickSwap.
- Krystal currently supports DeFi services for Ethereum (ETH), Binance Smart Chain (BNB), and Polygon (MATIC) blockchains and is presently developing new functionality for Solana (SOL), Polkadot (DOT), and Cronos (CRN).
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▲ TOP GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Voyager Token VGX | $3.52 | 20.31% ▲ | | 2 | Axie Infinity AXS | $45.02 | 19.32% ▲ | | 3 | THORChain RUNE | $8.02 | 18.14% ▲ | | 4 | Compound COMP | $454.88 | 15.47% ▲ | | 5 | Telcoin TEL | $0.01774 | 14.42% ▲ | ▼ TOP LOSER / ▲ LEAST GAINERS | # | Name | Price | 24h % | | 1 | Stacks STX | $1.34 | 2.47%▼ | | 2 | UNUS SED LEO LEO | $3.02 | 0.51%▲ | | 3 | IOTA MIOTA | $0.8815 | 0.77%▲ | | 4 | Cardano ADA | $1.38 | 0.78%▲ | | 5 | Bitcoin Gold BCG | $53.86 | 1.27%▲ | *Limited to cryptocurrencies in the Top 100. Prices as of 4:00 p.m. ET.
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 MakersPlace, NFT Marketplace: $30M ⮕ The Series A funding round was led by Pantera Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Sony Music Entertainment, Draper Dragon Digital, Eminem, 3LAU, Larry Fitzgerald, and others. More: - MakersPlace offers an NFT marketplace for collectibles and artwork on the Ethereum blockchain.
- The marketplace has had a transaction volume of over $100M since the start of 2021.
- MakersPlace notably partnered with Christie’s Auctionhouse for the sale of Beeple’s “EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS.”
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 🍋Fresh Funding🍋 Onramp Invest, Investment Platform: $6M ⮕ The seed funding round was participated in by Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Galaxy Digital, WisdomTree, Fox Ventures, and others. More: - Onramp offers a crypto investment platform for clients of financial advisors.
- Fox Ventures notably provide an investment of 6x the standard check size for the seed round.
- Onramp plans to use the fresh funding to increase its service offerings to registered investment advisors (RIAs) and potentially receive a broker-dealer registration.
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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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