Last week in crypto, was honestly pretty good!
The price of bitcoin was up, builders shipped new features all across the board, and funding announcements were a sight for sore eyes.
Here’s the TL;DR of what went down last week:
Rari Protocol launches testnet for RariChain for creators on Arbitrum
American Cancer Society raising funds via quadratic funding round on Gitcoin
After spinning out from Jump Crypto, Wormhole Labs raises $225M to continue developing its bridge
🤖 NFT advances
Rari Protocol launches testnet for RariChain for creators on Arbitrum, with partners Caldera, Gelato, LayerZero, ThirdWeb and WalletConnect
Horizon releases Sequence toolkit enabling game developers to incorporate NFTs, wallets and other blockchain offerings to non-web3 games
NFT marketplace Magic Eden launches a cross-chain wallet for its users
Derivative trading platform Wasabi to integrate with NFT tokenization protocol Floor to offer derivatives on Floor’s μ tokens (fractional, fungible tokens linked to NFT collections)
🌎 Onchain RWA (Real-World Assets)
Goldfinch community votes to deploy their lending and credit protocol on Base
Anemoy announces new short-term US treasury pool on Centrifuge, with Web3 Foundation investing $1M as a pilot
💰 Gitcoin’s expanding fundraising footprint
American Cancer Society raising funds via quadratic funding round on Gitcoin, with a matching pool of 75k ARB
Arbitrum Foundation is running multiple ecosystem grant programs on the Gitcoin platform
🪙 Token news
Jito Sol launches JTO governance token with a 10% airdrop to community members
Details of Starknet’s upcoming STRK airdrop leaked; Foundation confirms that eligibility snapshot has already happened but cautions that eligibility criteria still in development
Chainlink transitioning to v.2 of LINK staking to secure price oracles
🧰 New wallets and developer tools
Solana’s dominant wallet Argent releases StarknetKit, a wallet SDK for builders on Solana
Wallet provider Bitski goes live with account abstraction WaaS
Consumer-focused wallet Setter announces seed round, led by a16z
Safe releases a module to comply with ERC-4337, integrates with Pimlico
🛠️ Tooling and infrastructure
Wormhole Labs raises $225M to continue developing its bridge after spinning out from Jump Crypto
Sei announces v2, expanding to offer parallelized EVM for Ethereum applications, building on ongoing work by Cosmos
Open Zeppelin incorporates GPT into its tooling
Metis to start testnet for its sequencer pool next month