Binance will offer Lista (LISTA) farming on Binance Megadrop as of May 30. Users will be able to lock their BNB to farm LISTA tokens till June 19. 10% (100M LISTA) of the total token supply to be offered on the platform. Binance will list LISTA on June 20.
Bitget Launchpad will host Bitget Wallet (BWB) token sale starting June 4th. 1% (10M BWB) of 1B total BWB supply to be offered on the platform at $0.15 per token ($150M FDV). Sale format: proportional. Users are required to hold USDT or BGB on Bitget exchange in order to participate.
Bybit ByStarter is hosting Taiko (TKO) token sale at $2B FDV. Registration period: May 29-June 6. 2M TKO (0.2% of 1B total supply of TKO) to be offered on the platform at $2 per token ($2B FDV). Users are required to hold 100+ USDT on Bybit in order to participate.
TAP Protocol (TAP) will have a token sale on CoinList stating May 29. Users can apply for allocation till June 5. 1.57M TAP (7.5% of the total supply) to be offered at $3.57 per token at $75M fully diluted valuation. Vesting: 10% at TGE + 12 months linear release. Tap Protocol is building a Bitcoin Ordinals-based development platform.
Web3 gaming startup Ultiverse (ULTI) will be available for farming on OKX Jumpstart as of June 3. Users will be able to stake their BTC or ETH on OKX App to farm ULTI tokens till June 6. 3% (300M ULTI) of the total token supply to be offered on the platform. ULTI trading will go live on June 6.
A Bitcoin staking infrastructure project Babylon Chain raises $70M. The round was led by Paradigm with participation from Polychain, Bullish Capital, Hashkey Capital and others.
Neynar, a company providing tools for developers to build decentralized social networks, announced its Series A funding of $11M led by Haun Ventures with participation from a16z's CSX, Coinbase Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.
L2 Fuel Network announced its public testnet on Sepolia. Users can get testnet ETH, try bridging assets to Fuel. Fuel raised $81M during several rounds from Blockchain Capital, Stratos, CoinFund, Bain Capital and others.
Ethereum L2 Taiko will launch its token TAIKO on June 5. Taiko claim page is live. 5% of the initial token supply will be available for claiming by Taiko users.
Bitcoin monthly returns: 2011-2024. BTC is up around 11% in May and +60% YTD.
A look back at the digital assets launched in May 2024 and the public token distribution methods they used. Sorted by fully diluted valuation.
BB, NOT, MODE, NYAN, PARAM - CEX farming + airdrop
MON, LFT, SQD - Public sale+airdrop.
DRIFT, HLG - Airdrop.
BB, NOT, MODE, NYAN, PARAM - CEX farming + airdrop
MON, LFT, SQD - Public sale+airdrop.
DRIFT, HLG - Airdrop.
Taiko (TAIKO) will have a primary listing on June 5. Upbit, Gate, Coinone, MEXC, Bitget, Bybit, Bitfinex, KuCoin will list TAIKO token around 13:00, June 5 (UTC). 5% of the initial token supply will be available for airdrop claiming by Taiko users toady. TAIKO token was recently offered for public at $2 per token ($2B FDV).
Binance will offer ionet (IO) farming on Binance Launchpool as of June 7. Users will be able to stake their BNB, FDUSD to farm IO tokens over 4 days. 4% (20M IO) of the total token supply to be offered on the platform (85% of the tokens for BNB stakers). Binance will list IO on June 11.
Web3 gaming startup Ultiverse DAO (ULTI) will have a primary listing on June 6. OKX, Bitget, Gate, KuCoin, Bybit, MEXC will list ULTI token around 10:00 AM on June 6, 2024 (UTC).
Web traffic to crypto exchanges in May 2024. According to the data from SimilarWeb in May a cumulative web traffic to cryptocurrency exchanges has decreased by 4%.
Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. June 2024, part 1.
Updated: A short list of the upcoming TGEs and primary listings you should know about.
ZKsync will airdrop 17.5% of the total supply to its users next week. According to the blog post ZKsync shortlisted 695,232 wallets for the airdrop based on a snapshot of activity on ZKsync Era and ZKsync Lite taken on March 24, 2024. Claiming will go live on June 17.
Privacy-focused PoS network and DEX Penumbra launched its airdrop. Claiming page is live for the next 7 days. Certain Cosmos wallets and specific Github contributors are eligible for UM token airdrop. An interesting part is that Cosmos wallets funded from CEXs are likely to get an allocation.
