​​Gate is having the sale of Alpha5 (A5T) at the moment. 200K A5T are available at $0.75 per token. In order to participate users are required to hold 100+ GT. A5T trading will go live on Gate on March 1, 12:02 PM UTC.
Alpha5 is an advanced crypto derivatives exchange with Spread Markets for both BTC & ETH.

​​Dora Factory has closed its second private fundraising round. The amount raised is not disclosed. OKEx BlockDream Fund, Signum Capital, CMS Holdings, Fundamental Labs, Hypersphere, LongHash, PAKA, NEO EcoFund, Spark Digital Capital, SevenX Capital, Gate, JRR, Lotus Capital, The LAO and DuckDAO are among participants.
Dora Factory aims to build an open DAO-as-a-Service infrastructure for on-chain governance and open source ventures.

​​Rakuten now lets users shop with cryptocurrency in Japan. According to a recent announcement, users of e-commerce giant Rakuten's cryptocurrency wallet can now exchange BTC, ETH, BCH for the firm’s e-money, Rakuten Cash, to charge its Pay app and Point credit card.

​​Gate will host a public sale of Aluna Social (ALN) on March 2. Allocation worth $100k will be offered proportionally to DAO holders. In order to participate users are required to stake 15k DAO token for 10 days period.

​​Some of the upcoming token generation events you should know about.

​​ETHA Lend partners with Clover to expand its DeFi yield optimization protocol to Polkadot. Clover enables ETHA LEND’s Ethereum based codes and logic to be compatible with all environments on the Polkadot Parachains. ETHA Lend has built a yield optimization protocol on Ethereum and intends to expand to Polkadot.

​​DAFI Protocol announced public sale on DAO Maker. Date and details TBA. DAFI has raised $0.9M during private fundraising round in February. The startup aims to enable every protocol & platform to create a synthetic flavour from their native token.

​​XEND Finance parters with Biconomy to reduce gas fees for its users. Biconomy will help improve the XEND Finance platform and make it more user friendly by allowing the protocol to handle all gas fees.

​​OptionRoom will provide OaaS data feed to API3 Airnode integrated blockchains. With the help of the API3 team OptionRoom will be deploying an Airnode enabling access to the OptionRoom OaaS (Oracle as a Service) for all Airnode integrated blockchains.

​​Matter Labs has closed private fundraising round. The amount raised is not disclosed. Union Square Ventures, Placeholder, 1kx, Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, Binance, Huobi, Curve, Aave and Coingecko are among investors.
Matter Labs is working on the Ethereum layer-2 scaling with zero-knowledge proofs.

​​Umbrella Network launches Uniswap liquidity mining program on March 1st. 20K UMB tokens to be distributed to UMB/ETH liquidity providers on Uniswap each month. This rewards will be an addition to the standard 0.3% fee that liquidity providers get from Uniswap.

​​ZeroSwap has launched testnet of its IDO platform ZeeDO. Incentivized testnet period: March 1 - March 5. 100 Users will be randomly selected and rewarded with 50 ZEE Each.

​​Pretty strong Coinbase premium since 43k.

Coinbase whales are most affected by the macro environment, I think their buying indicates the correction is over.

​​Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s Net Worth Is Over $7 Billion

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s net worth is between $7 billion and $15 billion based on recent private share sales that valued the cryptocurrency exchange at as much as $100 billion, according to a Bloomberg report Friday.

This puts Armstrong among the world’s 500 richest people as Coinbase heads toward a public listing, the report said.

The executive also netted almost $60 million in salary for the full year of 2020, outpacing JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon ($31.5 million) and Apple CEO Tim Cook ($14.7 million).

#dailynews

​​Crypto News Weekly Recap #37

#1 Kraken users demand refunds over flash-crash liquidations — link

#2 Ethereum mining’s monthly revenue reaches all time high over $1B in February — link

#3 Square doubles down on Bitcoin, investing another $170M — link

#4 North America’s first Bitcoin ETF sees explosive debut with $564M in assets — link

#5 Tether and Bitfinex agree to pay $18.5M fine to end New York probe — link

#6 Fed chair says it's up to Congress to bring a digital dollar to market — link

#7 MicroStrategy acquires additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.026B — link

#8 Coinbase's S-1 filing is now public, setting stage for a direct listing on Nasdaq — link

#9 Bordier & Cie SCmA, the largest bank in Switzerland, rolls out crypto-trading services — link

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