Bitkub Capital Group Holdings Ltd. has strengthened its reputation as a leading blockchain innovator in Southeast Asia through a pivotal collaboration with ETHGlobal, a globally recognized community dedicated to advancing Ethereum blockchain development.

Kinetex's Strategic Funding Round is led by Factor and Gnosis Chain, a community-owned EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) Layer-1 blockchain prioritizing credible neutrality.GIBRALTAR, Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinetex , a trailblazing decentralized platform that enables highly efficient cross-chain trading, announced the successful close of its strategic funding round. Taking the lead are Factor and Gnosis Chain , a community-led EVM Layer-1 blockchain. This partnership empowers Kinetex to refine its groundbreaking trading approach to transferring liquidity between networks that eliminates the need to store assets in pools and leverages zero-knowledge (ZK) technology to achieve validation without relying on third parties."We're excited to support Kinetex and its unique approach to incorporating ZK into cross-chain decentralized finance. With Kinetex Flash Trade, users are able to access many of the liquidity benefits and on-chain assets of centralized exchanges, but via a much more permissionless and credibly neutral system" says Ken Li, Partner at Factor."With the support of Gnosis Chain and Factor, Kinetex is poised to redefine DeFi," says Tigran Bolshoi, Co-Founder of Kinetex. "Our upcoming innovations will significantly improve our existing decentralized cross-chain protocol, allowing users to instantly and securely move liquidity between networks without trusting third parties and without the need to store TVL (Total Value Locked)."Kinetex is in the final stages of testing the Flash Trade mode, before launching on Gnosis Chain by the end of the year

Image credit: Napier Finance. アラブ首長国連邦（UAE）・ドバイを拠点に、DeFi プロジェクト「Napier Finance」を開発する Napier Labs は13日、直近のラウンドで100万米ドルを調達したと発表した。ラウンドステージは不明。Napier は、ハッカソンから生まれ、そのアイデアとプロトタイプは「ETHOnline 2022」で披露され、Aave や Yearn など著名な DeFi プロジェクトなどから複数の賞を受賞した。Navier は開発が続けられ現在テストネットがローンチしており、来年年明けの正式ローンチを目指す。. このラウンドに参加したのは、Michael Egorov 氏（Curve Finance 創業者）、B Dash Ventures、Charlie 氏（DeFiLlama 共同創業者）、C2tP 氏（Convex Finance 共同創業者）、Winthorpe 氏（Convex Finance 共同創業者）、Mr. Block（Curve Finance）、FLICKSHOT、Phillipe 氏（Curve Finance）、Sidney Gottlieb 氏（Prisma Finance 創業者）、Brandon Neal 氏（Euler Labs COO）、Jin Woo Park 氏（Hashed ／ MYTY 創業者）、Jawz 氏（Ex-OlympusDAO）、Edward Mulraney 氏（Liquity）、Sho Yoshida 氏（仮想通貨投資家）、Fracton Ventures。