Project Eleven raises $20M in a Series A funding round
#ProjectEleven secures $20M in a Series A funding round led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Fin Capital, Variant, Quantonation, Nebular, Formation, Lattice Fund, Satstreet Ventures, Nascent Ventures, and angel investors.
Project Eleven is a company developing tools and infrastructure to help existing software systems prepare for integration with future quantum computing technologies.
Backpack announces the launch of prediction markets in private beta
#Backpack has launched an invite-only private beta for prediction markets and unveiled a Unified Prediction Portfolio that integrates predictions into a single subaccount with cross-margin and cross-collateral across spot, margin, lending, and perpetuals.
The system is native to Backpack, allowing users to price predictions and hedge with perpetuals within a single margin account, with broader beta access, additional markets, and new features coming soon.
#Noise secures $7.1M in a Seed funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Figment Capital, Anagram, GSR, JPEG Trading, Kaito, and angel investors.
Noise is a platform focused on trading trends and narratives, allowing users to treat these trends as tradable assets.
#Visa partners with #BVNK , a fintech offering B2B payment infrastructure that bridges traditional banking and crypto via stablecoins. Through this partnership, BVNK will provide stablecoin infrastructure for Visa's $1.7 trillion real-time payments network, enabling faster, more flexible global money movement. The rollout will start in markets with strong demand for digital asset payments, with broader expansion driven by customer interest.
Binance Wallet announces the launch of perpetual futures trading
#BinanceWallet launches perpetual futures trading powered by #Aster . Users can now trade leveraged perpetual contracts directly from their Keyless Wallet. #Binance Wallet users trading Aster perpetuals via the Binance Wallet interface will earn points in Aster’s rewards system. Binance Wallet and Aster will also run exclusive campaigns for Binance Keyless Wallet users, with the first launching today, January 14th.
Let’s take a look at the top upcoming listings this week:
#Fogo $FOGO a high-performance #Layer1 blockchain built on the Solana Virtual Machine, leveraging Jump Crypto’s Firedancer client for extreme speed and scalability.
#Owlto $OWL a decentralized omni-chain liquidity protocol that integrates artificial intelligence, smart contracts, and zero-knowledge proof technology.
#SportFun $FUN a sports entertainment platform that blends long-term predictions, fantasy gaming, trading, real-time data, and social features into a single all-in-one fan hub.
#XMAQUINA secures $10M in a funding round from Borderless Capital, Moonrock Capital, MH Ventures, Generative Ventures, Fundamental Labs, Waterdrip Capital, vVv, Clairvoyant Labs, Signal Ventures, Wise3 Ventures, Mulana Capital, EoT Ventures, CoinIX, and Advanced Blockchain and angel investors.
XMAQUINA is a decentralized ecosystem that gives investors and community members early exposure to the booming field of humanoid robotics and Physical #AI .