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Behind zkLend, a dual solution money market protocol for institutions and retail
zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining the best of zk-rollups and Ethereum to bring more users to the DeFi market. To differentiate itself from the growing competition on the market, zkLend offers an innovative, dual solution to the problems faced in DeFi—a permissioned and compliance-focused solution for institutional clients and a…
Roll-up developers StarkWare to raise $100M at a $6B valuation
Just three months after the last series C funding round, the Israeli company StarkWare is raising another $100 million at a $6 billion valuation, according to a report by the Israeli tech outlet Calcalist. The last series C round closed in November, brought in $50 million at a $2 billion valuation, thus tripling the company…
Matter Labs and BitDAO launch a $200 million DAO to bootstrap zkSync development
Matter Labs, the organization behind Ethereum scaling protocol zkSync, announced today that it has launched a $200 million DAO to help accelerate the growth of the zkSync ecosystem. The initiative is made possible through its partnership with BitDAO, one of the largest DAO treasuries in the DeFi market. The proposal for BitDAO to create and…