In today’s crypto news, Ruby protocol a first layer privacy blockchain has raised $7.3 million in a funding round. Some of the big names that were included in the investor’s list were Digital Finance Group and more. Read more on this crypto news below.
Visa (V) is looking for undergraduate students to apply to its crypto development program while the company continues to build an in-house crypto talent. It was last year the company announced its ventures in the crypto space. Are you also interested in the crypto space? Read more below.
The puzzle created by Larva labs has been cracked by three smart winners. The address to this puzzle contained ETH worth 0.025 or 64 USD and a Meebit NFT. More on this crypto news is below.
Before we dive into these top NFT and metaverse news, let’s check out the latest price trends.
Crypto Prices Today
| Price Trend | Price for March 18, 2022 | Percentage change |
| The global cryptocurrency market cap | $1,822,395,608,384 | 0.72% |
| The total crypto market volume | $77,334,624,314 | 17.8% |
| Bitcoin Price | $40,782.51 | 0.72% |
| Ethereum Price |
$2,800.95
|
1.44% |
*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM, 18 March 2022.
Top Gainers and Losers Today
Top 3 Crypto Gainers
| Cryptocurrency | Price (Latest by March 18, 2022) | Change in % |
| PancakeSwap (CAKE) | ₹507.15 | 15.59% |
| Aave (AAVE) | ₹12064.05 | 12.90% |
| Kyber Network (KNC) | ₹249.26 | 7.76% |
*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM, 18 March 2022.
Top 3 Crypto Losers
| Cryptocurrency | Price (Latest by March 18, 2022) | Change in % |
| Celo (CELO) | ₹233.79 | 9.53% |
| Anchor Protocol (ANC) | ₹216.61 | 7.04% |
| THORChain (RUNE) | ₹628.23 | 4.09% |
*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM, 18 March 2022.
Crypto News Global
Ruby raises $7.3M to give users better privacy and control over data
Ruby protocol a first layer privacy blockchain has raised $7.3 million in a funding round. Some of the big names that were included in the investor’s list were Digital Finance Group, D1 ventures, Signum Capital, DWeb3 capital, and more.
The angel investors were Ocean Protocol founder and board member, Bruce Pon. While the entire concept of Web3 is based on decentralization, users must find a way to control as well as protect their data for various different reasons. Ruby has designed a layer 1 smart contract platform that shall enable users to control their on-chain information.
Read: How to protect your NFTs
Source: Cointelegraph
Visa hiring college students to develop an in-house crypto team
Visa (V) is looking for undergraduate students to apply to its crypto development program while the company continues to build an in-house crypto talent. The Visa crypto development program is an 18-month development experience where the team will be designed such that it shall be fully fluent in crypto. The program supports an entry-level pipeline of talent who shall have deep subject matter expertise around the crypto space.
Students who shall be hired through the same will rotate on teams including crypto solutions, Digital partnerships as well as crypto products and shall build expertise over non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
Read Total Value Locked Explained| Why TVL matters in DeFi
Source: CoinDesk
Top Metaverse & NFT News today
Three winners solve the Larva Lab’s Puzzle to win ETH 0.025 and Meebit
The puzzle created by Larva labs has been cracked by three smart winners. Larva labs is a popular creator of non-fungible tokens(NFTs) projects like Meebits and Cryptopunks. They obtained the 64 digit string that turned out to be an Ethereum (ETH) private key holding the address that contains ETH 0.025 and a Meebit #2858.
Read: How to build an NFT commnunity| Step by step guide
Source: Crypto News
NEW COIN LISTING ON COINDCX
| New Coin | Market Cap | Circulating Supply |
| NEO (NEO) | ₹109,615,989,210 | 70,538,831.00 NEO |
| Celer Network (CELR) | ₹19,161,417,327 | 6.78B CELR |
| Monero (XMR) | ₹262,556,624,712 | 18,094,303.40 XMR |
| Anchor Protocol (ANC) | ₹55,608,697,621 | 265,033,080.10 ANC |
| Stacks (STX) | ₹123,784,961,795 | 1.30B STX |
*All prices are latest by 11:30 AM Feb 18, 2022.*
Daily Crypto News Round-Up
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