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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Flat at $37K as Investors Tangle With Bulls and Bears
Positive news from El Salvador couldn't completely overcome negative news out of China.

Stake Technologies Raises $10M Ahead of Polkadot and Kusama Auctions
With auctions to win a place building on the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem beginning soon, projects are coming out with strategies to secure one of the coveted slots.

Market Wrap: Bullish Basel News Causes BTC Jump to Week-High $38K Level; ETH Slips
Bitcoin busted out a quick 5% gain early Thursday on positive news from that continent before losing some steam.

DeFi Network Karura Raises $100M Ahead of Kusama's Parachain Auction
The money came from a "crowd loan" and included more than 8,500 contributors.

Kraken Now Lets Users Back Contender Projects on Polkadot's Kusama Platform
Kraken is adding support for Kusama parachain auctions, allowing users to effectively vote for their favorite projects.

Polkadot’s Kusama Network to Start Parachain Auctions Next Week
The start date was heralded by the upgrade to Kusama’s Statemine parachain, Polkadot founder Gavin Wood said Tuesday.

Master Ventures Launches $30M Polkadot Fund
This first-of-its-kind fund will invest in projects bidding for parachain slots on Polkadot and canary network Kusama.

Polkadot’s Wood Acknowledges Legacy EVM Design’s Role But Ties Future to Upgrades
Speaking at Consensus 2021, Parity Technologies founder Gavin Wood discussed changes to Polkadot, using WebAssembly as a smart contract and how legacy blockchains are not fit for modern day use, though he acknowledged the Ethereum Virtual Machine’s (EVM) pole position in blockchain development today.

Market Wrap: Ether Trading Volume Up, Closing In on Bitcoin; Crypto Market Struggles
Action in the ether market might take the spotlight from bitcoin over time due to very different mechanics between the two assets.

Polkadot’s Gavin Wood: WebAssembly Is the Future of Smart Contracts, but ‘Legacy’ EVM Is Right Now
“It's super important to support these legacy protocols, these legacy languages, and that's what we're doing,” says the former Ethereum developer.
