BottoDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization focused on digital art NFTs, announced the completion of a $1.67 million financing round, with 1kx leading the investment and Collab+Currency and Variant Fund participating. It is reported that this financing round was conducted through Treasury OTC trading. BottoDAO currently builds a decentralized, autonomous artist community managed by the community. The new funds will be used to increase research and development efforts to enhance Botto's agency, autonomy, and decentralized governance, as well as to expand Botto's influence and develop cross-media creation and learning capabilities to build artistic intent.

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Matt Zhang, founder of Hivemind Capital Partners, said in an interview with Bloomberg that Hivemind has already spent about half of its $1.5 billion flagship fund launched in 2021, and Matt also talked about the company's plan to raise a $50 million NFT fund.

According to official sources, aelf mainnet has been upgraded to version V1.8.0. This version allows aelf to create and trade NFT and SFT in fractional form, enabling partial ownership and enhancing asset liquidity. By upgrading to v1.8.0, aelf has expanded the possibilities for creating NFT projects and can create such assets on any designated chain, whether it's a main chain or a side chain. Additionally, the new version introduces batch token trading approval to improve transaction efficiency.

Starbucks' decision to end its NFT rewards program is in line with similar moves by other major companies in the last year.

1. Starbucks terminates its Odyssey NFT program

Starbucks announced the termination of its Odyssey NFT program. Starbucks launched Starbucks Odyssey in 2022 as its first foray into the Web3 world, combining the company's loyalty rewards program with NFTs to enhance the customer experience.

Carbonated, the mobile NFT shooting game studio behind MadWorld, announced the completion of a $11 million financing round with Com2uS, a Korean gaming giant, leading the investment. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bitkraft Ventures, Cypher Capital, Blocore, Goal Ventures, and WAGMI Ventures also participated. The studio previously raised $8.5 million in 2020, with a16z and Bitkraft joining at the time.MadWorld is set to launch to the public in 2024 and is currently being tested on iOS and Android operating systems. Its founder, Travis Boatman, is a veteran of the mobile gaming industry and has held executive positions at Zynga and Electronic Arts.

According to CryptoSlam data, in the past 24 hours, the sales volume of Bitcoin-based NFTs was approximately 47.2598 million US dollars, an increase of 391.64%, ranking first. In addition, the sales volume of Ethereum-based NFTs was approximately 14.1424 million US dollars, ranking second; the sales volume of Solana-based NFTs was approximately 8.406 million US dollars, ranking third.

NFT shooting game "MadWorld" development studio Carbonated Inc announced the completion of a $11 million A round of financing, led by Korean gaming giant Com2uS, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bitkraft Ventures, Cypher Capital, Blocore, Goal Ventures and WAGMI Ventures. MadWorld will be officially launched at some point in 2024, combining third-person competitive shooting action with territory control games based on NFT land assets. The game takes place on Earth in the post-apocalyptic era.