February 22: wormholeannounced a partnership with microprocessor manufacturer AMD, a blockchain interoperability platform. This brings enterprise-grade AMD FPGA hardware accelerators to the Wormhole ecosystem, including AMD Alveo™ U55C and U250 adaptive accelerator cards. AMD will also leverage its deep hardware acceleration expertise to help provide speed and scalability to multi-chain applications being built on Wormhole. According to an AMD blog post, “AMD offers enterprise-grade FPGAs based on cutting-edge architectures that deliver scalable computing and flexibility for a wide range of applications. You can parallelize large-scale workloads, such as processing millions of multi-chain messages.'' website.
February 22: ParakeetThe leading developer of universal confidentiality layers for Ethereum and other networks has secured a $4.5 million seed round led by 1kx to launch its testnet Gentry. According to the team, “The testnet addresses Web3's confidentiality challenges, blends EVM and FHE, and is secured by Ethereum via EigenLayer. With native on-chain confidentiality and randomness, Inco , powering diverse dApps such as DeFi, private lending, and blind auctions.”
February 22: meso-The payments platform that connects banks and blockchain has raised $950 in a seed round co-led by Solana Ventures and Ribbit Capital with participation from 6th Man Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Phantom co-founder Chris Kalani, and Pinterest CEO Bill. announced that it had raised $1 million. Ready and Archie Puri from Bodhi Labs. According to the team, “The network was launched by veterans of PayPal, Venmo, and Braintree. The app integrates Meso to onboard users, allowing them to initially fund their wallets. There is no need to send it to a centralized exchange.”
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