Ranking Announcement 🎉 @bitbank_inc is ranked as the top Japanese 🇯🇵 exchange in @coingecko 's latest crypto asset exchange ranking (as of June 8 , 12:00 JST). We're currently ranked #25# globally 🌎 🎉. Check it out!

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (@jamiecrawleycd / CoinDesk) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Projects Fundraising on RootData (Jun 22 - Jun 28) Last week, 23 blockchain companies/projects received funding. 💎 @bitbank_inc — Cryptocurrency exchange, acquired by SBI Holdings in $289M. 💎 @fomo — Cross-chain trading app, raised $75M in Series B by @IndexVentures, @usv, @benchmark & others. 💎 @alliumlabs — Blockchain data infrastructure, raised $40M in Series B by @AmplifyPartners, @kleinerperkins & @TheoryVC. 💎 @OnyxOdds — Financial products for the compute economy, raised $33M in seed round by @a16zcrypto, @CrucibleCap, Galaxy Ventures & others. 💎 @OnyxOdds — Sports prediction and betting platform, raised $20M led by @Payward. 💎 @CNPYNetwork — Layer 1 development framework, raised $8.5M by @Arrington_Cap, @fenbushi, @snzholding & others. 💎 @CambrianNetwork — AI infrastructure agreements, raised $6M by @polychain, @FranklnTempletn, @NomadCapital_io & others. 💎 @TurboFlow_xyz — Onchain trading platform, raised $6M in seed round by @PanteraCapital, @DCGco and Susquehanna Crypto.

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