​​Some of the recent private fundraising events among blockchain startups you should know about. August 2024, part 1.

​​KuCoin is offering TNA Protocol (BN) farming via its new token launch program. Users will be able to stake their KCS, USDT, USDC to farm BN tokens over 3 days starting August 15. 8.3M BN (0.4% of the total supply) will be available for farming. TNA is developing a naming service for Bitcoin.

​​Binance is offering Toncoin (TON) farming on Binance Launchpool as of August 15. Users will be able to stake their BNB, FDUSD to farm TON tokens over 20 days. 0.15% (7.65M TON) of the total token supply to be offered on the platform (85% of the tokens for BNB stakers).

​​Neynar, a company providing tools for developers to build decentralized social networks, announced its Series A funding of $11M led by Haun Ventures with participation from a16z's CSX, Coinbase Ventures, and Union Square Ventures.

​​A Bitcoin staking infrastructure project Babylon Chain raises $70M. The round was led by Paradigm with participation from Polychain, Bullish Capital, Hashkey Capital and others.

​​Ethereum L2 Taiko will airdrop 5% of its 1B TKO token supply ahead of its mainnet launch. According to the blog post Taiko testnet users, proposers, provers, Galxe points holders, developers, GitHub contributors are eligible for the airdrop.

​​Binance will offer Lista (LISTA) farming on Binance Megadrop. Users are required to have Binance Web3 Wallet and will get allocations based on the score earned via BNB staking, different quests and activities. 10% (100M LISTA) of the total token supply to be offered on the platform. Dates and listing time TBA.

​​Bitget Wallet will have a public sale round of its token BWB on May 23. The BWB subscription will open at 18:00 on May 23rd (UTC+8), divided into two rounds: a whitelist round and a public round. Eligibility for the public round requires participants to have completed a total transaction of over $200 on Bitget Swap from May 1st, 2024. To be sold 1M BWB out of 1B BWB total supply. Token sale price: $0.10 (at $100M FDV). Fundraising goal: $100K. Token will be released in June.

​​Initia Network announced incentivized public testnet release on May 14th. The program will run for 8 weeks. Initia is building a L1 network and aims to support modular rollups. The startup raised $7.5M from Binance Labs, Delphi Digital and others.