ChainCatcher news, official news, the full-chain liquidity protocol Bifrost supported vMANTA will achieve fee-free trading mining and circular lending through Gull Network and Monroe. Recently, Bifrost, in conjunction with LayerZero, realized native staking of MANTA tokens on the Ethereum Layer2 Manta Pacific. Users can stake MANTA using the Metamask wallet on omni.ls without cross-chain.After staking is completed, users can receive liquidity tokens vMANTA. vMANTA can be traded fee-free on Gull Network, or users can provide liquidity to earn mining rewards, and they can also borrow stablecoins on Monroe to achieve circular lending.

According to ChainCatcher, citing two informed sources, the crypto investment fund DeFiance Capital has completed fundraising for a "nine-figure" fund and will begin investing this month.According to one informed source, DeFiance Capital's LP includes crypto FOFs, family offices, and existing DeFiance investors. Previously, ChainCatcher reported in October last year that DeFiance Capital founder Arthur Cheong was raising $100 million for a new fund.Additionally, according to the crypto data platform RootData, DeFiance Capital has investment cases that include projects such as dYdX, Lido, ConsenSys, and Secret Network. (Source link)

According to ChainCatcher news, in a January investor call from the crypto venture capital firm Pantera Capital, its Liquid Token Fund lost 80% in 2022, with a nearly 23% drop occurring just in November after the FTX collapse. However, its co-CIO Joey Krug stated that Pantera's fund has partially rebounded this month, with an increase of over 47%.The top three performers of the fund during November were Cosmos's ATOM token, Chainlink's LINK, and Optimism's OP, while UNI, SOL, and ETH lagged behind. Pantera held positions in Solana and sold "a lot" immediately after the FTX issues surfaced.The Pantera Liquid Token Fund is a "multi-strategy vehicle that typically invests in 15-25 liquid tokens at any given time." During the call, the fund was managing $198 million in assets and had 13 tokens in its portfolio. (CoinDesk)