Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter. This week has been full of funding raises, innovations, service deployments and a bit of volatile technical price action — for a change. Axelar Network attains $1B valuation following secondary raise The Axelar Network announced the completion of a $35-million Series B funding round this week, elevating its total market valuation to over $1 billion and establishing its status as a unicorn corporation. Major participants of the round include Dragonfly Capital, Polychain Capital and North Island Ventures, among others. The network has implemented partnership integrations with a suite of validators, as well as leading blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon and Polkadot. Cointelegraph spoke ex...