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Finance Redefined: Axelar becomes a unicorn, new ETH addresses hit 1.5M per month, Feb. 11–18

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...