Apricot Finance Bags $4M in Its Latest Funding Round
Apricot Finance, the Solana-based money market protocol that offers lending, borrowing, and other DeFi (decentralized finance) services, announced that it has closed a funding round worth USD four million. The Solana ecosystem has seen substantial growth in the past couple of years. Apricot Finance aims to leverage this growth and has thus built a unique […]
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