Plasma: The XPL public sale will start on July 17, with deposits and withdrawals being locked on July 14.

On July 10th, the stablecoin project Plasma officially announced that the XPL public sale will commence on July 17th. Deposits and withdrawals will be locked on July 14th (72 hours prior to the sale), which represents the final opportunity for users to withdraw. The reserve deposits cannot be used for this round of sales. After the sale concludes, all deposits will remain locked for at least 40 days. Previously, the stablecoin project Plasma stated that the $1 billion raised from deposits is not for the XPL sale itself, and the public sale of XPL has not yet begun. All funds will be bridged to the Plasma mainnet testnet and will be fully owned by depositors. Depositors will participate in the sale based on the final unit ownership at the time of the lock. The public sale terms remain unchanged: 50 million XPL tokens will be sold, with a fully diluted valuation of $5 billion. Plasma previously received a strategic investment from Founders Fund under Peter Thiel and announced in February of this year that it had completed a $24 million funding round ($20 million Series A and $4 million seed round), led by Framework Ventures, with the participation of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, and Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino.