Alpha V64
DeFi
Arbitrum Stylus goes live on mainnet, adding support for WebAssembly languages like Rust, C and C++
Etherscan verifier is now live on Arbitrum Stylus. Devs can now verify their Arbitrum Stylus contract.
SNAXchain on the Superchain soon.
Aave and Sky formerly MakerDAO form an initiative Sky Aave Force to drive mass adoption and close the gap between DeFi and TradFi.
POL went live last week.
DWF labs bout to launch they stablecoin.
Ethena’s USDe will be available to be restaked on EigenLayer through Etherfi from this week.
zkVerify built by Horizon labs launched its testnet. zkVerify improves zkrollup/appchain performance verifying zkps across multiple chains and dApps, aiming to cut costs by over 90%
Liquity v2 codebase is now public.
Injective launches first ever tokenized index for BlackRock Buidl Fund— a perpetual index product that tracks the supply of the BUIDL fund.
Euler v2, a modular lending protocol went live following 31 audits post $197M hack.
Crestal Carbon goes live on Berachain testnet. Crestal’s an intent based infra marketplace and has integrated with Avail.
Matter labs cut off 16% of zksync team workforce.
Ripple to add smart contracts to network in 2025. They’ll enhance their XRP Ledger by integrating Ethereum-compatible smart contracts via a new sidechain, Axelar network will be used for cross-chain token transfers, with Wrapped XRP (eXRP) acting as the primary token.
Eigen Foundation announces the EIGEN Season 2 Stakedrop, distributing:
- 70M EIGEN to Season 2 stakers (claims open by Sept 17).
- 10M EIGEN to AVSs, LRTs, and partners.
- 6M EIGEN to early contributors (verify by Sept 11).
EigenLayer introduces EigenPod Upgrade, a UX upgrade and tooling for ETH validator management.
Union modular zk interoperability layer partners with Native, Zero Trust Bitcoin protocol to offer trustless bridging between BTC L2s.
Solidity 0.8.27 is out. Support for using errors with the `require` function, previously limited to Yul compilation, is now available in the legacy pipeline with this release.
Some bullish alpha.
State of the market
Telegram privacy concerns.
Japan's Metaplanet Inc. partners with Ripple partner SBI Group to offer Bitcoin trading, custody, and management services.
Weak U.S manufacturing data affected the markets last week.
Mark Karpeles, Former Mt Gox CEO to launch new crypto exchange, EllipX in Europe this month.
Trump’s World Liberty Financial is a Defi lending project. Source: whitepaper
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