Daily Alpha and Summary. 19, April, 2024

Defi

Matter Labs, devs behind zksync , hired Nana Murugesan as president. Formerly VP at Coinbase and Managing Director at Snap Inc

P2Pvalidator offers non-custodial staking services for professional investors. They introduced restaking with DVT on @ssv_network surpassing 500k eth staked. This will use EigenLayer tech for security

ARPA Network's Randcast, an on-chain verifiable random number generator, has launched on @redstonexyz testnet, an optimistic rollup L2 by Lattice.

NodleNetwork is launching on zkSync Era. The first launch initiative is deploying its new Click camera app as part of a Digital Trust Network to authenticate media content and fight misinformation with blockchain technology.

AethirCloud introduced Aethir Edge, a hardware device powering decentralized edge computing. Through Aethir Edge, you join Aethir's network as a service provider

Chia Network close to IPO

Coinbase International to list WIF prep on 25th

Aptos Labs partners with Microsoft, Brevan Howard, & SK Telecom to introduce Aptos Ascend, an institutional platform

Binance launch Binance Megadrop a mix of Binance Launchpool/Binance Earn, with added airdrop feature

Injective collab with mobile infra—JamboTechnology

astroport_fi migrates to Neutron

Nibiru launch a $15M program (Nibiru Builder Grants Program) to offer financial incentives and funding to devs promoting adoption of it

Forma

Lava whitepaper goes live

$Avail claiming is live

Optimism to allocate 10M OP for Retro Funding Round 4. Application opens on May 23rd and closes June 6th

Backed by curve elites, Curve founder and mrblocktw, LambdaFinance raises $1.8M to launch btcUSD a permissionless stable coin backed by BTC

Limit order now live in Uniswap

Scroll launch loyalty program, Scroll Marks. Get Marks by bridging assets to Scroll. Marks will be allocated to users who have deployed assets on Scroll since Oct 10th, 2023 (Genesis block day)

State of the Market

BTC Limited damage from Israeli strike on Iranian military targets