Daily Alpha and Summary. September 19, 2024

DeFi

Celestia’s first mainnet upgrade Lemongrass goes live. Introduces

- Minimum gas price to reduce spam

- Faster data transfers via Packet Forward Middleware

- Easier upgrades with a new signaling method

- Interchain Accounts for improved cross-chain interactions

- Simplified setup by disabling the Blobstream module

Solana held a conference today in Singapore, and there were many updates.

Frankendancer (Firedancer networking with Agave runtime) goes live on Solana mainnet and Firedancer on testnet. Except SOL Client diversity and 1M TPS. Basically Solana 2.0

$1.3T Asset fund, Franklin Templeton plans mutual fund with Solana

Fuse wallet announces Fuse Pay, a virtual Visa card

Jupiter acquires Solana explorer Solana FM and trading terminal, Coinhall

ZetaMarket announce Solana L2– Bullet

Renzo launch $ezUSDC (a restaked version of USDC) on Jito sol

Sky formerly MakerDAO is bringing USDS (DAI) to Solana with incentive program with rewards in $SKY (MKR)

Tensor announce they’re now fully open sourced, amongst other updates

They also announced waitlist for new product Vector fun

Bingx hacked for $43M