Alpha V37
Defi
Polygon introduces Aggregated Blockchain, a separate chain to proof chains for unified liquidity whilst they still sovereign
Plume network, a RWA L2 to use Celestia as DA
Api3 to launch OEV network
Eigen postpones cap raise to 5th February and will last till 9th Feb
Interwoven rollups— Initia will use Celestia for DA
Magpie introduces EigenPie, an Restaking DAO leveraging Eigen
Bullish on $VEC = $Ohm + $RTSK
Cosmos reject ATOM inflation rate to Zero
Dym rollapps to use Avail as DADym rollapps to use Avail as DA
Concentric hacked for ~$1.72M
Protocols for keep eyes on
Rollbit partnering with Faze Sports
Point for cities
Mode $2M Op Grant
Aevo is switching to Celestia soon, will soon allow devs build on its stack and is planning to add yield strategies in Q1
MagicEden says it’ll airdrop diamond rewards to rewards OGs that traded from 2021, this will happen in Feb 2. Also cross-chain incentive program for uses is announced
Uma protocol has launched Oval, a solution that’ll allow protocols to capture their Oracle Extractable Value (OEV)
Endless Studio picks Immutable zkEVM to launch Treeverse and Capsule Heroes
Sandbox COO- Sebastien to be Iconx advisor
Sui X Alibaba partnership
ClayStack joins LST Race; users will be able to mint $csETH from eth deposits, these ETH deposits be deposited on Eigen. All eth to power their EigenPod validator.
Orderly Network to use Celestia as DA
Trade Eigen points
Espresso testnet adds support for Arb stack
PolyhedraZK collabs with Eigen to launch a trust minimized ETH-BTC bridge
KelpDAO rsETH lands on Pendle
DWF labs receive $598k $Manta
AI agents hype
Deutsche Telekom, the parent entity of T-Mobile involvement in Eigen
Celestia live on Lyra
Supported by L0 wBNB, GMX now supports a BNB Market Place on Arb GMX V2
Equilibria team having 23% of all vePendle now builds an Omnichain LRT— elETH
L2/L3s looking to deploy on Arb Orbit will transfer 10% of net revenue to Arbitrum foundation
Syscoin to offer DA solutions (zkDA) in collab with Polyhedra to L2s
The ETH Next Upgrade Dencun will activate on Sepolia Jan 30 and on Holesky Feb 7.
Struct Finance receives $1M AVAX from Avalanche Rush Incentive. Expect its airdrop in Q1
Inception LRT going live possibly Monday
$WEN airdrop X Jupiter
Orbiter to launch zk rollups
Ordiswap X LayerZero
VC raises this week
Airdrop
$ALT airdropped to Eigen restakers, TIA stakers, Ottie NFT holders
More tokens for Dym airdrop qualifiers
Rabby points
Zeta airdrop
Drift protocol launches points
Tensor airdrop closer
$CVG airdrop
AXIOM airdrop guide
Contango points
Gammaswap points program
State of the Market
Tornado cash dev, Roman, was arrested by American feds few years ago for contributed to open sourced Tornado cash. Now he needs ur help to denote for legal fees
Su Shilling Prison
Phishing emails, stay safe
Eth foundation sells 700ETH for 1.64M Dai
Grayscale keeps selling
Cramer bearish on BTC
Sec X 2fa was disabled months prior to hack
Mt. Gox: 20% of the 850k BTC refund appears imminent, as some former customers receive account identification emails
Burniske Bearish
USA to sell $130M BTC seized from Silk Road
Google to allow BTC ETF ads in 4 days, starting from 29th Jan
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