Daily Alpha and Summary. 25, July, 2024

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Defi

Innovation in the Bitcoin ecosystem as for the first time ever a zk proof is verified on Bitcoin mainnet by BitcoinOS. Verification confirmed on block 853626

“Bitcoin Wall streets” Roxom raises $4.3M in pre-seed led by Timdraper from Draper Associates. You’ll be able to trade stocks, commodities, financial assets and view global markets in Bitcoin terms and trade them with your Bitcoin

Starkware plans to integrate Cosmos IBC on Starknet in collaboration with Informal Systems

Aave founder Marc Zeller considers activating fee switch to reward net excess rev to key users and buying back token from open market

Farcaster now supports Polygon POS transactions

GovNFTs live on Optimism via Velodrome allowing grant recipients with locked OP to participate in governance at Optimism

CoreDAO introduces dual staking model, where both $BTC and $CORE can be staked for more rewards

Jito Sol announces restaking Jito Restaking

Bitcoin miner, MARA has purchased $100M worth of BTC and aims to adopt a full hodl policy. This recent purchase brings their total Bitcoin holdings to over 20k BTC

Drift to launch prediction marketplace on Solana

Renzo proposed to allocate 5% of total supply to ezPoints recipients and emissions for 5 months

In collaboration with Tonkeeper which launched the W5 smart wallet standard, users are no longer required to hold toncoin to facilitate payments on TON. This will be made possible using W5 Smart Wallet, users will be able to make transactions using USDT as payment for transaction fees while sending USDT and Notcoin as payment for gas fees when sending Notcoin