Daily Alpha and Summary. February 6, 2025

DeFi

Interop is coming to Arbitrum, they’re building a universal intents engine to seamlessly connect Arbitrum chains and other ETH L2s

Bridge USDC to Hyperliquid powered by AcrossProtocol

Rise testnet is approaching and they call on Builders to build for a 100M $Rise prize pool

Goldfinch launched new Prime pool built on Base, offers onchain exposure to private credit funds managing $1T+ in assets, including Apollo, Ares, and Golub, with targeted net returns of 9–12%.

Berachain airdrop checker is live

Olas raise $13.8M led by 1kx to launch App Store for AI agents— Pearl

Taproot wizards raise $30M led by Standard Crypto to expand OP_CAT functionality on Bitcoin

Reservoir, crypto infra that enables token trading for apps across blockchains, raised $14M in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures

Introducing Alpha Engine, built by Radius, Symbiotic, and Avail, is the first unified growth platform for rollups, solving post-deployment challenges by enabling MEV capture, reducing security costs, and fostering cross-rollup economies for sustainable growth.

Aave lands on Aerodrome on Base: Aave paired with WETH for swap & LP on Aerodrome

OG foundation announce a $88.88M ecosystem growth campaign to accelerate AI backed by Hack VC

Defi App beta coming on IOS. $50M on their dex in Beta

State of the Market

MicroStrategy rebrands to Strategy. For Q4, they reported a net loss of $670.8 million