Daily Alpha and Summary. September 4, 2024

Defi

zkVerify built by Horizon labs launched its testnet. zkVerify improves zkrollup/appchain performance verifying zkps across multiple chains and dApps, aiming to cut costs by over 90%

Ethena’s USDe will be available to be restaked on EigenLayer through Etherfi from next week.

Euler v2, a modular lending protocol goes live following 31 audits post $197M hack

Liquity v2 codebase is now public

EigenLayer introduces EigenPod Upgrade, a UX upgrade and tooling for ETH validator management

Injective launches first ever tokenized index for BlackRock Buidl Fund— a perpetual index product that tracks the supply of the BUIDL fund.

Pol is live

Eigen Foundation announces the EIGEN Season 2 Stakedrop, distributing:

- 70M $EIGEN to Season 2 stakers (claims open by Sept 17).

- 10M $EIGEN to AVSs, LRTs, and partners.

- 6M $EIGEN to early contributors (verify by Sept 11).

Solidity 0.8.27 is out. Support for using errors with the `require` function, previously limited to Yul compilation, is now available in the legacy pipeline with this release.

Etherscan verifier is now live on Arbitrum Stylus. Devs can now verify their Arbitrum Stylus contract

State of the Market

Trump’s World Liberty Financial is a Defi lending project. Source: whitepaper