Over 11,000 EIP-7702 authorizations occurred within a week of Pectra's launch, indicating healthy uptake by wallets and dapps.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Synthetix aims to integrate Derive's treasury and products — including options, perpetuals, and structured products — into its ecosystem.
Unichain, Uniswap's native Layer 2 blockchain, has become the dominant chain for Uniswap v4, surpassing Ethereum in transaction volume.
Activated at epoch 364032 around 6:05 a.m. ET, the Pectra upgrade is Ethereum’s largest-ever update by EIP count.
Avraham "Avi" Eisenberg, who was accused of being behind the multi-million dollar exploit of Mango Markets, was sentenced on Thursday involving a separate case.
A new governance proposal has been submitted to finalize the Sky ecosystem's upgrade from MKR to SKY following its "Endgame" rebrand.
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The Interchain Foundation has invested in Stride to support the development of a decentralized exchange on the Cosmos Hub.
The feature is pitched as a way to access DeFi yields for USDC, USDT, USDS and DAI without going through "complex processes."
The points will convert into the Infrared token expected to launch in Q3, pseudonymous co-founder and CEO Raito Bear told The Block.
Paradigm-backed Symbiotic has raised $29 million to expand from restaking into a broader "universal staking" platform.
The firm began buying and staking SOL after being acquired by former Kraken executives earlier this month.
The protocol's trading volume has shown strong momentum, processing $175 billion in March alone, with April already reaching $83 billion at the halfway point.
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This latest allocation represents Sky’s deepening commitments to diversifying its exposure to DeFi and the RWA space.
Treehouse Finance has raised fresh funding at a $400 million token valuation to expand its DeFi fixed-income platform.
RedStone says Etheruem Layer 2 MegaETH is the only network currently able to support its ultra-fast oracle, dubbed Bolt.
MakerDAO (now known as Sky) was the only major DeFi protocol to post revenue growth, while DeFi tokens have struggled, with the GMDEFI index down 40% year-to-date.
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By the end of the year, Matcha anticipates that most decentralized exchanges and aggregators will support Solana.
Solidity remains the most widely used smart contract language in the crypto ecosystem by a substantial margin.
Uniswap DAO has voted to continue its “treasury delegation program” in a preliminary decision that will now move onchain.
Co-founders Zak Folkman and Chase Herro were reportedly replaced as “controlling parties” of the platform, according to Reuters.
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The project recently merged HyperCore, the core infrastructure behind the Hyperliquid L1, to its EVM-based HyperEVM developer ecosystem.
The asset is fully backed by tether — the largest stablecoin by market capitalization — which is itself backed by cash and cash equivalents.
BNB Chain surpassed Ethereum to become the most targeted network in Q1, accounting for 19 individual attacks.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Strobe Ventures led the round with participation from Brevan Howard and angels Rune Christensen, Andre Cronje and Stani Kulechov, among others.