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This Week In DeFi - June 3

This week, Binance Labs raises $500M for a new web3 fund, Ethereum prepares for its testnet merge and the Lightning Network sets a new record.

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To the DeFi community,

This week Binance’s venture capital arm, Binance Labs, raised $500 million for a new web3 investment fund – its first using outside investment. DST Global Partners and Breyer Capital backed the fund, along with a number of private equity funds, family offices, and corporations. The fund is looking to support projects that will drive the adoption of web3 and blockchain, covering investments at the incubation, early-stage venture and late-stage growth phases.

CZ 🔶 Binance @cz_binance

Continue to invest in the industry.

Binance Labs Closes $500M Investment Fund to Boost Blockchain, Web3, and Value-Building Technologies | Binance BlogBinance Labs announces the closing of a new $500 million investment fund. The fund is supported by leading global institutional investors such as DST Global Partners, Breyer Capital, and Whampoa Group. Other major private equity funds, family offices, and corporations also subscribed to the fund as…binance.com

Ethereum is preparing for its first “dress rehearsal” for its proof-of-stake network merge, with a Ropsten testnet practice merge set to occur June 8th. The test-run will give a first-hand look at the performance of merge development so far, along with any possible issues that may arise once the merge goes live on mainnet. The beacon chain for the testnet merge was launched earlier this week.

Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth 🐼 @TimBeiko

📣 Ropsten Merge Announcement 📣 Ethereum's longest lived PoW testnet is moving to Proof of Stake! A new beacon chain has been launched today, and The Merge is expected around June 8th on the network. Node Operators: this is the first dress rehearsal💃 blog.ethereum.org/2022/05/30/rop…

Ropsten Merge AnnouncementRopsten will be the first longstanding testnet to run through The Merge A new Ropsten Beacon Chain was launched on May 30, 2022 to provide consensus to the network The Ropsten Beacon Chain will upgrade to merge-compatible protocol rules (Bellatrix) at slot 24000, expected on June 2, 2022 After this,…blog.ethereum.org

The Bitcoin Lightning Network has posted a new all-time high in terms of total capacity – crossing 3900 BTC locked in the Layer-2 scaling solution. The Lightning Network has been around since 2018, when it was introduced to improve Bitcoin’s scalability issues.

Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru

JUST IN: The #Bitcoin Lightning Network capacity has set an all-time high of 3915 $BTC.

Ethereum scaling network Optimism’s initial token distribution was accompanied by its fair share of drama this week, as almost 250,000 eligible addresses were airdropped OP tokens. The network’s public RPC was overloaded as token claims overwhelmed the endpoint, while the team attempted to manage the issue by taking down the token claim interface.

Optimism (✨🔴_🔴✨) @optimismPBC

Wow, what a day. OP Drop #1 had a turbulent launch which we finally stabilized after more than five hours of non-stop work. We’ll be publishing a full, detailed retrospective on the lessons learned next week. Let’s quickly talk about what happened.

While the majority of the market continues its slump from last year's highs, a new "flippening" within the space appears to be playing out – Layer-1 alternative chains are being eclipsed by Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solutions. Namely, Optimism and Arbitrum have begun to generate more fees than any other "Ethereum-killer" blockchain, as capital begins to remigrate to the Ethereum ecosystem. In part sparked by the excitement of Optimism's OP token airdrop, a flurry of activity is capturing both users' attention and their capital, as they realise they no longer need to stray so far to participate in affordable decentralized markets.

ILiveInLambo 🦇️🔊️ @LiveLambo

Both Optimism $OP & Arbitrum already generating more revenue than every other alt L1 Alt-L1 trade is over $ETH as the base settlement layer + multiple L2s is the actual "multi-chain" future

Expect Layer-2 hype and attention to continue to build as more Ethereum-based scaling solutions take center stage, projects migrate and platform tokens are distributed to the most faithful users. The rise of Layer-2 platform hasn't been limited to Ethereum either, with Bitcoin's very own Lightning Network also reaching all-time highs in capacity this week. Scalability of the OG ecosystems is coming in full-force – is L2 season truly here?

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Total Value Locked: $54.44B (0% change since last week)

DeFi Market Cap: $49.6B (up 2.1%)

DEX Weekly Volume: $12B (down 8%)

DAI Supply: 6.40B (up 3.2%)

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