Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 9, 02/03/2023 - 08/03/2023)
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 9, 02/03/2023 - 08/03/2023)Ethereum developers delay ETH staking withdrawals to April. Optimism announces its latest hard fork, Regolith upgrade. Aave plans to deploy its Aave V3 MVP on Polygon’s zkEVM.Weekly DeFi IndexThis week's market cap, volume, and volatility indices were negative at -6.11%, -10.97%, and -30.37%, respectively.
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Market Pulse by the Crypto.com Research & Insights Team (Week 10, 28/02/2022 – 06/03/2023)
Monday, March 6, 2023
Ethereum Shanghai update to run on Goerli testnet, mainnet update will be in April. Spotify debuts token-gated playlists for NFT holders. Reserve Bank of Australia announces pilot phase for eAUD.
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Friday, March 3, 2023
Yuga Labs reveals its Bitcoin NFT project “TwelveFold”. Korea's Lotte Group partners with Polygon to expand NFT business. MetaMask enters the gaming industry with the launch of its SDK.
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Ethereum's second testnet was successfully activated. Decentralised perpetual exchange Fulcrom Finance is live. Solana suffered a 20-hour outage with the root cause still unknown.
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Monday, February 27, 2023
Crypto.com to release an NFT collection supporting relief efforts in Turkey. JP Morgan to launch a new crypto innovation lab in Greece. BlackRock offering metaverse-theme exchange-traded fund.
Weekly NFT & GameFi Update (Week 8, 18/02/2023 - 24/02/2023)
Friday, February 24, 2023
OpenSea implements 0% fees for a limited time. Uniswap allows traders to buy NFTs using any Ethereum-based token. Spotify atests new 'token-enabled playlists' service.
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