Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 14, 30/03/2023 - 5/03/2023)
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 14, 30/03/2023 - 5/03/2023)Aave community votes on Polygon zkEVM and Starknet expansion. Arbitrum under fire for AIP-1 proposal, to be split into parts. Allbridge exploit resolved as hacker returns most of the stolen funds.Weekly DeFi IndexThis week's market cap index was positive at +13.79%, while volume and volatility indices were negative at -1.13% and -50.03%,respectively. Check the latest prices on Crypto.com/Price
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Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 12, 16/03/2023 - 22/03/2023)
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Ethereum's Shanghai hard fork scheduled for 12 April. Arbitrum Foundation launches its new ARB token and transitions to a DAO. MakerDAO votes in favour of increasing US Treasury funds to US$1.25B.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 11, 09/03/2023 - 15/03/2023)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Ethereum's Shapella upgrade executed on the Goerli testnet. MakerDAO passes emergency proposal to mitigate risks around stablecoins. Aptos launches NFT bridge on Wormhole.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 9, 02/03/2023 - 08/03/2023)
Wednesday, March 8, 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 Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 9, 23/02/2023 - 01/03/2023)
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.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 8, 16/02/2023 - 22/02/2023)
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Filecoin to launch the Filecoin EVM mainnet on 14 Mar. Cosmos Hub's Rho upgrade was successfully completed. ZkSync rebrands zkEVM to zkSync Era and opens its mainnet to developers.
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