Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 19,04/05/2023 - 10/05/2023)
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 19,04/05/2023 - 10/05/2023)Bitcoin transaction fees surpass block subsidy for miners. MakerDAO launches Spark Protocol, a DeFi lending solution for $DAI users. SushiSwap rolls out v3 liquidity pools across 13 networks.Weekly DeFi IndexThis week's market cap, volume, and volatility indices were negative at-6.57%, -22.97%,and -10.34%, respectively.
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Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 18, 27/04/2023 - 03/05/2023)
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Cronos Labs partners with AWS for its AWS Activate programme. Bitcoin's transaction volume hits all-time high thanks to Ordinals. Circle launches USDC transfer protocol for Ethereum and Avalanche.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 17, 20/04/2023 - 26/04/2023)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Third round of Ethereum withdrawals almost meets the deposits amount. Aptos introduces Delegated Staking. 1inch deploys protocols on Ethereum rollup zkSync Era.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 16, 13/03/2023 - 19/04/2023)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live. Uniswap community approves proposal to launch on Polygon's zkEVM. Arbitrum proposal to return 700M ARB tokens fails.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 15, 07/03/2023 - 12/04/2023)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Solana on-chain staking is now supported on Crypto.com. Tether blacklists validator address that drained US$25M from MEV bots. Ava Labs launches Evergreen subnets.
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 14, 30/03/2023 - 5/03/2023)
Thursday, April 6, 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.
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