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6/20/2023
7 : 25
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 24,08/06/2023 - 14/06/2023)
Google Cloud partners with Cronos Labs on the latter's Accelerator Program. Circle rolls out its native USDC stablecoin on Arbitrum. Polygon unveils Polygon 2.0, the “value layer of the internet”.
6/12/2023
3 : 4
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 23,01/06/2023 - 07/06/2023)
MakerDAO votes to add US$1.28B in US Treasury bonds. Curve stablecoin crvUSD to support Lido's stETH. Optimism completes Bedrock upgrade.
5/31/2023
12 : 16
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 22,25/05/2023 - 31/05/2023)
Ethereum surpasses US$40B in deposit contract balance. New token standard BRC-721E bridges Ethereum NFTs to the Bitcoin blockchain. Tether invests in sustainable Bitcoin mining in Uruguay.
5/24/2023
12 : 4
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 21,18/05/2023 - 24/05/2023)
Crypto.com introduces an enhanced Pay experience in DeFi Wallet. Cronos Labs partners with Seoul for the Seoul Web 3.0 Festival 2023 #SWF2023. Uniswap V3 to launch on Polkadot via Moonbeam Parachain.
5/17/2023
12 : 15
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 20,11/05/2023 - 17/05/2023)
ETH's Beacon chain experienced two finality issues within 24 hours. Circle rebalanced its Treasury holdings, citing US debt default risk. Optimism's latest major upgrade, Bedrock, is set for 6
5/12/2023
7 : 30
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.
5/3/2023
12 : 6
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 18, 27/04/2023 - 03/05/2023)
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.
4/26/2023
12 : 26
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 17, 20/04/2023 - 26/04/2023)
Third round of Ethereum withdrawals almost meets the deposits amount. Aptos introduces Delegated Staking. 1inch deploys protocols on Ethereum rollup zkSync Era.
4/19/2023
12 : 4
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 16, 13/03/2023 - 19/04/2023)
Ethereum's Shapella upgrade goes live. Uniswap community approves proposal to launch on Polygon's zkEVM. Arbitrum proposal to return 700M ARB tokens fails.
4/19/2023
7 : 25
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 15, 07/03/2023 - 12/04/2023)
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.
4/6/2023
12 : 14
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.
3/22/2023
12 : 14
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 12, 16/03/2023 - 22/03/2023)
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.
3/16/2023
14 : 55
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 11, 09/03/2023 - 15/03/2023)
Ethereum's Shapella upgrade executed on the Goerli testnet. MakerDAO passes emergency proposal to mitigate risks around stablecoins. Aptos launches NFT bridge on Wormhole.
3/8/2023
12 : 14
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.
3/1/2023
12 : 14
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 9, 23/02/2023 - 01/03/2023)
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.
2/22/2023
12 : 4
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 8, 16/02/2023 - 22/02/2023)
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.
2/17/2023
8 : 4
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 7, 09/02/2023 - 15/02/2023)
Ethereum's Sepolia testnet is set to go live on 28 Feb. 0xPolygon zkEVM mainnet beta will launch on 27 Mar. MakerDAO is releasing a lending platform called Spark Protocol.
2/8/2023
12 : 14
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 56, 02/02/2023 - 08/02/2023)
Ethereum testnet processes its first ETH staking withdrawals. LidoFinance V2 upgrade focuses on a new staking router and ETH staking withdrawals. OptimismFND proposes Bedrock upgrade.
2/1/2023
12 : 14
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 55, 26/01/2023 - 01/02/2023)
ETH developers launch 'Zhejiang' testnet for simulating ETH withdrawals. Aave buys 2.7M CRV tokens to clear bad debt from exploit. MakerDAO's new proposal seeks to increase Compound D3M
1/26/2023
12 : 14
Weekly Update - DeFi and Layer 1 & Layer 2 News (Week 54, 18/01/2023 - 16/01/2023)
Ethereum Shanghai Mainnet shadow fork goes live. MakerDAO approves proposal to deploy USDC in Yearn Finance. SushiSwap passes Kanpai proposal, will redirect all trading fees to its treasury.