ALPHA V21
Defi
Liquid staking on Solana live with #LST. Deposit #SOL on Marginfi and get #LST
1000% + APY Degen Play on Vaultka. Are ya degen enof?
The founder of Ordinals proposes a new token protocol called Runes to replace BRC20
Uniswap Foundation requests for $62.37M in #UNI
Projects build trust with white-hats by depositing in Immunefi sovereign vaults
Backed by Bankless VC, Fhenix is aimed at end to end encryption and privacy in blockchain
Holesky chain is up and running. Holesky is ETH’s testnet chain and to eventually replace goerli next year
With Su Zhu out it smells woe for #OX. For context: Su Zhu is founder is OX
Gud to check out this thread and position yourself
With yield-bearing dollars (YBDs) (RWA subset)— #MKR pumping this is Canto RWA bull thesis
Google cloud officially a polygon validator
A shared sequencer leveraging Solana’s validators. Rome will introduce a Atomic Composability Layer that’ll reconfigure Solana validators to validate and aggregate all L2 txns and execute them before being posted (finalized) on ETH or any DA layer
Looks like something’s brewing with Project Flywheel; built by Aura Finance
Chainlink teases new #LINK utility as universal gas token
This one’s interesting— decentralized p2p fiat on-off ramp utilizing ZKP
Layer1 foundation to focus on adoption of meta protocols on Bitcoin
Polygon bull thesis
I’ll advice everyone watch this YT vid. Anyways- it says polygon zkEVM is best zkEVM adding they spent $400M to acquire Polygon Zero and he admires founder of zero at same level as Vitalik. An bullish on #COIN too cos of Base and Coinbase’s recent deriv marketplace & more
Vitalik’s most recent blog centers on ETH enshrinement. Enshrining here means adding more things into ETH’s core. So the argument is on either keeping things simple or keep adding more and more. Account abstraction, ZK-EVM, private mempools, code precompilations, and LSD.
Arbitrum grants overview and newer projects with upside to keep tabs on.
NFT
iyk_app raises $16.8M led by a16z to power digi-physical for brands like adidas, Atlantic Records, etc to bridge gap between creators and their customers
Big milestone for Pudgy Penguin. Pudgy toys now available in 2000 Walmart stores in USA
Airdrop
Arkham point phase 2 airdrop is back. VIP affiliates can partake, if not VIP then register
State of the Market
Vitalik deposits 400 ETH on Coinbase
On Sept 23, Mixin Network’s cloud service provider was hacked for $200M. It’s a decentralized network for transferring Digital Assets.
HTX hacked for 5ETH
MicroStrategy yet again buys another Bitcoin
Bitcoin recognized in Shanghai People’s court
Meta new smart glasses to be launched on October 17th cost $299
SEC delays ARK 21 shares ETH ETF Decision.
Wow
Goodnews for Coinbase. Regular license from Bermuda to allow Coinbase to allow Retailers outside US to trade BTC/ETH futures
Seems Zuck wasn’t joking about his Meta tech. This is really innovative. 👇🏻 Product isn’t live yet for mass con. Might time some time for it to be public, however, Gud to keep close eye on meta/AI koins; cos wen Zuck new meta product goes live, these koins shid pump
Tradfi giant VanEck is bullish on eth. They’ll donate 10% of their Ether Futures ETF profits for atleast 10yrs to Ethereum core protocol devs ProtocolGuild. The merge, Shanghai, currently EIP- 4844 were all contributed by these guys: ProtocolGuild.
Bitwise might follow suite in launching Ether ETF next week
US relieve shutdown as Senate votes for govt 45 days funding
FTX invested $500M in AnthropicAI before going bankrupt. It might reap rewards for creditors or just hopium. Who nose 👇🏻