DeFi
ETH researchers dankrad and drakejustin1x drop Eigen advisory role to focus more on ETH as an L1
Movement labs launch v2 testnet, Porto
Paxos introduce USDG stablecoin with Singapore’s DBS Bank
Vitalik praises the performance breakthrough of Polygon zkp Plonky3
BOB joins the OP superchain
Franklin Templeton expands its $420M OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund (FOBXX) to Base
In partnership with OpenEden labs, Solayer unveil their RWA-backed synthetic stablecoin— Solayer USD $sUSD
Timefun migrates from Base to Solana
Magic Eden moves to Abstract Chain
Fluid dex goes live, using debt to provide liquidity, get paid to borrow/LP
Agora Launches $aUSD stablecoin on Injective, Backed by VanEck and custodied by State Street
Zircuit announce $ZRC fairdrop for $EIGEN holders and stakers as of October 8th will receive $ZRC
Mantra and Libre announce they’ve opened on-chain access to BlackRock money market funds, allowing MANTRA users to invest in various top on-chain funds: private credit funds, BlackRock ICS Money Market Fund.
Money middleware protocol M^0 and Bitcoin economy layer Mezo partner to rebuild stablecoins in Bitcoin eco, aiming to broaden DeFi yield opportunities.
Developed by Bitcoin venture studio Thesis, this collab will designate yield bearing $M as a core BitcoinFi asset after M^0 governance approval.
Fault proofs are now live on Base mainnet
Termina, SVM network deployment platform by Nitro Labs, raised a $4M seed funding round, led by Lemniscap
Nillion blind compute data protocol raise $50M total funding led by Hack VC
Swell is migrating to Optimism
FDUSD expands to Solana
SUI seeing volume
State of the Market
Microsoft shareholders begin to vote on whether to invest into Bitcoin
MicroStrategy announces $42B plan to acquire more BTC through debt and equity offerings
Canary Capital files for SOL ETF
