Alpha V71

Nov 11, 2024

DeFi

Version of Polygon Agglayer connecting any EVM chain will be live in early December

Magic labs announce its building Newton, a ZK L2 with Polygon CDK, to enable seamless state and liquidity across EVM chains on Polygon AggLayer.

Spark launches the first on-chain order book on Ethereum, powered by Fuel VM

SVM (Solana Virtual Machine) L2 on Ethereum— Eclipse debuts mainnet

IllumineX, supported by Oasis Network, launched a privacy-focused, compliant crypto wallet for EVM, non-EVM chains, and native Bitcoin.

Router Protocol added Bitcoin to its Router Nitro bridge, enabling users to swap any ETH-based asset to BTC on the Bitcoin network, and BTC on the Bitcoin network to WBTC on Ethereum using xDefi wallet

Omni and Symbiotic have announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Symbiotic’s restaking infrastructure with Omni’s cross-chain. This partnership will enable the first direct deposits from major Ethereum rollups into an L1 protocol.

Arkham to launch Perp DEX in week, with account registration and KYC now open

Staking rewards to come to Algorand in early December

BNB introduces one stop tokenization to easily tokenize assets requiring no code, transform RWA into tradable tokens on BNB and easy compliance with local regulation

Decentralized prover layer— Gevulot, announce ZkBoost Consortium bringing together 39 blockchain companies building the universal API that connects all of ZK.

Wintermute governance submitted proposal to enable a ENA fee switch stENA

stAvail pool goes live on Sophon. Earn native APY, Deq Points, and Sophon Points

Puffer Unifi testnet is live. It’s an ETH-based rollup offering low-cost, sub-second transactions and near-instant asset withdrawals from L2 to L1 within a minute.

Vlayer data infra powered by zkps raise $10M led by a16z. Vlayer aims to enhance ETH with four new Solidity functions, enabling smart contracts to access on- and off-chain data via features like Time Travel, Teleport, Web Proofs (zkTLS), and email proofs (zkEmail).

Pond, decentralized AI layer trained on onchain data raised $7.5M in seed round led by Archetype

Cytonic L1 with MultiVM design has closed its $8.3M seed round, co-led by Lemniscap and Lattice

Ozean, Clearpool’s RWA yield blockchain, has partnered with Helix, an RWA DeFi protocol for tokenizing private credit and fixed-income offerings.

Term Labs, devs of Term Finance, is launching Blue Sheets, offering institutional-grade, fixed-rate yields to DeFi users on Ethereum and Avalanche without requiring auction monitoring.