Daily Alpha and Summary. 30-31, October, 2023.

Defi

StarArena CEO Chill Pill steps down. Current TVL: $300k, ATH TVL: $3M

New Restaking protocol comes out off stealth mode

DEX on Base— Surf Protocol raises, $3M

Starknet FDN announced the Early Community Member Program to reward developers & early adopters. Although not listed or live yet, it has allocated 50M STRK tokens, to be distributed on April 15, 2024. 32.9% to core contributors (devs, early adopters) & 17% to investors.

Unibot router exploit loosing $640,000. Hackers converted funds to 355.75 ETH and moved to Tornado Cash.

Backpack, a crypto wallet, is launching a "regulated" exchange, Backpack Exchange, that’ll will commence in beta next month and launch to the public in Q1 of 2024, this comes after securing a VASP license from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.

Blog by Vitalik, talking bout different types of L2s and security and decentralization tradeoffs

BNB chain unveils, BNB safe, based on Gnosis safe, its native crypto wallet. Now live on opBNB and BSC

Chainlink Data Feeds now live on Linea

Celestia live on mainnet. It’s token #TIA live on CEXes and Osmosis

IBC light Client Coming to Avax

Hyperliquid will distribute 1M points to users for 6 months

MetaMask partners with BlockAid to bring privacy-preserving security to MetaMask, to go fully live, next year.

Morpho Optimizer collateral plug-in live on #RSR

Level 2.0 👇🏻

Enzyme Finance now supports borrowing on Aave V3

Argent to stop zkSync Era development to prioritize Starknet

NFT

Can turn photos and videos to SOL NFTs thanks to Phantom mobile app

State of the Market

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