Wormhole Price Jumps 15% As W Token Goes Live on Multiple Blockchains

coingape.com In the last 24 hours, altcoin Wormhole (W) has rallied by a staggering 15.94% to $0.6199 with its market cap crossing $1 billion. This helps Wormhole occupy a spot among the…

Arbitrum continues to fall: Will rising network activity stem the bleed?

ambcrypto.com Despite these factors, the price of ARB continued to fall significantly. Arbitrum [ARB] witnessed an extremely positive run where the protocol outperformed its competitors…

Uniswap On Arbitrum Nears $150 Billion In Swap Volume

newsbtc.com Uniswap, one of the world’s largest decentralized exchanges (DEX) by total value locked (TVL), is approaching a major milestone on Arbitrum, the largest layer-2 by TVL on…

Karak — now valued at $1bn

dlnews.com In a move that challenges the dominance of EigenLayer in the restaking sector — which has grown to over $14 billion in crypto assets deposited — Karak’s private access went…

Avail Teams Up with Leading Blockchain Platforms for Data Integration

coinspeaker.com Coinspeaker Avail Teams Up with Leading Blockchain Platforms for Data Integration Avail, an innovative blockchain solution designed to help improve data availability for…

Top Ethereum Layer-2 networks adopt Avail DA to boost rollup efficiency and security

cryptoslate.com Several top Ethereum Layer-2 (L2) networks, such as Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, zkSync, and Starkware, are preparing to integrate Avail’s Data Availability (DA) solution,…

Alchemy Pay Announces Support of USDt on TON Network

alchemypay.medium.com Alchemy Pay has seamlessly integrated the newly-launched USDt on TON stablecoin by Tether onto its payment ramp, expanding accessibility and enhancing the user experience…

Raise a Glass to ENO: ENO’s New Era of Wine, NFTs, and Social Connectivity

newsbtc.com ENO is blazing a trail with its entry as both an innovator in social tokens and in transforming social clubs. The time when conversations about ENO were limited to specific…

Memecoins are ‘undermining’ the long-term vision of crypto, a16z CTO says

cryptobriefing.com The proliferation of memecoins and token projects on various blockchains have captivated investors. Whether its for their whimsical nature, or for their potential to catch…

How Arbitrum’s latest upgrade promises to slash fees

dlnews.com A month after a major upgrade slashed fees on the layer 2 blockchains that process most of Ethereum’s transactions, one is poised to become even cheaper. The digital…

Empire Newsletter: The war on crypto mixing has a new front

blockworks.co The Last Samourai The government continues to wage a battle against crypto mixers. The DOJ targeted Samourai Wallet’s co-founders for creating a so-called “haven” for…

Avail Announces Data Availability Integrations With Five Leading L2 Teams

thedefiant.io Developers leveraging tech stacks from Arbitrum, Optimism, ZkSync, Polygon, and StarkWare will have access to AvailDA. Avail, a data availability solution that spun out of…

Chainlink Completes Permissionless Rollout For Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol

thedefiant.io CCIP is already generating $6,669 in daily revenue for Chainlink. Chainlink has completed the general availability launch for its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol…

Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync

coindesk.com Avail, a blockchain project known for (DA), shared Thursday that five major layer-2 networks in the Ethereum ecosystem will integrate with its Avail DA solution. Those…

Ethereum Ecosystem Hits 10 Million Active Wallets Weekly: Will It 10X In The Next Bull Run?

bitcoinist.com There has been a noticeable uptick in network activity in the broader Ethereum ecosystem. According to Dune Analytics, excluding Ordinals-related addresses, there are over…

Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Misuse of “ZK” in ZKasino Scandal

coingape.com Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of Ethereum, has addressed vital issues around ZKasino fraud. He also addressed the incorrect use of the term “Zero-knowledge” (ZK) in…

Renzo leans into layer 2s to boost market share, with more integrations on the way

dlnews.com Renzo’s ezETH, a liquid restaking, or LRT, token, added 30% to its total supply in the last seven days to gain market share in the competitive LRT sector. Restaking is a…

Reya’s Liquidity Generation Event Attracts $100 Million In Less Than 24 Hours

thedefiant.io Reya, a modular Layer 2 network optimized for trading applications, is the latest web3 project to drive impressive growth off the back of a points campaign for early…

Ethereum Ecosystem Activity Soars to All-time High

thedefiant.io Weekly active wallets have surpassed 10 million, driven by Base and Polygon. The Ethereum ecosystem has been on a tear in 2024, enjoying near-vertical growth across wallet…

Millions In ‘Forgotten’ Crypto Lies Dormant On Bridges

thedefiant.io Data from Arkham Intelligence shows wallets associated with Vitalik Buterin and Coinbase among the owners of seemingly forgotten bridged assets. Millions of dollars are…

Gambling Platform ZKasino Sends $33M To Lido Instead Of Returning Assets To Investors

thedefiant.io Controversy swirls as the project claims hitmen were hired to target the team, which has a dubious past. DeFi investors are seething after gambling platform ZKasino took…

Aave Community Votes On Next Network To Host GHO

thedefiant.io Avalanche and Arbitrum emerge as front-running candidates to host GHO's second deployment. The Aave community is voting on which chain will become the second network to host…

Arbitrum-based Perpetuals DEX Hyperliquid Crosses $450 Million In TVL

thedefiant.io The decentralized exchange has processed more than $150 billion of trades since launching last year. Arbitrum-based decentralized exchange Hyperliquid is quickly climbing…

DeFi Protocol Hedgey Finance Suffers $44M Hack

thedefiant.io The platform suffered two parallel attacks on Arbitrum and Ethereum. It looks like Hedgey Finance didn’t hedge itself. DeFi platform Hedgey Finance suffered two attacks…

Hot New Restaking Project Karak Faces Backlash Over Team’s Past

thedefiant.io Karak has been outed as the second reincarnation of Risk Harbor, a protocol accused of running off with millions earmarked as insurance for Terra’s failed UST stablecoin.…

Chainlink Launches Cross-Chain Bridging App ‘Transporter’

thedefiant.io Transporter leverages Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which is enjoying a recent surge in adoption. Chainlink is entering the competitive…

Chainlink announces general availability for its CCIP

coinjournal.net Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) is now in general availability (GA). Developer can leverage CCIP permissionlessly for cross-chain token transfers and…

AI tool takes Bitcoin payments to access ChatGPT-4 and Claude Opus

finbold.com Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have become popular tools for everyday use in various tasks, from hobbyists to professionals. For this report, Finbold once again…

Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol Now Supports 9 Blockchains

beincrypto.com Chainlink has marked a significant milestone in blockchain interoperability with its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), which now supports a wider array of…

Ethereum Card Game 'The Lost Glitches' Coming to Layer-3 Network Xai

decrypt.co The Xai Foundation announced Wednesday that it has teamed up with game publisher Mimunga and developer Honig Studios to bring the trading card game The Lost Glitches to the…

Galxe Rolls Out GAL Staking with $5M Rewards Pool, Unlocking Exclusive Rewards through Galxe Earn

cryptopotato.com [PRESS RELEASE – San Francisco, California, April 23rd, 2024] Galxe launches $5M rewards pool, featuring rewards from prominent partners including Arbitrum, Polyhedra, and…

Renzo Introduced REZ Tokenomics and ezPoints Claiming Details

coinspeaker.com Coinspeaker Renzo Introduced REZ Tokenomics and ezPoints Claiming Details With the end of Renzo’s Season 1 ezPoints campaign drawing closer, the liquid staking protocol has…

Dexalot’s Central Limit Order Book DEX launches on Arbitrum

finbold.com Dexalot, the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX), announced the launch of its Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) on Arbitrum, according to the information shared with…

Post-Bitcoin Halving, Pushd’s Stage 6 E-Commerce Presale Shines as a Beacon for Fetch.ai and Arbitrum Investors

coinpedia.org The post Post-Bitcoin Halving, Pushd’s Stage 6 E-Commerce Presale Shines as a Beacon for Fetch.ai and Arbitrum Investors appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News At press…

What Is Xai? The Rising Ethereum Layer-3 Gaming Network on Arbitrum

decrypt.co A new gaming blockchain has entered the lobby in 2024: Xai. “Xai is built to enable open trade in the next generation of video games,” the official site says. In its quest…

FLOKI Price Poised For 2-3x Bullish Rally in The Coming Days

coinpedia.org The post FLOKI Price Poised For 2-3x Bullish Rally in The Coming Days appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News As Bitcoin (BTC) price attempts to rally towards $70k…

Developers recover $200,000 in crypto from compromised wallet

cryptobriefing.com A group of Brazilian developers recovered over $200,000 stolen from a victim after an exploiter got access to his wallet. After having his wallet compromised, the victim…

Ethereum Price in Q2: 4 Reasons for FOMO and 4 for FUD

cryptopotato.com As the classic weather forecast goes in the Northern Hemisphere, April showers bring May flowers. Will it hold up for crypto exchange markets in Q2 of 2024 after a sharp…

0G Labs launches with whopping $35M pre-seed to build a modular AI blockchain

techcrunch.com As the crypto space heats back up, so has funding for new startups. 0G Labs, a web3 infrastructure firm,” has raised $35 million in a pre-seed round, the team exclusively…

Ethereum's Dencun: One Week Later on Bankless

bankless.com After years of planning, Ethereum successfully implemented its Dencun upgrade last week! While this hard fork introduced nine changes to the network, the most…

Maker Gets Ready for Endgame on Bankless

bankless.com Let's get up to speed on the DAO's master plan. MakerDAO, the DeFi titan formed in 2014 and responsible for the stablecoin DAI, has spent much of the past year gearing up…

Master Memecoins with 5 Must-Have Crypto Tools on Bankless

bankless.com Miss BONK? These tools could help you find the next memecoin or altcoin rocket ship. We're back in the Wild West of bull market gains. Tokens can surge from the ground in an…

Staking on Bitcoin, SatoshiDEX Staking for Presale Investors is now Live

cryptopotato.com [PRESS RELEASE – London, UK, April 23rd, 2024] SatoshiDEX, the pioneering Bitcoin DEX, announces the Staking system, enabling users to earn rewards in advance of the…

Millions in crypto assets lie unclaimed in DeFi bridge contracts: Arkham Intelligence

cryptobriefing.com Millions of dollars in crypto assets remain unclaimed in various bridge contracts, according to a recent report from Arkham Intelligence. As noted by the firm, DeFi whales,…

Behind the Scenes of Restaking

dcs.megaphone.fm In this deep dive episode, Brandon Curtis (Rio), Myles O'Neil (Reverie), and Ryan West (Blockworks Research) unpack the emerging world of restaking on Ethereum. The…

Bitcoin’s record $80m fee frenzy is just the beginning for Runes

dlnews.com A version of this article appeared in our The Decentralised newsletter on April 23. Sign up here. GM, Tim here. Here’s what caught my DeFi-eye recently: Bitcoin users spend…

Vitalik Buterin Among Several High-Profile Names With Over $1 Million Locked in Bridges

news.bitcoin.com Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, reportedly has over $1 million trapped in the Optimism bridge, a situation highlighted in a broader analysis by Arkham, which…

Vitalik Buterin Has Over $1 Million Stuck in the Optimism Bridge

beincrypto.com Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, reportedly has over $1 million trapped in the Optimism bridge. This revelation comes from a broader examination by Arkham, a…

Arkham Finds Unclaimed Funds Worth Millions in Addresses Linked to Large Bridge Contracts

cryptonews.com Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham has discovered several crypto addresses containing millions of dollars that are either “stuck” or “forgotten” in two major bridge…

What’s behind Celo’s pivot to Ethereum?

blockworks.co After nine months of deliberation, the developers behind Celo have chosen OP Stack as the infrastructure for the project’s migration to Ethereum. In a Monday forum post,…

Coinbase Teases Potential Launch of Smart Wallet

coingape.com Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, has introduced a smart wallet with universal compatibility available on testnet. The smart wallet is meant to provide…

DODOchain pioneers an Omni Trading Layer3 blockchain fueled by Arbitrum and AltLayer

finbold.com an on-chain liquidity provider, has unveiled the launch of DODOchain, an industry-first Omni-Trading Layer3 powered by Arbitrum Orbit, EigenLayer, and AltLayer. DODOchain…

Last Week in DeFi: Innovations Surge With Lido’s DVT and Aave’s Proposal

beincrypto.com The decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape has been brimming with activity over the past week. Leading the charge, Lido Finance announced the launch of its Simple…

Empire Newsletter: Bitcoin’s turn for memecoin mania

blockworks.co Hot ball of memecoin money After memecoin mania cycles were speed-run on Solana and Base, this weekend was Bitcoin’s turn. Runes, a new protocol for minting memecoins from…

Altcoins Gain Momentum: From Fetch.ai to SEI

cryptotale.org Altcoins like Chainlink and Arbitrum offer substantial returns post-halving, fueled by unique value propositions. In a YouTube video titled “Top 5 Altcoins To Buy after…

Top 5 Altcoins Poised To Explode After Bitcoin Halving!

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