DeFi

The Merlin Chain Bitcoin layer-2 grew by roughly 2,000% in the past month

Blockchain technology is being used to incentivize community building in the real world

FDUSD is looking at cross-border payments, layer-2 deployments and payroll

The vulnerability enabled exploiters to replay a bug that would enable an infinite number of IBC tokens to be redeemed

Celo’s layer-2 will aim for a summer 2024 testnet

The Nakamoto upgrade will enhance transaction throughput and enable Bitcoin finality for layer-2 transactions

Miners may not have even noticed the halving took place over the weekend, with fees largely making up the difference so far

Billed as a better BRC-20 fungible token standard, Bitcoin Runes launches tomorrow

Index Coop is automating investment in high yield ether opportunities, minus the points farming

Chorus One tried to tease out some risks that could emerge from the buzzy restaking protocol

EY plans to move the service to Ethereum mainnet and a layer-3 in the future, its blockchain head told Blockworks

Worldcoin-related activity currently makes up 43% of activity on Optimism, a Dune dashboard suggests

X Layer is a zkEVM validium running on Polygon’s CDK tech stack

Relm and Chainproof will provide insurance quotes to distributed validators

DLC.Link uses a Taproot-based Bitcoin multisig to let institutions mint dlcBTC, starting on Arbitrum

Nomic and Babylon team up to offer stBTC, a bitcoin with built-in staking yield but without lockups

In-protocol payments and slashing won’t go live until the marketplace stabilizes

Solana is popular due to its cheap fees, but it’s become a little too popular with a certain crowd

The halt was caused by the wrong version of a bug fix being included in an upgrade

Users using Karak will be able to restake any asset on any chain, Karak founders explain

Users of Maker’s Spark protocol may soon be cut off from Aave DAO airdrops

A third party accounting firm will audit these reserves and Ripple will publish monthly attestations

The price slump is in contrast to Ethena’s airdrop from earlier this week

Multichain apps can share a common state between chains