Bitcoin developers are looking at ways to grow the ecosystem amid a resurgence of interest in innovation and development

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

Plus, a van Eck releases a stablecoin and Paradigm looks to raise another megafund

Elsewhere, Binance appoints new board members and a highly-funded startup is hiring

Plus, Doodles makes a movie and Dogecoin has a deep order book

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

Osmosis will serve as the primary destination for Ethereum assets in the Cosmos ecosystem

Other Frax Finance tokens, including the Frax Price Index (FPI) and FraxEther (frxETH), are expected to be available at a later date.

DEGEN chain is designed to enable developers to tap into a popular memecoin community

FHE coprocessors will be focused on enabling computing over encrypted data

New DAI markets include USDe/DAI and sUSDe/DAI

Bitcoin will likely grow to rely on its layer-2 infrastructure for most post-halving transactions this year, experts say

A greater focus on data availability sampling is top of mind, including additional work that layer-2s must do to become faster and more secure

The DAO first voted on enabling SAFE transfers over a year ago

At launch, Chain Signatures will be compatible with Bitcoin, Ethereum and Cosmos network chains, as well as DogeCoin and XRP Ledger

Solana developers can natively swap USDC tokens from Ethereum and other ecosystems

Civic’s physical ID card system will be layered with the Civic Pass, a non-transferable identity token

Guardian Council participants include the Solana Foundation, Everstake, Triton One, Juicy Stake and Kiln

ORA’s OAOs are powered through optimistic machine learning (opML) on Ethereum

StaFi’s latest testnet launch is the first step in its grand rebrand strategy to become a liquid staking service provider