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Publicly-listed Janover announced last week that a group of ex-Kraken employees had acquired a majority stake in the company

Blueprint Finance has launched a rebranded and re-engineered protocol today on Solana mainnet
The stickiness could be the result of bear market conditions where users are swapping out of riskier tokens to hold stablecoins on Solana apps instead, a Blockworks Research analyst said
Mary Gooneratne, co-founder of Solana DeFi startup Loopscale, wants to give blockchain borrow-lend a facelift
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