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The German government has begun selling the $3 billion of Bitcoin it seized from a movie piracy website. It has sold over $195 million in BTC in the past day and moved coins between wallets. Analysts believe this demonstrates bearish sentiment from the government and could cause short-term market volatility.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating trading firm Jump's involvement in the crypto industry. Jump Crypto is one of the most active market makers and investors. It has helped develop Wormhole, Pyth, and Solana's Firedancer client. Jump's controversies include Wormhole's $325 million hack, being a market maker for FTX, and being accused by the SEC of propping up Terra's stablecoin peg.
ENS has a 5-phase plan to transition to an L2 and complete its v2 roadmap. Phases 1 and 2 will introduce standards for an interface and decide which L2 framework to use. Phases 3 and 4 will deploy the L2, initial contracts, and migrate to the new system. Phase 5 will re-open registrations and continue ENS where it left off.
The Tally Protocol introduces an innovative liquidity layer for governance tokens, enabling staking, restaking, and optimized voting power distribution to enhance economic security for blockchain protocols. It aims to improve DAO security and governance efficiency by providing Tally Liquid Staked Tokens (tLSTs) and incentivizing active governance.
Some projects are pivoting and rebranding, like IOTA becoming an RWA L2 and the upcoming ASI token merger between Fetch, Ocean, and SingularityNet. Point farming gamification, as popularized by Sanctum, has created greater community engagement. Consultants like Gauntlet and other “McKinseys of DeFi” manage user assets and risk on platforms like Morpho. Onboarding is finally becoming Web2-like thanks to Coinbase Smart Wallet and other services.
The top five rollups are all general-purpose EVMs with DA on Ethereum blobs, a centralized sequencer, and canonical state determined by an Ethereum L1 contract. Based rollups inherit more security by having L1 validators post state root updates instead of a sequencer. Sovereign rollups have DA somewhere other than Ethereum and have canonical state determined by consensus.
Zeta Markets spent weeks analyzing its users and optimizing the airdrop to reward long-term participants. It ignored all users with less than $500 in volume, as they contributed less than 50 cents in trading fees and are not high-value customers. Active protocols like exchanges require risk and dedicated participation, weeding out lazy participants. To prevent instant sell pressure, Zeta Markets introduced an optional 7-day vesting period that rewarded users with 2x their allocation.
Synchronous atomic composability is the concept of L2s instantly and seamlessly interacting with one another. Vitalik Buterin finds it overrated, as the main two use cases are cross-chain payments and using different dapps – both of which could be solved with cross-exchange protocols and wallet integrations. Anatoly Yakovenko, founder of Solana, sees a global synchronous state as critical for creating efficient and permissionless markets.
Canadian company 3iQ has applied to launch North America's first Solana ETP (Solana Fund) on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Socket has twice as much volume but only one million more transactions than LIFI.
Certain narratives like AI and real-world assets have performed well due to unpriced new information which remains underappreciated by the market, while more established sectors like DEXes and NFTs have not performed as well because investors recognize their potential.
The Lens Protocol will launch on the Lens Network as a cross-chain protocol with zkSync as its main hub.