What is Aave's New Global Dollar Hub & How Does it Work?
Aave's (@aave) Global Dollar Hub is a dedicated liquidity hub on Aave V4, built specifically for assets tied to USDG, the regulated stablecoin issued by Paxos. Live on Ethereum since July 1,
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What Is Vitalik Buterin's New Lean Ethereum Roadmap?
Lean Ethereum is Vitalik Buterin's multi-year plan to rebuild nearly every major part of the Ethereum protocol over the next three to four years, with quantum-safe cryptography and built-in p
What is Robinhood's New L2 Blockchain?
Robinhood Chain is Robinhood's (@RobinhoodApp) own Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, and its public mainnet went live on July 1, 2026. It is built to move tokenized stocks, DeFi products and AI-dr
Understanding Aerodrome's Role in the Base L2 Ecosystem
Aerodrome (@AerodromeFi) is the main decentralized exchange and liquidity hub on Base, Coinbase's layer-2 network, and it settles most of the chain's trading volume even though it is not the
What Does It Mean to Rent Blockspace on Polkadot, and Who's Doing It?
Renting blockspace on Polkadot means paying in $DOT to reserve processing time on the network's shared validator set, called a core, either in a fixed monthly block or in single-block increme
How Does InterLink Solve the Bot Problem in Web3?
Bots and fake wallets are one of the biggest problems facing Web3 today, because creating a new wallet costs nothing and takes seconds, letting a single person or script control thousands of
Big News for Morpho and Ethena: What is Robinhood Earn?
Robinhood Earn is the company's first onchain lending product, letting eligible US customers earn an estimated 7% APY on the USDG stablecoin directly inside the main Robinhood app (@Robinhood
Polygon Paused a Third of its Team For AI Build Sprint
Polygon CEO Sandeep Nailwal made an unconventional call recently: he paused work for roughly a third of the company's team and put up $15,000 to build AI-powered products. The result came fas
Stellar Gets Major Developer Boost With Alchemy Integration
Alchemy Brings Full Infrastructure Stack to Stellar Alchemy has gone live with RPC endpoints, WebSockets, and three indexed Data APIs for the Stellar network, covering both mainnet and testne
ONDO Is Ripping Hard Following DTCC Pilot
@OndoFinance's native token $ONDO has surged nearly 20% in the past 24 hours, driven by a landmark development in the tokenization of real-world assets. The protocol has become the first to l
Pi Network's Protocol v25 is bringing several Improvements
July 22 Upgrade Targets Network Stability and Privacy-Preserving Contracts @PiCoreTeam has confirmed that Pi Network will upgrade to Protocol v25 on Wednesday, July 22. According to the offic
Users were warned before Polychain-backed Cascade suffers $1.3M exploit
Cascade, a Polychain-backed perpetuals platform, has informed users in its Discord that its main vault has been drained of over $1.3 million in USDC. It wrote, “Cascade detected a security ex