Final Week in DeFi - Ethereum Zhejiang Live, Uniswap Governance Drama, Optimism Bedrock Coming, and Extra...

Ethereum Zhejiang Testnet Live
Etheruem launches the Zhejiang testnet, and can implement the testnet model of Shanghai/Capella improve on Zhejinag at epoch 1350 (round 2/6~2/7).
Lyra Newport Live
Optimism-based choices protocol Lyra launches Newport on Arbitrum. This improve permits money collateral, tighter spreads, and a modular design. Check our premium information under on how one can earn rewards with Lyra.
Mean Finance DEX Aggregator
DCA protocol Mean launches a DEX meta aggregator. The meta aggregator sources quote from 9 aggregators and helps swapping on 22 main chains.
Connext Amarok Live
Bridging protocol Connext launches Amarok. This improve permits builders to construct cross-rollup apps that instantly depend on the safety of Ethereum. Users can now entry the bridge UI, passively LP for the ecosystem by depositing USDC & ETH or actively working a router.
Pirex for GMX Live
Redacted Cartel launches Pirex for GMX (liquid wrapper for staked GMX and staked GLP). Users are actually capable of deposit GMX and/or GLP and obtain both pxGMX or pxGLP that earn yield as if the underlying tokens have been max staked on GMX natively.
Threshold tBTC v2 Live
Threshold (merger protocol of NuCypher & Keep Network) launches tBTC bridge v2, permitting customers to mint and bridge tBTC between Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Arrakis V2 & PALM Deployed
Uni v3 LP administration protocol Arrakis deployed V2 and PALM. V2 infrastructure permits funds and merchants to simply deploy methods on UniV3, and PALM is for protocols to amass liquidity by using the Uniswap V3 market.
Shardeum Sphinx Live
EVM-bsed L1 Shardeum launches Sphinx, the general public testnet earlier than the mainnet goes dwell. On Sphinx, validators can run a node and stake take a look at SHM, devs can construct/run take a look at apps, and customers can take part to earn bounties & rewards.
Cardano DJED Live
The Djed stablecoin was launched on Cardano. Djed tracks the US greenback and is backed by a surplus of Cardano’s ADA tokens. Djed was developed by blockchain agency Coti in collaboration with Cardano’s core developer Input Output.
Membrane EUROe Live
Finnish fintech firm Membrane Finance launches EUROe on Ethereum (afterward Solana, Polygon, and Arbitrum. EUROe is claimed to be Europe’s first EU-regulated full-reserve stablecoin.
Damus App Live
Built by Jack Dorsey, Damus is a web3 social app working on Nostr, a decentralized social protocol based mostly on cryptographic key pairs. Most implementations of Nostr help Bitcoin funds over Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

Universal Bridge Introduced
Timeless, Sudoswap dev Zefram launched Universal Bridge, a unified interface for sending messages from Ethereum to different chains and rollups. This permits devs to implement cross-chain issues with out counting on third-party protocols like layer zero.
Dopex Launches on Polygon
Options protocol Dopex launches MATIC Straddles vault on Polygon.
Camelot x Redacted Cartel
Arbitrum-based DEX Camelot publicizes partnership with Redacted Cartel.
This partnership might be first fashioned by way of seeding pxGMX/ETH liquidity on Camelot. Moving ahead, Camelot will help future Redacted liquidity on Arbitrum, for instance, the $BTFRLY token and future stablecoin $DINERO.
GMD x Trader Joe
GMD, a yield aggregator protocol constructed on prime of GLP & GMX, companions with Trader Joe to construct up liquidity for its upcoming launch on Avalanche.
Migrating Friktion to Ribbon
Ribbon will airdrop to Friktion customers that migrate their positions to Ribbon earlier than Feb seventeenth. Friktion is a Solana-based yield protocol that just lately introduced that it’s going to sundown its platform.
Mars Hub Deloyed on Osmosis
Previously on Terra, lending protocol Mars is deployed on Osmosis, and eligible customers can entry the MARS airdrop. The first Mars governance proposals to allow IBC + staking and LP rewards are headed to on-chain votes, and Mars Hub’s first Red Bank outpost will observe quickly.
SUDO Token Live
Sudoswap launches its governance token, enabling lockdrop, airdrop, and governance participation. SUDO is initially non-transferable, and the transferability might be enabled by a governance vote.

A16Z Votes Against Deploying Uniswap on BnB Chain
A16Z used $15m price of UNI to quash a proposal to launch Uniswap protocol on BNB chain utilizing Wormhole bridge.
A16Z is an investor of LayerZero (Wormhole’s competitor), and companions on the agency beforehand famous intentions to vote for LayerZero in final week’s temperature examine on which bridge to make use of for the deployment.
Proposal: Optimism Bedrock
Optimism Foundation proposed Bedrock, the subsequent improve to Optimism that may convey enhancements to the community together with transaction prices, throughput traits, and sync speeds
Voting: Synthetix V3
Synthetix governance is voting to launch V3. The new model could have a modular mechanism supporting multi-collateral staking, customizable debt positions, and permissionless synths.
Voting: Convex Reward/Fee Changes
Convex is working 3 votes to vary rewards and charges, together with the vote to Lower idle $vlCVX kick reward, create single-sided staking for $cvxFXS, and alter rewards for $vlCVX from cvxFXS to FXS.
Passed: Nexus Mutual v2
Nexus Mutual handed the vote to improve to v2. The first stage of v2 can be carried out forward of FTX, BlockFi, and Gemini Earn claims in February.

Radiant v2 Launching 2/16
Omnichain lending protocol Radiant units to launch v2 on Feb sixteenth. V2 contains enhancements on Tokenomics, cross-chain borrowing, Higher barrier to entry for emissions, Multiple new chain launches, and LayerZero OFT implementation.

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