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Ethereum validators earned a record $46 million in staking rewards in the first week of May, with the staking rewards rate reaching 8.6% post-Merge. Read more here.
Restaking protocol EigenLayer raised its deposit caps on liquid staking tokens (LST) to 100,000 for pools such as stETH, rETH, and cbETH. Read more here.
Vitalik Buterin highlighted in its latest blog that Ethereum has to enhance its cross-chain ability, wallet security, and privacy to be sustainable. Read more here.
After a month of impressive returns, the crypto market has observed more sideways movements and lowered trading volume going into September.
The gaming-focused project, Immutable, has announced three new GameFi titles set to launch on its upcoming Polygon-powered Layer 2 rollup, Immutable zkEVM, before its mainnet launch early next year.
The money markets plummeted on hot CPI prints, whilst the broader crypto market also flipped red again after yet another short-lived relief rally.
Hashrate, a litmus test for network health, has been on a week-long decline, as much as 33% in the past three days, and is facing the prospect of further plummets as regulatory bodies in China vowed to crack down on Bitcoin mining and trading activities.
In the aftermath of a particularly brutal correction — one that tanked the price of Bitcoin below its $1 trillion market cap level near $53,500 — market participants have finally buoyed the price back above a major on-chain support level.
The Banff upgrade went live on the Avalanche blockchain, completing the launch of Elastic Validation for subnet creators. Find out more here.
The SPX index was up 1.41% overnight, the surge was led by technology, consumer discretionary, and communication services sectors, with major tech companies like Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Amazon, and Broadcom experiencing substantial gains. The broader cryptocurrency market is up, with Bitcoin and Ether rising 6.32% and 4.39% respectively in the past 24 hours. Today’s outperformer is STX, which jumped 18.9% after STX20 enhances trading experience with ALEX's Bitcoin Oracle integration. Stacks Protocol (STX), launched in October 2018, is a crypto project that enhances Bitcoin by enabling smart contracts and DApps on its blockchain, functioning as a Layer 2 solution with Bitcoin's security. STX20 indexers, STX20, and SatScreener, are partnering with ALEX to integrate with the Bitcoin Oracle, enhancing the security and functionality of the STX20 trading experience. This integration with ALEX's Bitcoin Oracle, an on-chain, tamper-proof, and censorship-resistant database, aims to provide new, secure trading opportunities on ALEX's Automated Market Maker (AMM). As the finalization of this integration approaches, updates will be shared, inviting the community to participate in the new trading experience on ALEX.