The Protocol: Ethereum’s Wall Street Cheerleader
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Arbitrum Awards Biggest-Ever Foundation Grant to Lotte, the South Korean Megacorp
Lotte’s Caliverse, an AI-driven entertainment experience, is coming to the layer-2 network, allowing web3 users to pay for services with crypto.
Crypto Valley Exchange to Go Live in January With Cheap On-Chain Futures and Options Trading
The decentralized exchange for futures and options trading plans to go live on Arbitrum on Jan. 8.
Decentralized AI Project Morpheus Goes Live on Mainnet
Like other decentralized AI networks, Morpheus seeks to curtail the negative side effects of AI, such as centralization, censorship, and data monopolies.
Is Optimism’s ‘Superchain’ Winning the Ethereum Layer-2 Race?
One of the biggest trends of 2023 among the leading layer-2 projects on Ethereum was the emergence of “blockchain in a box,” where the teams encouraged developers to clone their code to spin up new layer 2s. Now, it appears, one project in particular, Optimism, appears to be pulling away as the clear leader.
Crypto Broker DeltaPrime Drained of Over $6M Amid Apparent Private Key Leak
The project is offered on both Arbitrum and Avalanche blockchains. Monday’s exploit impacted only the version on Arbitrum as of European morning hours.
Avalanche Becomes Latest Blockchain to Support Franklin Templeton’s Tokenized Money Market Fund
The fund’s official record of share ownership is kept on the Stellar network and the fund may also use Polygon and Arbitrum for certain accounts.
Morpheus, Decentralized AI Project From Lumerin, Goes Live on Arbitrum Test Network
Artistic modification of illustration pulled from Morpheus white paper (Lumerin/Morpheus)
Exiled Russian Opposition Leader Launches Blockchain-Based Referendum on Vladimir Putin’s Election Win
Exiled opposition leader Mark Fegyin is leading an effort to give Russians an anonymous, blockchain-powered way to register a “protest vote” against Russia’s election results which have handed Vladimir Putin a fifth term as Russian president.
The Protocol: EigenLayer’s ‘Intersubjective Forking’ Is Objectively Not Done
Much-hyped restaking project EigenLayer’s 43-page whitepaper about its now-revealed EIGEN token has raised lots of questions. They may not matter initially, because much of the promised functionality won’t be ready when the token launches.