Welcome to the 186th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This week’s issue covers events between March 10th and March 17th, 2024.
🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
- The Ethereum Dencun upgrade went live. Meanwhile, L2s experienced a rapid decrease in fees after Dencun.
- Arbitrum rolled out its Atlas upgrade, adding support for Dencun and blobs.
- Blobs went live on the Gnosis Chain ahead of the Dencun upgrade.
- Coinbase asked an appeals court to direct the SEC to begin writing regulations for crypto.
- U.S. Democrat senators urged the SEC to deny any further crypto ETPs, including spot Ethereum ETFs.
- BNB Chain introduced its rollup-as-a-service solution, aiming to expand its L2 ecosystem.
- MetaMask tested its first blockchain-powered Mastercard payment card.
- Ether.Fi, a liquid restaking protocol, released its $ETHFI token on the Binance launchpool.
- MakerDAO’s founder announced two new tokens to be launched in the first phase of its “Endgame” launch.
- EigenLayer unveiled its multi-phase launch plan for its mainnet launch.
- Zerion is building an L2 network that aims to offer zero fees.
- The Aevo airdrop occurred on the 13th of March.
- Monad hit 10,000 TPS while testing its devnet.
- Syntropy bolstered its cap table with new strategic investors.
- TEN, an Ethereum L2, reached a $30M token valuation after its $9M funding round.
- Elixir secured $8M in Series B funding, aiming to use the funds to improve liquidity for orderbook exchanges.
- Fjord Foundry, a token-sale platform, raised $4.3M in funding.
- Ethena unveiled shard reductions in addition to reminders about the end of the campaign.
💎 NFT News
- According to US authorities, existing copyright laws are sufficient to handle NFT copyright concerns.
- Pallet Exchange raised $2.5M in funding for their NFT marketplace.
Thanks for reading, and be sure to catch the 187th issue of The Defiprime Post out this time next week! 👋♦️👋
