Welcome to the 194th issue of The Defiprime Post, a quick weekly primer covering the biggest developments around Ethereum and DeFi. This week’s issue covers events between May 5th and May 12th, 2024.
🔥 The DeFi Bulletin
- Hong Kong formed an industry community to develop wholesale CBDC and tokenization.
- Ethereum developers have targeted Ease of Crypto wallets with their new standard, EIP-3074.
- Buterin proposed EIP-7702, aiming to refine account abstraction.
- EigenDA now accepts staking delegations after the opening of Eigen token claims.
- CoinDesk wrote an article on the KOL economy of crypto.
- Mode, an L2 network developed on the OP stack, began distribution of 550M tokens.
- Botanix Labs raised $8.5M in funds to build a Bitcoin-native DeFi ecosystem.
- Arcium closed a $5.5M strategic funding round, hoping to develop a “confidential computing” network with the funds.
- ZKM secured $5M in funds, ahead of the launch of its L2 network.
- The Starknet Foundation launched a $5M grants program.
- Check out our airdrop list.
💱 DEX Report
- DexGuru, rebranded as Guru Network, unveiled its new plans.
- ArgiDex, a Solana-based tokenization platform, announced a $5M funding round.
Thanks for reading, and be sure to catch the 195th issue of The Defiprime Post out this time next week! 👋♦️👋
