On January 24th, according to The Block, Litquity, an Ethereum-based lending protocol, has launched the second version of its app, Litquity V2. Liquity V2 will allow borrowers to choose their own interest rate when borrowing and staking ETH from RocketPool or Lido. Liquity also launched a "non-dollar" stablecoin called BOLD, which is fully backed by ETH and ETH derivatives. According to the filing, all revenue generated by Liquity V2 will go to BOLD, with 75% going to a stable pool of depositors...
On January 17, Bitlayer, the first Bitcoin two-layer solution based on the BitVM paradigm, officially announced the first minimized trust BTC bridge powered by BitVM technology, the Finality Bridge. Finality Bridge is based on BitVM technology, featuring high security, native revenue support, and programmability. It allows users to securely mint BTC into YBTC (Yield BTC) tokens with minimal trust, and participate in liquidity mining, staking, or lending in Bitlayer and other blockchain ecosystem...
On January 16th, the BTCFI carnival event launched by Bitlayer, a Bitcoin native two-layer project based on the BitVM paradigm, has entered the fourth week of activities. This week, the interactive task of Bitlayer ecological project Lorenzo and Cygnus Finance will be launched on Binance Wallet. Users who complete this week's task have the opportunity to share the total value of 780,000 dollars of Token rewards. At present, users can log in to the Binance Wallet page to complete all tasks for th...
Arc, the Rust-based AI proxy development framework, announced in a post on X that it will partner with Abstract Chain to bring EVM compatibility to rig (arc's framework name). Together, the two parties will nurture new developers to build AI applications on Abstract.
On January 10, Parcl, a real estate platform based on Solana, launched a ballot proposal to donate all agreed transaction fees generated by the Los Angeles market in January (not the portion that went to LP) to fire relief. Parcl said that every dollar will help, and we should come together as a community to help the people of Los Angeles.
Sophon, a modular blockchain based on ZKsync, tweeted that the KYC Grace Period retroactive reward will end on January 14. If a user purchases a Sophon node but has not submitted a KYC or the KYC has not been approved, they need to submit it as soon as possible.
On January 7th, the BTCFI carnival launched by Bitcoin Finality-based Bitcoin native two-layer project Bitlayer entered the third week of activities. This week, the interactive task of Bitlayer ecological project DeSyn Protocol and DeAgentAI will be launched on Binance Wallet. Users who complete this week's task can participate in the equal share of the total value of 480,000 dollars of Token rewards. So far, the number of users participating in the Bitlayer BTCFI carnival has exceeded 500,000, ...
NVIDIA (NVDA. O) CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the launch of a complete line of models based on Llama, using the NVIDIA Llama Nemo Tron language base model called Nemotron. In addition, NVIDIA launched NVIDIA Cosmos, a base model designed to understand the real world, using the NVIDIA Llama Nemo Tron language base model. Cosmos models can accept text, images, or video prompts to generate virtual world states, which can be used for autonomous driving and machine learning.
On January 4th, GMGN market data showed that the market value of the AI concept token focai.fun (Focai) based on ElizaOS once exceeded 50 million dollars, and it is currently temporarily quoted 38.10 million dollars. focai.fun (Focai) provides a suite of ElizaOS plugins, tools and services designed for fully on-chain AI agents. AI16z Shaw has forwarded its X dynamics and expressed support.
According to Spot On Chain, Ethereum-based charitable fund Endaoment earned $12.47 million by selling 3,690 ETH in a single transaction nine hours ago. This is their first ETH sale in 10 months and the largest ever. Notably, the ETH came from an Ethereum ICO participant who received 100,000 ETH in the genesis block in July 2015. As of now, the participant has sold 14,990 ETH at an average price of $2,409, including 13,190 ETH through Endaoment. Currently, the...
On December 29, Sophon, a modular blockchain based on ZKsync, announced the completion of the mining migration and the opening of the second phase. Mainnet mining is now open. Previously, Sophon announced the mining migration timeline: the L1 mining withdrawal window will be closed at 7:59 on December 27; all remaining assets will automatically cross the chain to the Sophon mainnet on December 27, and the first stage of SP points accumulation will end; the mainnet mining will be opened on Decemb...
Devansh Mehta, a member of the Ethereum Foundation, said in a post that an AI-based project donation amount prediction competition has been officially opened. Participants are required to predict the relative funding ratio between 1023 groups of projects based on 2387 training comparison data provided. The competition is a warm-up for the official competition at the end of January. The official competition will involve 4,303 Ethereum repositories and their dependent projects. DevanshMehta said t...
Bitcoin-based stablecoin USDa issuer Avalon Labs completed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from UXTO Management, Presto Labs, and Kenetic Capital.
XYRO, an AI-driven gamification trading platform based on Arbitrum, announced the completion of a new round of private equity financing of $1.40 million. Chainlink, CoinMarketCap, and Animoca Brands, which had previously invested in the company, participated in the investment. The new funds are intended to further expand the platform and provide support for its development in the field of gamification social trading. It is reported that the project will explore XYRO utility tokens and gamificati...