Your Weekly DeFi News in Bite-Sized Fashion
This week’s issue covers events between March 10th and March 17th, 2024.
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.
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.
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