Base

Introduced Pessimism, an open-source monitoring system designed to enhance security oversight across the Optimism ecosystem.

Arbitrum

Announced the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) launch on Arbitrum One mainnet.

Vara Network

Vara (VARA), Layer-1 decentralized network powered by the Gear Protocol, token has been listed on Coinbase Exchange.

Bybit

Suspending its services in the UK ahead of new crypto rules set to be enforced by the country’s financial regulator next month.

Alchemy Pay

Expanding its global presence after securing a major payment license, Money Transmitter License, in the United States.

Consensys

Stops offering Truffle and Ganache web3 developer tools as it shifts focus to MetaMask Snaps and its software development kit.

Proof of Play

The crypto gaming company has closed its $33M seed funding round co-led by a16z crypto and Greenoaks.

Google Cloud

Added 11 new blockchains to BigQuery data analytics service including Avalanche, Arbitrum, Cronos and other.

MILC Platform

Announced a partnership with Numbers Protocol that provides content verification for AI-powered companies and creativity tools.

Optimism

Selling 116M OP (2.7% of supply) in a private sale split among seven purchasers, for treasury management purposes.

Nakamoto Games

Announced NAKAVERSE 2.0 update launch on Q1 2023 that will see FPS Shooter game launch.

Stader Labs

Launched its “Liquid Restaked Token,” rsETH, on testnet to amplify ether staking rewards.

The Incubation Program is set to kick-off on September 25th. 12 teams building across DeFi, infrastructure, and application layer will follow two-month curriculum designed to empower founders with resources across the Binance ecosystem and 1:1 mentorship.

Smart Account Platform enables developers to easily plug-in programmable modules to endlessly extend smart account capabilities. These modules leverage the power of Account Abstraction to allow for custom validation schemes and execution environments.

Through this partnership, DeXe plans to bridge real-world assets to the blockchain using LTO’s hybrid blockchain and privacy-aware platform that is GDPR-compliant.

Total Market Capitalization: $1.11T (-0.56%)

BTC Price: $26,986 (-0.65%)

BTC Dominance: 47.5% (+0.10%)

Fear & Greed Index: 47 (Neutral)

Total Value Locked: $64.3B (-0.31%)

Injective

Introduced the launch of inEVM, the first-ever Ethereum Virtual Machine capable of achieving true composability across Cosmos and Solana.

Grayscale

Grayscale Investments filed paperwork with the SEC for a new exchange-traded fund tracking ether futures.

Aptos

Petra, a crypto wallet built by Aptos Labs, is integrating Coinbase Pay onto its desktop and mobile applications.

Paribus

Rolled out its native governance system on Milkomeda. This decision was made through a community poll on project's X page.

Canto

Migrating to become an Ethereum Layer 2 that uses zero-knowledge proofs by leveraging the Polygon Chain Development Kit.

FORE Protocol

Partnered with GotBit market maker to bolster liquidity on existing exchanges and support FORE listing on additional leading exchanges.

FTX

Stanford University will be returning "gifts," purportedly worth millions of dollars, it received from FTX, allegedly orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried's parents..

Balancer

Experienced an attack on its website frontend with at least $238,000 in crypto stolen and warns users to stay away from its website.

Bastion

Crypto startup co-founded by former Andreessen’s crypto division executives, secured $25M in a funding round led by a16z crypto.

Oak Grove Ventures

Alumni from Ryze Labs, Libra, Alchemy Pay, and Coinbase, are launching a new $60M fund called Oak Grove Ventures.

Optimism

Conducted the third OP airdrop for its governance members allocating 19.4M OP tokens ($26M) to 31,870 addresses.

Jiritsu Network

Blockchain company focused on verifiable computing, has secured $10.2M in total across two funding rounds.

Under this program, 100,000 METIS will be allocated towards incentivizing liquidity for all assets available for Aave users on Metis: ETH, METIS, USDC, USDT, and DAI.

This means that all interconnected parachains in the Polkadot ecosystem and their users will have access to the stablecoin. Polkadot-based projects, including Centrifuge, HydraDX, and Moonbeam, are now offering USDC.

The $5M Seed Round was co-led by Matrix Partners and Delphi Digital and the $2.1M Pre-Seed round was backed by investors including 500 Startups and Folius Ventures. 

The objective of ERC-7512 is to ensure that audit details, such as who conducted the audits and their findings, can be parsed by contracts to verify their authenticity.