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Crypto firm Grayscale reaches $60 million AUM, overtaking top Gold ETFs. More, on Daily Bits.
Ethereum validators earned a record $46 million in staking rewards in the first week of May, with the staking rewards rate reaching 8.6% post-Merge. Read more here.
Restaking protocol EigenLayer raised its deposit caps on liquid staking tokens (LST) to 100,000 for pools such as stETH, rETH, and cbETH. Read more here.
Vitalik Buterin highlighted in its latest blog that Ethereum has to enhance its cross-chain ability, wallet security, and privacy to be sustainable. Read more here.
After a month of impressive returns, the crypto market has observed more sideways movements and lowered trading volume going into September.
The gaming-focused project, Immutable, has announced three new GameFi titles set to launch on its upcoming Polygon-powered Layer 2 rollup, Immutable zkEVM, before its mainnet launch early next year.
The money markets plummeted on hot CPI prints, whilst the broader crypto market also flipped red again after yet another short-lived relief rally.
Hashrate, a litmus test for network health, has been on a week-long decline, as much as 33% in the past three days, and is facing the prospect of further plummets as regulatory bodies in China vowed to crack down on Bitcoin mining and trading activities.
In the aftermath of a particularly brutal correction — one that tanked the price of Bitcoin below its $1 trillion market cap level near $53,500 — market participants have finally buoyed the price back above a major on-chain support level.
The Banff upgrade went live on the Avalanche blockchain, completing the launch of Elastic Validation for subnet creators. Find out more here.