Bitcoin
The crypto platform will add Atomicals (ARC-20), Stamps (SRC-20), Runes, and Doginals, (DRC-20) to its OKX wallet and marketplace to make trading more accessible.
DeFi
Crypto users who transacted on Jupiter, a Solana-based DEX swap aggregator, were able to claim WEN tokens for a few days until Monday morning. All unclaimed WEN tokens, worth about $35 million, will be burned, according to the token’s creators.
Tech
The Stellar Development Foundation has disarmed its validators, urging others on the network to hold off on voting to implement the Protocol 20 upgrade until a bug fix has been released.
Business
FTX’s bankruptcy estate has offloaded a significant amount of crypto assets, doubling its cash reserves to $4.4 billion over the course of two months.
Ethereum
The rollup holds about 4.5 million ETH in its smart contracts, a 13% increase in the past 30 days and a 104% jump in the past year.
Even as developers are observing Dencun in trials, they have also begun evaluating and prioritizing Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) for Electra, the next upgrade on the consensus layer.
Bitcoin investment platform Swan Bitcoin has brought its mining operations out of stealth with more than 750 BTC already mined and plans to increase capacity ahead of the Bitcoin halving.
Players get the speculative thrill of bigger rewards and designers have more flexibility to balance the game economy when Web3 games award points instead of tokens, writes Corey Wilton, CEO of Mirai Labs.
The network upgrade will soon become active on Sepolia and Holeskey, bringing Dencun one step closer to mainnet.
“DeFi leads and NFTs follow,” data scientist Carlos Mercado of Flipside Crypto said to Unchained in an interview. “Everything that’s culture, DeFi is absorbing.”