Daily news roundup with the 🦙

1/2 News📰

> EigenLayer token live

> Eigen Labs and Eigen Foundation disclosures on the treatement of investor staking rewards

> Powdr Labs is now and independent organisation focused on next gen ZK tooling, security, and applied research

> Automata mainnet launch on Optimism OP Stack

> Axelar Mobius Development Stack - a new interoperability standard

> Strata bringing ZK rollups to Bitcoin

> Musubi - Chainless Swaps

> Union's Trusted Setup Ceremony has begun

> Shape L2 is live

> Gateway Protocol - The Decentralized Private Computer

> Transient Labs introduces Dot Fun, A playground for web3 innovation

> Dialect Action Chaining available across major wallets on Solana

> Codex public testnet live

> Optimism's ICrosschainERC20 standard

> Gnosis new brand identity

> Swift live trials of digital asset transactions to start in 2025

Layer 1 & 2⛓

> Succinct partner with Conduit to deploy OP Succinct rollups

> The Interwoven Stack: Optimistic Rollup Modules

> Puffer Introducing L2 Execution Preconfs

> Enclave introducing Encrypted Execution Environments

> Evaluating zkVMs for Nescience

> New L1 - Cortex

> Impact of increasing Blob Count

> Transaction invalidation complexity in FOCIL

> Updates ACDC #143

Middleware 🪢

> Hyve - gigabyte-throughput DA layer secured by symbiotic

> Puffer UniFi AVS live on EigenLayer

> L0 and Eigen Labs co-developed the cryptoeconomic DVN framework

> Puffer Fast Path Rewards, new funding mechanism for validators

> Kyros - Solana liquid (re)staking protocol

DeFi 🏦

> Solayer soft introducing sUSD (Solayer USD)

> Synthetix governance voted for reboot

> LVR VS IL: the end-game for AMM design is the marriage between retail investors and liquidity providers

> Liquity v2 mechanism design review

> Gearbox liquidation thresholds methodology framework

> Inside the Financial Transformation of EtherFi, Aave, Maker, & Lido

MEV⚡️

> Azuki x Flashbots showcasing the TEEs through the creation of "post once" links for Twitter accounts

> No Fish Is Too Big for Flash Boys

Reads 📚

> On solo staking, local block building and blobs

> How North Korea Infiltrated the Crypto Industry

> Understanding Transformer

> Request for Builders: Consumer Apps that Bridge Crypto and Culture

> A New Framework For Identifying Moats In Crypto Markets

> Next-Gen Layer 1 tokenomics

> The state of wallets in 2024

> State of Seed report

Raises💰

> SecondLive $12m private funding

> Mind Network $10m Pre-A round

> RD Technologies $7.8m Series A1

> Binance Labs invested in Sophon

> Rug Radio acquire Lucky Trader

Security 🛡

> EigenLayer investor transfer of tokens into custody compromised leading to 1.6m EIGEN tokens transferred to attack

> Curve fee splitter audit

Development⚙️

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