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Babylon launched its genesis mainnet. Bitgo and Anchorage Digital announced support for Babylon Bitcoin staking on their platform.
Strategy acquired 3,459 BTCfor $285.8M
VanEck proposes BitBonds to tackle the staggering US Debt Crisis
Tether announced it will deploy its existing and future hashrate to the Bitcoin mining pool, OCEAN.
Panama City to accept Bitcoin and Ethereum as payment currencies for public services.
Tether acquired more shares of Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer amid April market slump.
wBTC now live on Starknet under incentivized DeFi Spring program.
Lombard launched LBTC SDK enabling seamless integration of liquid bitcoin staking into wallets, exchanges and staking platforms.
zkSync suffered a $5M security breach caused by a compromised key with the team stating that no users' funds are at risk.
Optimism introduced SuperStacks, an incentivized liquidity program in preparation for the Superchain interoperability to go live this summer.
Vitalik published a privacy roadmap highlighting the value of having payment privacy for the retail users while also doing so through incremental privacy upgrades that does not affect the consensus layer.
Base released a playbook to guide users and developers in launching an app/token from start to finish.
Starknet launched a new incubation program, Startup House.
Starknet wallet, Argent, released easy bridging powered by integration with Layerswap.
Lens Protocol’s Lens Chain went live, joining ZkSync’s Elastic Network.
Coinbase upgraded their Solana infrastructure for enhanced resilience and scalability to meet demand.
Canada listed 4 spot Solana ETFs.
Opensea adds support for Solana token trading, with NFT upcoming.
Solana-based Solayer introduced a crypto debit card.
Jupiter launched Juno, a next-gen aggregator combining routes from Jupiter, DFlow and Hashflow.
SendAI launched Solana Agent Kit v2 providing access to embedded wallets, MCP, better toolings among others.
Everclear completed a 6 months beta and announced support for Solana network.
OpenAI open-sourced its new evaluation dataset, OpenAI-MRCR, that can be used to test models' ability to retain accuracy and relevance for long context, multi-turn conversations.
OpenAI also released new models o3 and o4-mini that have enhanced reasoning capabilities, agentic tool use, with strengths in coding, instruction following, and handling long context up to 1M tokens.
Eliza Labs prepares launch of no-code agent deployment platform, auto.fun.
Griffain just launched Workflows for agents to seamlessly work through multi-step processes.
SwarmNode launched its Voice Summarizer Agent.
Redpill announced the launch of Smart Router that delivers the most optimal model across a selection of 200+ LLMs that best satisfy users’ prompts.
Pond launched Pond Agent Chat, powered by models that have been trained on onchain data.
Monad announced support for USDC, CCTP V2 and Circle Wallets on mainnet.
Ethena Labs released technical specifications for the upcoming Converge Chain that will be built in partnership with Securitize, Arbitrum and Celestia.
Circle Research released Refund Protocol, a smart contract that enables non-custodial refund and dispute resolution for stablecoin payments.
Non-custodial wallet provider, Bleap partnered with Mastercard to allow other wallet providers to leverage its proprietary technology to directly connect to the Mastercard network.
Standard Chartered expects stablecoin supply to surge to $2T by 2028.
Prime Broker Hidden Road acquired by Ripple for $1.25B, marking one of crypto’s largest acquisitions in history.
LayerZero completed a $55M strategic fundraising from A16z.
Auradine, a Bitcoin mining infrastructure provider, raised a $153M Series C round led by StepStone Group.
Resolv, a delta neutral stablecoin protocol completed a $10M seed round led by Cyber Fund and Maven 11.
Optimum, a high performance memory infrastructure provider, raised a $11M seed round led by 1kx.
Crypto Life Insurance company, Meanwhile, raised $40M in Series A funding led by Framework Ventures and Fulgur Ventures.
Social network Towns Protocol completed a $10M Series B round led by a16z.
Plastic Labs, developer of social cognition and identity for AI applications, completed a pre-seed funding round of $5.35M led by Variant Fund.
Plume Network received strategic investment from Apollo Fund to accelerate the development of its infrastructure and onboard the tokenization of RWAs.