Daily Notes: 09-11-2023
Developments
- BlackRock is working on launching a spot ETH ETF called the iShares Ethereum. source
- The European Parliament approved an act that would require smart contracts to have a kill switch. The next steps towards the act being implemented would be approval from the European Council. source
- Circle has released v2.2 for their stablecoins - USDC and EURC. The update decreases gas costs, increases the security of transactions involving them on EVM chains, and provides improved support for account abstraction which enables developers to build products where users can pay gas in USDC or EURC. source
- Ark Invest and 21Shares are getting ready to launch 5 new ETF‘s that will give investors exposure to digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum futures contracts. source
- Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin mining firm, has released their 2023 Q3 report which shows increased revenues by 11.2% from $46.3 million to $51.9 million compared to their Q3 2022 reports. Additionally, they mined 1,106 BTC compared to 1,042 BTC in Q3 2022. source
- Immutable has partnered with Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab to “a new gaming experience to further unlock benefits for players through the power of web3”. source
- A New York judge approved Celsius’ plan to restart under the name “NewCo” which would see the distribution of $2 billion BTC and ETH to Celsius customers as well as NewCo Stock. source
- Polygon has relaunched their grant program “Polygon Village” which will use 110 million MATIC ($90 million) to fund both projects both existing and being developed on the chain. source
- Former Flashbot’s co-founder, Stephane Gosselin, has released a Telegram bot named ‘Alfred’ which allows users to trade tokens on Ethereum while protecting against MEV. source
- HTX and Tron founder, His Excellency Justin Sun, has asked via his Twitter if the public would like to see Inscriptions come to Tron. source
- Chainlink staking v0.2 will launch to the public on December 11th 2023. The pool will have 45 million LINK in rewards. Early access will open on December 7th. source
Trending Assets and Volumes
- BADGER is up 65.53% today, and is also had one of the top 10 highest trading volumes onchain.
- MC, up 21.42%, HT, up 20.39%, and ELON, up 14.51%, were top performing tokens above $100M.
-LDO, up 7.06%, and ETH, up 6.51%, performed well today following BlackRock’s ETH ETF filing.
TVL
- HMX, multichain perpetuals DEX, TVL grew by 410.57%.
- Cetus, DEX on Aptos and Sui, TVL grew by 25.56%.
- Vaultka, yield on Arbitrum, TVL grew by 24.13%.
Fees
- friend.tech fees earned back in the top 10, after a 54.60% increase over the past day. Bitcoin fees earned is second highest - potentially due to rising popularity of inscriptions.
Governance Proposals
- Balancer proposal to lock the vested 1.4m Aura and 600k unvested Aura into vlAura to begin earning rewards and eventually start allocating vote weight towards revenue generating pools. source
Articles
- Users can earn VRTX and ARB by trading on Vertex or LPing Elixir Fusion pools. source
- STFX has launched spot vaults, and users can now trade every ERC-20 coin directly through the platform. source
Full notes here:
https://x.com/asxn_r/status/1722768331789275144
Developments
- BlackRock is working on launching a spot ETH ETF called the iShares Ethereum. source
- The European Parliament approved an act that would require smart contracts to have a kill switch. The next steps towards the act being implemented would be approval from the European Council. source
- Circle has released v2.2 for their stablecoins - USDC and EURC. The update decreases gas costs, increases the security of transactions involving them on EVM chains, and provides improved support for account abstraction which enables developers to build products where users can pay gas in USDC or EURC. source
- Ark Invest and 21Shares are getting ready to launch 5 new ETF‘s that will give investors exposure to digital assets, including Bitcoin and Ethereum futures contracts. source
- Riot Platforms, a Bitcoin mining firm, has released their 2023 Q3 report which shows increased revenues by 11.2% from $46.3 million to $51.9 million compared to their Q3 2022 reports. Additionally, they mined 1,106 BTC compared to 1,042 BTC in Q3 2022. source
- Immutable has partnered with Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab to “a new gaming experience to further unlock benefits for players through the power of web3”. source
- A New York judge approved Celsius’ plan to restart under the name “NewCo” which would see the distribution of $2 billion BTC and ETH to Celsius customers as well as NewCo Stock. source
- Polygon has relaunched their grant program “Polygon Village” which will use 110 million MATIC ($90 million) to fund both projects both existing and being developed on the chain. source
- Former Flashbot’s co-founder, Stephane Gosselin, has released a Telegram bot named ‘Alfred’ which allows users to trade tokens on Ethereum while protecting against MEV. source
- HTX and Tron founder, His Excellency Justin Sun, has asked via his Twitter if the public would like to see Inscriptions come to Tron. source
- Chainlink staking v0.2 will launch to the public on December 11th 2023. The pool will have 45 million LINK in rewards. Early access will open on December 7th. source
Trending Assets and Volumes
- BADGER is up 65.53% today, and is also had one of the top 10 highest trading volumes onchain.
- MC, up 21.42%, HT, up 20.39%, and ELON, up 14.51%, were top performing tokens above $100M.
-LDO, up 7.06%, and ETH, up 6.51%, performed well today following BlackRock’s ETH ETF filing.
TVL
- HMX, multichain perpetuals DEX, TVL grew by 410.57%.
- Cetus, DEX on Aptos and Sui, TVL grew by 25.56%.
- Vaultka, yield on Arbitrum, TVL grew by 24.13%.
Fees
- friend.tech fees earned back in the top 10, after a 54.60% increase over the past day. Bitcoin fees earned is second highest - potentially due to rising popularity of inscriptions.
Governance Proposals
- Balancer proposal to lock the vested 1.4m Aura and 600k unvested Aura into vlAura to begin earning rewards and eventually start allocating vote weight towards revenue generating pools. source
Articles
- Users can earn VRTX and ARB by trading on Vertex or LPing Elixir Fusion pools. source
- STFX has launched spot vaults, and users can now trade every ERC-20 coin directly through the platform. source
Full notes here:
https://x.com/asxn_r/status/1722768331789275144