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Tokens for Christmas: SOS Airdrop and RADAR Airdrop

Merry Christmas everyone! Santa has come to the blockchain, stuffing stockings with two new airdrops from The Open DAO and DappRadar. The SOS airdrop grants some amount to basically anyone who ever did anything on Opensea. The RADAR airdrop applies to users who registered with DappRadar, or who interacted with at least 10 dapps tracked

New Smart Contracts Promise Reduced NFT Gas Costs

Transaction fees are an unfortunate fact of life on the Ethereum mainnet – NFT gas costs even moreso. The success of NFT projects is particularly vulnerable to high fees, as they inflate the cost of the token. A $75+ gas fee is extremely unattractive to someone minting a single 0.05 Ξ NFT, and may even

Aztec Network Raises $17M in Series A

Aztec Connect is the first private bridge for Ethereum DeFi, launching live on testnet on December 9th[1]. It is a privacy focused L2 enabling cheap, private interactions with Layer 1 smart contracts and liquidity via DeFi aggregation. It uses zk-rollups to add privacy and gas savings to any Layer 1 protocol via bridges[2], enabling up

OlympusDAO Celebrates 31 Olympus Pro Partners

OlympusDAO’s Olympus Pro incubator program has recently reached the milestone of 31 partnered protocols. The Olympus Pro partners program offers projects the opportunity to enter a symbiotic relationship with OlympusDAO. In this partnership, they can draw on OlympusDAO’s vast experience implementing the protocol-owned-liquidity model. When a protocol joins Olympus Pro, OlympusDAO experts help set up

What Does OlympusDAO V2 Mean For The Future of (3,3)?

What is OlympusDAO V2? OlympusDAO V2 is a new set of contracts for the entire Olympus protocol ecosystem. The upgraded tokens function in the same basic way as before, but facilitate on-chain governance. The bonding system has also received a massive overhaul. Bonds are now more intuitive and cheaper for users, more efficient for the

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ZK-Rollups: The Solution to Ethereum’s Scaling Woes?

How will ZK-Rollups Help Ethereum Scale? Arguably the biggest pain point for new entrants into crypto are the gas fees on Ethereum’s Layer 1. For new users onboarding to crypto, paying $100 to do a swap on a DEX or transact on OpenSea is a major deterrent. This is one reason for the popularity of

Daniele Sestagalli Eyes Troubled SushiSwap for Frog Nation

The SushiSwap DeFi platform has been in the news recently. For several days, first- and second-hand reports of management team infighting broke over Twitter, leading to the eventual resignation of Joseph Delong, SushiSwap’s CTO. This comes after core team developer 0xMaki stepped down from day-to-day operations to take an advisory role in mid-September. With SushiSwap