DeFi Dev News 11/13 - Polygon Village, CowSwap Programmatic Orders, Avalanche Codebase
Developer News
- Polygon Village Startup Support
Polygon Labs has relaunched its Polygon Village initiative, offering a grant program of more than 110 million MATIC (~$91.3M) for devs and projects building on Polygon. - Zircuits launches public testnet
- EVM Compatible Zkrollup Zircuits launched its pubic testnet, built on Optimism Bedrock.
- CowSwap Programmatic Orders
CowSwap launched Programmatic Orders and Programmatic Order Framework, allowing devs to create any order type with conditional parameters. - Avalanche Codebase
Avalanche introduces Codebase, an accelerator supporting early-stage web3 projects. - Near Data Availability Layer
Near introduces the NEAR Data Availability Layer for projects building Ethereum rollups. Posting rollup data on NEAR is 8,000 times cheaper than on Ethereum. - zkSharding for Ethereum
Nil Foundation announces =nil, a zkRollup that securely scales Ethereum to 60,000+ TPS through zkSharding - Avail Incentizived Tesntet
Avail launches Clash of Nodes an incentivized testnet for validators and light clients.
Product Launches
- Notional V3 Public Launch
Notional V3 is live publicly on Arbitrum. V3 supports 12 currencies for lending and borrowing, and 9 for leveraged yield strategies. And NOTE incentives are live. - Flashbots Founder Launches Telegram Bot
Flashbots cofounder Stephane Gosselin launched Alfred, a trading bot on Telegram that allows user-friendly token swaps with MEV protection. - Ether.fi eETH
Ether.fi launches eETH on the mainnet for whitelisted users. - Sushiswap Smart Pools
Sushi launches Smart Pools that automate LP management, offer higher capital efficiency, and earn higher yields. - Jupiter Launches Perps
Solana DEX aggregator Jupiter launched an LP-to-trader perpetual exchange, with the available SOL, ETH, and BTC markets. - Flexlend Live on Solana
Solana-based Lulo Finance launches Flexlend, a lending aggregator with limit orders. - Vertex Stop Loss/Take Profit Orders
Vertex introduces Take Profit and Stop Loss orders. TP & SL consist of multiple types, including reduce-only orders, market orders, entire position, mark or last price. - Rysk Debit Spreads
Rysk launches Put/Call debit spreads, allowing trades to reduce the cost of entering a long position. - Frame Testnet Live
Creator network Frame testnet is live. Users can bridge funds, use the block explorer, and mint NFTs on the testnet. - Binance Web3 Wallet
Binance launches Web3 Wallet featuring MPC tech. The wallet generates three key shares, each stored in a separate location: the user’s personal cloud storage, their own device, and Binance’s protected servers.
Project Updates
- Linea Voyage Live
Linea L2 launches Defi Voyage in partnership with IntractCampaign. - Dyson Live on Polygon zkEVM
Dual investment DEX Dyson expands to Polygon zkEVM. - Immutable x Ubisoft
Immutable joins Ubisoft's Strategic Innovation Lab to create a new web3 gaming experience. - Lido Lands on Base
Lido is live on Base L2, enabling users to bridge wstETH to Base. - Quickswap Live on Manta
QuickSwap is live on Manta Pacific with token rewards and incentives for traders and LPs. - Avail Clash of Nodes
Avail launches Clash of Nodes, an incentivized testnet for validators and light clients. - Kraken May Launch an L2
Kraken is reportedly in talks with Polygon, Matter Labs, and Nil Foundation to build its own Layer 2.
Regulations
- BlackRock Files for Spot ETH ETF
BlackRock has filed a spot ETH ETF (iShares Ethereum Trust ETF) through Nasdaq. The ETF would use Coinbase Custody Trust Company as custodian, according to the filing. It will use the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate - New York Variant.
Hacks/Issues
- Raft 6.7M Exploit
Raft had an exploit and lost ~$6.7M unbacked R. Raft will sunset the current version and the DAO will establish a clear recovery plan for all affected users. - Pika to Retire PIKA Token
Pika will retire the PIKA token, allow holders to redeem PIKA for ETH, and the project will continue operations without a token.