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Zignaly Team (Zignaly)
Zignaly Announces Cosmos-Based ZIGChain, $100M Ecosystem Fund
ZIGChain's ecosystem fund is backed by DWF Labs.
Zignaly Team (Zignaly)

Monad Labs is looking to provide faster EVM processing than Ethereum. (Julian Hochgesang/Unsplash)
Blockchain Developer Monad Labs Raises $225M Led by Paradigm
The company is looking to offer an Ethereum-compatible environment that's faster than the original.
Monad Labs is looking to provide faster EVM processing than Ethereum. (Julian Hochgesang/Unsplash)

Breaking Down Internet Computer's 40% Rally
Breaking Down Internet Computer's 40% Rally
Layer 1 Smart Contract Platform Internet Computer (ICP) gained 40% in the past week to a market cap above $8.8 billion. This comes after DFINITY Foundation founder Dominic Wil...
Breaking Down Internet Computer's 40% Rally

Tornado Cash website and Discord taken offline (Nikolas Noonan/Unsplash)
Cosmos-Based Canto Blockchain Reverses Course on Polygon Layer-2 Plans, Unveils New Roadmap
Canto will remain a Cosmos layer 1 network rather than shift to the Ethereum ecosystem, as previously announced. Its new Cyclone Stack will include upgrades aimed at scaling a...
Tornado Cash website and Discord taken offline (Nikolas Noonan/Unsplash)

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)
Tether's USDT To Launch on Celo
The USDT integration aims to boost cross-border payments and peer-to-peer transactions in developing regions.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino (Tether)

Bear (mana5280/Unsplash)
Liquidity-Focused Berachain Opens Layer-1 Testnet to Public
Berachain's pseudonymous founders plan "to accomplish more with less initial resources."
Bear (mana5280/Unsplash)

INJ/USD (TradingView)
Injective's INJ Year-to-Date Gain Rises to 3,000% After Latest Jump
Artificial Intelligence hype is among the catalysts for the outsized move.
INJ/USD (TradingView)

DYdX founder Antonio Juliano. (dYdX)
'We Can't Build Something Like This on Ethereum,' Says DYdX Founder as Mainnet Nears
In an exclusive interview, Antonio Juliano, founder of dYdX (and a former Coinbase software engineer), discusses his project's move to build a new layer-1 blockchain using Cos...
DYdX founder Antonio Juliano. (dYdX)

Co-founders of LUKSO Fabian Vogelsteller & Marjorie Hernandez (LUKSO)
Fabian Vogesteller’s Lukso Blockchain Adds ‘Universal Profiles,’ in Push for ‘Fancy’ Ethereum
The Universal Profiles are a feature, currently in beta, designed to give users a holistic “on-chain identity” that comes with a recoverable crypto account as well as a profil...
Co-founders of LUKSO Fabian Vogelsteller & Marjorie Hernandez (LUKSO)

(Mufid Majnun/Unsplash)
Ex-Meta Engineer’s Layer-1 Blockchain Linera Raises $6M in New Funding
The layer-1 blockchain’s initial seed funding round was led by a16z crypto and has now raised $12 million in total.
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