Daily news roundup with the 🦙

> DefiLlama plushie

1/3 News📰

> Kraken's introduces their L2 Ink built using OP Stack

> Lido's Community Staking Module is live on Mainnet

> Liquid (re)staking on Solana Fragmetric is live

> OnchainKit checkout is live

> Twine - the multichain settlement network

> mETH Protocol announces governance token

> Sky Ecosystem Call discusses possible return of MakerDAO branding

> Biconomy Nexus is live

> Etherscan API v2

> Fireblocks offering $1m in grants to boost pyUSD adoption

> WSJ reports that Tether is under federal investigation

> Paolo Ardoino, Tether CEO, says he has seen no indication of US probe

> Vela Exchange shutting down

Layer 1 & 2⛓

> Scaling Ethereum Rollups with Helios Light clients

> Fault proofs coming to Base mainnet on October 30th

> Celestia Mammoth Mini testnet averaging 27MB/s of permissionless data throughput

> Celestia Ginger upgrade

> DA costs per MB: Ethereum Blobs vs. Celestia

> ePBS breakout room 12 notes

Reads 📚

> Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol: The Verge

> Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol: The Purge

> Mastering AMMs

> The Vertical Integrators: Ethena, Hyperliquid, and Uniswap

> Stablecoins | The Monetary Upgrade

> Prediction Markets & Crypto 101

> Crypto's role in the AI revolution

> Demystifying the Crypto x AI Stack

> Crypto Startup Trends 2024

> Accumulation for Reed-Solomon Codes

Raises💰

> GnosisDAO launching their $40m venture fund

> Bluesky $15m series A

> Variational $10.3m seed funding

> Validation Cloud $10m funding

> Skyfire total funding raised to $9.5m

> Party Icons $9m private round

> STOKR €7.4m strategic funding

> Karpatkey $7m seed funding

> Shuttle Labs $6m funding to build Genius

> Hata $4.2m seed funding

> Fluid Protocol $3.9m seed funding

> Moonwalk Fitness $3.4m seed funding

> Borderless $3m pre-seed funding

> BulbaSwap $1.3m seed funding

Security 🛡

> $20m worth of collateral suspected to have been removed from Scroll ecosystem stablcoin protocol Essence Finance

> Ambient Finance has fully reimbursed all victims of the recent domain hijack phishing attack

> Infiltrating Cosmos

> TapiocaDAO incident post mortem

Development⚙️

> Valida Rust Alpha Compiler

[Steel V2 available on Solana](https://x.com/STEELnew/status/1849163903202439305(forward from ****)) How one trader’s $26m Trump bet exposed Polymarket’s prediction problem[1]

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