Netmarble's Marblex has launched "Pocket Girls: Idle RPG," a mobile game combining casual gaming with idle RPG mechanics, and is now available globally for free on Google Play.
The Beacon, a free-to-play RPG, has launched The New Frontiers Quest, a two-week campaign to secure a whitelist spot for the upcoming Writ of Passage NFT Mint event.
SubQuery Network has launched two new decentralized RPCs for the Polkadot ecosystem, making them the first to be available on Substrate-based networks.
Injective is set to conduct a burn auction, which will result in the burning of over 6 million tokens.
The process involves:
•Collect protocol revenue from dApps •Auction off the revenue pool weekly •Winner receives the pool in exchange for INJ •Burned INJ tokens are gone forever
OpenAI confirms their strong cloud partnership with Microsoft Azure remains unchanged, despite their new collaboration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
BEVM has launched a $10 million support plan for hashrate RWA startups, providing resources such as branding, investment, and liquidity incentives. The goal is to bridge the gap between off-chain hashrate and on-chain finance, integrating the trillion-dollar hashrate market with DeFi.
Additionally, 800,000 addresses are now active on the BEVM platform.
Shell Protocol has announced that it will distribute SHELL rewards for staking and liquidity provision over the past three months. The distribution is expected to take place this week.
Symbiotic, a permissionless restaking protocol, has officially launched. The protocol's core contracts are immutable and non-upgradeable, which removes external governance risks and single points of failure.
Additionally, Symbiotic has announced a $5.8M seed funding round, led by crypto-native funds Paradigm and CyberFund.
Lido, a popular Ethereum staking platform, is facing challenges from the "restaking" trend, which threatens to disrupt its dominance in DeFi.
To address this, Lido's DAO is partnering with Mellow Finance and Symbiotic to offer restaking tools, allowing users to generate yield by depositing into vaults. This initiative aims to help Lido's stETH regain its prominence.
Polygon launches $720M Community Treasury to support blockchain projects over 10 years. Initial 35M Polygon tokens ($25M) allocated for Community Grants Program (CGP) first season.
🔹S01 applications: June 11, 2024 - Aug 31, 2024 🔹Grant range: 5,000 - 50,000+ MATIC
🔹Two tracks:
•General Grants Track: open to all projects building on Polygon protocols •Consumer Crypto Track: open to projects that unlock on-chain experiences for consumer adoption
Celestia has launched its data proof bridge, Blobstream, on the Ethereum mainnet, where it transmits commitments of Celestia's data roots to an on-chain Ethereum light client.
This enables permissionless and high-throughput data availability (DA) for Ethereum Layer 2 networks, secured by cryptoeconomic guarantees rather than relying on reputation or hidden trust assumptions.
Additionally, Blobstream is now available on Celenium, a developer-oriented blockchain explorer, allowing anyone to track on-chain commitments to Celestia's data root.
Tellor has completed the audit of its Oracle Layer 1 blockchain, Tellor Layer, ensuring its security and reliability, and successfully transitioning it from an Ethereum Virtual Machine to an autonomous oracle-specific network.
Aergo, an open-source blockchain platform, has updated its Aergo Scan blockchain explorer to improve security and transparency following a recent incident. The upgrade includes a new Internal Transaction UI, allowing users to track detailed histories of addresses and transactions.
The forthcoming Aergo V4 hard fork will focus on enhancing transparency and adopting a "White-Box" model, benefiting existing and future applications.