Week in DeFi: All Eyes on Solana
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Week in DeFi: All Eyes on Solana

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The Solana ecosystem heats up as liquid staking protocol Jito airdrops $200 million worth of tokens — but other exciting developments are also happening across DeFi. Read on to find out more!

Week in DeFi: All Eyes on Solana

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Jito opens their airdrop for claims, creating a surge of users on Solana seeking similar airdrop opportunities. EigenLayer announces the upcoming raises in capacity for restaking on their platform and finally, Mantle unveils their own liquid staking products for the chain, unlocking lucrative yield opportunities for users.
Insane week in the world of DeFi! Let’s dive deeper into what went down in DeFi this past week.

Overview

Total value locked (TVL) across all chains surge higher as anticipation builds towards the Bitcoin ETF approval and markets across the board continue to perform. Notable outperformers include Solana, Ronin and Linea which all saw increases of 25-30% in TVL in the past week due to individual catalysts.

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Ethereum: EigenLayer Cap Raises Incoming

ETH restaking platform, EigenLayer, announces plans to raise the caps for ETH restaking to 200K tokens from the current 100K. Additionally, they will also be introducing new accepted tokens including osETH, swETH, oETH, ETHx, wbETH and ankrETH.
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Weighted automated market maker (AMM), Balancer, unveils plans for an architecture overhaul for Balancer V3, which is slated for a Q2 2024 launch. The revamp intends to improve pool design as well as introduce better tooling for protocols building on Balancer.
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Other Product Launches and Updates

L2s: Mantle Unveils Liquid Staking

L2 chain Mantle unveils its two products, Mantle Liquid Staking Protocol (LSP) and their liquid staking token, mETH. More than 63,000 ETH has already been staked with the protocol since its launch.
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DeFi suite and FRAX stablecoin issuer, Frax Finance quietly launches the Fraxchain L2 testnet on Holesky, enabling interested participants to mint frxETH and bridge their tokens into the Fraxchain testnet.
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Other Product Launches and Updates

Solana: Wormhole x Jupiter Exchange

Bridging infrastructure protocol, Wormhole, partners with DEX aggregator, Jupiter Exchange, to release Wormhole Connect, enabling transfers of ETH, WETH and WBTC from Ethereum to Solana with zero slippage.
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Money market platform, Kamino Finance, announces that a points system for the platform will be introduced shortly, implying a potential upcoming airdrop. They have also confirmed that actions prior to the implementation have also been tracked and will be accounted for.
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Lending protocol, Margin Finance, releases plans for an upcoming stablecoin, YBX, seeking to provide the highest earning stablecoin in all of Solana, capturing staking yield, maximal extractable value (MEV) yield and lending yield on Margin.
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Cosmos: Consolidations and Mergers Underway

Osmosis and UX Chain (formerly Umee) are proposing a merger between the two chains. If passed, Osmosis will begin integration of UX Chain’s lending markets and the TVL of both chains will be combined moving forward.
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Cosmos-based money market protocol, Mars Protocol, proposes to migrate their headquarters from their own chain, Mars Hub, to Neutron, a fellow Cosmos chain. The move would reduce effort spent on maintaining the Mars Hub as well as bring the Mars application to Neutron.
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Another Week, Another Airdrop

Solana liquid staking protocol, Jito, opens their airdrop for claims, releasing more than $200 million worth of JTO tokens into the Solana ecosystem. The claims will remain open for 18 months from initial launch.

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Zero-knowledge rollup, Starknet, quells rumors that the airdrop for their token is live, but implies that the snapshot has been taken for the upcoming airdrop of the STRK token.
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Privacy-focused Cosmos chain, Namada, releases their airdrop, with criteria for eligible Ethereum, Cosmos, Osmosis and Stargaze wallets as well as specific GitHub contributors.
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Tweet of the Week

Blockgraze reminds everyone to lower their IQs and to stop wondering why random coins are pumping. In a bull market, all coins are meme coins.

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