DeBridge is a cross-chain messaging and interoperability protocol that raised $5.5 million in 2021 from prominent investors like ParaFi and Animoca Brands.

Mantle has established itself as the 12th largest network by TVL, 4th among Ethereum L2s with $353M as of this post. Mantle publicly prides itself on being a DeFi haven among L2s, by incubating its own native protocols such as the money market INIT Capital with $60M in liquidity as well as more established DeFi brands such as Pendle, currently holding $196M TVL just on Mantle.

With the hype around EigenLayer and liquid restaking kicking into high gear, DeFi traders are going all out to accumulate airdrop points after the successful debuts of the EtherFi token.

ZeroLend is a fork of Aave V3, known for being the top ranked protocol by TVL to lend and borrow on zkSync. ZeroLend also supports Blast, Linea, Manta, and now Ethereum Mainnet with a growing focus on LRTs such eETH by ether.fi.

Hyperlane is designed to be a universal and permissionless interoperability layer that can connect any blockchain, including layer 1, rollups, or appchains. It serves as an interchain messaging protocol, offering APIs and an SDK for developers to build interchain applications. Some of the leading blockchains compatible with Hyperlane include Ethereum, Cosmos and Polkadot.

Stacking means to lock STX to participate in the Stacks Consensus. This staking is somewhat similar to ETH staking. As of this writing, there is ~400m STX stacked with an average yield of 6.35% APY.

Opal is currently built on Ethereum Mainnet but is likely to expand to L2s in the future. Opal’s mission is to enhance the “DEX liquidity flywheel” in the Balancer ecosystem. With Aura Finance, liquidity providers (LPs) enjoy boosted Balancer LP yields thanks to protocol-owned veBAL, which allows Aura to earn maximum yields. Aura’s design is very similar to what many LPs have used in Convex Finance.

Aptos is a Layer 1 blockchain that focuses on delivering high throughput, scalability, and security for decentralized applications. It is designed to address some of the limitations of previous blockchain systems, such as slow transaction speeds and scalability issues. The Aptos blockchain utilizes a novel consensus protocol known as AptosBFT, which is a variant of the Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) consensus mechanism, aiming to achieve faster and more reliable transaction processing.

Ethena launched its public mainnet. Ethena is the protocol powering a new delta-neutral synthetic dollar USDe, backed by ETH staking yield and automated, programmatic delta-neutral hedges (shorting ETH).