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DeFi
Starknet Foundation Creates Gaming Committee With $120M Budget
The committee will design and recommend programs to attract developers to build games on Starknet and to incentivize users to play them.

Markets
Bitcoin Goes Into Price Discovery, Skyrockets Past $72,000
Bitcoin ETFs, Microstrategy, and Trump are driving today’s rally.

DeFi
AI Tokens Outperform As Crypto Markets Continue To Post New Highs
The combined capitalization of AI tokens is up 800% in four months.

Education
Exploring Opal: A New Omnipool Protocol, Built for Balancer and Aura Finance
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.

DeFi
MakerDAO Hikes Fees More Than 140% To Prevent ‘DAI Demand Shock’
DAI stability fees were raised from between 6.41% and 7.18% to between 15% and 17.25%.

Podcast
Exploring the Ex-Apple Engineer Led Sui Network
Evan Cheng is the Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs, which is the team behind Sui Network. In their words, Sui is a Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform "designed to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible". In our conversation we explore the potential of this up and coming Layer 1 by learning about the underlying motivation of the founder, what makes it different from other blockchains, in particular Aptos, the current main uses cases, and more.

DeFi
Uniswap Governance Rejects Proposal Enabling DAO To Make Fee Changes
Nearly 60% of votes were cast against a proposal that would allow the DAO to change Uniswap’s fee mechanism.

DeFi
Our Most Read Stories This Week: BTC Tops 70k, Retail Returning, BTC ETFs Climb Ranks, Wormhole Airdrop
The Defiant's most read stories for the week of March 4.

Blockchains
How Solana Is Winning in the Crypto Bull Market
This is Crypto With Cami, a show where we go through all the major news in DeFi and Web3 in 30 minutes or less.






