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Blockchains
Ethereum’s Dencun Upgrade Goes Live On Sepolia Without A Hitch
Dencun’s final testnet deployment will take place on Feb. 7.

Markets
Ether Rallies After Standard Chartered Predicts ETF Approval In May
Early numbers indicate GBTC outflows continue to abate.

People
Vitalik Buterin Outlines Synergies Between AI and Blockchains
Buterin says most promising use cases will be where the underlying mechanism continues to be designed roughly as before, but the individual players become AIs.

DeFi
Lending Protocol Abracadabra Hit By $6.5M Exploit
The MIM stablecoin trades at a 6% discount as the team attempts to contact the hacker via onchain message.

Markets
Grayscale ETF Outflows Slow As BTC Price Rises
Grayscale outflows recede 60% as BTC recovers 12% from local low.

DeFi
Swell Launches Liquid Restaking Token As LRTs Boom
Liquid restaking protocols surpass $900M or 45% of EigenLayer’s TVL.

DeFi
Immutable zkEVM Launches Early Access Phase On Mainnet
Whitelisted developers and those buildng on smart contract templates can deploy to the network.

Research & Opinion
Solana: A Past Ecosystem of the Future
How Solana is currently rhyming Ethereum during the previous market cycle.

DeFi
Manta Soars To $3.7B Valuation Ten Days After Launching Token
Manta Pacific is currently the third-largest Ethereum Layer 2 network by total value locked.

DeFi
SocialFi App Farcaster’s Activity Spikes After Launching Frames Feature
The feature allows for embedding interactive posts, pushing Farcaster’s daily active users past 10,000.





