This week's markets roundup reports on Ethereum's burn rate and the mixed performance of top tokens like Solana and Aave.

Polkadot's auction of parachains may drive innovation and scalability for a project aims to improve on Ethereum.

Mochi launch reignites the Curve wars as influential Defiers decry its brazen tactics to maximize rewards.

The big-but-not-Facebook-big companies of the social web, Discord, Reddit and Twitter, are giving crypto’s technology a much more serious look.  That could mean the blockchain party will be much larger, soon.

THORChain's woes continued when its DEX accidentally front-runned its community.

Metis is joining the fray, where Arbitrum and Optimism have so far ruled. The project is set to launch its mainnet the week of Nov. 15 and is also launching a $100M fund, which Metis describes as a “decentralized autonomous company” (DAC), called Genesi, to support projects which join its ecosystem. 

Joseph Lubin, founder of Ethereum incubator ConenSys, set off speculation a token for the non-custodial wallet MetaMask is imminent after tweeting, “Wen $MASK? Stay tuned.” ConsenSys develops MetaMask.

Axie Infinity's new AMM for Ronin exceeded $1B in TVL.

Ink DAO members are literally branding themselves with a tattoo to show their devotion to NFTs, and to each other.

Axie Infinity has launched an automated market maker called Katana for its sidechain Ronin, and it had 25,000 people interact with it less than 10 hours into its existence, according to Jiho Zirlin, co-founder of the team that built the game.