The Liquity v2 codebase was released today, along with details of LQTY’s role in v2. LQTY will power a Protocol Incentivized Liquidity (PIL) model, allowing LQTY stakers to direct subsidies made up of protocol revenue. Staked LQTY will retain the same roles and benefits of v1, in addition to its PIL role in v2.

We have previously discuss

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Limitless is a social prediction market on Base.

Having interacted with the team and been watching them closely, I can attest that they are capable of building a product that can compete with Polymarket.

The goal is for the platform to support permissionless market creation, however right now in their infancy stage creation is perm

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Before joining crypto full time, I spent a good number of years investing in consumer internet companies in the US and APAC. For all intensive purposes, this meant marketplaces.

From 2010 – 2021, there was arguably no better risk-reward on planet earth than as a series C+ growth equity investor in marketplaces. The game was rigged to make

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Crypto sentiment is suffering from a outburst of nihilism. People see the market for what it is today, but do not see an evolved path forward. They simply see more of the same. And it’s kind of sad.

We are seeing this sentiment across the board, from retail investors to VCs all the way to operators. It’s a pretty terrible thing, and is we

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Pencils Protocol is a Scroll-native applications that offers a suite of products.

They are effectively a “one-stop” shop on Scroll offering farming, vaults, launchpads, liquid staking, and RWA auctions. TVL across the protocol is currently $315M.

Today they announced their raise at an $80M post-money valuation.

Farming

Deposits in

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Given the recent debates about the Ethereum rollup-centric roadmap, I thought it would beneficial to give a rundown of the actual metrics L2s are producing. All data/charts are taken from Growthepie, a great source for everything about L2s.

Economics

The best argument against L2s has always been that the economics of a rollup-centric

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Yesterday two Starknet upgrades went live on mainnet: parallel execution and block packing.

Starknet is significantly faster and cheaper. The upgrades allowed for a peak of 400 TPS on testnet.

For what it’s worth, mainnet is still under 1 TPS, because there is very little demand for Starknet blockspace.

Parallel Execution

Parallel e

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The majority of chain abstraction protocols are attempting to solve the UX issue that comes with rollup interoperability.

XION is taking a different route through building an L1 network that includes full protocol-level abstraction. The chain is built using the Cosmos SDK and Comet BFT.

They have raised $36M from Multicoin, Circle Vent

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MakerDAO has officially undergone its long anticipated rebranding. Going forward, MakerDAO will be referred to as Sky Protocol. Given the mixed sentiment around the rebranding, let’s unpack the changes accompanying Sky.

At a high level, there are five major changes coming to the protocol:

1. $USDS: DAI is now upgradeable 1:1 for $USDS. $

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MetaDAO is my highest-conviction low-cap altcoin. And this is my thesis.

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But first, let’s lay some groundwork — WTF is MetaDAO?

MetaDAO is building decision markets. It’s similar to Polymarket but with some key differences. In a prediction market, you bet on what you think will happen. In a decision market, you bet on what you

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