Layer 1 and Layer 2s

• - SKALE launched Pacifica V3 upgrade, accelerates block mining speed by 108% and increases transaction throughput by 122%.
• - Gnosis launched the beta version of Shutterrized Gnosis Chain, where the users connect with RPC are protected from malicious MEV in the encrypted mempool.
• - Fantom won the lawsuit against Multichain and the court awarded Fantom $2.19 million for losses suffered.

  Dapps

• - Usual Money launched its mainnet campaign, rewarding early users with "Pills" for 4 months duration. Usual's first product USD0 aims to be fully decentralised stablecoin backed by a basket of RWA collateral that invested in reverse repo and US government backed securities.
• - Cega Finance introduced derivative product (Dual Currency Swap) using Pendle's Yield Token (YT) as the deposit asset. The product is the first product that utilised Pendle's YT as deposit asset and further boosts the YT holders APY.
• - Pyth introduced Express Relay, an aggregated marketplace where searchers bid for valuable transactions to have priority inclusion.
• - Up Network announced it is building a Movement phone powered by Movement Labs.
• - SSV Network is now live on Lido's Simple DVT Module, enables stakers from all calibers to participate in Lido.
• - MakerDAO announced the Spark Tokenization Grand Prix, an open competition to board $1 billion RWA. The selected partners will receive up to $1 billion worth of liquidity.
• - API3 OEV Network is now live, allowing protocols that used API3 oracle to capture MEV by creating a market for searchers to bid for oracle updates during events such as liquidation.
• - Storj acquired Valdi to provide GPUs infrastructure for AI training and other inference in data-intensive industries.
• - AIOZ Network launched dVault, its storage dApps that utilises AIOZ Network's storage infrastructure.