Alpha Zone #16
Welcome to the Alpha Zone newsletter ! We share crypto alpha, macro news. Please do your own research. Not Financial Advice.
📰 NEWS Recap Weekly
◼ CFTC settles charges against DeFi protocols Opyn, ZeroEx and Deridex
◼ FBI says North Korea-affiliated Lazarus Group was responsible for $41M theft on Stake
◼ Founder of Turkish failed crypto exchange Thodex was sentenced to 11.2k years in jail
◼ Steve Kokinos and other creditors named to run Celsius 2.0
◼ Visa Expands Stablecoin Settlement Capabilities to Merchant Acquirers
◼ ZachXBT legal refund claim contract is now live
🎦 The LSTfi Summit
📊 Market Overview
Layer 1️⃣ & 2️⃣ Zone
◼ A Deep-Dive into Saga
◼ Introducing Layer N
◼ Empowering Innovation: ERC-4337 Account Abstraction Grant Round Recipients
◼ Cortado Testnet Integrates with OP Stack
◼ Intro to EigenDA: Hyperscale Data Availability for Rollups
◼ Introducing Gevulot: L1 blockchain for zero-knowledge proving
◼ SHARP - StarkWare
🎦 Ethereum's Defense Against AI
🎰 Degen / New Projects / Alpha Call
@wacy_time1 tweet Fundamental projects have the potential to generate 5-10x returns with less risk.
@nobrainflip tweet picked 30 best recent investments of Coinbase, a167 and Paradigm.
@Axel_bitblaze69 tweet Beware of the rug pullers!
📈 DeFi Zone
◼ Diving into Prisma Finance's contracts & comparison with veCRV
◼ LidoDAO: The Guided Open Objective Setting Exercise (“GOOSE”) proposal
◼ Synthetix, A New Hope
◼ Liquis is Live
◼ Introducing the Prisma Point System
◼ Introducing hyperps: LayerZero pre-launch perps
◼ Yearn v3 docs are now live
◼ Aegis V2 is live
Top 10 DeFi Protocol Rankings @DefiLlama
🐵 NFT
Top 10 NFT Rankings Weekly
◼ Are NFT markets in a death spiral or ready for a resurgence?
◼ Gala Games official legal statement regarding lawsuits between the co-founders
◼ Introducing the idOS - the Identity Operating System
◼ Metaverse is dead in the West, but ‘so hot' in Asia: Sandbox co-founder
◼ Coinbase Paves Way for Big Institutions to Do More With Web3, DeFi, NFTs
◼ Metaverse Is Transforming Modern Education, Claims Meta
🪂 Airdrop
@leshka_eth tweet dYdX Airdrop
🎭 Meme
