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vlayer: vlayer’s Manifesto: The Verifiable Data Infrastructure

Explore vlayer's vision for bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3. Learn how vlayer leverages zero-knowledge proofs to make Web2 data actionable on-chain, empowering decentralized applications and enhancing privacy through verifiable claims.

January 1, 2025

24 Things From 2024

It's been a big year. We helped push forward education and adoption of tokenized assets while working to educate the wider industry so we can bring the next trillion dollars of assets onchain.

January 1, 2025

2024 Founder Letter

The numbers that are important tell a story about Maple’s growth in 2024. During the year, our Total Value Locked (TVL), the north star metric, climbed from $85m to a peak of over $600m. This growth is essential to Maple’s mission of becoming the world’s largest institutional lender, beginning with digital assets.

December 26, 2024

Spotlight Ep. 13: Virtuals Protocol - The Agentic Economy w/ Jansen

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Jansen, co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, which enables the creation, ownership, and growth of tokenized AI Agents. We discuss Virtuals Protocol’s product offering and upcoming roadmap, what’s next for AI agents, and more!

December 21, 2024

Turning Vision Into Action: Scaling Maple in 2025

This article will explore where Maple stands post-SYRUP launch, the incredible opportunity ahead in 2025, and how we plan to capitalize on it. We will delve into the Maple Ecosystem, comprising Maple Institutional and Syrup.fi and outline our roadmap for the year ahead.

December 19, 2024

The AI revolution needs infrastructure. We're building it.

Looking for engineers who love solving complex problems and want to shape how AI agents interact with every website on Earth.

December 18, 2024

Ethena Rolls Out Stablecoin Backed by BlackRock's BUIDL Token

The protocol's governance token ENA rallied over the weekend as Donald Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial invested in the token.

December 16, 2024

Pectra: What It Means For You

By enabling the consolidation of existing validators up to 2048 eth in size, this is a unique opportunity for node operators and staking protocols to reduce their validator count and migrate to distributed validators to future-proof their infrastructure.

December 16, 2024

Key Takeaways from OurNetwork’s Aptos Mega Issue (Q4 2024)

To close out 2024, leading onchain data newsletter OurNetwork has published yet another deep-dive report on the Aptos ecosystem.

December 16, 2024

Jia Expands Credit Solution on Huma to Foster Growth in Emerging Markets

Addressing a $5 trillion global credit gap in emerging markets, Jia, which connects capital to small businesses in every corner of the world, scales up its credit solution on Huma, which builds infrastructure for real-world lending.

Ethereum’s 8th Anniversary: Ecosystem Leaders Share Insights

Contributor Chris Castiglione spoke with seven leaders in the Ethereum ecosystem to celebrate the past eight years of Ethereum, and to look forward to what's on the horizon.

Empowering the Yield Ecosystem: Sommelier Use-case

This article was co-written by Josh Kessler from Sommelier Finance.

The Metamorphosis DeFi Lending Needs

A few days ago, I wrote The Two Paths for DeFi: Decentralized Brokers vs. Protocols.

Upgrading Morpho's brand, preparing for the future

We are at the dawn of Morpho's next chapter, and what better way to start it than with an upgraded brand identity fit for the future?

Ambient Finance Raises Seed Round Funding

We’re excited to announce that Ambient Finance (previously known as CrocSwap) has raised $6.5M in a seed round at $80M network valuation led by Blocktower with participation from Jane Street, Circle, Tensai Capital, Naval Ravikant, Yunt Capital, Susa Ventures, Quantstamp, and Hypotenuse Labs, along with angel investors Julian Koh, llllvvuu, Dogetoshi, afkbyte, Jai Prasad, Don Ho, and others.