Hyperliquid Mainnet Staking Goes Live, Ondo Brings $USDY and Treasuries to Plume Network, Maximize Bitcoin’s Utility with Promising Airdrop Opportunity, and more...

Launches 🚀

• Akash Network launches DeepSeek-V3 in AkashChat, the most advanced open-source AI model rivaling GPT-4 and 3.5 Sonnet in performance.

  

• Perennial introduces Perennial Intents, novel intent layer designed to enhance

  liquidity and provide a CEX-like trading experience for perpetuals in DeFi.

  It offers guaranteed price execution, seamless one-click trading, and deep

  liquidity by combining intent-based order matching with AMM settlement, while

  the new "Petals" program rewards active traders with points.

  • Today in DeFi is supported by Perennial Finance..

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Updates 📰

• Hyper Foundation launches staking on mainnet, enabling HYPE holders to secure the network and earn staking rewards. Users can delegate HYPE to trusted validators based on metrics like uptime and reputation. A Delegation Program will soon support top-performing validators to enhance decentralization. Locked tokens can also be staked, with rewards remaining locked.

• Tether Adds 7,629 BTC ($700M) to Reserve, Total Holdings Now 7.7B: On-Chain Data

• TON Foundation partners with Jupiter Exchange to develop a new liquidity aggregator on the $TON blockchain. To mark the collaboration, a DeFi competition is now open, offering winners advisory support and TON Foundation backing. Winners will be announced on Feb 15, 2025.

• RateX integrates lrtsSOL by Adrastea Finance, Solana's first LRT protocol, offering 4-in-1 rewards: 2x Adrastea, 4x Solayer, 1x Sonic, and 3x RateX points. lrtsSOL holders can unlock opportunities in yield trading, fixed yield earning, and liquidity mining.

• Balancer introduces the $wETH | $wstETH Boosted Pool on v3, combining Lido’s liquid staking, Aave’s lending markets, and Balancer’s Boosted Pools. This pool maximizes $ETH productivity with staking rewards, Aave interest rates, and trading fees, offering 100% $ETH exposure and dual rewards in $BAL and $wstETH.

• Argent introduces liquid $STRK staking, enabling users to earn yield and decentralize Starknet with ease. Powered by Endurfi, it’s staking made simple in the most user-friendly crypto wallet.

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Issues 🚨

• US Treasury says China hacked its workstations in a cyberattack.

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Upcoming ⏳

• f(x) Protocol V2 by Aladdin DAO is almost here,
  bringing unlimited upside potential: Up to 10X leverage on ETH with no individual liquidations and 0 funding fees. fxUSD will supercharge your yield, with the USD Delta-Neutral strategy for massive yields without market exposure.

  • Today in DeFi is supported by f(x) Protocol

• Ondo Finance announces $USDY’s launch on Plume Network, introducing tokenized US Treasuries to a blockchain designed for composable RWAfi. Mainnet deployment coming soon.

• AvalancheAI debuts as the first AI project on $AVAX, creating an AI hub for Web3 and Web2. Offering seamless AI agent creation, trading, and a native $AVAXAI token, it integrates deeply with $AVAX through burns and liquidity pairing. TGE and product launch set for January 2025.

• Unichain announces a new validation network launching in 2025, enhancing decentralization and adding a finality layer to reduce conflicting block risks.

• f(x) Protocol V2 launches in 3 days, requiring $fxUSD Stability Pool stakers to migrate from V1 to continue earning rewards. Holders of $xstETH and $xfrxETH have 7 days post-launch to migrate leveraged long $ETH positions without redemption fees, with customizable leverage options. Migration prompts will guide users seamlessly. 🔥

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Airdrops 🪂

• ParaSwap announces rewards for Epoch 25, distributing a record 84 ETH to $PSP stakers alongside 1M sePSP1 refunded via the Gas Refund Program. With Project Miró now approved.

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Farms 🧑🏻‍🌾

• Deposit cbBTC and borrow USDC on Base or Ethereum mainnet to earn your share of $150,000 in incentives through the Merit Program from ACI. These incentives will be distributed over three months. For more details, click here.

  • Today in DeFi is supported by ACI

• ZeroLend introduces Real-World Asset (RWA) stablecoin markets with Pendle PT tokens, enabling leveraged looping strategies via Contango. Users can auto-loop RWA pairs like sUSDe/USDC with up to 19x leverage, earning up to 337% ROE. Positions across Linea and Ethereum offer boosted rewards, including $ZERO Gravity points, LXP-L points, and Ethena points.

• YieldNest launches $ynBNBx, the first-of-its-kind BNB Liquid Restaking Token (LRT) on BNB Chain, powered by Kernel DAO. Restake $BNB via wBNB to earn attractive APY, a limited 6x Seeds Boost, and Kernel Points while providing crypto-economic security through Dynamic Validation Networks (DVNs) like Aizel, Brevis, and Marlin. Thoroughly audited by Zokyo and Composable Sec, $ynBNBx combines security and risk-adjusted rewards to lead the DeFi Renaissance on BNB Chain.

• Kamino announces $PRCL incentives for the PRCL-JitoSOL Vault, offering 5,500 $JTO and 45,000 $PRCL rewards to depositors over the next month in collaboration with Parcl and Jito.

• Suilend introduces sSUI rewards, offering 243,034 sSUI to users depositing or borrowing SUI, USDC, USDT, ETH, SOL, or AUSD. DEEP depositors can also earn 2.30M DEEP, with rewards replenished every two weeks. Additionally, the final proposal for the upcoming SUI Rewards Date is live—first 1,000 voters receive a 5.25x Asset Boost.

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Stake, Bridge, and Earn: Maximize Bitcoin’s Utility with Promising Airdrop Opportunity