LayerZero Launching Chain, Superform Airdrop Claim, Farm New Ecosystem Protocols
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DeFi📈
LayerZero introduced Zero, a ZK-based blockchain that separates transaction execution from verification, allowing many workloads to run in parallel while keeping validator hardware requirements low and preserving decentralization.
Robinhood launched the public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on Arbitrum aimed at supporting tokenized real-world and digital assets.
USD.AI will end Allo Game Season 1 on Feb 18 and launch $CHIP via a CoinList ICO (Feb 22–27, $0.03, 100% unlock) with an automatic airdrop for aligned participants.
Uniswap v2, v3, and v4 are now deployed on MegaETH
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Stablecoins/RWA🪙
Stephen (DeFi Dojo) is launching Mezzanine, a stablecoin protocol built around mzUSD with senior and junior tranches to allocate risk and yield across arbitrage, PT strategies, and RWA-linked deployments.
Reflect Money entered beta phase, upgrading USDC+ to route capital across multiple venues for automated yield optimization.
xStocks expanded its markets on Kamino, enabling the borrowing and lending of tokenized equities such as SPYx, QQQx, NVDAx, and TSLAx.
Issues⚠️
Phantom Chat, A built-in messaging feature in the Phantom crypto wallet, suffered a $264,000 phishing attack involving 3.5 Wrapped Bitcoin.
Privacy
Hinkal, a privacy transaction protocol, launched Private Send on Base, enabling confidential ETH and stablecoin transfers with optional payment splitting and delayed execution.
Airdrops 🪂
Superform opened $UP claims, removed the early exit fee, cut the sUP cooldown from 45 days to 1 hour, and increased the airdrop allocation from 3.6% to 3.7%, with claimants choosing liquid $UP or sUP that earns ~33% APY and qualifies for Airdrop Two.
Dolomite activated a new round of USD1 incentives backed by World Liberty Financial, offering up to 8.71% APY from lending yield, oDOLO, and WLFI rewards, with WLFI claims processed via Merkl.
Pendle Finance is offering additional USDT and token rewards for liquidity providers on select markets.
Farms 🧑🏻🌾
Strata raised the PT-srUSDe supply cap on Aave from $50M to $100M after reaching the previous limit.
USDD launches borrowing incentive campaign on Morpho, offering up to 2% bonus APY when borrowing USDT using sUSDD as collateral, with campaign ending March 11, 2026.
Kamino added PYUSD from PayPal to its PRIME Market, allowing PRIME to be used as collateral to borrow PYUSD via Multiply.
Neutrl Fi kicked off Season 1 around NUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin that earns by delta-hedging acquired OTC discount altcoins, while TVL grew by $212M in the past 60 days from launch.
Top farming strategies include:
- Points focused: Pendle YT-NUSD (50x points) and YT-sNUSD (25x points)
- Yield focused: Loop the new PT sNUSD Morpho market for up to ~20% yield, depending on rates and leverage.
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News🗞️
The European Union is considering banning crypto transactions with Russia to prevent sanctions evasion, targeting potential successors to the sanctioned Garantex exchange and tightening economic pressure.
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