Today in DeFi - Arbitrum Stylus NFT Free-Mint, Verifiable Finance Blockchain Atlas Testnet Go Live, Universal Restaking Protocol Nuff Go Live Soon, Stake tBTC for High APR and Airdrops, and more..

Launches 🚀

• DIA launches 'Lumina' – a brand-new trustless oracle network. Its modular, rollup-based design enables the verifiable sourcing and delivery of any data to any blockchain. Fully decentralized and permissionless.

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• Atlas, the blockchain for verifiable finance, private testnet is live today. Verifiable finance combines the performance of traditional finance with the transparency of DeFi.

• Polaris, the token portal, will make the first debut on Sep 21 at Solana Breakpoint 2024. Polaris is a token-centered chain abstraction dApp that helps you to one-click trade all tokens across all chains from your existing wallet. It aims to simplify the process of tracking and trading assets across multiple networks.

• Succinct partnered with Optimism Labs to introduce OP Succinct. The toolkit helps developers to convert an OP rollup into a ZK rollup with minimal code to achieve faster rollup finality, cost-effective proving, and smoother user experience.

• Karak’s phase 2 of Keystone Testnet, the final phase before Mainnet, is now live in Private Beta. Keystone serves as a lightweight, flexible, and scalable universal security layer that allows users to define permissionlessly the restaking assets, rewards, and slashing conditions.

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Updates 📰

• Pendle, in collaboration with Corn, Lombard, and Babylon, just onboarded LBTC(Corn). You can now purchase LBTC(Corn) PT on Pendle for 13% APY or YT for 3x Corn Kernel, 3x Lombard Points, and 1x Babylon Points.

• Marginfi’s deposit vault to Mantis, Solana L2, is now open. You can now deposit to Mantis to participate in its pre-fund phase to earn Mantis Credits, native yields, staking yield, and restaking yield.

• Sophon, a platform focused on bridging users of different kinds of dApps, like SocialFi or GameFi, together to create an engaging ecosystem, is close to mainnet launch. Users can deposit tokens from Sophon’s dApp partners to support the growth of Sophon ecosystem and earn yields and XPs in return.

• DeFi Saver just started the Aave v3 EtherFi market. You can now 1-click leverage, manage your borrowing with Loan Shifter refinancing tools, and create automatic strategies with Recipe Creator in the market.

• Bubbly, the first AMM-based pre-market DEX, is coming to Swell L2. Bubbly will airdrop to Swell L2 Pre-Launch depositors.

• Optimism Granite upgrade was activated on the OP Stack today together with Permissionless Fault Proofs. The upgrade fixed the bugs identified during the recent community-driven audits on the Fault Proof system.

• Starknet testnet has just verified the first RISC Zero proof. Using RISC Zero's zkVM, developers can leverage ZKPs in Rust, unlocking verifiable off-chain execution and enhanced developer expressivity.

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Upcoming ⏳

• Nuff Protocol is going live soon. Nuff aims to extend EigenLayer’s restaking capability beyond Ethereum and become a first universal restaking protocol. It claims to not only increase restaking yields but also lower the costs for AVSs.

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Airdrops 🪂

• Arbitrum Stylus is now live with the first free-mint NFT available on Mint Stylus till Oct 6 2024.

• Gearbox has raised the borrowing limit of Symbiotic vaults to 35,000 ETH. Mellow LRT vaults have seen significant demand for leverage over the recent months. The initial 3.9K ETH borrow limit reached it's max caps in less than 20 hours. You can now restake up to 9x your ETH in Mellow LRT vaults with leverage and earn up to 18x Mellow Points.

• Fluid has increased the borrowing cap of weETHs/wstETH vault. You can now again leverage your points up to 11x on Fluid, or simply deposit weETHs to earn 1x Symbiotic Points, 3.5x Ether_fi Points, 3x Veda Points, and 1x Zircuit Points.

• Linea collaborated with HyperPlayGaming and G7 DAO to build Linea Guild Games. During the 9-day event, you can play eFrogs, Foxy, Frogwifcat, LinusOnLinea, and mint a G7 DAO avatar to battle it out in the

  Unfetteredgame and share a $100k ETH prize pool.

• Beranames is giving out points to early users. Secure your spot during whitelist minting round to get the points for future airdrop when Berachain goes live.

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Farms 🧑🏻‍🌾

• Stake your GHO to earn ~20% APR from AAVE and Merit Program

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