Today in DeFi - Obol Contributions Program Live, Coinbase cbBTC Pre-launch Registration, Vessel Launched Vessel Voyage, Provide Liquidity on Curve to Earn Elixir Potions - and more...

Launches 🚀

• Obol, a team focuses on PoS infrastructure, has introduced the Obol Contributions program. Participants can stake on distributed validators (DVs) to earn rewards while contributing to Ethereum’s decentralization, with prospects for future governance and ownership within the Obol Collective.

• Spark has kicked off The Tokenization Grand Prix, inviting creators and issuers to participate in a challenge aimed at integrating $1 billion in tokenized real-world assets into MakerDAO.

• deFi.money has launched the Decentralized $MONEY on Arbitrum and Optimism. Access is currently available to the first 500 users who have been whitelisted by the DeFi Money Guild.

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Updates 📰

• Kelp DAO has launched Gain, a feature designed to simplify access to various L2 networks, restaking platforms, and DeFi opportunities through its Airdrop Gain initiative.

• Sei, a Layer 1 blockchain, has incorporated Secret Network's Confidential Computing Layer, which aims to enhance privacy in voting, encrypted storage, and random number generation for decentralized applications.

• Grayscale has unveiled the Grayscale MakerDAO Trust ($MKR), a new investment fund focused on a single crypto asset, available through private placement to accredited investors.

• Perplexity has teamed up with Polymarket to integrate real-time probability predictions with news summaries. This feature will provide users with insights on events such as election outcomes and market trends while searching.

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Upcoming ⏳

• Coinbase’s cbBTC is set to launch soon.

• dYdX Unlimited is launching soon, featuring major updates like permissionless market listings, the MegaVault liquidity pool, an affiliate program, and permissioned keys for enhanced wallet security.

• Optimism is developing a native interoperability system for its Layer 2 ecosystem, which aims to facilitate smooth asset and user transitions across chains like OP Mainnet and Zora. The system will feature a message-passing protocol, a universal token standard (SuperchainERC20), and a fault-proof mechanism.

• Curve’s native token, CRV, is celebrating its 4th anniversary. The token's inflation rate has decreased to 6.35%, which translates to approximately 375k CRV being issued daily.

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Airdrops 🪂

• Vessel, a ZK orderbook exchange, has launched Vessel Voyage, its first incentive program for early and active users. Participants can earn Vessel Mileage through liquidity provision and Referral Coins by using unique links.

• deBridge announced that vested participants will have the option to claim all of their DBR immediately, minus a 20% penalty at TGE. All penalties will be redistributed as a bonus to participants who choose to vest.

• Aethir, a distributed cloud compute infrastructure, announced that node holders who missed the previous deadline can now claim their community reward bonuses within the next 15 days.

• Symbiotic, a restaking protocol, has launched its devnet on Ethereum's Holesky test network, with plans for a mainnet release later in Q3.

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Farms 🧑🏻‍🌾

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