- Crypto wallet Ledger has completed a €100 million financing round with a valuation of €1.3 billion.
- Cross-chain trading aggregator LI.FI has raised $17.5 million in a Series A financing round led by CoinFund and Superscrypt.
- Optimism has announced the results of its second round of retrospective public product funding, with 195 individuals or projects, including L2Beat and ETHGlobal, receiving support.
- The Uniswap Foundation has proposed governance deployment of “official” Uniswap on L1 and L2 in response to tomorrow’s commercial source license expiration.
- The latest execution layer meeting for Ethereum developers revealed that the last mainnet shadow fork upgrade in Shanghai is scheduled for next week.
- zkSync outlines its decentralized vision, which includes sequencers, ZK provers, zkPorter, community governance, and zkSync Era.
- Starknet Alpha v0.11.0 has launched on the mainnet.
- A whale has pledged over 53,000 ETH, equivalent to $95.5 million, through Abyss Finance.
- The total value of all DAO treasuries has surpassed $25 billion for the first time, with Optimism Collective ($5.5 billion), Arbitrum One ($4.4 billion), BitDAO ($2.6 billion), Uniswap ($2.5 billion), and Polygon ($1.5 billion) ranking in the top five.
- The SEC has fined two individuals over $23 million each for their involvement in the alleged Ormeus Coin fraud.