Ho Chang Jun

What’s Interesting Today: Osmosis has launched Polaris, a cross-chain token portal designed to improve the decentralized finance (DeFi) user experience by allowing seamless trading across multiple blockchains from a single interface. Unlike traditional Cosmos-based solutions, Polaris supports non-Cosmos chains like Ethereum and Solana, aiming to address the fragmented liquidity

What’s Interesting Today: DeFi network Kujira has merged with three key ecosystem partners to form the "Rujira Alliance," which will build a new application layer for THORChain, a cross-chain liquidity protocol. This new app layer, backed by the RUJI token, will offer various DeFi services like order

What’s Interesting Today: Starknet has introduced gasless on-chain voting through Snapshot X, a new governance protocol utilizing Starknet's rollup technology. This allows DAO participants to vote without paying gas fees, addressing the cost and inefficiencies of on-chain governance. Snapshot X ensures secure, decentralized voting by enabling users

What’s Interesting Today: Fantom, now rebranded as Sonic Labs, has rolled out its testnet, processing over 106 million transactions. The testnet has created 70 million blocks with an average block time of 0.45 seconds and a finality time of 0.76 seconds, positioning it as one of the

What’s Interesting Today: Celestia, a layer-1 data availability network, revealed a roadmap to scale block sizes to 1 gigabyte, aiming to boost data throughput for its rollup ecosystem. This move enhances scalability, lowers transaction costs, and enables new on-chain applications like web apps and gaming. Celestia competes with rivals

What’s Interesting Today: Polygon Labs is migrating its MATIC token to POL as part of the transition to Polygon 2.0. The upgrade brings additional utility, allowing users to swap MATIC for POL on a 1:1 basis. POL will replace MATIC as the native gas and staking token

What’s Interesting Today: Ripple is enhancing the XRP Ledger by introducing Ethereum-compatible smart contracts via a new sidechain. This sidechain, built on the XRPL, will use the Axelar network for cross-chain token transfers, with Wrapped XRP (eXRP) as the primary token. The integration of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility

What’s Interesting Today: Libre, a tokenization firm backed by Brevan Howard, has launched on the NEAR blockchain, enabling users to access and manage tokenized credit and hedge funds like the Hamilton Lane credit fund, Brevan Howard Master Fund, and Blackrock ICS Money Market Fund. NEAR’s Chain Signatures feature

What’s Interesting Today: Cardano's "Chang" hard fork, launched on Sunday, introduces on-chain governance, turning the ADA cryptocurrency into a governance token. This upgrade allows ADA holders to elect representatives and vote on development proposals. It replaces the Cardano Foundation, Input Output Global (IOHK), and Emurgo

What’s Interesting Today: Kaia DLT Foundation has launched its mainnet, positioning Kaia as the fastest and most efficient EVM-based blockchain, supported by major Web3 partners like Kakao and LINE NEXT. Alongside the launch, Kaia introduced the Kaia Wave initiative, developed with LINE NEXT, to accelerate Web3 adoption by allowing