What’s Interesting Today: Lido Impact Staking (LIS) launched on January 15, 2025, offering a sustainable philanthropy model by allowing users to stake ETH, stETH, or wstETH and allocate staking rewards to social impact projects without compromising their principal. Key features include transparency, financial flexibility, and long-term funding for causes

What’s Interesting Today: Sonic Labs has introduced a points program to reward users through three types of points: Passive Points, earned by holding whitelisted assets in Web3 wallets; Activity Points, earned by deploying these assets as liquidity on participating apps; and App Points (Gems), where apps compete for Sonic

What’s Interesting Today: GoldRush Blockchain Data APIs, powered by the Covalent Network, are now available on Google Cloud Marketplace, offering seamless access to structured multichain blockchain data across 100+ blockchains. This integration supports web3 and AI-powered applications, including NFT generation, token forecasting, and onchain verification, while benefiting from Google

What’s Interesting Today: Usual Protocol is activating a revenue-sharing model after its stablecoin USD0++ depegged from $1, dropping in value. To stabilize the ecosystem, the protocol introduced a “revenue switch,” which will allow it to distribute earnings from real-world assets and operations to its community. Additionally, a “1:1

What’s Interesting Today: Phala Network, a Polkadot parachain, has launched its Op-Succinct layer-2 rollup on Ethereum to enhance scalability and efficiency. The rollup integrates optimistic and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, improving transaction finality, reducing costs, and bolstering security. This development aligns with Phala’s goal to advance cryptographic computing and

What’s Interesting Today: Pyth Network has partnered with Revolut to integrate its digital asset price data into DeFi, bridging TradFi and Web3. Revolut will publish its data on Pyth Price Feeds, providing DeFi developers access to over 500 real-time feeds. This collaboration highlights the growing connection between traditional and

What’s Interesting Today: Ripple is partnering with Chainlink to integrate its price feeds into the RLUSD stablecoin, aiming to expand its use in DeFi. This collaboration enables RLUSD to access reliable, tamper-resistant price data for trading, lending, and other financial services, positioning it for institutional DeFi adoption. RLUSD operates

What’s Interesting Today: Xenea, an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, focuses on decentralized storage and long-term data solutions for Web3, AI, and decentralized infrastructure. It utilizes Proof of Democracy (PoD) for secure transactions and Decentralized Autonomous Storage (DACS) to handle dynamic data. Xenea aims to support the next generation of

What’s Interesting Today: Ethena Labs' 2025 roadmap introduces a Telegram app for payments and savings using its sUSDe stablecoin, offering a "neobank experience" with Apple Pay integration. The plan aims to rival Tether by developing Ethena Network, a platform for DeFi innovation. Key projects include Ethereal,