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2024 Founder Letter

The numbers that are important tell a story about Maple’s growth in 2024. During the year, our Total Value Locked (TVL), the north star metric, climbed from $85m to a peak of over $600m. This growth is essential to Maple’s mission of becoming the world’s largest institutional lender, beginning with digital assets.

December 26, 2024

Spotlight Ep. 13: Virtuals Protocol - The Agentic Economy w/ Jansen

Digitized Spotlight hosts Amanda (Collab+Currency) and Winnie (BlockTower Capital) interview Jansen, co-founder of Virtuals Protocol, which enables the creation, ownership, and growth of tokenized AI Agents. We discuss Virtuals Protocol’s product offering and upcoming roadmap, what’s next for AI agents, and more!

December 21, 2024

Turning Vision Into Action: Scaling Maple in 2025

This article will explore where Maple stands post-SYRUP launch, the incredible opportunity ahead in 2025, and how we plan to capitalize on it. We will delve into the Maple Ecosystem, comprising Maple Institutional and Syrup.fi and outline our roadmap for the year ahead.

December 19, 2024

The AI revolution needs infrastructure. We're building it.

Looking for engineers who love solving complex problems and want to shape how AI agents interact with every website on Earth.

December 18, 2024

Ethena Rolls Out Stablecoin Backed by BlackRock's BUIDL Token

The protocol's governance token ENA rallied over the weekend as Donald Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial invested in the token.

December 16, 2024

Pectra: What It Means For You

By enabling the consolidation of existing validators up to 2048 eth in size, this is a unique opportunity for node operators and staking protocols to reduce their validator count and migrate to distributed validators to future-proof their infrastructure.

December 16, 2024

Key Takeaways from OurNetwork’s Aptos Mega Issue (Q4 2024)

To close out 2024, leading onchain data newsletter OurNetwork has published yet another deep-dive report on the Aptos ecosystem.

December 16, 2024

Ethena Labs is excited to announce the public launch of a new stablecoin product, USDtb, which has its reserves invested in BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) - in partnership with Securitize, the leader in the tokenization of real-world assets.

December 16, 2024

Superform Labs has raised $3M in strategic round led by VanEck Ventures

Superform Labs has raised $3M in a strategic round led by VanEck Ventures, with participation from Amber Group, Maven11 Capital, BlockTower Capital, Node Capital, Polychain Capital, CMT Digital, Heartcore Capital, Up Top Capital, Jonathan Lim, and Schlag.

December 11, 2024

Introducing SuperVaults: Earn more on your crypto

DeFi was designed to provide safe and sustainable finance for everyone. However, complexity has overshadowed this promise, sidelining many users who struggle to keep up with the rapidly evolving opportunities and risks in the space.

December 5, 2024

SonarX Partners with AWS to Power Blockchain Innovation

We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with AWS and 5 blockchains to power complete indexed onchain datasets through AWS’s Open Data and offered FOR FREE

December 5, 2024

Why is mBASIS the highest yielding stablecoin strategy in DeFi?

mBASIS has generated 33% year-to-date and 42% annualised over the past two weeks in a USD (delta) neutral strategy. This makes mBASIS the highest yielding strategy for stablecoin holders in DeFi, as seen in the chart below. Why is mBASIS the highest yielding stablecoin strategy in DeFi?

December 2, 2024

The Cambrian Explosion of Tokens

A month ago, Farcaster was quiet. Then, almost overnight, it transformed. The timeline became the epicenter of AI agents and tokens, driving innovation and speculation. At the heart of this shift lies Clanker, a token-deployment agent that redefined how tokens are created and traded. And with that, the game began.

November 29, 2024

Expanding EtherFi’s Operation Solo Staker

Overview EtherFi and Obol are excited to announce a new expansion of the Operation Solo Staker Program. Originally created in late 2023 with the vision of bringing more decentralisation to Ethereum, the initiative onboards home stakers to EtherFi’s validator set by leveraging Obol Distributed Validators (DVs). This technology not

November 27, 2024

ETHGlobal Bangkok: vlayer Hackathon Debut

Discover ETHGlobal Bangkok 2024 winners and learn how vlayer is empowering Solidity developers with new features, such as Web Proofs, Email Proofs, Time Travel and Teleport.

November 26, 2024