Jan. 25: Powerloom, the composable knowledge community, introduced a partnership with Polygon Community, to launch a node mint, based on the staff: “To democratize Web3 knowledge accessibility, Powerloom goals to ascertain 10,000 independently run nodes. This can be facilitated by a node mint scheduled to happen on Feb. 7. Individuals who mint a Soul-Certain Token (SBT) can be awarded the appropriate to function a Powerloom Snapshotter Lite node.”

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Jan. 25: Chainlink and Arbitrum introduced the mainnet beta launch of Chainlink Features on Arbitrum One.

Jan. 25 (PROTOCOL VILLAGE EXCLUSIVE): Colosseum has emerged from the Solana Basis as a brand new, unbiased group that can run future Solana Basis on-line hackathons, an accelerator program and enterprise fund to spend money on Solana builders, based on the staff: “Based by Matt Taylor, Clay Robins and Nate Levine, Colosseum can be a brand new enviornment for the following wave of Solana tasks. Hackathon winners who’re accepted into Colosseum’s Accelerator Program will obtain $250,000 in pre-seed capital. The inaugural occasion begins on March 4,2024 and builders can enroll right here.”

Jan. 25: Powered by IoTeX, the upgraded DePINscan 1.0 will launch in partnership with the highest DePIN tasks within the area equivalent to Helium, Akash, Theta and extra, “bringing knowledge and visualizations to the general public dashboard that allows anybody to view knowledge on these networks,” based on the staff: “DePINscan illuminates the DePIN marketplace for the general public by providing a complete view of the sector, showcasing gadget counts/earnings, upcoming tasks, mining alternatives and market capitalization.”

Jan. 25: Router Protocol, a layer-1 chain constructed with Cosmos SDK and designed to be an interoperability layer, introduced the mainnet launch of its newest cross-chain resolution, Nitro. It is a “cross-chain intent-based bridge constructed on the Router Chain,” based on a press launch, with “intensive assist for EVM, non-EVM and zkEVM chains,” and an “further safety module (ASM) with neighborhood watch and oracle safety.” In line with the staff, Nitro “guarantees a brand new period of lightning-fast, cost-efficient, and fortified cross-chain transactions.”

Jan. 25: Flipside Crypto, a number one on-chain knowledge analytics and enterprise intelligence platform, revealed its “Onchain Crypto Person Report,” which examines person acquisition, onchain exercise and developments throughout eight main blockchain networks, together with widespread EVM chains in addition to Solana and Bitcoin. In line with the report, Ethereum and Polygon led the trade by every buying over 15M new customers in 2023.

Jan. 25: Warner Music Group, the worldwide music and leisure firm, is “gearing as much as announce the winners of its inaugural accelerator program, celebrating the startups which might be reshaping the music trade with blockchain,” based on the Polygon Labs staff: “The accelerator is the fruit of a brand new partnership between WMG and Polygon to empower the following technology of builders and innovators on the intersection of web3 and music. Polygon Labs and WMG have chosen MITH and Muus Collective for the Accelerator, two tasks serving to construct the way forward for the music x Web3 ecosystem on the Polygon community.”

Jan. 25: House and Time is introducing an open-source GPU acceleration framework, Blitzar, for Proof of SQL, based on the staff: “Created to reinforce zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs within the Web3 neighborhood, Blitzar resulted from House and Time’s collaboration with NVIDIA, addressing the necessity for open-source GPU acceleration frameworks. Proof of SQL, launched in alpha in August, allows sensible contracts to confirm knowledge inquiries throughout numerous sources.”

Jan. 25: Aptos Basis is launching partnerships with knowledge suppliers Dune, Nansen, House x Time, Token Terminal, DappRadar, The Tie, Flipside Crypto and Elliptic, based on the staff. The objective is to make sure they “get essentially the most out of constructing on Aptos; are in a position to provide a full vary of knowledge integration providers to everybody within the Aptos ecosystem and neighborhood; and mobilize the Transfer on Aptos programming language to combine swiftly and securely. These partnerships can even make all the pieces from knowledge standardization to dApp searchability easier on Aptos.”

Jan. 25: VeChain, an enterprise-grade L1 public blockchain, introduced the launch of Grant 2.0, an improve to its current developer grant program, based on the staff: “The brand new model of this system gives builders as much as a brand new most of $100K in funding, a major enhance from its earlier $30K restrict, along with new advertising and microgrants, plus better mentorship and assist for sustainability grant recipients. The up to date program can be designed to encourage the event of sustainability-focused decentralized ecosystems within the type of “X-to-earn” functions.”

Jan. 25: Web3Intelligence, the developer of Web3 funding app Dopamine, has raised $4.5 million forward of the launch of of its native token DOPE. The non-public funding spherical included participation from DAO MAKER, Shima Capital, and Gate.io, amongst different buyers, based on an emailed announcement shared with CoinDesk on Thursday. DOPE will function a utility token for accessing Dopamine, which gives a gamified expertise for funding within the decentralized finance (DeFi) world.