🔒 Ronin opts for CCIP. The validators of the Ronin network, which is home to Axie Infinity and beyond, just voted to adopt Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol to underpin the security of the chain's canonical bridging infra.
🛒 Magic Eden listings made easy. NFT marketplace powerhouse Magic Eden just unveiled a new integration with Solana Blinks, powered by Dialect, that makes it easy to buy, sell, or mint NFTs on Magic Eden directly through your Twitter feed.
🎮 Nounsvitational 2024. The Nouns Esports team announced the details of its upcoming Nounsvitational event, a top-tier Smash Bros tournament that will take place in Brooklyn, NY, in December 2024. The contest was approved by Nouns DAO earlier this year.
Unichain is on the way. The new L2, a Superchain network slated to launch in November 2024, is being built to become a new major center for DeFi in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Yet Unichain isn’t being designed as an appchain focused exclusively on the trading vertical. Instead, it will serve as a general-purpose rollup that will be wide open for other apps to deploy on.
You know what that means—cue in NFTs.
That said, for today's post let's dive in and talk about why this new DeFi L2 could be in store for some significant NFT activity levels! 👇
Mantle kickstarts Season 1 of Methamorphosis. Building on the success of their Liquid Staking Token, mETH, Mantle LSP announces plans for a new Liquid Restaking Token, cmETH, along with a governance token, COOK. With Methamorphosis, participants can now farm Powder for future COOK tokens and position themselves early for upcoming cmETH release.
DeFi and NFT portfolio tracker platform Zapper just unveiled a sweet new goody: zapper.xyz/apps
This new resource makes it easy to discover which onchain apps are trending across nearly 20 chains and over 15 categories, including art, gaming, social, trading, etc.
Plus, when you click into a trending app, you get a bird’s-eye view of its recent activity levels and transaction details, so you can get a quick sense of what people are actually doing and the things they’re moving around onchain.
The release builds on Zapper’s recent recommendation engine work, which they’re fine-tuning all the while, so it’s a good time to get acquainted with the platform as its discovery capabilities are set to get even better with time!
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