DeFi & L1L2 Weekly — 📈 Solana stablecoins’ supply rose by 121%, reaching a record of US$10.4B; Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled a new scaling roadmap 

The supply of Solana’s stablecoins rose by 121%, reaching a record of $10.4B. Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin unveiled a new scaling roadmap. Uniswap released its v4 upgrade.

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This week’s DeFi indices showed negative movements, with the market capitalisation, volume, and volatility indices declining -12.27%, -25.39%, and -10.90%, respectively.

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  • Sonic Labs announced the integration of Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) into its mainnet. It also incorporated Chainlink’s Data Streams and Data Feeds to power decentralised finance (DeFi) apps.

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According to Dune, the supply of Solana’s stablecoins hit an all-time high of US$10.35 billion at the time of writing, marking a sharp growth of 121% from its supply of $4.69 billion on 1 January. 

This rise aligns with broader trends in stablecoin usage within the network’s DeFi protocols and coincides with increased trading volume of the popular meme coins like TRUMP and MELANIA.


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News Highlights

  • Ethereum Co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined plans for scaling Ethereum and related Layer-2s (L2s). The plans aim to include blob scaling for faster transactions and position ETH as a triple-point asset for the Ethereum ecosystem. He also suggested incentivising L2 networks by staking fees from the main network and allocating the rewards to public goods.
  • Uniswap Labs announced on 22 January that v4 deployments will be rolling out for builders to test integrations on-chain, and all contracts are expected to be fully launched next week. Uniswap v4 will introduce new features such as flash accounting, native ETH support, and custom accounting. 
  • Solana-based decentralised exchange (DEX) aggregator Jupiter announced that 50% of the protocol fees will be used to acquire the meme coin launchpad Moonshot, buy back its native token, JUP, and launch a $10 million fund for open-source AI development. Additionally, the Jupiter decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) introduced the Jupnet omni-chain network. 
  • Venice AI launched its VVV token on Ethereum’s L2 Base network. VVV is the first airdrop aimed specifically at AI agents, with 25% of the initial supply allocated to AI community protocol accounts on Base, including Virtuals and agents, such as Luna, aixbt, and VaderAI.
  • Decentralised cross-chain liquidity protocol THORChain temporarily suspended its lending and savers programmes for BTC and ETH to prevent an insolvency crisis and restructure the protocol’s debts.
  • Ramp Network is partnering with MetaMask to allow users to convert ETH directly into fiat currencies during the withdrawal process via L2 networks. This integration simplifies the off-ramp process, enabling faster, more cost effective withdrawals from L2 networks like Optimism, Polygon, and BNB Chain.

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