A Voluptuous Week Of New Releases In Interop
Last Week In The Multi-Chain Ecosystem (03 - 09 March '25)
Welcome to the interop/acc newsletter, a weekly curation of the major updates and announcements from the industry’s leading interop protocols and ecosystems.
Interop Protocols
1) Across raises $41M in a strategic token sale.
2) Hyperlane is live on Gelato Marketplace and Caldera Metalayer.
3) Introducing Wormhole Settlement — suite of intents protocols.
4) Axelar v1.2.1, code-name "Cobalt" is now live.
5) LayerZero is the most voluptuous cross-chain protocol of the last 30 days.
6) Introducing the Astria Bridging Protocol.
7) Layerswap introduces Train Protocol — trustless intents.
Ecosystem Updates
1) Introducing OpenUSDT: The Scalable Stablecoin for the Superchain
2) Multiple Market Makers got hacked for over $5M in 1inch Fusion.
3) MetaMask to introduce Solana and Bitcoin support.
4) Base introduces Base Appchains, L3s built on OP Enclave.
5) Native USDC is coming to Linea — industry’s first bridged-to-native upgrade.
Interesting Reads
1) Across V3: Cross Chain Action Vulnerability Disclosure.
2) Execution Welfare Across Solver-Based DEXes.
3) Difference between Hyperlane and LayerZero.
4) How OFT tokens work when used as a gas token.
5) The L2 vs L1 Battle that Nobody is Talking About
6) The Vision for the Cosmos Hub in the Post-Interop World
7) Pod: Denver Debrief ft. Nam (Hyperlane)
8) Pod: Jim on Talking Intentionally and Block by Block.
9) Pod: Jon Kol--Connect Anywhere onchain with Hyperlane.
10) Talk: Fragmentation From First Principles by Arjun Bhuptani (Everclear).
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