Berachain Is Finally Real 🧸
Last Week In The Multi-Chain Ecosystem (03-09 Feb '25)
Welcome to LI.FI’s Cross Chain Insider newsletter, a weekly curation of the major updates and announcements from the industry’s leading interop protocols and ecosystems.
Interop Protocols
1) Reservoir raises $14m Series A.
2) Corn has integrated Chainlink's CCIP.
3) Stargate V2 moved $444,000,000 in 24 hours — making a new ATH.
4) Fluton, first confidential, intent-centric cross-chain liquidity protocol.
5) Listen, an interface for crypto x AI, integrates LI.FI for cross-chain swaps.
Ecosystem Updates
1) Berachain is finally real — $3.1B bridged via LayerZero and Stargate Hydra.
2) Offchain Labs announces plans to launch a universal intent engine & more.
3) Sonic’s native token $S has expanded to Solana using LayerZero's OFT Standard.
4) Ethereum Pectra upgrade will go live, starting with Holesky testnet on Feb 24.
5) Solver markets are decentralizing (somewhat).
Interesting Reads
1) Arcadia Intents Protocol White Paper (Khalani)
2) Your product sucks (and nobody cares)
3) Interoperability market will inevitably reach $150,000,000,000,000.
4) Pod: Why building good products takes time ft. Simon (Chainflip).
6) How rollups, specifically ZK rollup clusters, solve blockchain scaling.
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