Layer 1 and Layer 2s

• - During Gateway 2024, TON announced Tether Dirham stablecoin launch on TON, announced tgBTC, a trustless wrapped BTC on testnet, new mini-apps features, Society DAO (new governance model) and a Swiss compliance bank account via SafePal.
• - After Calvin Liu resigned as Chief Strategy Officer of Eigen Foundation in September, Ethereum researchers Dankard Feist and Justin Drake announced dropping their advisorships.
• - Base introduced Based Agent, enabling developers to build AI agents with autonomous onchain transact capability. Additionally, Base's fault proofs are now live on the mainnet.
• - Alchemy Pay announced a plan to launch Layer-1, Alchemy Chain, with SVM architecture to better service its payment business operation.
• - Build-on-Bob, a Bitcoin Layer-2, announced joining OP Superchain. Swell announced it will join the Superchain as well.
• - Stacks Nakamoto upgrade is finally live, matching Bitcoin finality and laying the foundation for sBTC.
• - Eclipse launched tETH, a unified restaking token for ETH. Besides, Orca is now live on Eclipse.
• - Starknet launched its official bridge, StarkGate v2.0 Beta, and EVM wallet compatible.
• - Astrio, a decentralised sequencing layer, launched its mainnet.
• - Native USDT is officially live on Aptos Mainnet.

  Dapps

• - Fluid launched Fluid DEX, enabling users to utilise trading liquidity for lending and borrowing trading liquidity as debt. The feature enables lenders to earn LP rewards on top of lending rewards, while borrowers enjoy borrowing discounts from the yield generated from the LP.
• - EtherVista launched EtherFun (its version of Pump.fun) with a bonding curve target of 1.5 ETH. Upon curve exit, liquidity pools will be formed on EtherVista and locked permanently. The initial 2% trading fees will be used to buyback and burn VISTA. After curve exit, creators will be rewarded 2% of the pool reward and $5 per trade earnings.
• - WalletConnect launched an incentive program to reward node operators, wallets, and SDKs with WCT. WCT is WalletConnect native token that is used to participate in governance, node staking and share part of the protocol fees in the future.
• - Chainlink launched Data Streams on Solana. Chainlink also introduced Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), a more modular architecture for dapps to integrate Chainlink without needing Chainlink-specific code in their dapps.
• - World Liberty Finance scaled back its funding goal from $300 million to $30 million. World Liberty Finance is reportedly planning to launch its own version of stablecoin.
• - Ondo Finance announced partnership with Wellington Management to provide intraday redemptions for tokenized Treasury funds.
• - io.net announced partnership with GAIB, a GPU tokenisation protocol, as the GPU supplier to io.net.
• - Synthetix launched zero-interest USDx, a multi collateral asset, in Kwenta on Arbitrum.
• - Jito launched its (Re)staking deposit. It had since hit the deposit cap limit of $25M.
• - Exilir's mainnet phase I is now live, which is run by a set of institution validators.
• - Nillion, a "blind" computing protocol, raised $50 million led by Hack VC.
• - Virtual Protocol launched Fun.Virtual, an AI agent launchpad on Base.