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Starknet Token Launches Next Week 🚀

Starknet Foundation announced that STRK, the native token for the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Starknet, will be airdropped. Plus the top news, stats, fundraises, and reports from this week.

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Ryan Allis
February 15, 2024

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Issue Summary: Welcome back to Coinstack, the weekly newsletter for institutional crypto investors and industry insiders. We review the top news, stats, and reports in the digital asset ecosystem for our 250k weekly subscribers. This week, Solana overtakes Binance, Ripple buys New York Crypto Trust Company, Starknet Airdrop, and big new venture round for Analog ($16M) and Superform Labs ($6.5M). 

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🗞️ Crypto News Recap: The Top 5 Stories

Welcome back to This Week in Crypto… everything you need to know in one scannable format. Here are the top 5 stories of the week… 

  1. 🚀Starknet Blockchain Plans Much-Awaited Airdrop of New STRK Tokens Next Week: Starknet Foundation announced on Wednesday that STRK, the native token for the Ethereum layer-2 blockchain Starknet, will be airdropped on Feb. 20, with roughly 1.3 million wallets eligible to receive it.

  1. đź’°Ripple to Buy New York Crypto Trust Company to Expand U.S. Options: Standard Custody & Trust Co., which has a New York charter, will be the latest acquisition to grow Ripple's regulatory qualifications.

  1. ⚖️Starknet token holders could earn over 12% annually in proposed staking system: Starknet, an Ethereum layer 2 network created by Starkware, is preparing to launch its long-awaited STRK token airdrop.

  1. 🎉Ethereum devs can now deploy apps on Sei’s parallelized EVM: The high-throughput blockchain Sei has upgraded its devnet, a developer-focused kind of testnet, to v2. With the new version, apps developed on Ethereum can be deployed on Sei with no changes. 

  2. ⬆️ Wormhole crosses 1B in cross-chain messages ahead of token launch: The protocol has facilitated nearly $40 billion in cross-chain transfers since its inception in September 2021.

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Source: @ZssBecker

đź“Š Key Stats of the Week

Here are the most important and interesting stats in crypto this week...

1. On February 5th, EigenLayer announced that it would temporarily lift all of its ETH staking caps through February 9th. In just 48 hours the protocol received over $2.3B worth of deposits, increasing its TVL by 107%. 

Source: @DavidShuttleworth

2. Bitcoin ETFs continue to realize substantial demand, as over $1.1B of net inflows occurred last week. BlackRock and Fidelity Investments led the way and captured 41% and 31% of this volume, respectively.

Source: @DavidShuttleworth

3. Bitcoin is following a similar pattern of adoption to technologies like steel, cement, radios, phones, cars, airplanes, and internet.

Source: @DocumentingBTC

4. Ethereum supply on exchanges drops to new all-time lows.

Source: @AltcoinDailyio

5. BTC trade volume surged to its highest level since the launch of the spot ETFs as prices rallied to $50K.

Source: @KaikoData

6. Top Moving Coins From the Top 100

đź“ť Highlights from the Top Crypto Reports

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Lumio - VeradiVerdict - Issue #283

About the Author: Paul Veradittakit, is a Managing Partner at Pantera Capital, one of the oldest and largest institutional investors focused on investing into blockchain companies and cryptocurrencies. This is an excerpt from the full article, which you can find here.

Introduction

The blockchain landscape is undergoing a swift and transformative evolution, driven by the need for more scalable and efficient solutions in the face of increasing demands. In the midst of this dynamic and ever-changing environment, Lumio emerges as a particularly noteworthy innovation to solve scalability and virtual machine (VM) diversity on Ethereum. Lumio represents a groundbreaking integration of two of the most significant blockchain components in the industry: Ethereum settlement and alternative VM execution starting with the Aptos Move VM. Ethereum, known for its reliability, decentralization, deep liquidity and extensive adoption in the blockchain world, brings to the table its robust and time-tested infrastructure. Rust based alternative VMs like the Move VM are purpose built to safely and efficiently execute transactions in parallel. Lumio will integrate Ethereum settlement with alternative VMs like the Move VM in order to give developers the option to use alternatives to the EVM while maintaining composability with popular L2 ecosystems like Optimism, Arbitrum and ZkSync.

Another alternative VM that the Lumio team is researching for integration is the Solana VM (SVM) which similarly brings the static type safety and concurrency of a Rust based VM, however it is not as user friendly as Move. This is best illustrated by the colloquial “chewing glass” initiation that Solana developers have to undergo to get started building on Solana. The Move VM, similar to Solidity, feels more like a typescript language which enables developers to more intuitively put together the business logic for Smart contracts. The Move VM also has the added benefit of a native prover for formal verification so developers don’t need patchwork solutions to avoid shooting themselves in the foot with issues like overflow errors, which can be costly as evidenced by the $50M KyberSwap hack. The main benefits of the Solana VM, as anecdotally described by developers, is more freedom for developers to architect their apps without limiting guide rails and a flourishing ecosystem of up and coming applications on Solana. 

Aptos, the main maintainer of the Move VM, is recognized for its cutting-edge technology and potential to redefine blockchain performance and scalability. By bridging the capabilities of both, Lumio, a protocol that executes the Move VM on a modular Layer 2 framework such as the OP Stack, offers a unique solution that combines the best of both worlds - the liveness and widespread adoption of Ethereum with the innovative technology and potential of the Aptos Move VM. 

Understanding Lumio

Lumio stands out as the pioneering optimistic rollup protocol (L2) that uniquely integrates the capabilities of parallelized alternative VMs into the most popular L2 ecosystems on Ethereum starting with Optimism. At its core, an optimistic rollup is designed to address one of the most pressing issues in crypto: scalability. By aggregating numerous transactions off-chain into a single, cohesive package that gets posted on-chain, optimistic rollups substantially alleviate the strain on the main chain (L1). This method not only expedites the processing of transactions but also significantly reduces the associated costs, thereby enhancing the practicality and accessibility of blockchain technology for a wider array of applications and use cases. Popular L2 ecosystems like Optimism are further decentralizing to match the robustness of the Ethereum L1 by creating a mesh network of L2s that share a sequencer and bridge for liquidity. This enables the applications connected to the network to share security, liquidity and smart contract calls through a common framework. The best illustration of this is the upcoming Optimism Superchain which will unite Base, Mantle, Zora and other popular L2s using the OP stack framework. Arbitrum Orbits and ZkSync hyperchain are similar frameworks that are also in development. The idea of merging heterogeneous blockspace pioneered at Cosmos is now coming to fruition on Ethereum L2s, and Lumio will be at the forefront of this trend.

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