ChainCatcher news, the Solana liquid staking protocol Marinade has hired former president of Fidelity Digital Assets, Hadley Stern, as Chief Business Officer. Hadley Stern will be responsible for enhancing Marinade's staking solutions and its position in the digital asset industry.

ChainCatcher news, OKX Ventures announced an investment in the MEV-supported liquid staking platform aPriori based on the Monad network. aPriori is a liquid staking platform built on Monad, planning to use the new funds to expand the team, invest in security, and promote community development. Monad's high-performance parallel Ethereum Virtual Machine creates a new design space for node-level infrastructure, and the aPriori team chose to build on the EVM-compatible L1 Monad due to its portability and high performance.aPriori focuses on reducing gas fees, optimizing network traffic, and providing sustainable incentives for validators. OKX Ventures founder Dora stated, "We are excited to participate in the investment in aPriori, which reduces spam transactions and increases validator incentives through the redistribution of MEV, achieving decentralization of the Monad network. aPriori is committed to building a transaction-centric infrastructure for Monad, enhancing throughput and user experience, and preparing for the future ecological explosion of Monad."

ChainCatcher news, the Berachain ecosystem liquidity staking protocol Infrared Finance has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Binance Labs.It is reported that this investment is for a private token round. Infrared's co-founder and CEO Raito Bear declined to comment on the total amount of funding raised so far and the valuation.

ChainCatcher news, Tranchess posted on platform X: "With the continued growth in demand for Ethereum, we expect liquidity staking products like qETH, STONE, and related products staYSTONE, turPSTONE to remain in the spotlight. The ETH (spot) ETF will increase institutional investors' interest in Ethereum and staking, thereby driving up the value of Ethereum and network demand, which will subsequently lead to an increase in staking yields."

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized exchange Biswap has released a new strategic roadmap. The Biswap team stated that after completing important features such as the previous AMM V3, the BSW independent market, and ETH liquid staking, the next focus will be on multi-chain expansion, launching liquid staking, introducing new ecosystem projects, providing new investment tools for cryptocurrency holders, implementing a revenue-sharing system, and developing advanced trading tools.Specifically, in terms of multi-chain layout, Biswap plans to soon support Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum networks. The team mentioned that the choice of these three networks is primarily based on Ethereum's security, Base's scalability, and Arbitrum's optimized performance.In addition, Biswap will soon launch a liquid staking feature, allowing users to maintain liquidity while staking tokens and generate additional income from staking tokens in DeFi activities. Biswap also revealed that it is developing an "extremely rare" decentralized feature, which is currently kept confidential.At the same time, Biswap will introduce a revenue-sharing model to alleviate the pressure on the BSW token and provide rewards to users. Advanced trading tools are also on the development agenda, aimed at enabling users to utilize different trading strategies more easily and efficiently.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official documentation of Zeus Network, the new landing page (UI/UX) for the first permissionless cross-chain liquid staking protocol APOLLO built on Zeus Network will be launched on April 20. The highlight of this update is the introduction of a rewards calculator.It is reported that since its establishment in late March 2024, APOLLO has successfully interacted with over 77,000 independent users.

ChainCatcher news, the liquid staking protocol StaFi announced its roadmap for Q2 2024. StaFi 2.0 will introduce the LSaaS framework, enabling developers to quickly develop Liquid Stake Derivatives (LSD) and Liquid ReStake Tokens (LRT) across various Layer 1 and Layer 2 platforms and staking models.It is reported that FIS previously announced a rebranding, and the FIS token will be renamed, including a new name and logo. The team's focus will be on advancing LSaaS (including LSD, LRT, and even Bitcoin LSD stack), StaFi AI, and product integration. The token listing platforms will also be updated to reflect the new brand. In terms of tokenomics, FIS will introduce a burn mechanism and add new utilities.

ChainCatcher news, the multi-chain liquid staking platform Kelp DAO has now integrated with the OKX Web3 wallet. Users can perform multiple staking of ETH and liquid staking tokens through the OKX Web3 wallet on Kelp DAO, as well as provide liquidity and earn rewards. Kelp DAO is a triple-yield re-staking protocol based on EigenLayer. rsETH is the liquidity re-staking token (LRT) issued by Kelp DAO, designed to provide liquidity for non-liquid assets deposited into the re-staking platform.It is reported that the OKX Web3 wallet is an industry-leading one-stop Web3 entry point, now supporting over 85 public chains, with a unified experience across app, extension, and web. It covers five major areas: wallet, DEX, DeFi, NFT marketplace, and DApp exploration, and supports Ordinals marketplace, MPC and AA smart contract wallets, gas exchange, and hardware wallet connections, among others.

ChainCatcher message, the dYdX Chain has been upgraded to version v3.0 and introduced cross-chain account functionality, allowing the Cosmos-based dYdX Chain to support the integration of liquid staking protocols. This initiative enables users to convert their staked DYDX into liquid assets that can be traded or used in DeFi applications while continuing to stake and protect the dYdX Chain.Stride plans to start offering liquid staking services for dYdX today, and two other liquid staking providers, Persistence and Quicksilver, also plan to offer this service in the near future.

ChainCatcher news, Cronos's liquid staking protocol Veno Finance has announced its launch on zkSync Era. When zkSync Era users natively stake ETH, they will receive an equivalent amount of LETH tokens and can also earn additional yields using its DeFi protocol.It is reported that Veno Finance is a liquid staking protocol on the Cronos chain, recently launched on zkSync Era, aiming to achieve cost savings by leveraging its own node infrastructure and/or partner node infrastructure. Veno enables its users to stake their $CRO, $ATOM, or $ETH, and receive automatically compounded, yield-generating receipt tokens $LCRO, $LATOM, or $LETH on each chain respectively.

ChainCatcher news, Sui will inject 25 million SUI into 3 liquid staking protocols and their respective liquid staking tokens (LST) to increase liquidity in the DeFi space.It is reported that the selected LSTs accepting token delegation are from the winners of the Sui Liquid Stake hackathon held from August 16 to October 2, 2023, namely afSUI from Aftermath Finance, haSUI from Haedal Protocol, and vSUI from Volo.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Cosmos ecosystem liquid staking protocol Stride has announced that in the coming weeks, Stride plans to launch stDYDX and will airdrop 250,000 STRD to users who liquid stake DYDX in the first two months.It is reported that when users mint stDYDX, their DYDX will be stored on the dYdX Chain, and the accumulated USDC staking rewards will automatically be transferred via IBC to Osmosis and exchanged for DYDX, ensuring that the value of stDYDX appreciates relative to DYDX.In addition, users must hold stDYDX for at least 31 days to be eligible for the airdrop.

ChainCatcher news, Milkyway announced on platform X that it will launch the Celestia liquid staking derivative protocol MilkyWay on the Cosmos ecosystem DEX Osmosis, with the V1 version set to be released in the fourth quarter of 2023. stTIA can be used for DEX liquidity, lending, staking derivatives, perpetual trading, and more. Additionally, a 10% protocol fee will be charged on the staking rewards generated for stTIA holders, and the MilkyWay DAO will be fully governed by the native token MILK, overseeing the protocol.The MilkWay team members come from Tendermint, Osmosis, Cosmostation, Crescent, Oak Security, Composable Finance, and Crypto.com. Furthermore, Milkyway will launch 9 trusted validator nodes, including Stake.fish, Everstake, Chorus One, Allnodes, 01node, DSRV, Cosmostation, Hex Trust, and Keplr.