5 Web3 Social Apps You Can Use Today

Web3 social seems to be one of the rising narratives across crypto, and it might very well be driving crypto markets in significant ways over the next 12-24 months. We've seen the recent hype around friend.tech, a mobile app that aims to gamify social interactions by allowing users to buy and sell "keys" (initially called shares) of individuals they are familiar with or follow on Twitter. It remains to be seen whether the Friendtech hype will endure. For now, the app has experienced spik...

PYUSD Launches on Solana

Today, PayPal announced that the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin is going live on the Solana blockchain. This comes nine months after the initial launch of PYUSD on the Ethereum mainnet in August 2023. PayPal has over two decades of payments experience. In our earliest years, we shouldered the responsibility of not just facilitating payments, but also introducing and evangelizing a new technology — digital payments. This experience provides novel insights that allow us to refine our approach to...

深入 Aqua：资本效率与收益最大化兼得， DeFi 供给侧改革的引领者

作者：深潮 TechFlow 当前的加密市场，热点频出，链上交易需求频繁。 L1/L2竞相登场，抢夺流动性和注意力，不同生态内的 AI 和 MEME 板块此起彼伏就是最好的例证。 但相比之下，DeFi 赛道显得有些掉队。 缺乏范式创新，使得这个曾经加密世界的支柱，逐渐陷入用户增长和体验的停滞： 百链齐放也意味着流动性碎片化，链上DeFi仍未形成“一个Hub，走遍全链”的跨链聚合交易体验； 链上交易者深受MEV和报价不佳的困扰，担忧交易成本；LP 们则陷入越提供流动性越亏钱的怪圈... 体验不佳，收益不好，自然需求不畅。 而与任何的经济问题类似，需求不畅，往往是供给端出了问题 --- DeFi 的命脉，在流动性供给。 我们迫切需要一种更好的做市机制，使得流动性供给侧的资本有更好的利用效率，才能从根本上使交易者获得更好的报价和流动性环境，LP才能获得更多的收益。 当前已经有项目发现了这一关键痛点，Aqua 正是进行“DeFi供给侧改革”的先行者。 在跨链聚合交易基础上，引入私人做市商和基于信贷额度的交易机制，开创了流动性提供者和做市商合作的新范式，源头上盘活做市商的做市空间和效率，还...