Daily news roundup with the 🦙

News 📰

> PGN live on mainnet

> Dyad launching today

> Avalanche Vista: a $50M Tokenization Initiative

> Mantis Swap Rebrand

Threads 🧵

Layer 1 & 2 ⛓

> LayerZero and Axelar Introduce USDC, USDT, WETH, and WBTC to Fantom

> Merkle Witness Compression

> Optimism: Introducing the Law of Chains

DeFi 🏦

> Prisma Finance: MEV and Liquid Staking

> Conic Outlook: Looking Ahead

> Convergence entering the Curve Wars

> Introducing Napier Protocol

Watch 📺

> Terence Tsao - L2 sequencing. Where we at? Where we want to be?

> The Intersection of Restaking and Liquid Staking | Sreeram Kannan

Raises 💰

> Flashbots $60M Series B

> Delabs Games $4.7M Seed

Security 🛡

> EraLend exploited for $3.4M USDC

> Yearn: Hack the v3 Vault

> Alphapo hack update: additional $37M stolen, totalling $60M

Development ⚙️

> How to find all EIP-4626 contracts featuring a small informational level finding

[Halmos v0.1.0](https://twitter.com/0xkarmacoma/status/1683884650937339906(forward from ****)) Expect delays! Latest SEC decision shows agency likes to “punt” decisions, ARK Bitcoin ETF decision expected August 13 will likely be later, as will Blackrock's [](https://www.dlnews.com/articles/markets/sec-punts-carbon-etf-decision-signals-wait-for-ark-blackrock/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=(forward from ****)) EXCLUSIVE: Crypto-focused anti-money laundering provisions have been added to the Senate's version of a must-pass defence bill, DL News has learned. >