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Overview
L2 progress updateMarkets: Trending sideways forward of a troublesome month.Michael Saylor appears to be like to onboard hundreds of thousands into BTC Lightning Community.Nigeria and Binance.
Good morning Fam,
It’s time to examine on the progress of some Layer-2 (L2) networks and discover any new incentives the rising blockchains have to supply.
Whereas the markets are stricken in a bearish winter trance, there are tasks constructing for the long run.
The L2s started small however are beginning to develop regardless of market situations, and with the Ethereum merge weeks away, L2s stand to reap the advantages.
Taking a look at TVL throughout the market, three L2 tasks are within the prime ten (Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism). Whereas Solana and Avalanche have struggled to maintain TVL with month-to-month losses of -25.56% and -6.61%, respectively, all of the L2s within the prime ten had optimistic development for the month.

Supply: DeFi Llama
Furthermore, the newer children on the block, Arbitrum and Optimism are bolstering applications to encourage customers to affix their networks. For instance, Optimism is working a number of incentivized swimming pools throughout its protocols, which is able to present yield and extra OP token payouts. Chart under.

Supply: Optimism
The Optimism community is seeing development in its ecosystem use, with most customers bridging from Ethereum.

Supply: Messari Twitter
The Arbitrum community, which rolled out its a lot anticipated Nitro mainnet improve final week, has set the stage for the horde of customers about to enter its community to take part within the Arbitrum Odyssey program.
The eight-week Odyssey program, which started in June, will seemingly restart someday within the subsequent few days. In change for utilizing totally different protocols on the community, customers will likely be rewarded with NFTs (and probably an ARBI token airdrop).
For some additional perception into some Arbitrum tasks, try the Twitter publish under by @corleonescrypto:

Supply: Twitter
The crypto market continued to pattern sideways in the course of the vacation weekend. With the Fed reducing its steadiness sheet this month and one other doable price hike of 75 foundation factors, it may show to be a troublesome month for crypto, one thing we lined in final week’s publication.
Bitcoin continues to vary between $19.5k and $20.5k whereas quantity continues to lower. The US Inventory market is closed immediately, which may showcase wild value motion for BTC. The mix of a closed US inventory market may current the chance for whales to unload in a low liquidity environment and manipulate the value. Maintain an in depth on the $19.2k help degree immediately. BTC accomplished the every day candle up 0.85% to $20,000.

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The greenback continued its strengthening upward pattern versus different main currencies in the course of the weekend. The EURO fell under 98 cents versus the USD and seems to have damaged a big help degree. Whereas buyers flock to USD, the possibilities they wish to put money into danger property or equities are restricted.

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Michael Saylor is creating on the Lightning Community. Former MicroStrategy CEO stated (on the Baltic Honeybadger convention) that the corporate has builders engaged on options to onboard many individuals onto the Bitcoin Lightning Community. Saylor, a well-known Bitcoin evangelist, stated,”
“The benefit of Lightning is not only that you could possibly scale up bitcoin for billions of individuals, or drive the transaction price to almost nothing, but in addition, the ethos of bitcoin is to go very rigorously and never transfer quick on the bottom layer with out the common consensus, however in Lightning, you possibly can transfer far more aggressively creating performance and take extra dangers with the purposes than you possibly can with the underlying bitcoin layer”
The Lightning Community permits for quick and low cost transactions, is constructed on prime of Bitcoin, and is especially used as a decentralized fee community.
Sudoswap token airdrop. The NFT market “sudoswap” introduced the retroactive airdrop of its new SUDO governance token for liquidity suppliers and XMON token holders. Consequently, the cohort will obtain 41.9% of the 60 million token provide.
Information tidbits:
Nigeria and Binance are in talks to create a digital financial zone to bolster the expansion of fintech and blockchain tech.Arcane Analysis releases “How Bitcoin Mining can rework the Vitality Trade” report.
Extremely anticipated y00ts NFT mint placed on maintain. The group behind y00ts introduced a “blocker bug” throughout testing of the NFT launch that can delay the mint of the y00ts NFT assortment by in the future.
FIFA’s World Cup NFT platform. The governing physique for worldwide soccer, FIFA, has introduced the launch of an NFT platform on Algorand that appears to promote soccer-themed digital collectibles for the World Cup.
You don’t have to purchase a number of tokens to take alternatives throughout the crypto-verse. A big majority of the networks enable for reasonable gasoline charges.
With L2s equivalent to Arbitrum and Optimism simply starting incentive applications, it can open the door for airdrops, liquidity supplier incentives, and NFT drops. Furthermore, it’s an effective way to discover ways to use crypto-based protocols for reasonable!
Low-cost transactions + rewards + airdrops = low cost crypto training
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