It’s April 29th — here are the buzzworthy pools, news, and announcements for you to have on your radar this week, including new LSD pool ratings.

Weekly Roundup – 4.28

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 -  an Ethereum liquid staking service that allows anyone to benefit from staking yield

Circle launches new protocol to enhance cross-chain transfers.

The creator of USDC has launched the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) to let users permissionlessly transfer USDC between Ethereum and Avalanche via a burn-and-mint model. CCTP is a great step forward in mitigating the risks of bridged assets as well as solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Lookin’ good, Circle! 👏

Rocket Pool adoption grows following Atlas upgrade.

 The leading decentralized liquid staking protocol is seeing an influx of users following its latest upgrade. Notably, the Atlas upgrade cut the amount of ETH that node operators must bond down in half – to just 8 ETH. It also enabled support for staked ETH withdrawals ahead of Lido, its largest competitor.

Following the Arbitrum airdrop last month, cumulative transactions on LayerZero’s cross-chain interoperability protocol have tripled! It's clear users are actively bridging using LayerZero technology (e.g., Stargate) in anticipation of a future airdrop. Do with this information what you will. NFA! 😝

A few users were invited to give Invest a test drive. Soon, accredited investors in certain US states will be able to invest in DeFi pools across major chains directly on our platform.

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