It’s May 5th — here are the buzzworthy pools, news, and announcements for you to have on your radar this week, including a new protocol report on

Weekly Roundup – 5.5

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, where our team of experts selects buzzworthy pools, news, and announcements for you to have on your radar.

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 -  a protocol that aims to further validator decentralization by creating a marketplace for staked ETH liquidity in which liquid staking protocols can compete for dominance through incentive mechanisms.

Curve deploys long-awaited stablecoin on mainnet.

The leading decentralized exchange for stablecoins has introduced its native stablecoin, crvUSD, on the Ethereum network. crvUSD is backed by crypto assets that use a novel algorithm to rebalance collateral and provide liquidity in an AMM pool. Check out their 

 Say hello to BTC.b, a wrapped version of Bitcoin that is bridged from Bitcoin to Avalanche using the core bridge and then bridged to other blockchains using LayerZero technology. This tech that underpins BTC.b is called Omnichain Fungible Tokens (OFT) and allows users to not worry about locked bridge assets. Trader Joe, the top DEX on Avalanche, noted it had processed ~$1B worth of BTC.b trades across several deployments.

Liquid staking continues to grow following Shapella.

The largest liquid staking protocol, Lido, has now surpassed 6M ETH deposits on its platform with steady inflows since the Shapella upgrade to enable withdrawals. Lido has not yet activated withdrawals, as it’s pending the release of its V2 protocol upgrade, expected later in May.

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