This article summarizes in the fewest words the important developments of the top projects by market cap in the crypto market over the past week, covering new products, abnormal data on existing businesses, core management changes, financing, and unconventional burns, with projects sorted by market cap.
Solana
[Technical Roadmap]: The Alpenglow consensus protocol launched on mainnet, reducing confirmation time from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.
Dogecoin
[Team/Business]: Dogecoin Labs, supported by the Dogecoin Foundation, was established, with DogeOS founder Jordan Jefferson as CEO. Dogecoin Labs integrates MyDoge, DogeOS, and Such App, aiming to expand Dogecoin's utility.
NEAR
[Token Economics]: The House of Stake proposal to reduce the inflation rate from 2.5% to 1.6% (over 24 months) is being voted on.
Canton
[Token Economics]: CIP-0129 was approved, requiring all synchronizers' traffic fees to be paid in CC and burned, planned for implementation in Q1 2027.
Aave
[Token Economics]: Aave founder Stani stated in the Q3 livestream that Aavenomics 3.0 will include AAVE buybacks, staking, and burns.
Worldcoin
[Partnership]: World ID for Zoom officially launched, enabling verification that the other party in a meeting is a real person. Four institutions including Bain Capital and VanEck are design partners and will place Orbs in their offices for employee authentication.
Sky
[Business Data]: The foundation released its September monthly report, with monthly gross revenue of $30.8 million, up 49.7% year-over-year; $5.08 million was allocated to buybacks and distributions to stakers, compared with $2.48 million in August; stablecoin supply stood at $9.7 billion.
Morpho
[Partnership]: Robinhood's tokenized stocks can be used as collateral to borrow USDG, available to non-U.S. users only.
ether.fi
[M&A]: Acquired self-custodial wallet Zeal; amount undisclosed.
Aerodrome
[M&A]: Aerodrome and Velodrome have officially completed their merger, launching a unified on-chain spot trading platform called Aero.
Derive
[New Product]: Derive V3 is live.
Starknet
[Technical Roadmap]: A Snapshot vote on researching "transitioning from an Ethereum L2 to an independent quantum-resistant L1" passed with 93.5% approval. The vote only approves research, not migration; StarkWare plans to release a draft whitepaper in November.
Pendle
[New Product]: PendleLoop is live, enabling leveraged long positions on 7 Coinbase-tokenized stocks on Base, available to non-U.S. users.
Collector Crypt
[Business Data]: Single-day total revenue hit a record $24.3 million.
Monad
[Partnership]: Pump.fun app has integrated with Monad, allowing users to buy tokens on Monad directly with in-app USDC without cross-chain bridging.
Kamino
[Business Data]: The official statement says that deposits in the AUTO market for fixed-rate lending exceed $170 million, approximately 8 times that of a month ago.
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