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Claims go live for EIGEN Stakedrop 2.
Optimism announces Retro Funding Round 6.
RISC Zero introduces Boundless.
DeltaPrime suffers a $6m exploit.
EIGEN Stakedrop 2 Goes Live
Claims for the EIGEN Season 2 Stakedrop are now open. Stakers, operators, ecosystem partners, and community members can claim their share of 86 million EIGEN tokens. The claim window is open for six months, closing on March 16th, 2025. Although EIGEN is non-transferable, users can still restake and delegate their tokens. EIGEN, a Universal Intersubjective Work Token, provides social consensus as a service and will serve a role in future protocol governance. The token is expected to become transferable in the coming month and is currently trading at about $2.90 in Aevo’s pre-market. The Eigen Foundation also pledged an allocation to Protocol Guild.
Optimism Retro Funding Round 6
Optimism announced the details for its sixth round of retroactive funding, which will allocate up to 3.5 million OP tokens to projects that have contributed to Superchain Governance. Eligible contributions include governance infrastructure and tooling, governance analytics and performance reports, as well as leadership roles within councils, commissions, and boards. Applications open on September 26th, with contributions needing to demonstrate impact between October 2023 and September 2024. Projects unrelated to Optimism governance and individual delegate participation are not eligible for this round. Badgeholders will vote in October, with grants set to be distributed in November.
Boundless Verifiable Compute Layer
RISC Zero, a blockchain infrastructure provider, introduced Boundless, a new scalability design leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to enable verifiable computing. With Boundless, computations performed by a single node can be verified by all nodes efficiently, without the need for re-execution. Boundless simplifies ZK integration for developers by offering familiar programming languages and streamlined proof aggregation. Boundless also supports cross-chain interactions, elastic scalability, and inherits security from the underlying target chains. The solution is currently in an early testing phase.
DeltaPrime Suffers $6 Million Exploit
DeltaPrime Blue, a lending protocol on Arbitrum One, suffered a private key compromise, leading to the loss of approximately $6 million in user funds. An attacker was able to artificially inflate their deposit balances to withdraw funds from multiple pools, including USDC, BTCb, and ARB. DeltaPrime has since contained the risk and is now working on asset recovery.
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