Wonderland, a technical collective building core Ethereum infrastructure in collaboration with Ethereum Foundation protocol teams, released a cross-chain package for the Interop SDK. The package provides a standardized interface for cross-chain token transfers, letting developers fetch quotes from multiple bridge providers, execute transfers, and track orders through a single unified API.

The package is powered by the Open Intents Framework and follows EIP-7683 for cross-chain intent structures. It currently supports Across, Relay, OIF, LiFi, and Bungee as providers, with quote aggregation and configurable sorting strategies built in. The release is currently experimental and has not been audited.

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Mantle DAO passed a governance proposal authorizing its treasury to lend up to 30,000 ETH to Aave DAO to address bad debt stemming from the April 18 KelpDAO LayerZero exploit. The vote closed with 100% approval. The loan carries a variable interest rate of the Lido staking yield plus 1% APR and a maturity of up to 36 months.

As collateral, Aave will allocate 5% of protocol revenue and AAVE tokens with a fair market value of no less than $11 million to a designated multisig over which Mantle holds a first-priority lien. Mantle will also be delegated 130,000 AAVE tokens for governance during the loan.

Interest generated on the loan may be directed toward MNT burns or ecosystem development, and the deal accelerates Aave's native deployment on Mantle Network, with Aave V3 Mantle carrying the largest estimated WETH market exposure among all markets impacted by the exploit. The Mantle Foundation will now finalize definitive agreements with Aave DAO.

The Mantle loan adds to a growing recovery effort that includes Aave's liquidations of attacker rsETH positions and ArbitrumDAO's approval of its own rsETH recovery contribution.

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• AWS AgentCore Payments with x402.

• Protocol Guild upgrades DAO to Agora.

• ArbitrumDAO approves rsETH recovery.

• Obol ships Stack v0.9.0.

AWS launched Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, adding native payment capabilities to AI agents built on Bedrock with support for the x402 stablecoin payments protocol. The release was built in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe and enables agents to autonomously transact using onchain stablecoins and traditional payment rails. AgentCore Payments handles authorization, settlement, and receipts for agent-initiated transactions, extending the agent commerce stack alongside ERC-8004 trustless agent credentials. Read more

The Protocol Guild upgraded its DAO smart contracts to Agora Governor, moving control of its split contract from a multisig to fully onchain DAO governance. The new contracts use two proposal types: membership updates require 33% quorum and 51% approval, while weekly distribution proposals require 0% quorum and 100% approval. The upgrade brings Protocol Guild's legal entity under DAO control. Read more

ArbitrumDAO approved a temperature check vote to release 30,765.67 ETH frozen by the Arbitrum Security Council following the April 18 KelpDAO exploit. The vote passed on May 7 with 90.96% in favor. The funds will be routed to the DeFi United recovery effort, a 3-of-4 multisig controlled by signers from Aave Labs, KelpDAO, EtherFi, and Certora, and applied toward restoring rsETH's backing. Approximately 42 days remain before the transfer is fully executed across the onchain execution stages. Read more

Obol released Stack v0.9.0, the latest version of its distributed validator technology (DVT) stack. The release introduces agent-payable validators via x402, allowing AI agents to programmatically pay for validator services using OBOL. The release also ships Hermes as the new default agent runtime and introduces a Claude Code plugin. Read more

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• x402 surpassed $100m in Q1

• Solv Protocol migrates to CCIP

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