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The platform’s Layer 2 infrastructure tokenizes AI-accelerated user content, transforming a 30-million-fan base into a co-creation economy.

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→On-Chain Metrics

→Bitcoin DeFi

→Native Asset Yield

Hemi Supernetwork Unlocks Native Bitcoin DeFi Capital with One Billion TVL

Hemi's hVM architecture enables trust-minimized Bitcoin DeFi, converting $2T in passive capital into a productive, composable asset class.

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→L2 Growth Strategy

→Real-World Asset Integration

→Ecosystem Grant Program

Arbitrum DAO Allocates Seventy-Five Million ARB to Drive Capital-Efficient DeFi Growth

The 75M ARB allocation strategically shifts incentives to concentrated liquidity and RWA, optimizing L2 capital efficiency and securing market dominance.

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→Capital Efficiency

→On Chain Auction

→Anti-Sniping Mechanism

Uniswap V4 Launches Continuous Clearing Auctions for Fair Token Price Discovery

The Continuous Clearing Auction mechanism automates fair price discovery and liquidity provisioning, fundamentally re-architecting the capital formation flywheel for new DeFi assets.

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→Polynomial Commitment

→Data Integrity

→Layer Two Scaling

Dynamic Vector Commitments Enable Sublinear State Updates and Stateless Clients

A new algebraic commitment primitive achieves sublinear state updates, fundamentally solving the efficiency bottleneck for large-scale stateless blockchain architecture.

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→Asset Aggregation

→Trading Volume

→Capital Efficiency

Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge to Form Aero, Unifying Layer Two DeFi Liquidity

The $530 million merger of two leading Layer 2 DEXs creates a unified liquidity hub, strategically addressing fragmentation and enhancing capital efficiency across the Ethereum ecosystem.

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→Trading Volume

→Tokenomics Redesign

→Decentralized Exchange

Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge to Form Aero, Consolidating Layer Two Liquidity

The Aero consolidation creates a unified liquidity primitive across major Layer Twos, strategically addressing capital fragmentation for efficient yield routing.

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→Off-Chain Computation

→Liveness Guarantee

→Layer Two Scaling

Decentralized Arrangers Unify Sequencing and Data Availability via Set Consensus

An extension of Set Byzantine Consensus creates a decentralized arranger service, formally eliminating L2 sequencer centralization risk and ensuring data integrity.

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→Financial Primitives

→On-Chain Orderbook

→Ultra-Low Latency

RISE Layer Two Launches MarketCore On-Chain Orderbook Infrastructure for Global DeFi

The new MarketCore orderbook infrastructure on RISE L2 unifies fragmented liquidity and unlocks CEX-grade execution, fundamentally re-architecting the decentralized derivatives market.

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→Rollup Scalability

→Proof Verification Time

→Cryptographic Security Model

Efficient Transparent Zero-Knowledge Proofs Eliminate Trusted Setup for Scalability

A new recursive polynomial commitment scheme, LUMEN, achieves the efficiency of trusted-setup SNARKs while maintaining full transparency, unlocking truly scalable and trustless rollups.

Layer Two Scaling

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