From Velodrome’s innovative platform for trading future DeFi yield to Farcaster's fresh take on decentralized social media, the Optimism ecosystem is alive with innovation. With major players like Coinbase and Sony building their L2s — Base and Soneium, respectively — on the OP Stack, Optimism is hot. Total value locked (TVL) on Optimism Mainnet has soared past $500 million, with around 570,000 daily transactions.
Topics: Industry overviews , Trends
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Last month, Notion — the popular productivity and "all-in-one workspace" tool — introduced charts, a long-awaited feature that opens up new possibilities for data visualization and analysis within the platform.
In this guide, we'll show you how to create a self-updating dashboard for visualizing and monitoring USDC activity across multiple blockchains: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Polygon, Base, and Optimism. This dashboard will provide real-time insights into USDC movement, providing another way to identify trends and analyze cross-chain activity.
Topics: Tutorials
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Base blockchain — the Layer-2 blockchain developed by the Coinbase team — continues to grow, with transactions and active addresses hitting all-time highs last month. With established projects expanding to Base and new projects launching all the time, Base has emerged as a frontrunner among chains.
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Base Name Service (BNS) is the primary naming service on the Base network, simplifying how users link memorable names like "bob.base" to blockchain identifiers such as crypto wallet addresses. As BNS domains grew in popularity, managing the increasing number of domain registrations, renewals, and transfers became challenging. The team turned to Dispatchfor efficient domain activity monitoring and real-time updates.
Topics: Customer stories
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Between proposal creation and execution, delegation, permissions changes, voting, and treasury spending, staying on top of DAO governance activities can be a constant struggle. This guide will show you a few ways you can automatically monitor and communicate real-time updates for critical governance-related activity — whether to your team, or your community.
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Exiled Racers, a leader in the play-and-earn space, provides players with a blend of dynamic racing gameplay and strategic prediction markets. Built on the Moonbeam network, Exiled Racers offers a unique gameplay experience. Players wield algorithmic NFT Race Passes, each granting access to randomly assigned weekly pilot, racecraft, and booster game assets. These passes dynamically update with realtime race data and unlock the chance to compete for top spots on the leaderboard, earning rewards along the way.
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We're excited to announce that Dispatch, our powerful Web3 alerting and automation platform, has joined Caldera’s appchain ecosystem. This integration brings no-code smart contract and wallet monitoring to developers and projects building on Caldera's high-performance appchains. More than alerting, Dispatch can help teams discover product insights and potential malicious activity — automatically, and with just a few clicks.
Topics: Partnerships
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Happy International Women’s Day! There are a lot of women in Web3 who are driving incredible change and making their mark. This year we reached out to some of these remarkable women to learn about how they got into Web3, the tools they rely on, and just general advice for getting into and thriving in Web3. Whether you’re crypto-curious or have been in the game since the early days, we bet you’ll find some nuggets of wisdom that resonate.
Topics: Web3
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ETHDenver 2024 witnessed an impressive turnout from the Web3 community. What began as a modest hackathon has become one of the most prominent Web3 conferences. This time, it wasn't just developers immersed in their laptops; the event attracted artists, designers, Web3 enthusiasts, influential politicians, and large and small companies. Even with the recent crypto market ups and downs, the vibe at ETHDenver was buzzing with excitement as the Web3 community rallied together, united in pushing toward the future.
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Another World is building an open-world blockchain game on the Optimism network, inspired by Ready Player One. Their team aims to push the boundaries of blockchain-enabled gaming and lean into cutting-edge technologies such as Unreal Engine 5. Another World integrates popular NFT collections across Bored Ape Yacht Club, CloneX, and Azuki, transforming the 2D art style into fully animated, playable 3D characters.
Topics: Customer stories
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