As Ethereum's scalability challenges pushed transaction fees to record highs in 2021, Layer 2 (L2) networks emerged as the critical solution. Among these, Arbitrum has become a leader of the pack, attracting thousands of developers who are reimagining what's possible when blockchains become fast and affordable.
Topics: Trends
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Discord has become the hub for communities of all kinds. For Web3 communities, it's the go-to spot for everything from sharing alpha and discussing new projects to getting support for products, marketplaces, and devtools. If you’re into Web3 and use Discord, you've likely noticed the proliferation of Discord bots designed to manage communities, track crypto prices, and alert communities about NFT and DeFi activity. However, many of these bots come with a hefty price tag or require coding skills to integrate.
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.
Topics: Industry overviews , Trends
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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.
Topics: Customer stories
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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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