Uniswap Releases Unichain
Unichain will feature many technological innovations like a new block builder and validator network to improve network security and minimize MEV.
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🗞️ Crypto News Recap: The Top 5 Stories
Welcome back to This Week in Crypto… everything you need to know in one scannable format. Here are the top 5 stories of the week…
⚖️ Uniswap Labs releases Unichain on mainnet: 'We're entering a cross-chain world' says Hayden Adams: Unichain will feature many technological innovations like a new block builder and validator network to improve network security and minimize MEV.
📈 Crypto investment products see $1.3 billion in weekly inflows: Global crypto investment products run by asset managers such as BlackRock, Bitwise, Fidelity, Grayscale, ProShares and 21Shares registered net inflows of $1.3 billion last week, nearly doubling from $747.4 million the week before despite President Trump’s tariff-fueled price plunge, according to CoinShares.
⚖️ Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev gets nod for conditional release from prison to work on appeal: Alexey Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, said he would be released from pretrial detention on Friday to work on his appeal. Pertsev, who has been accused of money laundering charges in the Netherlands, wrote on X today that a Dutch court suspended his pretrial detention under the condition of electronic monitoring.
🚀 Solana celebrates a year without network failures as ecosystem thrives:Solana has completed an entire calendar year without a block production failure.This marks a notable improvement in network stability, especially given its past performance issues.On Feb. 6, Helius Labs CEO Mert Mumtaz acknowledged this achievement, emphasizing that the network had maintained uninterrupted operation for an entire year. He also noted that Solana had avoided performance-related failures for nearly two years
🚀 Arweave's computing platform AO goes live on mainnet:Decentralized storage project Arweave has officially launched the mainnet release of its computing platform, AO, following a year-long testnet phase.
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📊 Key Stats of the Week
Here are the most important and interesting stats in crypto this week...
1. Uniswap interface fees have now surpassed $100M. This represents the fees Uniswap collects from their web interface and wallet. Perhaps just as interestingly, total interface fees collected grew by more than 740% since the protocol increased them from 0.15% to 0.25% in April, while cumulative trading volume grew by 80%.
Indeed, the interface level is where real value accrues.
2. Interestingly, ETH ETFs had their second best day ever with $308M of inflows.
"The trenches" got sent to 0, meanwhile institutions are quietly accumulating some fresh ETH.
3. Raydium Hits $166.6B in Volume, Becomes Largest DEX in January
4. PancakeSwap's Monthly Volume is over $50B as CAKE Supply Continues to Decrease
5. Aerodrome Dominates Base DEXs with Over $152B in Volume, Covering ~1.6M Unique Addresses
📝 Highlights from the Top Crypto Reports
Here are the top highlights from the best crypto research reports this week…
ON–311: DEXs 🔀
About the Author: OurNetwork aims to help you understand crypto like never before by harnessing the power of onchain data & analytics. This is made possible by a community of contributors who actively participate at the forefront of this emerging data landscape. This is an excerpt from the full article, which you can find here.
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📈 Uniswap V3 Onboarded over 21M New Traders on Base in 2024.
Uniswap V3 is the third iteration of the Uniswap DEX, supported by most Layer 2 chains. Insights were primarily derived from the activity of new users (traders and liquidity providers) on five major L2 chains—Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, and BSC in 2024. Trader onboarding steadily increased from January to December across these chains, peaking at over 400K around November 23. Base stood out, accounting for over 75% of the total onboarded traders, signaling healthy on-chain adoption in 2024.
Dune - @tubaecci
Dune - @tubaecci
With over $28M and a 68.4% share, Base dominated all other L2 chains in fees collected from trade activity of onboarded traders in 2024. Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, and BSC follow with shares of 24.8%, 4.3%, 1.4%, and 1%, respectively.
Dune - @tubaecci
On Arbitrum, active liquidity providers (LPs) stood at 88,050 on the last day of 2024, the highest among the other L2 chains. Which pools are these LPs most active in? WETH/USDC consistently leads weekly liquidity flows, making it a key liquidity driver for new LPs on Uniswap V3 on Arbitrum.
Dune - @tubaecci
Dune - @tubaecci
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