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Markets

Solana DEX Jupiter's JUP Token to Debut With 1.35B Circulating Supply

The JUP-USD perpetual traded at 65 cents on Aevo at press time, implying a market capitalization of $700 million at the inception.

Planet Jupiter and its great red spot

Markets

Around 17% of WEN Token Supply Could be Burned After Airdrop, Data Suggests

CoinDesk reviewed on-chain data to estimate how much WEN token will be left at the end of the airdrop.

(wenwencoin.com)

Tech

The Protocol: Ethereum Developers Warn on 'Diversity Problem'

In this week's issue, a focus on Ethereum's "diversity problem," the week's biggest blockchain project upgrades and highlights from Electric Capital's annual report on developer activity. PLUS: We've got an exclusive interview with a top architect behind the XRP Ledger.

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Markets

Celestia’s TIA Token Pops 22% as Staking, ‘Modular’ Narrative Gains Favor

Staking TIA on native platforms is yielding between 15% to 17%, minus fees, to users, boosting demand for the cryptocurrency.

Celestial bodies. (NASA/Unsplash)

Finance

Access Protocol Airdrops $250 in ACS Token to Saga Phones After BONK Buying Spree

ACS saw its busiest-ever day of trading following the 100,000 token airdrop.

Saga phone (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

The Protocol: Crypto Spring Is Airdrop Season With Tokens From Starknet, LayerZero

In this week's issue of The Protocol newsletter, we're covering Worldcoin's latest update, airdrop season, the new Bitcoin wallet from Jack Dorsey's company and the "data availability" network Celestia's market-moving plan to plug into Polygon's blockchain development kit.

(Kamil Pietrzak/Unsplash)

Markets

LayerZero Confirms Airdrop Plans, Boosting Some Ecosystem Projects

As of Friday, LayerZero has not outright mentioned how it intends to reward users for using its network.

Airdrop (Viaframe/Getty Images)

Markets

Even Small-Time Jito Airdroppers Are Getting Thousands of Dollars in JTO Tokens

The governance token was airdropped to users of Jito's liquid staking token protocol.

Arbitrum airdrop goes live. (Pexel/Pixabay)

Tech

The PYTH Airdrop Is Finally Here. But What Is Pyth Network?

Pyth Network's speed-focused oracle service aims to challenge Chainlink as the go-to data source for blockchain finance.

"Oracle" projects like Pyth and Chainlink help to feed real-world data – such as asset prices – onto blockchain-based protocols and applications. (Unsplash)

Tech

How a Ph.D. Student's Research Paper Turned Celestia Into $345M Blockchain Project Overnight

This week's launch of the new "data availability" network Celestia came with an airdrop of the project's TIA tokens, one of the most anticipated giveaways in the crypto industry of the past year.

According to the Celestia Foundation, this photo was taken shortly after Celestia CEO Mustafa Al-Bassam (then a Ph.D. student) published the "LazyLedger" research paper in 2019. Al-Bassam is on the right, with Celestia executives Ismail Khoffi (left) and John Adler (center). (Celestia Foundation)

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