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Luis Romo turned a South Korean goalkeeping error into a historic moment on June 18, 2026. His 50th-minute strike gave Mexico a 1-0 victory over South Korea and earned him the Michelob Ultra Superior Player of the Match award at Estadio Akron in Guadalajara.

The goal did more than win a game. It made Mexico the first team to punch their ticket to the round of 32 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, while also clinching the top spot in Group A.

The goal that changed everything South Korean goalkeeper Kim Seung-gyu made a mistake. Romo, positioned with the instincts of someone who plays both defensive midfielder and centre-back at club level, was exactly where he needed to be. He capitalized on the error and slotted home what would prove to be the only goal of the contest.

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Who is Luis Romo The versatile midfielder currently plays for Guadalajara, better known as Chivas, one of Mexico’s most storied clubs. He wears the number 7 shirt for the national team. Romo’s primary roles are defensive midfielder and centre-back.

Playing the tournament in Guadalajara, the city where he plies his club trade, adds another layer. Romo knows every blade of grass at Estadio Akron.

The Michelob Ultra connection The Michelob Ultra Superior Player of the Match trophy is part of the brand’s broader sponsorship commitment to FIFA events. The post-match trophy presentation is broadcast globally, ensuring that both the player and the sponsoring brand get maximum exposure.

What this means for Mexico’s World Cup campaign Being the first team to qualify for the round of 32 is not just a nice line on a tournament resume. Mexico can now approach their remaining group stage fixture with the luxury of rotation. The top spot in Group A also means a theoretically more favorable draw in the knockout rounds.

The 2026 World Cup is being co-hosted across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Mexico needed a defining moment in their home matches to make the tournament feel like theirs. Romo’s goal against South Korea, in Guadalajara, at the stadium where he plays his club football, is exactly that kind of moment.

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VIAVI Solutions has released what it calls the first validation solution built specifically for Ultra Ethernet Transport, a protocol designed to fix the networking bottlenecks that traditional Ethernet creates inside AI data centers. The tool, which launched on June 23, plugs directly into VIAVI’s existing TestCenter platform and lets companies emulate realistic AI workload traffic without needing actual GPUs to do it.

What Ultra Ethernet actually solves The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose founding members include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft, was established around 2023 to tackle exactly this problem. The group released its formal Specification 1.0 on June 11, 2025, codifying the Ultra Ethernet Transport protocol with improvements to congestion control and scalability for AI and high-performance computing environments.

The tool validates several key capabilities that the UET protocol introduces. These include reliable ordered and unordered packet delivery, packet trimming, congestion control mechanisms, and dynamic multipathing.

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Who this is built for VIAVI is targeting three distinct customer segments: hyperscalers building their own AI infrastructure, cloud service providers offering AI compute to customers, and the networking equipment manufacturers whose switches and NICs need to speak fluent UET.

The TestCenter platform supports emulation of collective communications patterns and large language model traffic flows. It also handles load-balancing validation for strategies like Equal-Cost Multi-Path routing and flowlet switching.

“AI clusters will soon scale to millions of endpoints,” said Aniket Khosla, VP of Product Management at VIAVI.

Khosla emphasized that the validation tool is designed to help users deploy high-performance AI fabrics with greater speed and cost-efficiency. Given that AI data centers are now operating on multi-terabit connections, the margin for networking errors is essentially zero.

The broader context VIAVI has previously demonstrated UET interoperability capabilities that earned recognition at Interop industry events. Those demonstrations helped establish credibility with the networking community and the UEC membership before this commercial product launch.

What this means for investors VIAVI Solutions (NASDAQ: VIAV) is positioning itself as the testing and validation layer for what could become the default networking protocol in AI data centers. Every switch vendor, NIC manufacturer, and hyperscaler that adopts UET will need to verify their implementation works correctly, and right now VIAVI is the only game in town for that specific function.

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Why These Altcoins Are Trending Today — January 9

Saga, a Layer-1 blockchain dedicated to Web3 gaming, has announced a partnership with Virtuals Protocol and others in a joint venture aimed at powering AI Agents.

As part of this collaboration, Saga introduced Metropolis.lol, a reality arbitrage protocol that combines blockchain and AI technologies.

Saga Layer-1 Launches Metropolis.lol with AI TrifectaAnnounced via a post on X (Twitter), Saga detailed its collaboration with Virtuals Protocol, Eliza Labs, Wayfinder Foundation, and ai16z to launch a novel agent-only Layer 1 blockchain ecosystem, Metropolis.lol.

Metropolis.lol functions as an open-source agent runtime, providing developers with a full-stack toolkit to create AI-centric applications. This initiative establishes Metropolis as a decentralized society where AI agents thrive.

“Today, Saga is proud to introduce metropolis.lol—the reality arbitrage protocol and a groundbreaking collaboration with Virtuals Protocol, Wayfinder Foundation, and ai16z,” Saga wrote.

Among Saga’s partners, Virtuals Protocol facilitates ecosystem interactions through the Metropolis Butler Agent. This enables seamless communication between Virtual Protocols’ agents and Metropolis. Meanwhile, Eliza Labs powers scalable AI functionalities via the ElizaOS framework, fostering advanced intelligent operations.

The Wayfinder Foundation develops multi-chain frameworks that enable AI agents to navigate blockchain ecosystems seamlessly. Meanwhile, this development comes just a month after Saga launched its Mainnet 2.0 to transform blockchain economics.

Collaborating with Uniswap, Saga’s upgrade offered autonomous chain deployment, enabling agents to independently create and manage scalable Chainlets. Additionally, Saga’s Liquidity Integration Layer (LIL), set to launch in Q1 2025, promises to enhance cross-chain liquidity for AI-driven economies.

VIRTUAL Soars 30% As AI Agents Surge in PopularityRiding on the AI Agents wave, the Virtuals Protocol has seen a spike in demand. According to BeInCrypto data, VIRTUAL, the powering token for the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem, is up by almost 30% on this news. As of this writing, it was trading at $3.73.

VIRTUAL Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThe network’s partnership with Illuvium has also revolutionized gaming by making in-game characters more realistic. This further demonstrates the versatility of AI agents in diverse applications.

Meanwhile, this surge comes on the back of the growing popularity of AI agents. It represents a pivotal trend in both the blockchain and technology sectors. According to a recent CoinGecko report, the integration of AI into blockchain — specifically through AI agents — has driven substantial market interest.

Against this backdrop, financial institutions like Franklin Templeton have acknowledged the potential of AI agents. The asset manager recently predicted the sector’s role in reshaping financial ecosystems. Similarly, Multicoin Capital foresees AI agents driving the next wave of blockchain innovation by 2025.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, envisions AI agents playing an integral role in future decentralized applications. He believes they would enable automated governance and complex economic systems.

Elsewhere, prominent venture firm ai16z has committed to advancing AI agents, highlighting the need for tokenomics overhauls to optimize their performance. Additionally, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has expressed enthusiasm for the transformative potential of AI agents, emphasizing their role in creating intelligent, self-sustaining digital economies.

“It is very very clear AI agents is probably the next robotics industry and likely to be a multi-trillion dollar opportunity,” Huang said.

Ethereum gaming franchise Illuvium has undergone a company restructuring, resulting in layoffs along with some core contributors opting to take pay cuts or receive their wages in the gaming IP’s own token.

The downsizing comes after Illuvium released a trio of interconnected games last year—Overworld, Arena, and Zero—that covered varying genres. Despite its ambitious vision, the community's reaction wasn't overwhelmingly positive following years of development.

In December, co-founder Kieran Warwick admitted that "concerns" about the franchise's gameplay were valid and that things had to change. Part of this included that Illuvium had "significantly" reduced its costs via capping wages at $85,000, among other adjustments.

But this week, Warwick said that more substantial cuts had to be made.

"We made the difficult decision to restructure our core contributor team to bring our monthly burn rate closer to $500,000," Warwick said in a Tuesday statement. "We want to extend our sincere gratitude to everyone affected by these changes."

The statement on X (formerly Twitter) further explains that some employees have "generously offered" to take pay cuts, while others have chosen to receive their salary in the project's ILV token rather than the USDC stablecoin. It also alludes to letting employees go as part of a “leaner” approach, although never explicitly says this is the case.

In the replies, Illuvium Community Manager DickKingz, also known as Rich, explained that the team is now down to 66 core contributors—down from between 100 to 150 people as of late.

"The trim to 66 was unfortunately a lot of my teammates and friends, and [I] hate to see them go," Rich said. "Hopefully it’s only bye for now, and in the future when things improve, we can bring many back."

Illuvium did not immediately respond to Decrypt's request for comment.

As a result of the restructuring, as well as some other operating cost cutting measures, Illuvium has gotten closer to its "burn rate" goal of $500,000—it was at $900,000 as of December. This means that the Illuvium franchise now has a 24-month runway to continue development.

Previously, Warwick explained that Illuvium planned to seek fresh funding around March. But in the wake of the restructuring, he confirmed that the franchise isn't looking to raise "right now." 

He had also previously outlined a plan to move the franchise forward. The co-founder proposed focusing on one game at a time—rather than the three games it was developing—including reworking its Overworld to be a more streamlined version of a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO, and reducing in-game microtransactions. 

It appears that the 24 month-runway will get the project to the point of completing its auto-battler, starting the rework of Overworld, and attempting to keep the community engaged, according to the restructuring statement.

"This is step one in the rebuild. Now we have the runway, and it will continue to be extended," Warwick said on X. "Enormous updates are coming mid-next month: Auto drone runs, multiplayer servers, and leaderboards reactivated."

"28-3 down with two minutes to go in the third quarter," he added, comparing the project to a losing team in a football game. "We're about to run this shit back so hard."

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Illuvium (ILV) has experienced a sharp price increase of 60% over the past 24 hours, currently trading at $24.41. 

The surge in price comes ahead of the much-anticipated Illuvium Pro League 2025, set to begin on August 16. Investors have flocked to the altcoin in response, but the bullish spike has also triggered significant selling.

Illuvium Could Be Looking At DeclineThe Relative Strength Index (RSI) for ILV currently sits above 70.0, placing the token in the overbought zone. This suggests that a price reversal could be imminent. Historically, when the RSI nears or crosses this threshold, ILV’s price has seen pullbacks, albeit short-term.

As the excitement around the Illuvium Pro League cools, the overbought condition could lead to selling pressure. The elevated RSI signals that the asset is potentially due for a correction, especially given the fast rise in price. This can lead to investors cashing out and triggering short-term declines.

ILV RSI. Source: TradingViewIlluvium’s age consumed metric, which tracks Long-Term Holders (LTH) behavior, has spiked recently, marking the largest increase in the last three months. A high age consumed metric signals that LTHs are selling their holdings, capitalizing on the price surge. 

Given the significant impact LTHs have on ILV’s price due to their large holdings, their selling activity can put downward pressure on the altcoin. 

ILV Age Consumed. Source: SantimentILV Price SkyrocketsILV price shot up by nearly 60% in the last 24 hours, currently trading at $24.41. The altcoin crossed the $24.19 resistance and is facing the barrier of $27.01.

Marking a 6-month high, ILV will likely not continue its uptrend, considering the above-mentioned factors. The altcoin could end up falling back down to $19.56, invalidating the bullish thesis and wiping recent gains.

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ILV Price Analysis. Source: TradingViewOn the other hand, if the altcoin notes surprising demand it could make its way past $27.01 to head towards $30.00. This would invalidating the bullish thesis and enable the altcoin to secure its recent gains.

PANews reported on November 21st that, according to official Illuvium news, Illuvium has deployed Staking v3 on the Base chain, bringing a faster and smoother on-chain staking experience. Illuvium is an interoperable blockchain game universe consisting of four games: the strategy battle game *Arena*, the open-world MMO *Overworld*, the land management game *Zero*, and the social collection platform *Beyond*. User progress can be shared across all games. Staking v3 has been fully optimized for both new and existing players and is now live.

ILV: Illuvium: Arena Update 1.17.7

ILV: Illuvium: Arena Update 1.17.8

The Graveyard turns every fallen Challenger into progress toward a shared collection system across FREE, STANDARD, and ADVANCED leagues. Once players complete the collection at least once, they become eligible for weekly rewards funded by Bones and Jackpot contributions. The more collections a player completes, the greater their weight and share of the weekly Graveyard pool.

Purpose

The Graveyard is a collection feature where players collect dead Challengers.Progress is tracked in all leagues:FREESTANDARDADVANCEDKilling challengers in any of these leagues contributes towards a joint Graveyard collection state, eligibility, weighting, and reward pool.Rewards accumulate from Monday–Sunday and are distributed every Monday at 00:00.

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1% of each game's Jackpot

ADVANCED

1% of each game's Jackpot

*Jackpot clarification: Instead of 7% going entirely to the Jackpot:

6% goes to the Jackpot1% goes to the Graveyard poolPlayers qualify for rewards if they have completed the Graveyard collection at least once.

A player's share of rewards depends on their weighting, which increases with collection completions.

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Dark Holo Collection

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Each completed collection adds its corresponding weight.

Calculate the total reward pool for the week.Sum all eligible players' weights.Divide the pool by total weight to get reward per weight unit.Each player receives:Reward = Player Weight × Weekly Reward per Weight Unit

10,000 FREE games, 500 STANDARD games and 100 ADVANCED games.Prize Pool Breakdown:
- FREE league contribution = 10,000 games x 2 Bones / Game = 20,000 Bones.
- STANDARD league contribution = 500 games x 1% Prize Pool x 600 Skulls average Prize Pool = 3,000 Skulls.
- ADVANCED league contribution = 100 games x 1% Prize Pool x 7000 Skulls average Prize Pool = 7,000 Skulls.5 eligible players:Player 1: completed Color collection once → 1×Player 2: completed Color collection three times → 3×Player 3: completed Color collection 41 times → 41×Player 4: completed Color collection 5 times and Holo 1 Time → 55xPlayer 5: completed Holo collection two times → 100xTotal weight = 200×

Rewards per weight:

Bones Rewards per weight = 20,000 / 200 = 100 BonesSkulls Rewards per weight = 10,000 Skulls / 200 = 50 SkullsDistribution:

Player 1 receives 100 Bones and 50 SkullsPlayer 2 receives 300 Bones and 150 SkullsPlayer 3 receives 4,100 Bones and 2,050 SkullsPlayer 4 receives 5,500 Bones and 2,250 SkullsPlayer 5 receives 10,000 Bones and 5,000 Skulls

Markets are weak, but ALGO, FXS and HNT book a 20%+ rally — Here’s why

Updated Jan 18, 2023, 3:26 p.m. Published Jan 18, 2023, 11:56 a.m.

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(Pixabay)Decentralized-finance (DeFi) application Frax Finance is briskly gaining favor among investors because of its strong product lineup as liquid staking derivatives (LSD) heat up ahead of the Ethereum blockchain's Shanghai upgrade.

The Frax protocol is a two-token system comprising the FRAX stablecoin and a governance token called frax shares (FXS). FRAX maintains a peg to the U.S. dollar by being partly collateralized by USD coin (USDC) alongside periodic buying and selling of FXS to maintain its market capitalization.

Frax's staked ether product, which was launched in October, is attracting capital. Users deposit ether (ETH) and receive the Frax ether token (frxETH), which is backed 1:1 with ether. The frxETH token can be freely traded or staked on other DeFi applications or on Curve’s liquidity pools – where stakers are earning up to 10% annualized.

At writing time Tuesday, FrxETH holds just above $100 million, data from DefiLlama shows. That is a nearly $50 million increase since the start of January and four times the amount since November.

Frax's frxETH product has grown fourfold in the past few months. (DefiLlama)Frax is offering annualized returns of over 6% to 10% to users who stake ether on the platform. Those rewards are paid out in CRV, FRAX and FXS, depending on which liquidity pool a user stakes his tokens.

In contrast, Lido, the biggest DeFi application by total value locked, offers 5.2% yields to users.

The draw of capital into Frax’s ether pools has resulted in greater demand for FRAX and FXS tokens, with the price of FXS rising over 62% in the past week according to CoinGecko. And because some liquidity pools pay out in FXS, the price increase theoretically means higher rewards for stakers – which, in turn, could drive more ether toward Frax and even more demand for Frax’s tokens.

According to some observers, Frax’s treasury holdings of curve and convex tokens are resulting in outsized returns for some stakers.

“FRAX has an advantage over other LSD platforms at the moment due to their outsized CRV/CVX treasury holdings,” Hal Press, a partner at crypto fund North Rock Digital, said in a tweet this week. “This allows them to stimulate higher ETH staking yield on their staked ETH derivative product than the rest of the market.

“Sentiment among traders increased amid increased utility for FXS tokens. These tokens accrue value from the newly minted FRAX stablecoins and fees from Frax Finance,” Press added.

The summary of the FXS thesis is as follows. FRAX has an advantage over other LSD platforms at the moment due to their outsized CRV/CVX treasury holdings. This allows them to stimulate higher ETH staking yield on their staked ETH derivative product than the rest of the market. https://t.co/ODdkHjxq1O

— Hal Press (@NorthRockLP) January 17, 2023 Understanding CurveIt’s helpful to know how Curve works to fully understand the reason behind the high yields on Frax.

Curve offers an efficient way to exchange stablecoins while maintaining low fees and low slippage, according to Curve Finance. Pools deployed on Curve are backed by centralized or decentralized stablecoins, wrapped tokens – such as wrapped bitcoin (WBTC) – or a basket of various assets.

Depositors on Curve earn annual yields of up to 4% from one of the many pools on the platform.

High trading volumes on liquidity pools on Curve that involve Frax contributes toward the FRAX token holding its intended dollar peg. Additionally, Curve allocates CRV tokens as rewards for liquidity providers to select pools, called gauge rewards, which results in more returns for liquidity providers.

“The long-term effect of the Curve AMO is that Frax could become a large governance participant in Curve itself,” Frax’s technical documents state. Curve held over $6 billion in tokens as of Tuesday and is among the few “blue-chip” DeFi protocols.

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Frax Finance's founder Sam Kazemian expressed support for a proposal from Ouroboros Capital that pushes for a more aggressive token buyback strategy.

Frax Share (FXS) is known for its current buyback strategy, where the project buys and burns the same amount of FXS over a predetermined timeframe, irrespective of any price fluctuations. The project has a $20 million fund for this purpose.

Ouroboros Capital, a cryptocurrency investment research firm, put forward a proposal on June 16 calling for a proactive optimization of the current token buyback strategy.

The proposal suggested a time-weighted average price (TWAP) buyback worth $1 million to be initiated when the FXS price dips below $5. If the price further slides to below $4, an additional $1 million buyback, set for a 1-month duration, is proposed to be activated. The key premise here is to purchase more FXS tokens for subsequent burning, as the price falls further.

This comes as the price of FXS — currently at $5.30 — falls toward $5, according to CoinGecko.

“I believe that the most judicious use of our revenue and capital is to buy and burn the FXS supply," Kazemian told The Block. "Especially given the low valuations in a mature ecosystem due to macro market conditions and the state of the global economy, I can’t envisage a more effective use of capital.”

Kazemian expressed agreement with the general idea of accelerating the TWAP mechanism as the price drops to $4, $3 and $2, echoing Ouroboros Capital’s suggestion. “If the price continues to fall, we should buy back more tokens more aggressively,” he added.

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(Adam Nir/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)Frax's governance token FXS is in stasis as the decentralized finance protocol's nascent high-yielding staking product draws millions in investor money.

Early Thursday, Frax unveiled sFRAX, an ERC4626 staking vault allowing holders of the protocol's partially collateralized fractional-algorithmic stablecoin FRAX to earn yields matching the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed) interest rate on reserve balances (IORB), currently around 5.4%.

The product debuted with an APY of 10%, eventually converging with the Fed's 5.4% IORB rate. So far, more than 150 users have poured in more than $35 million in the vault, according to Dune Analytics.

FXS' price rose 7% to $5.66 on Thursday, but has since pulled back to $5.49 to indicate a 0.5% gain on a 24-hour basis, CoinDesk data show. The steady price action is consistent with the continued low-volume range play among market leaders bitcoin and ether.

More than 150 users have poured $35 million in the newly launched sFRAX vault. (Dune Analytics)The new offering comes as lending protocol MakerDAO enjoys a first-mover advantage in capitalizing on high interest in the U.S. According to Parsec Finance, MakerDAO has invested over $2 billion in short-term bonds via offchain structures since February 2022, offering a 5% savings rate on DAI and buy back its MKR token.

On a year-to-date basis, MKR has gained over 168%, outshining bitcoin's 62% rise by a big margin. FXS, meanwhile, has gained only 32% this year. Some in the crypto community expect FXS to catch up with MKR.

"Impressive growth from sFRAX with $24.6M allocated to Frax Finance's FinresPBC short-term U.S. Treasuries strategy currently yielding 10%. FXS set to make a MKR catch-up trade and reignite protocol revenue with the 5.25% risk-free rate," McKenna, pseudonymous founder of Founder of Arete Research, said on X.

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Despite the ongoing correction in the crypto market, opportunities abound for investors. In the spotlight this week is Bitcoin, but the world of altcoins is equally brimming with potential.

#1 Bitcoin (BTC) – The King Of Crypto Bitcoin remains the bellwether of the crypto market, and its price action is once again expected to set the tone for the week. Grayscale’s GBTC ETF, which currently holds 566,973 BTC ($23.21B), is a key focal point. The ETF has seen outflows of approximately 52,227 BTC ($2.14 billion) since it was passed, leading to speculation about when these outflows will end.

According to the #Grayscale website, #Grayscale currently holds 566,973 $BTC($23.21B), decreasing ~52,227 $BTC ($2.14B) since the ETF was passed.

And iShares(Blackrock) holds 33,431 $BTC($1.37B), Fidelity holds 24,857 $BTC($1.02B), Bitwise holds 10,152 $BTC($415.6M). pic.twitter.com/fx2Kj3WpSB

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) January 22, 2024

Crypto analyst Ignas | DeFi Research pointed out the psychological impact of Grayscale’s continuous selling: “Grayscale’s continuous dumping every working day gave the market trauma. Now, everyone expects another BTC transfer from GBTC to Coinbase and BTC dumped in advance. A massive rebound awaits when that anticipated morning transfer never happens.”

Thus, the spot Bitcoin ETF flows in general (how can the “newborn nine” absorb the GBTC outflows) and the GBTC outflows particular will be key data points, which will determine the price trend this week. At press time, BTC was falling towards the 6-week low at $40,270.

BTC price drops below $41,000, 4-hour chart | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com #2 Dogecoin (DOGE) The creation of the X Payments account on the X platform (formerly Twitter) has ignited speculation about the inclusion of Dogecoin in the project. This speculation led to a 23% surge in DOGE’s price within just 5 hours on Saturday. Although the gains were partially reversed, this incident underscores the importance of following X Payments closely.

X Payments is part of X’s plan to launch its payment service, and the account already boasts over 100,000 followers, including prominent figures in the crypto community. DOGE is a strong contender for inclusion due to Elon Musk’s association with both X and his fondness for the meme coin. Investors are eagerly awaiting any substantial announcements from X Payments, as they could significantly impact DOGE’s price.

#3 Render (RNDR) The launch of Apple Vision Pro on February 2nd is poised to have a profound impact on the Render (RNDR) network. During the announcement of Apple Vision Pro last year, RNDR experienced a substantial price surge. The distributed computing sector, including RNDR, is expected to benefit significantly from Apple Vision’s launch.

Speculation surrounds a potential partnership between Apple and the crypto company behind RNDR, OTOY. OTOY is closely associated with both the RNDR token and Octane, a product linked to RNDR. The CEO of OTOY, Jules Urbach, has connections to both products, fueling rumors of collaboration.

Apple’s mention of RNDR during its WWDC 2023 event further supports the notion of a possible collaboration.

#4 Chiliz (CHZ) Chiliz (CHZ) has piqued the interest of investors with the promise of new tokenomics. CEO Alexandre Dreyfus has hinted at a revamped tokenomics model, including a burn system, subsidization of staking rewards, and external consultation. Dreyfus stated, “Farming and earning CHZ on the Chiliz network is coming soon to your screens (and wallets).”

Farming and earning $CHZ on the @chiliz network is coming soon to your screens (and wallets).#SportFi #Tokenomics https://t.co/JJXJz00xwP pic.twitter.com/KlsBvaQNkV

— Alexandre Dreyfus (@alex_dreyfus) January 20, 2024

Additionally, the PEPPER airdrop is generating excitement within the CHZ community. This airdrop involves growing CHZ on the Chiliz blockchain to receive daily PEPPER rewards from the greenhouse. Dreyfus has actively engaged with the community on social media, encouraging users to follow @PepperChain for early access to the PEPPER meme airdrop.

#5 Frax Share (FXS) Frax Share (FXS) is making headlines with the upcoming launch of SfrxETH on EigenLayer, scheduled for January 29th. SfrxETH is the native ETH LSD token of the Frax protocol and has experienced significant growth. Fraxtal, Frax’s Layer-2 blockchain, is also set to launch in the first week of February.

With a TVL of over $1 billion and a market capitalization of $685 million, FXS is set to attract the attention of the crypto community. CEO and founder Sam Kazemian, aims to roll out Fraxtal as a significant addition to its existing product suite. Several projects, including Curve, have proposed deploying their functionalities on Fraxtal, which utilizes rollups technology to execute transactions efficiently.

In a recent interview, he expressed high expectations for Fraxtal’s performance, predicting substantial TVL and market capitalization growth in the coming months. “The current timeline is the first week of February. Etherscan will support it on day 1 with Fraxscan, and a huge slew of projects will debut soon after launch. It will surely be one of the biggest rollup releases of the year,” Kazemian remarked.

He added, “We expect at least a 9-figure total value locked in the first month and $1 billion plus for Q1. That should put us in the top 5 chains soon thereafter if our innovations are well received.”

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Frax Finance laid out its vision of becoming the decentralized central bank of crypto in its 2025 Vision Roadmap.  Frax announced its plans to develop a tech stack to deploy AI agents on blockchain.  While the broader crypto industry is awaiting a bull run at a larger scale in 2025, several crypto projects are focusing on their growth and development. Frax Finance has also laid out some of its initiatives for 2025 such as token upgrades, hard fork, growth in DeFi adoption, and AI agents deployment. 

Frax Finance is a decentralized stablecoin cryptocurrency protocol consisting of FRAX, FPI, and frxETH stablecoins. While FRAX is a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, FPI is pegged to a consumer goods basket, and frxETH is a stablecoin pegged to ETH. Apart from stablecoins, the platform also offers several DeFi services like a lending market, an AMM, and a cross-chain transfer protocol. 

Initiatives of Frax Finance 2025 Vision Roadmap As part of its 2025 Vision Roadmap, Frax Finance aims to become a decentralized central bank of crypto. Some of its key initiatives include Frax token upgrades, Fraxtal North Star Hard Fork, Frax Universal Interface (FUI) Redesign, and AI Integration. 

The FRAX stablecoin is going to be rebranded to frxUSD and offers direct fiat redemption and integration with the US financial systems. On the other hand, FRAX is going to be a symbol for Frax Shares, which is currently FXS. Additionally, the governance token Frax Shares will also be used for gas and staking on its Fraxtal layer 2 blockchain. 

The Fraxtal North Star Hard Fork is also a significant part of the 2025 Vision. It will enable ultra-fact block processing time and supports applications on its layer 2 with high throughput. Apart from this, the interface is also going to be redesigned with intuitive tools and advanced onramping. 

Frax Finance Focuses on AI Agents Development Among its other key initiatives, Frax Finance is also developing the AIVM parallelized blockchain. Being powered by a new Proof-of-Inference consensus system, its tech stack enables AI agents development and deployment on blockchain. They aim to develop on-of-its-kind and world’s first autonomous and sovereign AI agent without being controlled by anyone. 

The focus on AI agent development and innovation has been increasing lately in the industry. A couple of days ago, DWF Labs announced a $20 million fund to support Web3 projects focusing on AI agent innovation and development. Thus, Frax Finance might be eligible for this fund with its new 2025 vision to deploy AI agents on blockchain. 

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Pixel Realm, a well-known gaming platform, has recently announced an exclusive initial non-fungible token offering. As per the company, it is commencing the sale of Daosis Sapphire Maestro NFTs, giving a chance to the participants to for minting the tokens on Pixel Realm. On its X account, the firm revealed the details of the respective endeavor.

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Pixel Realm Commences the Sale of Its Daosis Sapphire Maestro NFTs In a blog post covering this development, Pixel Realm disclosed May 13th as the date for the NFT sale. It added that Oasis Sapphire EVM would power the initial launchpad “Daosis.” As per it, Oasis Sapphire EVM operates as a flourishing community ecosystem and welcomes participation. In addition to this, it strengthens its participants to build its future. Daosis comprises a couple of dynamic components that contribute to a remarkable experience.

According to the platform, it will sell twenty non-fungible tokens via the closed-bid auction. The respective NFTs play the role of the keys to reach Daosis Launchpad’s Tier Sapphire Mestro. The cost to access Tier Sapphire Maestro is up to $3,000 in terms of DSS coins. The non-fungible token has the exact intrinsic value. Nonetheless, the participants may buy it for less via an auction.

While discussing the chief features of the project, the company noted that it ensures access to a prominent launchpad tier. Additionally, it ensures greater allocation concerning IDOs on the launchpad. Moreover, the wallet containing the non-fungible token is qualified to have revenue shares.

Apart from that, such a wallet can also bear community rewards. That’s not all as it can also receive launchpad rewards. Furthermore, the consumers can also sell the NFT. Following the transfer, just the latest wallet comprising it will be able to reach Tier Sapphire Maestro.

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Oasis, a privacy layer dealing with artificial intelligence and Web3, has announced a new project. As per the platform, it is unveiling a unique framework ‘ROFL’ to provide computing support concerning off-chain mechanisms to runtimes such as Oasis Sapphire. The company took to social media to offer details of this endeavor.

Oasis Unveils a Unique Framework called ‘ROFL’ for Improved Off-Chain Computing Support In its latest series of X posts, Oasis mentioned that the platform intends to start decentralized AI. For this purpose, it is reportedly creating ROFL. Blockchains are innovative in their capability to offer trustless computation. Nonetheless, the consumers can do limited things on-chain. Keeping that in view, a question arises about the expansion of the computation abilities concerning blockchain technology.

We’re on a mission to pioneer decentralized AI 🚀

This is why we’re developing ROFL, a framework that adds computing support for off-chain components to runtimes like Oasis Sapphire

This is a game-changer

Here’s why: 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/jfZV1S6tTO

— Oasis (@OasisProtocol) July 17, 2024 Particularly, this takes into account the provision of physical infrastructure and the development of oracles for streaming data assets. In addition to this, it also includes the development of representations of physical real-world assets. Hence, the advent of ROFL provides a solution for these things. ROFL is the full form of runtime off-chain logic. It takes off-chain components to the on-chain environment.

In this respect, it carries out remote attestation as well as proofs to use the trust and security of Oasis. With this endeavor, the users can enjoy improved verifiability, trust, and privacy. The project has significant potential for development. It deals with chain abstraction, in-depth defense, and decentralized artificial intelligence training of oracles.

The Initiative Targets Eliminating the Limitations of On-Chain Computations Hence, the innovative approach focuses on addressing the limitations that the on-chain computations face. It opens a broad series of cutting-edge possibilities to revolutionize blockchain technology. The capabilities of the blockchains are often restrained by the limitations of on-chain processing. Therefore, to solve this issue, ROFL has profound implications.

It transforms the blockchain’s efficiency when it comes to building. It enables everything such as unconventional AI agents along with self-directing collections of non-fungible tokens. This improved flexibility and composability denotes a new epoch of complexity and innovation in dApps.

As included in the current development, the Eden 24.0 Upgrade is witnessing the integration of foundational support regarding ROFL. This will reportedly enable critical features that Oasis Core 24.0 possesses. The upgrade signifies a remarkable move in the mission of Oasis Protocol to widen the frontiers of decentralized AI and blockchain technology.

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Umair Younas is a cryptocurrency-related content writer linked with this work since 2019. Here, at Blockchainreporter, he serves as a news and article writer. He is a crypto, blockchain, NFTs, DeFi, and FinTech enthusiast. He has strong command over writing authentic reviews about brokers and exchanges and he has collaborated with our education team to write educational content as well. He has a dream to raise awareness among people about digital currencies. His works are well-researched and brimmed with information hence they provide fresh insights. Stay tuned to his posts if you want to stay up-to-date with the crypto-verse.