Fast Withdrawals Now Available on Select Orbit Chains, Offering 15-Minute Withdrawal Finality

Offchain Labs, the initial developer of Arbitrum and Stylus, today announced Fast Withdrawals, a new feature allowing select Orbit chains and RaaS providers to achieve withdrawal finality in under fifteen minutes, compared to the usual wait time of up to seven days. Orbit chains that plan future support for the new feature include Apechain, Cheese, Nova, Sanko, Xai and others. RaaS providers include Offchain Labs,...

Azura Launches from Stealth to Take DeFi Mainstream

Today, Azura emerged from stealth to launch the interfacing layer for decentralized finance (DeFi), backed by $6.9 million in seed funding led by Garry Tan's Initialized Capital. Additional investors include Volt Capital, Winklevoss Capital, Alliance, Raj Gokal (co-founder of Solana), Meltem Demirors (former co-chair, World Economic Forum's Cryptocurrency Council), Stephane Gosselin (co-founder of Flashbots), and other prominent figures in the crypto industry.

Grexie Signchain Launches on November 1st, 2024: Enabling Smart Contract Developers to Bring Off-Chain Data On-Chain with Seamless Gas-Paid Signing

Grexie Limited proudly announces the launch of its innovative smart contract solution, Signchain, on November 1st, 2024. Designed specifically for developers, Signchain introduces a powerful way to bring off-chain data on-chain through user-paid gas fees and secure signing of data into smart contract methods using its extendable smart contract, Signable.

Polychain-backed Talus Network Launches Nexus: The First Fully Onchain Agentic Framework for Autonomous AI on Blockchain

Talus Network, high-throughput L1 blockchain  backed by industry leaders Polychain Capital, dao5 and others, is launching Nexus—the world’s first fully onchain agentic framework for autonomous AI on blockchain. Nexus is a framework that helps coordinate and manage Talus AI agents, allowing them to operate, make decisions, and execute tasks without human oversight. These agents live onchain and can perform tasks on the user’s behalf.