BGD Labs, a Web3 development initiative, and Chainlink, the industry-standard Web3 services platform, announced today the integration of Chainlink Proof of Reserve (PoR) onto the Aave Protocol on Avalanche mainnet. This integration helps ensure that wrapped tokens in Aave markets on Avalanche are sufficiently collateralized, mitigating risks associated with using wrapped tokens on the Aave protocol.

Changelly has released a significant update to DeFi Swap — a fully decentralized exchange (DEX) that embraces all of the benefits of decentralized finance (DeFi), including optimized transaction cost and instant transaction processing. From now on, users will be able to swap thousands of tokens on six various networks: Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Fantom and Optimism.

LYOPAY, the ecosystem of crypto-friendly products, announced the launch of LYOPAY Pro, an innovative payment with cryptocurrencies and fiat money, available in 150 countries. LYOPAY Pro aims to provide a crypto-friendly app with integrated fiat currencies which, in enhancement to LYOPAY, will be available to multiple countries around the globe beyond Europe.

Today, MultiversX is happy to announce the next step in its partnership with Ledger through the integration of EGLD staking into the Ledger Live App, offering more than 1.5 million users secure access to EGLD staking services. Together with this milestone, Ledger is now also involved in proposing and validating blocks on the MultiversX blockchain network through their very own staking pool, run in collaboration with Figment.

The Nuon Protocol has announced the launch of its mainnet for the NUON flatcoin: the world's first cryptocurrency linked to an unbiased cost of living index. Decentralized and overcollateralized, Nuon will go live on the leading Ethereum scaling solution, Arbitrum.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - RFOX VALT, the leading metaverse platform, is excited to announce the sale of AI-enabled metaverse apartments on February 8th. These state-of-the-art apartments offer residents a fully immersive experience using cutting-edge AI technology, which only enhances the already existing VR world.

Threshold Network, a provider of cryptography services to unlock greater utility of digital assets, announced the launch of tBTC, the industry's only decentralized, permissionless, and scalable Bitcoin-to-Ethereum bridge. The launch will allow users to wrap their BTC in exchange for tBTC tokens that can be deployed in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Veax Labs is excited to announce that it has officially launched the public testnet for its advanced NEAR Protocol based decentralized exchange (DEX). The platform, which seamlessly bridges features commonly found in the traditional finance (TradFi) market with decentralized infrastructure, hopes to bring a fresh value proposition to the DEX market.

The multichain middleware platform BIFROST run by PiLab Technology, a South Korean VC specializing in blockchain services, recently unveiled their mainnet, the BIFROST Network. Fueled by their own mainnet, BIFROST hopes to create an easy-to-use multichain experience and to foster a unique blockchain ecosystem that leverages the multichain technology.

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