The Block

Quick Take Ethereum scaling solution Starknet is collaborating with Celestia to improve data availability for Layer 3 chains. The collaboration enables Starknet to use Celestia for data storage, aiming to minimize gas costs.

Quick Take The dYdX Chain now has liquid staking for DYDX, the native token of the dYdX Chain. The network upgraded to allow liquid staking providers to join the network.

Quick Take: Manta Network co-founder Kenny Li explains two reasons why Manta Pacific has risen to the top three Layer 2s by TVL. Li said the project’s token launch was a rollercoaster and that it plans to identify who carried out an attack on the network.

Quick Take Dan Tapiero’s 10T and 1RT firms have acquired “substantial” assets of Qredo. The rest of the Qredo business has been placed into administration. Qredo has laid off 44 more people due to administration, a source told The Block.

Quick Take: New addresses on Solana reached an all-time high on a monthly basis in January. The count of new addresses on Solana increased to nearly 12 million during the month.

Quick Take Ondo COO Justin Schmidt forecasts that the total addressable market for yield-bearing stablecoins could be greater than the demand for the current market of stablecoins. Ondo recently launched its governance token and currently offers two tokens that offer yield from U.S. Treasurys.

Quick Take Gnosis co-founder Dr. Friederike Ernst shares how Gnosis Pay is integrating traditional and crypto payment rails to enable crypto payments for everyday spending.

Quick Take Three individuals targeted multiple victims with SIM-swapping hacks in the U.S., including one FTX employee, Bloomberg reported.

Quick Take Since its underwhelming 2022 debut, Pixelmon has been working to rebrand its decentralized game franchise with a new team under LiquidX Studios.

Quick Take The comedian said his friends said it was fine to do, adding it was “totally on the up and up.”