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🚀 It’s Governance Digest Friday. This week centred on transparency in incentives, stronger infrastructure, and deeper integration between traditional and on-chain systems. 🔹 @wardenprotocol pushed reward transparency further with its Season 04 leaderboard update. Users can now see estimated $WARD allocations in real time, alongside a simplified model tied directly to fees generated and rewards earned. The direction is clear: measurable participation over abstract metrics. 🔹 @zilliqa continues to reinforce its base layer, with recent updates focused on X-Bridge, identity via vLEI, and stablecoin flows. While market conditions fluctuate, the emphasis remains on improving core infrastructure and reliability. 🔹 @oraichain expanded its Model Marketplace with new auto-switch strategies, allowing users to choose between fully algorithmic execution or AI-assisted signals. It reflects a shift toward adaptive systems that respond to market regimes rather than static strategies. 🔹 @WalrusProtocol marked its first year with a community-driven writing challenge, inviting contributors to explore the role of verifiable data. Incentives here extend beyond usage, they shape narrative and ecosystem understanding. At Lithium Digital, we focus on operating the validator and governance layers that make these systems dependable in practice. The next step is bringing that same standard directly to users… more on that soon. #GovernanceDigestFriday #Web3 #Blockchain #Staking #Tokenization #CryptoInfrastructure

Community Update #2 Over the past few weeks, Zilliqa has been focused on strengthening the foundation - from X-Bridge to identity (vLEI) and stablecoin flows. Markets may be cooling off, but the real work hasn’t slowed down. Find more here: blog.zilliqa.com/community-upda…

It’s #ChainWatchThursday. What's new with @pharos_network, and how is it pushing RealFi forward? Pharos is focusing on one clear direction: building the infrastructure, capital, and ecosystem needed to bring real-world assets on-chain at scale. 💸 $10M for builders. Pharos has launched its Builder Incubator, offering funding, mentorship, and go-to-market support for teams building RealFi applications, from tokenisation to compliant financial products. ⚡ The network also secured a strategic investment from GCL New Energy to explore energy asset tokenisation and decentralised energy markets, a direct bridge between blockchain and physical infrastructure. 📊 The research and data layer is forming. Through its RealFi Alliance, Pharos is working with partners like Dune and Alchemy to build transparent, institutional-grade rails for RWA markets. The pattern is clear: Pharos is aligning builders, capital, and data infrastructure to move RealFi from early experimentation into usable financial systems. #Pharos #ChainWatch #RealFi #RWA #Tokenization #Web3Infrastructure #Blockchain #DeFi

Blockchain data is highly transparent, but not easily interpretable. Most users today rely on: → Block explorers for raw transactions → Dashboards for predefined metrics → Manual analysis for deeper insights This creates fragmentation between data access and actual understanding.🧵👇

Not another RWA talk. A real discussion about what's actually working. Behind the Asset EP2: RealFi Uncovered - Building the Future of Onchain Finance 📆 March 19, 11AM EST 🔗 x.com/i/spaces/1oKMv… Featuring: - @Alchemy - @glennonchain (Glenn Rothwell, Business Development) - @AquaFluxPro (Jackie, Head of Strategy) - @Dune - @filippoarman (Filippo, Research Lead) - @yield_network - @maxyamp (Max Yamp, Founder & CEO) Hosted by @michellek_web3 (Michelle Kang, CMO) Tokenization ≠ usable asset. Infrastructure is everything else. Set a reminder 👇

⚡️ It’s #Web3Wednesday 🧩 Most conversations in Web3 revolve around entry, what to buy, and when to buy. What follows often gets less attention. 🔄 Staking addresses that gap. It keeps assets engaged with the network itself, participating in validation, supporting consensus, and earning rewards as part of ongoing protocol activity. 🏗️ Across the networks we support, our nodes run with a focus on consistency and operational discipline, the kind of setup that prioritises reliability over noise. 📍If you’re already positioned, the next step is deciding how your assets continue to work while you hold. 👉 Explore the networks you can stake with us: lithiumdigital.com/products/staki… 🧠 Work is ongoing behind the scenes to broaden new ways to interact with your assets beyond staking, while also expanding how your staking activity is tracked and managed, all aimed at bringing more clarity and control to the experience. #LithiumDigital #Staking #Web3 #Crypto #Blockchain

🦭 Walrus turns one and we want to hear YOUR voice. Write about why verifiable data matters–the tech, the use cases, the vision–for a chance to win up to $1000 in WAL. Share your take as a thread, article, or whatever format works for you. 🏆 Prizes 1st place: $1000 in WAL 2nd place: $600 in WAL 3rd place: $400 in WAL How to enter: 1. Write your take on why verifiable data matters (600 words minimum) 2. Post it to X as a thread, X article, or long form post 3. Reply to this post with a link to your submission 4. Tag @WalrusProtocol in your post Submit by April 17. Full details: 👇

🌍 It’s #TechieTuesday, and crypto’s integration with traditional finance is accelerating while infrastructure and enforcement both tighten. 🏦 Major European banks are moving further into crypto as MiCA takes effect. Institutions like Santander and BBVA already offer custody and trading, while others are preparing to follow. Adoption remains uneven, but client demand and the growth of stablecoins are pushing banks to treat crypto less as an edge case and more as part of core financial services. 🚨 Regulators in the U.S., U.K., and Canada have coordinated a joint enforcement operation targeting crypto fraud. The effort reflects a shift toward cross-border oversight, where authorities are no longer acting in isolation but aligning to address scams that move easily across jurisdictions. 📊 Tokenised real-world assets have reached nearly $27 billion on-chain, led by tokenised U.S. Treasuries. The growth signals a structural shift as traditional instruments move onto blockchain rails, enabling faster settlement and fractional access. 🧠 Vitalik Buterin proposed simplifying Ethereum node operations by reducing the need to run separate consensus and execution clients. The goal is to lower setup complexity and time requirements, making it easier for individuals to run their own infrastructure and reducing reliance on centralised RPC providers. TL;DR: Banks are integrating crypto under clearer rules, regulators are coordinating globally, tokenised assets are scaling with institutional backing, and core blockchain infrastructure is being simplified to support broader participation. #Crypto #Banking #MiCA #Stablecoins #RWA #Ethereum #Regulation #Web3

📢 Reminder: If you still hold USDC bridged via deBridge, please bridge it out as soon as possible. deBridge will sunset on 31 March, 2026 as announced in blog below. Learn more: blog.zilliqa.com/strengthening-…

🚀 It’s #MainnetMonday USDC market cap on Ethereum just hit a record of $55B, as total stablecoin supply across crypto surpasses $300B (via @Cointelegraph). Stablecoins are increasingly acting as the settlement layer of crypto. Payments, DeFi settlements, and transfers are happening on-chain at a growing scale. That growth places more responsibility on the networks processing it. Here’s what that means for delegators 👇 1/ 📊 Stablecoins generate constant on-chain activity From DeFi settlements to cross-border transfers, stablecoins move continuously. Each transaction must be validated, included in a block, and finalised by the network. 2/ ⚙️ Networks are increasingly handling financial-grade usage As stablecoin supply expands, blockchains are functioning more like payment infrastructure. Validators play a critical role in maintaining uptime, producing blocks reliably, and keeping transactions flowing. 3/ 📡 Reliability keeps liquidity moving When billions of dollars move on-chain every day, consistent validator performance helps ensure transactions settle smoothly and the network remains dependable. ✨ The takeaway: As stablecoins scale, the reliability of the infrastructure securing these networks becomes even more important. At Lithium Digital, we validate across multiple networks with a focus on consistent performance and long-term participation. 👉 Stake with Lithium Digital lithiumdigital.com/products/staki… #MainnetMonday #Crypto #Stablecoins #USDC #Ethereum #Web3 #Staking #Blockchain

Canton's DeFi ecosystem is taking shape and featured apps are being deployed across every vertical, building on the same privacy-preserving, atomic settlement rails that institutions already run on. DeFi and TradFi are converging to create AllFi on the @CantonNetwork.

Fresh models just dropped on the Model Marketplace. 🆕 Auto-switch (Reasoning) → human-assisted signals. Auto-switch (Algorithm) → fully algo-driven signals. Match the model to the regime, not your bias. ⚔️

🚀 It’s Governance Digest Friday. This week focused on interoperability, institutional rails, and new governance models shaping how ecosystems coordinate and grow. 🔹 @AvailProject integrated with Bitcoin’s first ZK rollup, @citrea_xyz, extending Avail Nexus to Citrea developers. Builders can now onboard users and liquidity from multiple chains while bringing assets like ctUSD, wcBTC, USDC.e, USDT.e, and WBTC.e directly into Citrea-based applications. 🔹 @wardenprotocol announced the Warden Foundation, introducing a hybrid governance model where humans and AI agents participate together. The initiative moves the ecosystem toward autonomous, agent-driven DAO coordination, with the foundation supporting ecosystem grants, builder programmes, research, and governance experimentation. 🔹 @pharos_network partnered with @Anchorage to provide institutional infrastructure for token minting, custody, and distribution from genesis. By embedding regulated custody into its EVM-compatible L1 from launch, Pharos aims to lower barriers for institutional participation in RWA-focused ecosystems. 🔹 @iota introduced a new Get Started hub, consolidating onboarding tools and resources for users, developers, and builders entering the ecosystem. The page serves as a central entry point for exploring IOTA’s infrastructure and developer stack. At @Lithiumdigital, we vote on governance decisions and contribute to the infrastructure of the chains we support. #GovernanceDigestFriday #Web3 #Blockchain #CryptoInfrastructure #Staking

It’s #ChainWatchThursday, what’s new with @iota as the ecosystem leans further into real-world infrastructure and developer activity? 🌍 The IOTA Foundation and Teesside University are applying the Trade Worldwide Information Network (TWIN) inside the UK’s Digital Trade Testbed, exploring how earlier and more reliable supply-chain data can streamline customs and cross-border trade. 🧠 To guide that effort, the IOTA Foundation has launched an expert advisory board, bringing experienced figures from the trade and logistics sector to ensure the infrastructure reflects real industry operations. 🏗 On the builder side, the MasterZ × IOTA hackathon reached its “Build Now” milestone, with 63 teams submitting product concepts, architectures, and technical stacks built on IOTA across areas like trade, identity, RWA tokenisation, and infrastructure. 📜 The ecosystem is also engaging regulators. The IOTA Foundation joined industry peers in responding to a consultation from the Financial Conduct Authority, arguing that regulation should focus on custody and control while distinguishing decentralised infrastructure from financial intermediaries. The direction is becoming clearer: IOTA is pushing toward real-world deployment, regulatory dialogue, and stronger builder pipelines as distributed ledger infrastructure moves from pilots into production. #IOTA #ChainWatch #RWA #DigitalTrade #Web3Infrastructure #Tokenization #Blockchain #DLT

Today we are announcing the Warden Foundation, and it is not just another foundation. This is the first step toward a fully autonomous, agent-driven DAO. The Agentic Economy needs infrastructure that serves ALL builders fairly. Humans and agents, together.

Your trading terminal should do more than execute. It should help you think. Warden’s AI Trading Terminal brings real-time AI Signals directly into the trading experience, helping you spot opportunities with more context and less noise. This is what agentic trading looks like. 👇

Join Pharos for Where is the Flight to Safety? RWAs to Pick 🗓️ March 12 | 8:00 AM EST 🔗 x.com/i/spaces/1rxmq… Explore why capital is moving toward RWAs as a stabilizing force in onchain finance. Hear insights on: • Market triggers behind the “flight to safety” in crypto & broader markets • Which RWA categories are attracting the most interest — treasuries, credit markets, real estate, & more • Essential risk factors for evaluating tokenized assets Featuring speakers from @protofire, @xsy_fi, @infiniFi and @KiiChainio Hosted by @jack_gk Set your reminder!

⚡️ It’s #Web3Wednesday 🧭 In Web3, the real question isn’t just what you hold, it’s where your assets are positioned. Tokens sitting idle remain inactive, while delegated assets actively support the networks behind them. 🔗 Staking turns ownership into participation. It connects your holdings to the live operation of a protocol, validating transactions, supporting consensus, and earning rewards as the network continues to run. 🏗️ At Lithium Digital, we operate staking across the networks we support with a focus on disciplined validator operations and dependable performance. Infrastructure like this isn’t flashy, but it’s what keeps the ecosystem moving block by block. 📈 For long-term holders, staking introduces another layer to the strategy, allowing assets to contribute to the network while rewards accumulate over time. 👉 Explore the networks you can stake with us: lithiumdigital.com/products/staki… #LithiumDigital #Staking #Web3 #Crypto #Blockchain

📊 February was a month of structural progress across the ecosystems we support. 🌐 From cross-chain coordination layers going live at genesis to institutional settlement initiatives strengthening their foundations, the infrastructure behind Web3 continues to expand. 🔍 We unpacked the most important developments across the ecosystems we support in our February monthly digest. 📖 Read the full update 👇 lithiumdigital.com/blog/lithium-d… 🚀 Featuring updates from: @AvailProject @WalrusProtocol @CantonNetwork @bitsCrunch @zilliqa @wardenprotocol @PharosNetwork @Oraichain @iota #Web3 #Crypto #Blockchain #RWA #Interoperability

🌟 It’s #TechieTuesday, and this week’s developments show crypto pushing deeper into financial infrastructure, AI coordination, and tokenised markets. 📊 @solana is gaining ground in the real-world asset segment. Data from @RWA_xyz indicates the network now has slightly more wallets interacting with tokenised assets than @ethereum. At the same time, stablecoin activity on @solana has surged, with record transfer volumes and growing circulation of USD Coin, reinforcing its role as a high-throughput settlement layer for digital dollars and tokenised assets. 🛡️ A new $25 million initiative is being launched to strengthen the ecosystem around @Zcash following structural changes involving the Electric Coin Company. The programme aims to expand development and adoption, highlighting continued interest in privacy-preserving digital payments despite rising regulatory scrutiny. 🤖 @trondao joined the Agentic AI Foundation, an initiative under the Linux Foundation building open infrastructure for autonomous AI systems. The move positions TRON’s high-throughput network as a potential transaction layer for machine-driven economies. 📈 Meanwhile, @Nasdaq is working with @krakenfx on infrastructure that could enable tokenised trading of listed stocks and ETFs with round-the-clock markets and faster settlement if regulators approve. TL;DR: Stablecoin rails are expanding, privacy networks are reorganising, AI agents are entering blockchain governance, and traditional exchanges are exploring tokenised equities. #TechieTuesday #Solana #Ethereum #Zcash #TRON #AI #Tokenization #Stablecoins #Blockchain #Web3