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Llamalend v2 now supports markets for multiple collateral and borrow assets beyond crvUSD and introduces LlamaRisk as a market curator.Tuesday’s launch on Optimism was supported by a grant from the Optimism Foundation to bootstrap liquidity.An Ethereum mainnet deployment is expected in the second half of the year.

OP mainnet is trialing stake-based transaction ordering alongside its existing priority gas auction.Users must stake a minimum of 100,000 OP into a PolicyEngine contract to opt in.The four-week pilot runs in two phases, shifting from FIFO to a stake‑weighted gas multiplier

Upbit will be the Optimism Foundation’s first client on its “self-managed” enterprise tier, meaning the exchange will manage its own rollup sequencer while being able to rely on Optimism for tech support.“What we hear consistently from the largest exchanges and institutional operators is that they want to own the chain their users transact on, not rent it,” said Jing Wang, Optimism Foundation director.

During a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Fed chair pick Kevin Warsh was mostly asked questions about interest rates, but also set the tone for how the central bank would view crypto if Warsh becomes chair.“Digital assets are already part of the fabric of our financial services industry in the United States,” Warsh said.

The layer-2 Ethereum scaling network’s privacy offering is expected to expand to additional blockchains.