#33/34/35: August 13-September 2

• Circle is bringing native USDC to Base network very soon.

• Web3 payments company MoonPay launches an investment arm, MoonPay Ventures.

• Nomadic Labs demonstrates 1 million transactions per second on Tezos (XTZ).

• Tezos (XTZ) NFT marketplace TEIA has begun distributing DAO tokens. Anyone who used HEN or TEIA for more than 14 days prior to July 31 can sync their wallet to the site and claim their $TEIA.

• Tezos-based (XTZ) protocol Youves launches its first non-crypto synthetic asset, a gold tracker token.

• Tezos (XTZ) explorer TzKT launches customizable Profiles.

• Stellar (XLM) and Ethereum (ETH) account for most of the real-world asset (RWA) market cap, with Stellar having a slight lead.

• Ethereum (ETH) introduces the Ethereum Execution Layer Specification (EELS), implemented in Python.

• Stellar's (XLM) Development Foundation joins the Bytecode Alliance to contribute to the development of WebAssembly (Wasm), a competitor to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).

• Money transfer platform Airtm announces it will begin using USDC on Stellar (XLM).

• Polygon (MATIC) launched the Polygon Chain Development Kit to enable developers to easily launch their own zk-rollups.

• Tradeteq will tokenize US Treasuries on XDC Network (XDC).

• Mattel released Series 6 of its Hot Wheels NFTs on Flow (FLOW).

• Coinbase takes a stake in the issuer of USDC, Circle.

• Coinbase Wallet lets users send messages to people holding the same POAP.

• Rarible (RARI) announces it will stop aggregating orders from other NFT marketplaces by September 30.

• The oncyber metaverse now supports POAPs.

• Stellar (XLM) open-sources its disbursement platform.

• Forrester's 2023 overview of the object storage landscape included Storj (STORJ).

• Mask Network (MASK) adds support for Base.

• Circle is launching native USDC on Base, NEAR (NEAR), Noble, Optimism (OP), Polkadot (DOT), and Polygon (MATIC) in the coming months.

• Finnish fintech Membrane launches the first Euro stablecoin on Solana (SOL).

• Solana (SOL) Pay integrates with leading e-commerce platform Shopify.

• CoinGecko and TZ APAC launched a new "learn and earn" program covering Tezos (XTZ).

• Unstoppable Domains launched XMTP-powered encrypted messaging capabilities via the app or website. The ability for developers to add Unstoppable Messaging to their own apps is coming later.

~Dutchee👁️

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