Coindesk

Binji Pande, who works on partnerships at Optimism Unlimited and is contributor to The Optimism Collective, visits two summer retreats and returns with insights about how crypto can get greater user adoption.Source link

PitchBook reports $2.7B in venture funding, up from Q1, but with less deal flow. It expects $12-14B for the year, up significantly on 2023’s numbers.Source link

Traditional finance institutions are increasingly exploring ways of putting assets like bonds, credit and funds on blockchain rails, known as RWA tokenization, to pursue operational benefits.Source link

Optimism networks that are part of the Superchain rely on Ethereum to communicate with each other in order to move assets, which tends to make such moves slow and expensive. To address that, Optimism is releasing its own interoperability roadmap.Source link

The Venezuelan government has blocked various websites, including the social network X, following allegations of fraud in the July 28 presidential elections.Source link