Eclipse is on a Mission to Bring Solana to Ethereum

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Hope your Tuesday’s are going well. The crypto market is flirting with $3 trillion market cap and the is feeling energy is good. There’s much pain in this world, but not in this club.

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For this week’s Tuesday episode, we’re sharing an episode I recorded with Vijay Chetty, the CEO of Eclipse.

Eclipse is powered by the Solana Virtual Machine, but is an Ethereum layer-2 chain. It aims to bridge the two powerhouse blockchains together with Solana’s speed and Ethereum’s liquidity.

We dive into Eclipse’s recent mainnet launch, how it’s bringing together Solana and Ethereum technology (and possibly, both ecosystems), the types of builders entering its chain, DeFi opportunities and more.

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Money and people moves

Top 3 highlights focused on crypto startups that secured funding and industry players who are starting something new.

1. Speaking of Eclipse…Ben Livshits joins the Eclipse Labs team as its new chief technical officer

2. Dune acquired smlXL for an undisclosed amount to scale its real-time blockchain data capabilities

3. Avail taps “Tay” to help lead its growth marketing initiatives

4. Ex-Pimco, Millennium Executives Set Up Crypto Advisory Business (Bloomberg)

5. Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson shared he’s helping shape U.S. crypto policy under the Trump administration

Talking points for the road

Crypto-focused headlines or research that caught my eye…and should catch yours, too.

1. MicroStrategy Buys Another 27,200 BTC for $2B; Bitcoin Profits Sit at $11B (CoinDesk)

2. It’s been about two-years since FTX and its sister company Alameda Research went belly up. Now, the two entities are looking to get some $$$ as:

   • FTX sues crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO Zhao for $1.8 billion (CNBC)

   • Alameda Research sues Waves founder to claw back $90 million (The Block)

3. Coinbase launches COIN50 index, tradable as a perpetual future with up to 20x leverage (The Block)

4. Stani Kulechov launches Lens V3 version with new social features, including accounts, usernames and feeds that can be individually plugged into apps

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