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For many years, Ethereum and XRP held the second and third-ranking spots in the crypto market. Read on to discover how wXRP will integrate into Ethereum to expand its utility to smart contracts.

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Avalanche launch $200M fund to incentive developers

The Barrage Foundation unveiled a new $200 million fund this calendar week aimed at expanding the liquidity potential of startup projects with its ecosystem building decentralized finance, nonfungible tokens, enterprise and cultural applications.

According to the official blog mail, the smart contracts platform will deploy the funds across a panoply of sectors, including "equity investments, token purchases, various forms of engineering science, business organization evolution and ecosystem integration support," all of which will exist overseen past an expert field of fund managers.

The fund, known as "Blizzard," has been contributed to by an impressive list of participants from the DeFi infinite, including Ava Labs, Polychain Capital, Three Arrows Capital, Dragonfly Capital and CMS Holdings, amidst others.

Emin Gün Sirer, director of the Avalanche Foundation, shared his perspective on the contempo growth of the project, also every bit the potential implications for Blizzard:

"The last two months have shown incredible growth across Avalanche, with users, assets, and applications joining the community in record-highs. Blizzard volition play a cardinal role in further accelerating this growth, and solidifying Avalanche'southward position as the premiere home for projects and people pioneering the next era in our space."

wXRP to launch on Ethereum blockchain

Wrapped XRP (wXRP) is expected to launch on the Ethereum blockchain in Dec, facilitated by multichain platform Wrapped.com. The integration will enable Ripple (XRP) holders to deploy smart contract functionalities of lending, borrowing and swapping for the first fourth dimension in its history.

Wrapped tokens are digital assets stored in a vault on a separate blockchain and equally pegged to the value of another asset. For instance, Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC) operates on the Ethereum blockchain. Therefore, wXRP will have a 1-to-1 commutation ratio to XRP, with the custody provided by insured provider Hex Trust.

In a tweet on Monday, Ripple chief technology officer David Schwartz advocated for a multichain, interoperable approach in the crypto space:

AllianceBlock partner with Flare to accelerate DeFi

Blockchain business firm AllianceBlock announced a partnership with Flare Network this week to advance the capabilities and interoperability of the 2 platforms within the DeFi infinite.

The long-awaited launch of Flare Network, and its respective FXRP token airdrop, is expected to bring Turing-tested smart contracts functionality to the Ripple network by integrating the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

Commencing with XRP — due to its partnership connexion to Ripple — the platform will also offer Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin (BTC), Algorand (ALGO) and Stellar Lumens (XLM) before reportedly branching out to all native layer-1 blockchains.

Rachid Ajaja, co-founder and CEO of AllianceBlock, spoke to Cointelegraph about the regulatory potential of the platform:

 "With increased interest from traditional finance in DeFi, AllianceBlock's regulatory and compliance layer will allow traditional institutions to access opportunities in DeFi in a variety of ways, such as creating compliant, tradeable certificate wraps out of liquidity mining tokens, yield farming or NFTs."

Token performances

Belittling information reveals that DeFi'south total value locked has increased 4.62% across the calendar week to a figure of $167.42 billion.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows DeFi'southward top 100 tokens by marketplace capitalization considerably well beyond the last vii days.

Phoenix Global (PHB) secured the podium's top spot with a colossal 3,230%. Loopring (LRC) came in second with 118.v%, while Bones Attending Token (BAT) came tertiary with xxx.94. Fourth and fifth places were claimed by Avalanche (AVAX) and Maker (MKR) with 20.74% and 18.5%, respectively.

Analysis and hot topics from the last week:

  • Cointelegraph Consulting: Recounting 2022's biggest DeFi hacking incidents
  • Parabolic gains for OriginTrail, Maker and XYO Network rouse 'altseason' hopes
  • Layer-2 and multi-concatenation DeFi platforms see record inflows as Ethereum fees soar

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