DeFining news: April 28th, 2023 📢

▪️Google is deepening its journey into Web3 with a Polygon partnership and an accelerator program.

▪️California is implementing a web wallet to let people pay for some services in crypto.

▪️Usage of LayerZero has recently tripled, though the fact it happened after the ARB airdrop raises questions about drop farming.

▪️XEN quickly rose from near obscurity to taking up a whopping 11% of Ethereum gas usage.

▪️Filecoin is taking on Google And Amazon with Filecoin Web Services. 

▪️114 memecoins were launched from one wallet in one month.

▪️Analysis shows that 90% of DeFi services fade once hacked.

▪️Robinhood launches a self-custody wallet and dApp on-ramp.

▪️Xitram token airdrop’s last-minute cancellation on an Arbitrum DEX causing a bit of a scandal.