PANews reported on January 27th that, according to The Block, Hyperliquid announced on Monday that its HIP-3-deployed DEX open interest reached a record high of over $790 million, driven by a surge in commodity trading. This data is based on the permissionless perpetual contract market deployment feature introduced by HIP-3, which allows qualified builders to independently deploy and operate perpetual contract DEXs on the HyperCore infrastructure using staked HYPE tokens. Hyperliquid CEO Jeff Yan stated that the platform has become "the most liquid place for cryptocurrency price discovery," with its Bitcoin perpetual contract bid-ask spread narrowing to $1, lower than Binance's approximately $5.50.

ETHZilla CEO McAndrew Rudisill said the company’s strategy is to deploy Ether on the Ethereum network through layer-2 protocols and tokenizing real-world assets. Ether treasury company ETHZilla is looking to raise another $350 million through new convertible bonds, with funds marked for more Ether purchases and generating yield through investments in the ecosystem. ETHZilla chairman and CEO McAndrew Rudisill said on Monday that the company’s strategy is to deploy Ether (ETH) in “cash-flowing assets” on the Ethereum network through layer-2 protocols and tokenizing real-world assets. A growing number of digital asset companies are moving past simply holding crypto and looking to generate yields through active participation in the ecosystem, which crypto executives told Cointelegraph in August, could help spark a DeFi Summer 2.0.Read more

