RaaS #419: Messari’s Copilot For Threat Detection!

VIRGEN Holders Accumulating, Babylon Teams With OKX, and Moar!

Kaito AI announced that voters for Espresso on Kaito Connect are whitelisted for Phase 2 of Espresso’s Composables NFT mint, running May 30, 12–2 PM EDT on Rarible via RariChain. The 5,000-piece collection enables native cross-chain NFT transfers, priced at 0.0359 ETH.

Nerite introduces USND, a streamable stablecoin on Arbitrum, combining Superfluid’s real-time payments with a Liquity V2 fork for $1 redemptions. Users get up to 91% LTV and flexible rates, enabling up to 11x leveraged exposure to ETH, ARB, and other assets.

Reya is building ReyaChain to unify DeFi, CeFi, and TradFi into one high-speed trading layer, targeting $51T+ in assets and orderflow. With its DEX on Arbitrum Orbit already showing strong traction, the upcoming $REYA token launch will allocate 45%+ to the community, powering decentralized growth.

EF’s May 23–30 research update spotlights real-time ZK proving (sub-12s blocks via GPUs), L2 interoperability efforts (Interop Call #9), and new work on censorship resistance. Also features discussions on hardware requirements and incentivizing anonymous participation in prover markets.

Dune upgraded its tokens erc20 table to track tokens across 24+ EVM chains with 4-hour metadata refreshes, near-instant indexing via DuneSim API, and SQLMesh orchestration. Coverage now hits 99%+ on Ethereum and 90%+ on major L2s—boosting token discovery and analytics.

Flock.io’s Q1 2025 saw a 39.8% staking ratio jump, 410k+ validation submissions, and 20x node growth, showing strong traction for its privacy-preserving, decentralized AI platform. Its Web3 Agent Model, outperforming GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2.0 on blockchain tasks, is gaining adoption from players like io.net and HashKey Chain for on-chain analytics and DeFi automation.

Diran Li showcases a crypto security dashboard built in under 10 minutes using Messari’s Copilot and Events APIs. It highlights the growing need for real-time exploit monitoring and demonstrates how AI-powered tools can streamline the development of rapid security analytics.

Nansen reports a 65% surge in VIRGEN holdings by the top 100 wallets, rising from 388M to 643M between May 22–30, 2025. So it’s not all pump and dump when you align incentives accordingly…huh.

DefiLlama adds a new feature allowing users to customize protocol and chain rankings across 18 and 11 metrics, respectively.

Silencio!

YieldNest unveils YND’s tokenomics, its utility and governance token, launching June 3. With over $500M TVL and 175k+ users, 40.9% of the 1B supply goes to community rewards, and a 6.5% Genesis Airdrop.

Market dipped 5% on May 30, with XRP (-4.5%) and Solana (-5.1%) hit hardest amid U.S. tariff uncertainty. Bitcoin held steadier, down 1.6% to $105K, pushing dominance to 64.14%, a 4-year high. Analysts see BTC testing $100K before a potential surge to $130K–$150K.

Top Gainers: POKT, LPT, FINVESTA, NOBODY, WELL.

Livepeer’s LPT jumped 150% to $14.20 after an Upbit listing and Grayscale’s AI Crypto Sector inclusion. Despite a wider market dip, LPT surged on renewed interest in decentralized AI, showing how Asian exchanges and institutional narratives can drive token momentum.

Babylon Labs teams up with OKX to enable BTC staking on Babylon Genesis, letting Bitcoin holders earn rewards in a PoS model. Built on Cosmos SDK, Babylon now leads Cosmos chains in active users, with $28.4M TVL and strong security via Immunefi Magnus partnerships.

That’s all for today, see ya later!