Astar Referendum 45, if passed, will reinstate Coretime auto-renewal, which was suspended after an abnormal core price spike (540 DOT) in August. Astar has since migrated to a new core with a renewal price in the region of 10 DOT.
Hyperbridge has kicked off Phase 3 of the Polkadot DeFi Singularity incentives. The program has already distributed 332K vDOT to liquidity providers across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB Chain, supporting bridging volume that now exceeds 5M DOT.
The Comet Swap concentrated liquidity DEX, built on Astar, is now tracked on CoinGecko, providing real-time data for trading pairs, liquidity, and volume.