Espresso Systems has launched Presto, a cross-chain transaction solution that reduces cross-chain latency to less than 2 seconds, and has partnered with ApeChain and RARI Chain to enable seamless cross-chain NFT minting, with the first phase already underway. Airdrop registration will open on December 22, covering millions of addresses.

According to Foresight News, blockchain infrastructure Espresso will open airdrop registration on December 22, with this airdrop covering millions of addresses. So far, the official team has released a total of 22 airdrop qualification paths. These include Espresso hackathon participants, Caffeinated creators, POAP holders from online and offline events, and users of partner chains (such as ApeChain, RARI Chain, Arbitrum, Celo, etc.). In addition, the official team will launch the second round of Bantr activities. Bantr will continue to track Espresso-related attention and on-chain activity in English, Korean, and Chinese leaderboards, with particular focus on the period after December 1. In the future, the top 100 participants across the three leaderboards will share

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a settlement charge against DeFi protocol Rari Capital and its co-founders, alleging that they misled investors and engaged in unregistered broker activities. Rari Capital has agreed to pay a fine and be banned from serving as executives and directors for five years, but these injunctions must be approved by the court.

Golden Finance reported that the multi-chain search engine Dora announced the completion of the Dora 2.0 update, allowing searches on over 10 chains, including Ethereum, Base, Rari, Xai, PalmNetwork, Gnosis, Scroll, etc. The new update also supports bridging and exchange across all supported chains, and expands to the new Virtual Machine ecosystem.