Group 1: Bitcoin DeFi Engagement - Bitcoin holders show significant hesitance towards engaging with Bitcoin decentralized finance (BTCFi), with 77% having never tried a BTCFi platform according to a survey by GoMining [1] - Only 10% of respondents reported experimenting with BTCFi once or twice, while a mere 8% actively use BTCFi services for yield or lending [1] - Despite the low engagement, there is a strong interest in earning yield on BTC, with 73% of respondents expressing interest in lending or staking, and 42% wanting liquidity access without selling [1] Group 2: Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade - Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade has successfully passed its test run on the Holesky test network, moving closer to its mainnet launch [2] - The upgrade aims to reduce costs for institutions using Ethereum by introducing PeerDAS, which allows validators to check only part of the necessary data [2] - Holesky test network has shown signs of age and reliability issues, and Fusaka will be the last upgrade before the network shuts down two weeks post-launch [2]

Decentralized mapping project Bee Maps has raised $32 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital, LDA Capital, Borderless Capital, and Ajna Capital. Built on the Solana and using the Hivemapper architecture, Bee Maps leverages AI-powered dashcams to collect real-time road data, incentivized through its native token, HONEY. https://t.co/3xYxuxsdgw ...

hivemapper team continues to be the most impressive and underrated team in cryptoa product that's actually better than its web2 competitornow used by Lyft and Volkswagenon Solanaariel seidman (@aseidman):Excited to announce that Volkswagen's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Volkswagen ADMT, has selected Bee Maps (powered by Hivemapper) spatial intelligence services to support its autonomous vehicle testing operations.Robotaxis + Hivemapper are a match made in heaven. Onwards 🚀 https://t.co/lo77YQn16b ...