Serum Newsletter #68

3 min readApr 15, 2022

Welcome, community, to Serum Newsletter #68! We’re eager to share with you all the breathtaking news and upgrades happening throughout the Serum ecosystem. With this week’s Serum newsletter you’ll get a clear snapshot of important weekly activity from projects covering everything from Defi, Derivatives, NFTs, and Gaming.

Serum Surfers mint soon! 🖼️

The Serum Surfers are the first collection of the Serum NFT ecosystem collection! The Surfers are going to be one of a kind and you can mint them starting next week on the Burnt Finance Ignition Launchpad at the times listed below:

WL Mint 👉 4/19 at 17:00 UTC

Public Mint 👉 4/21 at 17:00 UTC

Burns 🔥

This week, 136,294.06 $SRM was burned. That’s $313,612.63 at the current price

Crab Strategy launch on Katana and Friktion 🦀

The Crab Strategy is now live on both Katana and Friktion! They built this new strategy on power perps and it allows users to generate yield in sideways markets.

Marinade Finance’s liquid staking token is now available on Slope Wallet 🚀

Marinade Finance’s liquid staking token is now available on Slope Wallet. You can now earn $SOL staking yield and use the $mSOL token throughout DeFi!

Vyper Protocol showcases their demo at the Solana Riptide Hackathon 🌊

Take a look at the replay of Vyper Protocol displaying their Solana Riptide Hackathon demo alongside DoraHacks and Binance!

Aurory Project releases its March edition of updates 🎮

Aurory Project has released its March edition of its monthly development updates! Aurory is still a well-respected gaming project on Solana.

Check out their recap to get an update and Q2 forecast.

Coin98 and Solend partner up to launch Coin98 isolated pool 🪣

Coin98 has announced an exciting partnership with Solend detailing the launch of the Coin98 isolated pool where you can now lend out or use C98, UST, UXD, USDH, and PAI as collateral!

BridgeSplit launches Community Column ✍️

BridgeSplit has launched a community driven initiative called Community Column that allows writers to contribute to BridgeSplit articles about the core product and community.

Recap of twitter space with Cega 💡

Missed the amazing twitter space we had with Cega? It’s okay don’t panic, you can check out the discussion of how they plan to build the next evolution in defi derivatives, down below:

Almost time for the Bahamas Hacker House 🏖️

The Solana Foundation x Project Serum x Pyth Network #HackerHouseBahamas is almost here! The event will be hosted from Apr. 24th-29th. We’re looking forward to connecting with all the amazing builders across the Solana ecosystem 💻

Learn more here: 👇