Arbitrum (@arbitrum): Ecosystem Spotlight: August Highlights

Ecosystem Spotlight: August Highlights August hit different. Global payments, onchain perp funding rates, AI staking, and smarter borrowing options. Arbitrum Everywhere in action. Bleap Launches Global Send Payments powered by stablecoins are eating the world. Bleap, the self-custodial fintech app built on Arbitrum, just launched Global Send to simplify international payments. Global Send enables users to send money instantly from a Bleap wallet to anyone in the world using just a phone number or any payment address, including a crypto wallet, payment link, or traditional bank account. Under the hood, Bleap’s Send Resolver automatically finds the fastest, cheapest, and most efficient rail for every transaction. Bleap’s goal? To move money like messages – instantly, globally, and without friction. Pendle launches Boros on Arbitrum Pendle has launched Boros on Arbitrum, introducing onchain trading of perpetual funding rates. At launch, Boros became the first to support BTC and ETH perp funding rates on Binance, instantly hitting its $10M open interest cap. Since then, Boros has raised the caps to 20M on BTC and 15M on ETH. With Boros, traders can go long or short on Yield Units (YUs), unlocking new strategies and effective hedges for both institutions and DeFi-native participants. The launch comes as Pendle’s TVL surpasses $10B, underscoring the growing demand for innovative yield strategies in DeFi. Talos gains traction with $10M deposits 45% of Talos supply is staked (around $10M locked and aligned) as of August, showing strong conviction in an AI-driven model that compounds both capital and innovation. Talos isn’t your typical DeFi protocol. It’s governed by an AI that manages the treasury, pushes upgrades, rewrites its own codebase, and even spins up apps, integrations, and strategies without human intervention. A self-evolving ecosystem where aligned capital fuels continuous growth. $2B deposited into Aave on Arbitrum Aave deposits on Arbitrum have surpassed $2B, making Arbitrum the 2nd largest chain for Aave by TVL after Ethereum. As liquidity deepens, Arbitrum continues to solidify its position as the premier scaling home for DeFi blue-chips powering lending, borrowing, and yield strategies at scale. Morpho Live on Arbitrum Morpho, one of DeFi’s most efficient lending protocols, is now live on Arbitrum with both Earn and Borrow fully deployed. This integration combines Arbitrum’s high-performance, low-cost environment with Morpho’s peer-to-peer matching engine, unlocking optimized lending, better yields, and smarter borrowing for users. As the chain with the highest total value secured across Ethereum L2s, Arbitrum continues to be the destination of choice for top-tier DeFi protocols. The DeFi renaissance is here, and it’s powered by Arbitrum + Morpho. Arbitrum Everywhere.