Welcome back to another edition of the ValiDAO Digest!

Each week, we update our dear readers with all the major developments happening within the ecosystems where we operate, provided by your very own local, organic, seed-oil-free validator.

It's the holiday season, and with many teams are taking time off around the new year, we thought we'd include a brief section showcasing some of our highlights from this week!

We announced our largest airdrop to date, with over 15% of the supply up for grabs for our $HYPE delegators.

In less then a week, we've attracted nearly 5M in $HYPE delegations ($120M) as The People's Validator.

We've introduced our 'Yap to Stake' program, a referral model designed to democratize access to validator rewards among any participant. While it is currently in early access and permissioned, this will change in the future.

Finally, we've released a retroactive look at what we've built and contributed to the Hyperliquid ecosystem over the last few months.

If you're still looking for a validator to stake with, we'd greatly appreciate it if you were to stake with us here.

Now, let's get back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid staking has finally gone live!

Just a few days after this announcement, nearly 30% of the circulating $HYPE supply has been staked to secure the network and earn rewards.

Thunderhead

Thunderhead has released their institutional primer on stHYPE.

Thunderhead has also been teasing their upcoming liquid staking token (LST) for Elixir, which appears to be coming in the near future.

Berachain

Berachain has announced another round of pre-Boyco vaults, in collaboration with Ethena and EtherFi.

Prior to Boyco even having launched, over $800M has been deposited in these vaults, illustrating just how much demand there is for the Berachain DeFi ecosystem.

Dymension

The Dymension 3D Upgrade Proposal has gone live, and has already reached quorum with nearly 100% of voters in favor.

Dymension 3D features permissionless RollApp creation on mainnet, and is set to go live in just over two days from now.

Story

Story has announced their brand new website, hinting at mainnet for Q1 this year.

Story enables a unique relationship between autonomous AI agents and their intellectual property, where they can own, manage, and monetize their creations directly on-chain.

That's it for this week!

As always, we're committed to providing free-range, locally sourced, and seed-oil-free consensus services from geographically diverse locations.

Until next time!