{"id":34444,"date":"2025-06-30T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34444"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:17:01","slug":"katana-mainnet-goes-live-as-pre-deposits-hit-232m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=34444","title":{"rendered":"Katana Mainnet Goes Live as Pre-Deposits Hit $232M"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Self described ‘DeFi-first’ layer-2 blockchain Katana has launched its mainnet after receiving $232 million in pre-deposits.<\/p>\n

Deposits flooded in after Katana was revealed to the public less than a month ago. DefiLlama data<\/a> shows that deposited jumped from $75M to $2320M between June 1 and June 30.<\/p>\n

Depositors will receive randomized reward NFTs called Krates, as well as a share of 70 million KAT tokens, Katana’s native token. Upon launch, yield farmers will be able earn more KAT by staking on platforms like Morpho and Sushi. <\/p>\n

The blockchain aims to solve one of DeFi’s largest problems: Liquidity.<\/p>\n

A lack of liquidity can lead to a multitude of issues including slippage, inefficient pricing and unsustainable yields.<\/p>\n

Some of the mechanisms Katana will use to solve that the issues is VaultBridge, which is a product that enables yield generation on deposited assets on Ethereum, as well as chain-owned liquidity (CoL), which allows Katana to retain 100% of net sequencer fees and convert them into liquidity reserves.<\/p>\n

“Katana represents the endgame for how blockchains create value in DeFi,” Marc Boiron, co-contributor of Katana said in a press release.<\/p>\n

The launch coincides with yield farming incentives including token rewards for liquidity providers on Morpho and Sushi.<\/p>\n

Despite being based on Ethereum, Katana is blockchain agnostic so users can generate a yield on blockchains like Solana through Katana’s collaboration with Jito, a liquid staking protocol.<\/p>\n

UPDATE (June 30, 2025, 17:46 UTC):<\/strong> Updates to reflect new numbers in pre-deposits.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Self described ‘DeFi-first’ layer-2 blockchain Katana has launched its mainnet after receiving $232 million in pre-deposits. Deposits flooded in after Katana was revealed to the public less than a month ago. DefiLlama data shows that deposited jumped from $75M to $2320M between June 1 and June 30. Depositors will receive randomized reward NFTs called Krates, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-34444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}