OdailyOdaily Daily News Merlin Chain announced the addition of BTC stake Vault 2, increasing the total stake limit from 50 BTC to 100 BTC to meet the participation needs of community users after the rapid sell-out in the first phase. The current annualized return on BTC stake is up to 21%, and rewards are expected to be distributed in early October 2025.

Gate News bot message, the BTCL2 project Merlin Chain announced in a post that the Phase 2 of the stakeBTC event is now live. Due to high demand, the team has increased the BTC stake limit from 50 BTC to 100 BTC today.

BlockBeats News, on January 15, according to official sources, Layer 1 public chain Kava Chain announced the launch of M-BTC. M-BTC is a mapping asset generated by users staking BTC on Merlin Chain. Users can bridge M-BTC from Merlin Layer 2 to Kava Chain through Free Protocol and participate in BTCFi on Kava Chain.

Odaily Planet Daily News Merlin Chain announced on the X platform that the AA Wallet of Particle now supports MERL as the Gas Token for trading on Merlin Chain. It is reported that currently in Merlin Chain, the transaction selects MERL as the GAS with a Transaction Cost of 0.1 MERL (approximately 0.03 USD), and the cost of choosing BTC as the Gas is about 0.05.

Golden Finance reported that the non-profit DAO SOFA team announced a collaboration with the BTCL2 expansion plan Merlin Chain. Merlin will deploy mBTC to the Smart Contract treasury of SOFA, expanding its revenue strategy to encryptionOptions and structured products.

Odaily Planet Daily News Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Merlin Chain announced the launch of the MERL token staking program, providing an annualized fixed income of 45%, with a lock-up period of 6 months, during which you can claim income at any time. In addition, the first 1,000 addresses that participate in the regular staking (as of June 20) will receive a 7-day limited-time early bird reward with an annualized yield (APR) of up to 200%, which is expected to be distributed on June 21. According to reports, Merlin Chain has conducted three phases of PoS Prestage stake activities, with a total of 108 million MERL participating in flexible staking. The fixed income plan launched this time will run alongside the existing 15% Annual Percentage Rate for current staking, aiming to provide more options for long-term holders of MERL. In the future,

The final round of Token Airdrop for users participating in Merlin's Seal on Merlin Chain has started. In this fair launch project, 20% of MERL will be allocated to the community. After that, the release rate of MERL will slow down significantly, with only 0.4% of MERL Tokens unlocked in the next 12 months, and almost no new Tokens entering circulation by 2024.

Odaily Planet Daily News Merlin Chain officially announced the upcoming PoS network upgrade, further enhancing Decentralization and security. In addition, Merlin Chain also launched the $MERL stake activity to support future BTC/MBTC.

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Odaily Planet Daily News Merlin Chain announced on X platform the launch of the ecological support plan Merlins Adventure, with a total scale of 210 million MERL tokens, aiming to cultivate user-centered, Bitcoin-native applications to promote BTC L2.

Odaily Planet Daily News Merlin Chain releases Merlin Developer update on X platform, including: 1. The third phase of the MERL Airdrop has been fully distributed; 2. Optimized and fixed bugs, involving cross-chain asset search, validated Babylon staking and unstaking functions, optimized latency withdrawal transaction processing, fixed gas fee issues, NFT.

Odaily Planet News: Merlin Chain announced on X that users can now directly bridge MERL and MBTC from Merlin Chain to the ETH Mainnet. In addition, Merlin

Odaily Planet Daily News: Merlin Chain has released developer updates on the X platform, announcing that the third phase of Airdrop for MERL has been distributed, including some optimizations and bug fixes. 1. Cross-Chain Asset Search 2. Verified Babylon stake and unstake functions 3. Optimize the latency of withdrawal transaction processing 4. Fix Gas Fee Issue 5. Fix NFT