The headline numbers
While the crypto market spent late October absorbing the Binance hack and a tech-stock sell-off, one Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem quietly grew. Mantle's decentralised exchange volume climbed 34% in October to $99 million, while total value locked across its DeFi ecosystem rose 18% to $112 million, according to a November 1 TokenPost report. Tokenized-stock circulating supply...