Tiny Space Dust Hits Earth Every 16 Minutes, Says ISRO

ISRO’s Dust EXperiment (DEX) has detected interplanetary dust particles striking Earth roughly every 1,000 seconds—tiny fragments from comets and asteroids that continuously bombard our planet.

DEX (Dust EXperiment) is an official ISRO project, developed by its Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad. It is India’s first home-grown dust detector, flown aboard ISRO’s PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) in 2024–25.

What Was Discovered

Flight model of DEX on POEM of the PSLV C58 XPoSat mission

• Instrument: Dust EXperiment (DEX), India’s first home-grown dust detector.
• Frequency: About once every 16 minutes (1,000 seconds), Earth is hit by microscopic interplanetary dust particles (IDPs).
• Origin of Dust: Fragments from comets and asteroids, often seen as “shooting stars.”
• Deployment: DEX was flown aboard the PSLV Orbital Experimental Module (POEM) in 2024.
• Design: Compact (3 kg), consumes only 4.5W of power, uses hypervelocity sensors to detect dust impacts.

Why It Matters

• Scientific Breakthrough: First Indian-made instrument to directly measure IDPs in orbit.
• Planetary Exploration: Could study dust in atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and the Moon.
• Safety for Missions: Mapping dust streams helps protect satellites and crewed missions.
• Atmospheric Science: Dust contributes to Earth’s meteor layer, influencing chemistry and climate.

Key Takeaways

Feature	Details
Instrument	Dust EXperiment (DEX)
Developed by	ISRO’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad
Launched	2024 aboard PSLV-POEM
Detection Rate	Every ~1,000 seconds
Particle Source	Comets & asteroids (interplanetary dust)
Applications	Planetary atmospheres, satellite safety, deep-space missions

RocketX Exchange Integrates 1inch and Binance for Seamless Aggregation of CEX & DEX Exchanges

With 1inch integration, RocketX Exchange has taken a step to simplify crypto trading through its ‘All in One’ crypto trading app.

RocketX Exchange – the first Blockchain platform to aggregate Centralised and Decentralised Crypto exchanges has achieved a major milestone in driving mass adoption of Crypto across the globe. The platform has simplified crypto trading with 1inch integration that supports 7 networks altogether – Ethereum (ETH), BNB Chain (BSC), Polygon (Matic), Avalanche (AVAX), Gnosis (xDAI), Arbitrum & Optimism.

In the present trading scenario, crypto exchanges are plagued with liquidity issues leading to slippage issues. At any given point in time, users would never know which exchange provides the best rate for the token which causes liquidity issues. Furthermore, many networks are available having DEXs which makes it difficult even for an experienced trader to navigate multiple networks and trade their favourite tokens, resulting in inaccessibility. RocketX Exchange endeavours to address this problem by aggregating both the centralized and decentralized exchanges to help users with the best rates for ANY token across 150+ exchanges on a single platform.

Commenting on 1inch integration, Davinder SIngh, Co-founder of RocketX Exchange said, “By integrating both 1inch and Binance, we have established the base of the product and successfully addressed major problems existing in the current crypto trading market. As we keep building the product and aggregating more and more exchanges on both CEX and DEX, we believe that RocketX Exchange will be the “All-in-one” crypto trading app that drives the mass adoption of Crypto globally.”

Incepted in 2021, RocketX Exchange is the first CEX & DEX aggregator protocol. It supports Multi chain trade with Cross-Chain Swaps and Cross-Chain Bridges between 10+ leading networks. The platform fetches rates from DEXs and the world’s biggest centralized exchange – Binance, with $21B liquidity. Furthermore, it charges the industry's lowest fee of 0.05% on Swaps, when there is a better rate available from CEX.

Besides this, the platform also provides users complete control over their assets with a fully non-custodial solution that supports a range of digital wallets.

“One can never rely on an exchange or any service provider with one's crypto, however big they are. We at RocketX Exchange empower our users to have 100% control of their funds by allowing users to own the private keys which is the key to the ownership of tokens,” he added.

Additionally, the platform also supports Cross-Chain Swaps and Cross Chain Bridges of native assets between leading networks. This makes RocketX Exchange the only app for trading any token across chains with the best prices and minimum slippage. By supporting swaps as well as multiple networks, RocketX Exchange makes it easy for the user to swap any token across different chains using a single platform.

About RocketX

RocketX exchange is the first to aggregate both the Centralised and Decentralised Crypto Exchanges and makes it easy for the user to find the best rates to swap ANY token across different exchanges with lowest gas fee (Save up to 80%). It supports Multi Chain Trade via Cross Chain Swaps & Bridges b/w the leading chains.

Dexalot Raises $7M to Build Order Book DEX on Avalanche Led by Blizzard Fund

Dexalot, a new project building a decentralized order book exchange on Avalanche, has collected $7 million in funding led by Avalanche’s Blizzard Fund (“Blizzard”) and with participation from a number of Avalanche ecosystem players and DeFi investors.

In addition to Blizzard, Avalanche ecosystem investors include Avalaunch, Colony, Benqi, AVentures, and Avascan. Other partners who joined are Republic Capital, GSR, Muhabbit Capital, Woodstock Capital, Maven Capital, and IPC.

Dexalot is a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) exchange running on the EVM-compatible Avalanche C-Chain, aiming to plug the hole in the niche of Avalanche DEXs, which are so far only AMM-based. While Automated Market Makers have seen enormous success, they remain suboptimal for expert users due to uncertain price execution, high slippage and low capital efficiency for market makers. To offer a valid alternative, Dexalot offers a classic CLOB system to ensure users get to place orders at precise price levels and guarantee optimum execution.

Additionally, Dexalot is aiming to solve a myriad of issues associated with tokens listing on AMMs through Dexalot Discovery. Dexalot Discovery will combine the CLOB with a novel auction system, which will allow investors (seed, private, IDO and public) to enter no slippage orders over the course of a period (hence eliminating the speed advantage of bots), enable users to see buy and sell demand very transparently, and match buyer and sellers fairly at the end of the process.

Users can send limit orders that operate sequentially: each placed order is either treated as a “taker” (depending on its price and remaining liquidity) and instantly matched, or it’s placed as a “maker” order on the order book. The system is not all-or-nothing, so taker orders that can only be filled partially are then placed as maker orders for the remainder of the liquidity. Price insensitive market orders will also be turned on for certain pairs.

Dexalot has been operating on testnet since August 2021, registering more than 250,000 transactions and over 12,000 unique wallets who interacted with the testnet. The members of the community who use the exchange will be included in the project’s governance, ensuring a community-led spirit from day one.

"We’re very excited to receive support from everywhere across the Avalanche ecosystem,” said Nihat Gurmen, CEO of Dexalot. "Dexalot wants to create a truly transparent, community-owned crypto exchange where users can trade assets at the capital efficiency of central exchanges with the same or better user experience."

"Dexalot is pioneering a new generation of decentralized exchanges, enabling users to trade any asset with low fees, zero slippage, and efficient price discovery. Most chains lack the capacity and velocity to maintain an on-chain order book, forcing users to settle for poor trade execution. Dexalot capitalizes on Avalanche's speed to deliver a peerless user experience," said Emin Gün Sirer, Director of the Avalanche Foundation.

"As a central limit order book, Dexalot introduces new functionality to the ecosystem and seizes the opportunities unlocked by Avalanche's near-instant finality. The Blizzard Ecosystem fund is excited to support Dexalot as it is quickly positioning itself as a crucial application for users across the Avalanche community," added Lydia Chiu, Blizzard the Avalanche Fund.

About Dexalot

Dexalot is a revolutionary decentralized exchange aiming at bringing the traditional centralized exchange look and feel to a decentralized on-chain application. Its mission is to bring a truly inclusive and transparent environment where Dexalot users can trade crypto securely and efficiently, with no slippage or custody risk. It is built on Avalanche, the fastest smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry.

UniFarm Listed on MEXC Global Exchange

After the successful listing of $UFARM on various leading DEXs, $UFARM gets listed on MEXC Global exchange

UniFarm, a unique decentralized farming solution with a pool of DeFi’s top projects, has been listed on MEXC Global, a leading centralized exchange that employs high-performance mega-transaction matching technology. This comes after the successful listing of $UFARM, UniFarm’s native token, on various other global decentralized exchanges such as PancakeSwap, UniSwap, and Defyn Network and would be the protocol’s first Centralized Exchange listing.

“The aim behind UniFarm has been to provide a win-win solution for both, investors and innovators, alike. The mechanism of UniFarm allows reputed DeFi projects to get ample exposure to grow and build while the investors get to stake and interact with multiple tokens. This provides a holistic growth infrastructure where both parties benefit. With our organic listing at a centralized exchange such as MEXC Global, we look forward to becoming mainstream players in the near future and providing this benefit to more investors and ingenious developers. We are in conversation with several large exchanges and look forward to more such exciting announcements,” said Tarusha Mittal, COO and Co-founder, UniFarm, OroPocket, and Open DeFi.

The $UFARM token has been listed in the Innovation Zone of MEXC Global and is trading in the UFARM/USDT pair with 1 billion UFARM tokens in supply. This unique protocol is part of OroPocket, a fintech platform that tokenizes gold, silver, and other precious metals, and also includes a decentralized finance platform, Open DeFi, that tokenizes assets and allows its users to interact and trade in the DeFi spectrum.

Learn more about the listing here.

About UniFarm

Unifarm is a one-of-a-kind staking protocol that brings together various DeFi projects in a single space and helps in long-term holdings. It has a user base of 12000+ and has partnered up with numerous projects to form a reward pool of all their tokens combined; a user can stake one of these and get rewarded in all tokens within a given pool. It is a 100% decentralized system, where a user can stake or unstake any time. UniFarm is currently working on various features, including cross-chain farming, liquidity farming, Loans, Index Funds, etc.

Learn more about UniFarm: https://unifarm.co/

BUSTA Launches a Fully Customizable DEX

iGaming platform Busta on Tuesday announced the launch of a fully customizable Decentralized Exchange (DEX), that will provide projects the ability to choose the percentage of transaction (tx) tax they want and how the collected tax will be used.

Current leading DEX's operate with a transaction tax, which collects a small percentage of every trade that takes place on the exchange (roughly 0.2–0.5 percent) and then shares it between the DEX treasury, rewards for LP providers, and burning the DEXs native token.

The downside in this is that tx tax is locked in from the start, which comes with inherent drawbacks, including having to pay four separate tx taxes when someone wants to buy, create LP, break LP and then sell a token. This can cost as much as 20 percent of the total token value if a token has a 5 percent tx tax. Also, the majority of centralized exchanges (CEX) don’t want to list tokens with a tx tax, which makes it difficult for projects to grow their community of holders.

“Tailored transaction tax is a crucial step forward for DEXs as it gives projects a much better chance of listing their tokens on CEXs by allowing them to decide where and how that tax will be used,” said Fran Strajnar, Founder of BUSTA. 

“Many CEXs just outright don’t list tokens with transaction taxes as they have to consider that tax every time they process a withdrawal or transfer funds between wallets internally. In addition, many of these tokens are missing out on a tax that could be used to reinvest into their ecosystem. We believe BUSTA is the solution.” stated Mark Berisha, CEO of recently launched (v1) MFRM.io token-backed-NFT marketplace. $MFRM was listed on BUSTA DEX in the first cohort of partner tokens which also includes vaulty.fi and Neural Pepe. 

BUSTA DEX has built the transaction tax functionality into the router of their automated market maker (AMM), making it fully customizable. Through this customization, BUSTA is working to create a utility that could go as far as to make the current model for DEXs completely obsolete.

IDO Platform Starter Launches Its First Defi Game, Starchi, Inspired by Tamagotchi

Play-to-earn game features nostalgic battle leagues that promote societal values

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS - September 9, 2021, 5AM EST- Starter (https://starter.xyz), which supports interoperability of Initial DEX Offering (IDO) launches across several major blockchains, today announced the launch of its game Starchi, a DeFi game inspired by the original Tamagotchi. The purposeful game aims to remind society of the lost values of humanity, and that humans are not the sole inhabitants of the planet. Starchi is a play-to-earn game, with a dual-token economy. It characterizes Starchi as a species of never-before-seen, sun thriving creatures that have long dwelled on Earth and are now facing an existential crisis unable to survive as humanity has lost its way, spreading darkness across the planet.

In the game, Starchi’s are first abhorred by humans as they wander in search of food, love and a new home. In time, they are befriended by children exuding sympathy, empathy and goodwill constructing a tight bond between the two while establishing Starchi as adoptable pets that need to be raised, fed and entertained. The game further delves into creating friendly battle leagues with the goal of re-establishing the light energy and positivity back onto earth.

The game provides Starchi collectors with earnings based on task completion of everyday responsibilities such as growing and nurturing the Starchi, taking part in battles, staking their income or raising Starchi’s to avoid their extinction.

"Starter’s first game, Starchi, was inspired by the tamagotchi-era associated nostalgia combined with the isolation many of us have felt during this world-wide pandemic,” said Lionel Iruk, special counsel at Starter. “Our hope is to bring back the light, not only in the DeFi game, but to also connect our users and community members by creating a lively and cheerful atmosphere that re-introduces the lost hope and purpose to save the Starchi world and help us reconnect with one another.”

Starchi will operate on a dual token economy, where the first token ‘$START’ will be used to grant access to the game and trade Starchi, and the second token, otherwise known as Starchi Liquid Luck, ‘$ELIXIR’ will provide in-game economic incentives. While in possession of the token, the Collector will be wealthier until the token runs out. The built-in play-to-earn model combined with a fair set of fee redistribution rules allows Starchi Collectors to compound their earnings while remaining active in the game.

To begin your adventure with Starchi visit https://starchi.gg/ and for more details regarding Starter’s Starchi game, please visit https://starter.xyz/.

ABOUT Starter

Starter (https://starter.xyz) is a multi-chain community-driven launchpad, supporting interoperability of IDO launches on 7 blockchains (Binance Smart Chain, Ethereum, Cardano, Solana, Polygon, Fantom, and Avalanche) and providing projects access to funding opportunities without the hassle of bureaucratic hurdles, complex KYC requirements and a manual selection process. Starter consists of four separate branches: venture arm Starter.capital, decentralized launchpad Starter.xyz, decentralized exchange StarterSwap.xyz, and token vesting and liquidity locking StartVesting.xyz.