{"id":407445,"date":"2025-10-08T16:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/mantle-price-hits-new-high-amid-ur-app-launch-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:52:04","slug":"mantle-price-hits-new-high-amid-ur-app-launch-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/mantle-price-hits-new-high-amid-ur-app-launch-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mantle Price Hits New High amid UR App Launch &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Layer 2 network saw its MNT token reach a fresh high after the Mantle team launched a new app that lets users manage crypto and fiat. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/prices\/mantle\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">MNT<\/a>, the native token of the Ethereum <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/layer-2\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">Layer 2<\/a> network Mantle, reached a new all-time high of $2.47 late on Monday, Oct. 6. The price surge coincided with the launch of UR, a Mantle-based app that seeks to bridge traditional finance and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/tag\/defi\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">DeFi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First announced as a \u201csmart money app\u201d by Mantle <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/group.mantle.xyz\/blog\/announcements\/mantle-launches-crypto-first-neobank-ur\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">in June of this year<\/a>, UR offers users a unified platform to manage both digital and fiat assets. The platform is also providing features such as zero off-ramp and bank transfer fees, support for multiple fiat currencies, and a Mastercard debit card, according to a Monday <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ur.app\/blog\/announcements\/go-to-unified-crypto-and-fiat-account-zero-off-ramp-fees-and-multi-fx\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">blog announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">MNT 24-hour price chart. Source: CoinGecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The app, built on Mantle\u2019s Layer 2 and meant to process transactions at lower cost than Ethereum\u2019s mainnet, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethena_labs\/status\/1975482653882327104\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">also integrates<\/a> Ethena\u2019s USDe stablecoin, letting users earn up to 5% APY on USDe held in their UR wallets without staking or bridging, with rewards credited automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Although UR positions itself as a \u201cborderless\u201d app, access is based on residence in order to comply with international rules, and some nationalities are still blocked from using the service, even if they live in supported countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to the platform\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.ur.app\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/12862724456207-Countries-and-Territories-Supported-By-UR\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">documentation<\/a>, restricted users include those from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, Mantle <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/blockchains\/mantle-becomes-largest-zk-rollup-chain-after-latest-upgrade\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">completed<\/a> its upgrade to OP Succinct, making it the largest zero-knowledge rollup by total value locked (TVL). According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/chain\/mantle\" target=\"__blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer \">DefiLlama<\/a>, the network\u2019s TVL stands at nearly $257 million, down more than 60% from its record high in November 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Layer 2 network saw its MNT token reach a fresh high after the Mantle team launched a new app that lets users manage crypto and fiat. MNT, the native token of the Ethereum Layer 2 network Mantle, reached a new all-time high of $2.47 late on Monday, Oct. 6. The price surge coincided with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-407445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407447,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407445\/revisions\/407447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}