This Week In Ethereum
Your weekly update of everything going on in Ethereum
Welcome back to another edition of This Week In Ethereum. Your weekly guide to the best alpha in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Top Ethereum News of the Week
Ethereum Mainnet Merge Shadow Fork 9 was successful
GameStop’s NFT Marketplace goes live on Ethereum
Polygon has been selected to be a part of Disney's Accelerator Program that focuses on building the future of immersive experiences and specializes in NFTs, AR, and AI development
StarkWare introduces StarkNet Token and the StarkNet Foundation
Nike.eth sold for 60 ETH, Samsung.eth sold for 60 ETH, Starbucks.eth sold for 50 ETH, and Hermes.eth sold for 50 ETH this week
Stats
There is now more than 13 million ETH locked in the deposit contract. That’s over 10.8% of all circulating ETH
Over 10K+ new wallets buy their 1st NFT every day on Ethereum
Ethereum now makes up 24% of Coinbase’s assets
Value added to the ETH 2.0 Deposit Contract hits 1 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 1K+ ETH hits 6 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 10+ ETH hits new ATH
Ethereum News
Polygon teases the future of Ethereum scaling
Arbitrum introduces Arbitrum Nova
Zapper V2 Beta testing goes live
The Ethereum Foundation is looking to hire a Front End Developer
Uniswap releases update about a phishing attack that resulted in some LP NFTs being taken from individuals who approved malicious transactions
GameStop NFT Marketplace volume surpasses Coinbase NFT in less than 2 days
Uniswap is now listed on Robinhood
Arbitrum is now on Dune Analytics
Lenstube goes live on Polygon
DeversiFi rebrands to RhinoFi
0xProject introduces Slippage Protection
MetaMask turns 6 years old
Aztec introduces new look
Paraswap launches on Arbitrum One
Over $1 billion Uniswap base fees have been burned since EIP-1559 went live
Polygon announces MATIC is now part of the Grayscale product family
The HopProtocol forum now supports @signinwitheth
There was 122.6K ENS Domain registrations the past week
Ethereum.org releases new DeSci page
@gregskril shows off ENS Fairy
@Figue_me to speak about The participation economy at @EthCC on July 19th
@ETHeyAndBeTChy release new comics
Blackfridge launches new pound-backed stablecoin on Ethereum
Uniswap V3 deploys on Celo
Lifi Protocol announces $5.5M strategic ecosystem round
Shell Protocol announces v2 is launching on Arbitrum
Liquify introduces Chicken Bonds: Self-Bootstrapping Liquidity
EF Devcon Wave-01 ticket sales begins Monday
The Beacon announces they are building on Treasure DAO and Arbitrum
Perpetual Protocol Limit Orders are now live
Pods Finance announces Pods Yield
ethstatus makes one of the fastest BLS signature implementations in the world
The DeFiSaver x Convex Finance integration goes live
Matcha announces Quote Comparisions are now live
Go+ Security integrates the zkSync ecosystem in their security service
Blockworks releases an Convex Finance Dune Analytics dashboard
A new Angle Protocol module was deployed on Polygon
@eth_limo V2 is now live
Over the past 90 days Arbitrum has generated $7.2M in total revenue
@peduarte releases first RainbowKit tutorial
The Merge
In the Ethereum Consensus Layer Call this week a Merge date of September 19th was suggested!
Also, during the call detailed timelines were discussed
The Goerli Testnet will go through the Merge transition around 8/11. This will be the last public testnet.
TTD for the Goerli Testnet Merge will be announced Monday
The Ethereum Consensus Layer Call 91 went live
@christine_dkim releases summary of the Ethereum CL call
@benjaminion_xyz releases new What’s New in Eth2
@VivekVentures releases 10 important characteristics of post-Merge, proof of state ETH
Institutional investor sentiment in Ethereum continues to improve as The Merge nears
@superphiz shows off the beaconcha.in app Merge Checklist
@0xstark talk about how no one knows who deployed the Ethereum Deposit Contract
After the Merge, ETH inflation will drop from 4.3% to 0.22%
Articles and Threads
Vitalik releases What do I think about network states
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #24
@dennis_qian releases new Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@MrGavinLow releases thread on the overview of the ZeroKnowledge Landscape
@OmarOnChain release thread on the ERC-4626 standard
@EthereumPools releases thread on Ethereum node penalties
Element Finance releases Treasury Management in DeFi: Magic of Fixed Income
@SalomonCrypto releases A guide to the process The World Computer uses to coordinate, execute and secure itself
@RoryArredondo releases A Volunteering Journey through the Ethereum Community
Bitmex Research releases The OP_Return Wars of 2014 – Dapps Vs Bitcoin Transactions
@Derekmw23 releases The State of Stable Yields
@bertcmiller releases Boost your MEV in Ethereum proof-of-stake
@Crypto_Wildwest releases PolyPulse #29
@BenGiove releases Ethereum vs Cosmos on Bankless
@korpi87 releases Uncovering Ethereum's Mysteries
@0xDinoEggs releases Why rollups hit the sweet spot
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet
@noxx3xxon releases Flashbots: Kings of The Mempool
@1chioku releases 8 Charts to tell the story of Arbitrum
@j0hnwang releases thread on the StarkNet Token announcement
@WeekInEthNews releases Latest Week in Ethereum News
Twitter Spaces
SSV Network How to Prepare Yourself for the Ethereum Merge w/ @sassal0x & @VittoStack
Polygon zk Update w/ @sandeepnailwal @jbaylina @davidsrz @bobbinth @_bfarmer & @dlubarov
Rocket Pool Community Call w/ @shtimseht
Podcasts
Unchained Post-Merge, If Lido Becomes Dominant, What Does That Mean for Ethereum w/ @laurashin @ryanberckmans and & @bergealex4
Ether Capital Corp The Merge 101 w/ @TimBeiko
ConsenSys Signal Podcast - Offchain, on-chain w/ @LexSokolin & @sgoldfed
Ethereum Cat Herders Episode 77 w/ @poojaranjan19 @yperbasis & @mandrigin
The Blockcrunch Podcast DeFi’s Existential Crisis in 2022 w/ mrjasonchoi & @DeFi_Dad
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan @Benjamin918_ & @itspublu
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