Top Ethereum News of the Week
Vitalik releases Proof of Stake book
Interbank messaging system SWIFT partners with Chainlink on a cross-chain crypto transfer project. This will allow traditional finance access to digital and traditional assets on one network.
Optimism NFTs are now live on OpenSea
Fidelity Digital Assets announces plans to offer institutional clients the ability to buy, trade, sell and custody ETH by the end of 2022
CFTC Commissioner Christy Romero says “I continue to take the position that Ethereum is a commodity, even with Proof-of-Stake"
Stats
ETH goes deflationary over a 24 hour period with 195 ETH ($258K) taken out of supply
Over 14 million ETH are now being staked on Ethereum. That’s over 11.6% of all circulating ETH.
L2's now make up ~30% of all ETH transactions
ENS domain registrations surpass 2.5 million
ETH burn has been larger than PoS issuance 86.5% out of the 415 days since EIP-1559 went live
Ethereum News
Chipotle is celebrating Ethereum using 99.95% less energy after the Merge by offering their new Garlic Guajillo Steak entree for 99.95% off when customers pay in ETH using Flexa
joy.eth sold for 22 ETH
icETH yield hits all time high APY on ETH
The Ethereum KZG Ceremony Call #9 goes live
Transaction count grew 3x on Arbitrum and 3.5x on Optimism in Q3
Vitalik builds a basic implementation of a SNARK (PLONK) compiler, prover and verifier in python
WisdomTree is set to launch a fund that digitizes its fund share ownership record on Ethereum
Skiff announces Ethereum users can now use their ENS or MetaMask wallet for private, end-to-end encrypted email
Ernst & Young’s Blockchain Lead Paul Brody says “Ernst & Young made a very strategic decision to ONLY build on Ethereum. I want us to be the best on earth at Ethereum”
Polygon integrates Push Protocol
Hashflow introduces the Hashverse
Gitcoin funds $69M worth of OSS/digital public goods
Stakewise announces StakWise V3 to help decentralize Ethereum
A MEV bot operator made 800 ETH in a single txn before losing 1100 ETH one hour later
Paymagic creates the 1st trustless non-custodial Web3 wallet you create on behalf of others
Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, announces it is expanding its activities in blockchain tech by operating Ethereum validator nodes and supporting Liquid Staking
The oldest NFT on Ethereum was rediscovered
Loopring lists rETH
boeing.eth sold for 3.8 ETH
Sushiswap 2.0 UI is now live
Nostra Finance introduces Nostra Swap
Uniswap is putting together an $100M funding round at a $1B valuation
The Reserve Bank of Australia announces CBDC pilot on a private permissioned Ethereum Quorum implementation
Uniswap is currently doing more transactions than Cardano
Frame + Gridplus integration is live
MetaMask launches new Portfolio Dapp
The first mobile app fully built on Lens Protocol is out
Ribbon Finance introduces the Aevo options exchange launch
Circle makes USDC more widely avaliable on Arbitrum and Optimism
Optimism releases the ETHOnline Optimism Hackathon winners
Gravity Protocol introduces Gravity, an ETH-centric borrowing protocol
Gemini announces ETH staking is now live
Polygon releases What Is a zkEVM
Polygon announces Polygon Bootcamp Africa
Blocknative releases Embeddable Gas Widget
Index Coop’s bug bounty program is live on ImmuneFi
@ETHGlobal announces the 14 ETHOnline finalists
Steve Newcomb of zkSync says 2023 will be Zero-Knowledge Season
@Orbiter_Finance shows off the top 10 apps ranked by New users the past week
Robinhood's Web3 Wallet beta goes live exclusively on Polygon
Loopring introduces L2 DeFi Port
Ethereum Art Daily drops EAD.15
@ETHeyAndBeTChy release new ETH comics
Applications are now open for ETHSanFrancisco
@DestinerX introduces Metablock MEV Dashboard
Layer 3 releases Aave Expert NFT for lenders and borrowers
Starkscan next generation StarkNet block explorer is now public
UC Berkeley is hosting a Zero Knowledge Proof Workshop on 10/30
@blockswap_team Stakehouse goes live on Ethereum Mainnet
mySwap releases new Analytics Page
Only Dust releases redesigned website
Nethermind is working with Lido Finance to implement permissionless liquid staking
@samczsun shows off the Ethereum Transaction Tracer
Articles and Threads
@0xtypejohnny releases Everything you need to know to be eligible for the ARBI Airdrop
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #34
@donnoh_eth releases Difference and similarities between Optimism Bedrock and Arbitrum Nitro deposits
@banklessDAO releases The Merge Part III
a16z releases 10 Incredible resources for all-things ZK Proofs
@korpi87 releases 10 Common Takes on Ethereum and ETH
@Blockworks_ releases What's Next for Ethereum in a Post-Merge World
@dennis_qian releases Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@alpha_pls releases thread on everything announced at Day 1 of Chainlink's SmartCon
@0xdarlington releases Journey Through Cairo IX - Ultimate Guide To Testing Your Contracts With Protostar
@daddysether releases Today in Layer 2 Ethereum
StarkWare releases StarkNet Edu Newsletter #3
@AdrianoFeria releases Everything You Need to Know About Ethereum's Monetary Policy
@SalomonCrypto releases Ethereum Virtual Machine
@ryanberckmans releases How can ETH reach billions of users
@coingecko releases How stable are decentralized stablecoins
@ChrisYicheng releases What is PosS? How does Ethereum's consensus algorithm work
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet & StarkEx
@bitsplaining releases Layer 2 Landscape #36
@Cointelegraph releases 7 Ethereum developers would like to sell you on the Merge
@mountbranch releases Ethereum post-merge data tools
@dr3a releases I’ve been into ENS for 8 months and I’m shook by what I continue to learn
@Crypto_Texan releases thread on the Robinhood x Polygon Web3 wallet
@jackchong_jc releases DeFi will eat TradFi, the key is via Real World Assets
@rhinofi releases What’s new in Layer 2 this week? Edition 7
Podcasts
Bankless What's Next Part 1 w/ @TrustlessState @RyanSAdams & @VitalikButerin
Galaxy Brains Episode 28: Ethereum & Proof of Stake w/ @benjaminion_xyz & @christine_dkim
The Scoop Ethereum learning to scale will be like coming out of Plato’s cave w/ @lawmaster
On The Brink: The Merge and What Comes Next w/ @christine_dkim
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan @DaigaroC & @BoyanBarakov
Mission DeFi Ep 75 Chicken In or Chicken Out w/ @b05crypto & @TokenBrice
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