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
The Ethereum Sepolia Testnet Merge was successful
000.eth sold for 300 ETH (The second largest sale ever)
EthereumPhone launches first build of ethOS
Teller announces Buy Now and Pay Later with new service for Ethereum NFTs
Immutable announces ETH offramps are now available
Ethereum News
HTC launches metaverse phone with Ethereum and Polygon support
MATIC ERC-20 deposit and withdrawal support is now available on Robinhood
The Ethereum Foundation research team hosted an Reddit AMA
Bitmain’s new Ethereum ASIC miner begin sales
Karel Janecek partners with Somnium Space as a Metaverse to officially run his 2023 Czech presidential campaign
Aave proposes a new decentralized collateral-backed stablecoin called GHO
Ethereum Name Service registrations spike 216% in a week
@superphiz releases Ethereum Merge Media Github repository
@hildobby_ adds new stats to the ETH2 staking deposits dashboard
Argent passes 190K downloads
StarkWare is preparing for a Regenesis on Ethereum Mainnet
Over 13 million ETH are now staked in the proof of stake deposit contract
Since EIP-1559 was implemented, ~80% of trades now use the new dynamic gas fee over the legacy gas fee application
Over 200K+ ETH are now being staked on @Rocket_Pool
ETHBarcelona goes live
ENS Domains was 19% of OpenSea total volume on 7/3
In Q2 2022 Gitcoin facilitated $9.4M in value transfer
Ethereum transfer fees drop to 19 month low
Maker finishes its asset allocation vote and decided to invest 400M DAI in US Short Treasuries and 100M DAI in IG Corp Bonds
ZigZag Exchange introduces InvisbL3 - a privacy preserving DEX
ETHBerlin3 is coming September 16
@ETHeyAndBeTChy release new comics
Ramp Network releases Off-ramp Alpha testing
@__zkhack__ introduces the ZK Whiteboard Sessions
Dune Analytics announces Teams
Boba Network announces the launch of Bobascan in collab with @etherscan
Reaper Farm is now on @optimismPBC
@PrivacyScaling announces Semaphore V2 is live
@OpenZeppelin announces contracts for Cairo v0.2.0 are now available
@lodestar_eth releases Quick Setup Guide
@ETHGlobal HackFS goes live
Uniswap is looking to hire a Developer Relations Lead
zkSync now supports Solidity from version 0.4.0 onwards
@bensparks_ joins the Smart Contracts team at @AaveAave
@eidoo_io is the first to integrate @LensProtocol into its mobile app
@xDoing releases beta version of The Wallet Analyzooor
@HardHatHQ 2.10.0 is out
@EthereumPools adds new features
@ethnimbus is looking to hire a technical writer
MessariCrypto is looking to hire Blockchain Engineer roles
The Merge Updates
Mainnet Merge Shadow Fork #9 is scheduled for July 14th at 2pm UTC
@TimBeiko releases AllCoreDevs Update 012
Merge Community Call #5 is July 15
@songadaymann releases The Sepolia Merge NFT song
@christine_dkim releases Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 142 recap
The Ethereum All Core Devs Meeting 142 goes live
Articles and Threads
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #24
@Blockworks_ releases What is the Ethereum Name Service
@dennis_qian releases new Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@SalomonCrypto releases DeFi 101: Tokens
@asksamurais releases A guide to cross-chain bridges
@0xNurstar releases Recaps of the previous Day on StarkNet & Privacy Experimentation through L3 STARKs
@mhonkasalo releases A brief roadmap for UNI holders to take control of the Uniswap protocol
@jonwu_ of Aztec releases Why I think our private rollup is ridiculously bullish for Ethereum
@banklessDAO releases new issue of DeFi Download
Twitter Spaces
@ssv_network The ETH rifle effect w/ @sandeepnailwal & @sassal0x
@0xPolygonID x @0xPolygonDAO AMA w/ @matrzeszowski
@JediSwap Blockchain scaling in a multi-chain world w/ @imrgoyal and @KonradS
Podcasts
@superphiz and @sassal0x host Sepolia Merge Call
What’s New In Eth2 w/ @superphiz & @benjaminion_xyz
@Unchained_pod In the Recent Crypto Market Meltdown, What Role Did Lido's stETH Play? w/ @laurashin @tarunchitra & @hasufl
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan & @kieran_eth of @Streams_xyz
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