This Week In Ethereum
Your weekly update of everything going on in Ethereum
Top Ethereum News of the Week
Ethereum developers came to agreement in the All Core Devs call that the target date for staked ETH withdrawals will be around March 2023
Finnish fintech announces the first regulated EUR-basd stablecoin EUROe on Ethereum
Coinbase customers can now send and receive ETH, DAI, and WBTC on Optimism
Winamp adds Ethereum and Polygon Music NFT Support
Ledger launches new hardware wallet designed by the creator of the iPod, Tony Fadell
Stats
There is now over 15.5M ETH locked in the deposit contract. That’s over 12.8% of all circulating ETH
Arbitrum daily transactions go back over 400K per day
Ethereum number of addresses holding 10+ ETH just hit an ATH
L2 gas spends reach all time highs
Stablecoin Aggregrate Volume hits ATH
Ethereum News
Swiss Bank is now offering Ethereum trading to its clients
Tim Beiko releases Summary of the All Core Devs call
OpenAI's ChatGTP writes a Solidity Smart Contract in 5 seconds
USDC could have access to the Fed reverse repo facility soon
PayPal expands the ability for users to buy, sell, and hold ETH in Luxembourg
ConsenSys is working on reducing user data retention to 7 days in the next privacy policy update
BBC reports Ethereum’s switch to PoS cut its electricity consumption by country-sized amounts
Vitalik releases What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
Aave tokens are live on StarkNet
Active developers on Polygon hits ATH
Uniswap shows off their new NFT sweep function
Bridging and cross-chain swaps are now on Rainbow
Nexo announces that Ethereum Smart Staking is now live
Tranchess announces launch on Ethereum and introduces their non-custodial liquid staking product, qETH
@christine_dkim highlights the scope of Shanghai from the Ethereum Core Devs Call
Stader's Liquid Staking is coming to ETH
Chainlink Staking goes live on Ethereum mainnet
@terencechain releases EIP4844 implementer call notes
Token Terminal shows off the price of ETH vs developer activity
Reddit users have minted 4,331,784 collectible avatars (NFTs) in 2022
Fuel Labs release their vision for scaling Ethereum to the next billion users
ChatGPT AI says ETH is not a security
Numoen goes live on Arbitrum
zkSync releases Ecosystem Update 17
Mirror introduces improved NFT Embeds
Fe Language launches bug bounty on Ethereum mainnet
Optimism announces Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round 2
TapiocaDAO is supporting the Ethereum Core Developers via Protocol Guild
Starbucks Odyssey Beta goes live on Polygon
Aave acquires Sonar
PoS was activated on the Gnosis chain
LRC staking is coming to Loopring L2
Beaconchain.eth enables notifications on mainnet
Espresso Systems launches CAPE on Arbitrum testnet
Sense Finance announces upcoming integration with Angle Protocol
metaverse.eth sold for 99 ETH ($126,308)
DefiLlama is now tracking @Starknet_edu
Starkscan Stats are now available on Starkscan
MyEtherWallet announces they have integrated ENS Domains into their non custodial wallet Enkrypt
@samrags_ announces the release of collect-test-eth.org
Phaver hits 100k downloads across the App and Play Stores
Aztec goes over 50,000 ETH shielded since launch
Rated releases new MEV Relay Landscape
Nostra Money Market Alpha goes live
LGND announce a multi-year partnership with Warner Music and Polygon
Articles and Threads
@christine_dkim releases Ethereum All Core Developers Call #150 Writeup
@protolambda releases the history of all Eth2 spec releases and testnets
@alpha_pls releases Our Arbitrum portfolio you can copy
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #44
@daddysether releases Today in Layer 2 Ethereum
@AdrianoFeria releases EAD Weekly Update
@the_advisor_btc releases thread on the best Index Coop long-term DeFi products
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet & StarkEx thread
@ViktorDefi releases thread on the 360 view of Arbitrum
@Only1temmy releases ZK-SNARKS Explained thread
@bkiepuszewski shows a look into L1 to L2 message passing
@Starknet_edu releases StarkNet: Smarter, Faster, and more Open Source
zkLend releases thread on activities from the last month
@korpi87 releases 6 Arbitrum projects that have potential to outperform the market
@Slappjakke releases A comparison of Optimism and Arbitrum flagship protocols and ecosystems
Twitter Spaces
Shill Me Your Fundamentals #7
JediSwap mainnet launch w/ Argent integration
EIP-4626 and the Future of DeFi Roundtable Discussion
Podcasts
The Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #151 goes live
Bankless releases Phantom: One Wallet for Everything w/ @BChillman & @fragosti
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