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
Tim Beiko announces the Gray Glacier fork is going live at block 15,050,000 to push back the difficulty bomb
Circle announces the launch of Euro Coin (EUROC) on Ethereum mainnet.
Euro Coin is designed with the same full-reserve model as USDC, which means it’s redeemable 1:1 for Euros. The initial launch is set for June 30th.
Goldman Sachs executes its first trade of an Ethereum linked derivative
Crypto.com announces Optimism L2 ETH deposits & withdrawals are live
Aztec's privacy rollup goes live
Stats
Ethereum RSI hits lowest level of all time
Ethereum number of addresses holding 100+ ETH hits 13 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 32+ ETH hits 14 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 10+ ETH hits ATH
Ethereum number of addresses holding 1+ ETH hits ATH
ETH deposits into Arbitrum are at an ATH
ETH did $42M in revenue this week
25,617 ETH ($28M) were burned this week
7.8K ETH has been the average daily burn since EIP-1559 went live
The Ethereum Fear & Greed Index hits lowest level of 2022
Ethereum News
Instagram is working on the ability to see Ethereum NFTs in AR
Vitalik Buterin releases Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy
The largest Flashbots miner tip in history happened this week. A tip of 720 ETH was paid to miners.
Anthony Scaramucci of SkyBridge says he's buying more ETH
Ethereum.org announces exciting changes after deploying v4.2.0
LayerSwap is now natively integrated into the @loopringorg Smart Wallet for Android
Optimism and Arbitrum are now at 24% of Ethereum transactions
Polygon announces their zk-Rollup is coming soon
StarkWare announces partnership with LayerSwap
Dune Analytics completes the view creation of all Ethereum projects on Dune Engine v2
Immutable introduces Arch 1.0, Immutable X's NFT bridging protocol between Ethereum L1 & StarkNet L2
EY’s @pbrody says “We have incorrectly lumped Bitcoin & Ethereum together and expect to see decoupling over time”
Loopring releases guide on How to use the GameStop Wallet
Liquality is the first wallet to integrate Hop Protocol
Superfluid built a working prototype for the world’s first cross-chain asset streaming bridge w/ Connext & Nomad
GameStopNFT releases GameStop Wallet V0.3.0
zkSync announces major update is coming to their v2 testnet next week
Turner Sports announces partnership with Ethereum scaling solution Immutable X to build and launch new NFT games and collectibles, powered by StarkWare.
Turner Sports is the home to Bleacher Report, TNT, & TBS.
Dez Bryant goes to Consensus 2022
Halborn Security researchers disclose a wallet vulnerability affecting browser based wallets
A Maker Vault sold 65k ETH to pay off debt and decrease risk
@dunleavy89 shows that Ethereum fees have remained largely unchanged during the selloff
Tether condemns false rumors about its commercial paper holdings
It’s rumored that Polygon is launching a fully decentralized zkEVM next month
@go_ethereum Geth v1.10.19 was released
StarkWare announces partnership with Only Dust
Espresso Systems announces CAPE is now live on Ethereum’s Goerli testnet
ETHBarcelona is coming July 6 - 8
Derby Stars migrates from Terra to Polygon
MetaMask releases Dark Mode for the MetaMask Extension
Gains Network trading vault now contains the 2nd largest DAI holding on Polygon
@gmdotxyz shows sneak peak of community chat
CelerNetwork’s cBridge is now on imToken
StarkWare announces new partnership with LambdaClass
@0xGreg_ announces the first stable release of NethermindEth Warp 2.0
Snapshot introduces Checkpoint
DefiLlama is now tracking Unipilot
Lyra Finance releases update on AMM performance
$IDLE is now listed on Bancor
EPNS collabs with Stox
Tenderly announces 4 exciting upgrades and new features
@Fwiz announces 3 new gaming titles coming to Polygon
@stacey_cunning is now an Advisor to Uniswap
Solidity releases version 0.8.15
@ZK_Daily releases updated zkSync Ecosystem
Scroll Tech introduces Skroll - Vision and Values
CowSwap is looking to hire for multiple positions
Banxa lists Loopring $LRC
Polygon integrates with Zerion
Zerion goes live on Token Terminal
Starksheet’s landing page goes live
The zkRollup Directory v2.0 goes live
The Merge Updates
The Ethereum Mainnet Shadow Fork 7 config is now out. TTD (terminal total difficulty) is planned for June 22 around 2PM UTC
Ethereum.org releases new Merge Readiness Checklist
@benjaminion_xyz releases new What’s New in Eth2
Ethereum block times are now 15+ seconds due to the difficulty bomb
@epolynya releases thread on Silicon Efficiency after the Merge
@korpi87 releases How did this sell-off affect structural supply/demand after the Merge
@Old_Samster releases What Will Ethereum Miners Do After The Merge
@x0rart creates ASCII banner for the Prysmatic Labs ETH2 client
Articles and Threads
Vitalik Buterin releases Where to use a blockchain in non-financial applications
@eli5_defi releases Liquid Staking Basic Visual Guide
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #20
@OisinKyne releases The modular Ethereum stack
@dennis_qian releases Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@TrustlessState releases 8 Projects I’m Bullish on in the Bear Market
@mhonkasalo releases Preparing for a long bear market & identifying the next growth opportunities
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet
@pseudotheos releases Application-specific rollups will be built on L3, not L2 thread
Numio releases What is zkSync
@Astralytica releases Overview of live applications on the StarkNet Testnet
Ankr Staking releases Deep dive on Ethereum Liquid Staking at Ankr
@Crypto_Wildwest releases PolyPulse #25
@LidoFinance releases Lido Weekly Digest
@defiprime releases The Defiprime Post #97
Twitter Spaces
ssv network hosts Series 1/8 of The Merge w/ @sassal0x & @TimBeiko
Solace Shaping The Future Of DeFi w/ @preston_vanloon
FURUCOMBO FuruRadio #3 - Fund in DeFi w/ IndexCoop & BabylonFinance
Podcasts
Bankless goes through the top 5 misconceptions about the Ethereum Merge w/ @TimBeiko
Empire Weekly Roundup w/ @santiagoroel & @JasonYanowitz
Wholesome Crypto Ep 34 w/ @RHLSTHRM of @ConnextNetwork
DeFi Lunch Ep 149 w/ @b05crypto Joe Cawley & @benlakoff of @DefiNft
@RyanSAdams & @TrustlessState Bear Market Survival Guide Livestream
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