Top Ethereum News of the Week
Vitalik wears a sombrero at his ETHMexico talk
The CEO of Mastercard announces partnership with Binance to let people use ETH & crypto to make purchases at over 90 million Mastercard merchants worldwide
The Ethereum Foundation announces it will pay $1 million for any critical bugs found before the Merge
Coinbase Derivatives Exchange is launching Nano Ethereum Futures on August 29
Stats
@taha_crypto1 shows historic purchase dates where it would have been better to buy ETH instead of BTC
ETH on centralized exchanges is at record lows
Ethereum futures contracts open interest hits 3 month high on Deribit
36,000 new ETH have been added to the Ethereum staking contract each week on average, with over 153,000 ETH added since August
Ethereum leads L1 & L2 blockchains in daily active users
Ethereum number of addresses holding 1K+ ETH hits 10 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 100+ ETH hits 16 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 32+ ETH hits 18 month high
Ethereum News
Tether announces it will not freeze Tornado Cash addresses, awaits law enforcement instruction
The first ever AI model is now on Ethereum
Huobi Global adds ENS domain support
Citigroup sees great potential in Ethereum
Coinbase is adding support for Coinbase Wrapped Staked ETH (cbETH)
Mark Cuban says he remains super bullish on Ethereum as the Merge approaches
Polynomial introduces the first ever stablecoin collateralized ETH Call Selling Vault
Maker and Huntingdon Valley Bank pioneer the first commercial loan between a U.S. Regulated Financial Institution and a decentralized digital currency
Coinbase ENS subdomains go live
Polygon Miden VM v0.2 is not out
Loopring introduces ETH staking with Loopring Earn
Jonathan Mann creates Ethereum Stake From Home song
Otterscan announces its opensource Ethereum block explorer
a16z commits $300K for open-source devs in Gitcoin Grants Round 15
127 year old bank partners with Bakkt to allow its customers to trade ETH
ETH.LIMO announces experimental release of their DNS over HTTPS resolver for ENS Domains
D/Bond gets their ERC-3475 standard approved by the Ethereum Foundation
SushiSwap Trident goes live on Metis
Gitcoin Grants Round 15 goes live 9/7
Ribbon Finance officially lauches Ribbon Earn
@ArbitrumDevs presents the Arbitrum Nitro Whitepaper
@bantg compares the decentralization of BTC, ETH1, and ETH2
USDC is now live on Travala.com through the Polygon Network
Orbiter Finance shows the Top 5 rollups with the most new accounts the past 7 days
Compound III goes live
Layerswap Off-ramp is now live
Polynomial launches the Gamma Vault
RabbitHole announces new RocketPool quest
MatchboxDAO announces MatchBox Sparks
The Alchemy NFT API has landed on Arbitrum
Swell Network announces guarded mainnet launch
@hildobby_ shows off new Dune dashboards for Uniswap v1, v2, v3 & Sushiswap DEX pool data
I released my Ethereum Monthly Recap: July Edition
@ETHeyAndBeTChy release new comics
Rainbow is looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer
BarnBridge announces Aave as a Yield Partner for V2
Loopring does AMA on Reddit
watchtheburn.com will end service on August 31st
Y2K Finance is launching on Arbitrum
Uniswap community members vote to establish the Uniswap Foundation
The Merge
The Ethereum Foundation releases Mainnet Merge Annouoncement:
- The Bellatrix upgrade is scheduled for epoch 144896 on the Beacon Chain – 11:34:47am UTC on Sept 6, 2022
- Mainnet Merge is coming Sept ~14th
The Merge timeline was updated by Trent Vanepps
The new @sigp_io Lighthouse Merge release has a special message for everyone
Danny Ryan releases Finalized no.37
@benjaminion_xyz releases What’s New in Eth2
@christine_dkim releases Recap of the Ethereum Consensus Layer Call #94
Arca releases 6 Reasons ETH Merge Concerns Are Overblown
Dune releases thread on the top Merge dashboards
Coinbase says it is committed to fully supporting the Ethereum PoS chain post-merge
The Wall Street Journal releases What Ethereum’s Big Merge Means in Crypto Land
WIRED releases Ethereum’s Merge Is A Big Deal for Crypto and the Planet
@FortuneMagazine releases Everything To Know About The Ethereum Merge
Index Coop releases ESG Impact of The Merge
Bitpanda announces support for the Merge
Bitfinex releases how they are supporting The Merge
Polygon releases What does Ethereum’s move to proof of stake mean for Polygon
Articles and Threads
@korpi87 releases thread on the impact of the Triple Halvening
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #31
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet & StarkEx
@pseudotheos releases The zkEVM Sweet Spot
@zksync highlights 5 projcts in their ecosystem
@benjaminion_xyz talks about how the Merge will reshapre the crypto landscape
@myBraavos shows how to swap ETH, DAI, and USDC on the Braavos wallet
@tokenomicsdao releases Aave Tokenomics 101
@SomerEsat releases Supplementary Guide to Staking on Ethereum For Existing Stakers
@SpruceID releases Why Sign-In with Ethereum is a Game-Change Part 1
Connext releases Here is what Arbitrum Nova is and why you should get excited about it
@DiegoCabralETH releases thread on ETHLatam
@dennis_qian releases Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@TokenBrice releases Can Aave’s GHO stablecoin help the protocol futher grow and overtake MakerDAO and DAI
@0xPolygon releases SNARKs vs STARKs
@leo_glisic releases a thread on the future of ZK-ZK-rollups
@ercwl releases The Case for Social Slashing
@DeFiSurfer808 releases threads on the Ethereum Merge and Arbitrum Nitro
@theempirepod releases thread on what is an Ethereum Client
@Defilgnas release 25 DeFi stablecoins to understand
@SomerEast publishes merge-ready mainnet guides for Lighthouse, Nimbus, Prysm, and Teku
@zkxprotocol releases State of StarkWare
CoinMetrics releases Coin Metrics State of the Network Issue 169 featuring @Data_Always
@daddysether releases Today in Layer 2 Ethereum thread
@Defilgnas releases What’s new in Compound III and how will it change DeFi
@WeekInEthNews releases Latest Week In Ethereum News - 6th Anniversary Edition
@Erik_M_Lowe releases Ethereum Tightening More Than Fed
Optimism releases Optimism Weekly Recap
@blocmatesdotcom releases Rundown of projects and opportunities on Arbitrum
Twitter Spaces
@sassal0x hosts UNCANCELLABLE ETH2+ w/ @LidoFinance @Rocket_Pool & @ssv_network
zkLend Zend&Friends AMA w/ @henrlihenrli
Rhino.Fi Building The Next-Gen Derivatives On StarkNet w/ @zkxprotocol
Uniswap Sourcing, Analyzing, and Using On-chain Data w/ @AustinAdams10 @xin__wan & @lclamont415
Ambire Wallet Engineering the Smart Wallet Future w/ @rimeissner & @lvshti
Podcasts
Bankless State Of The Nation Death Of Crypto Privacy w/ @RyanSAdams @TrustlessState & @jchervinsky
EthStaker Community Call #20 w/ Swell Network
Unchained With the Merge, Will Ethereum Take Over Bitcoin’s Title as Digital Gold w/ @laurashin & @Travis_Kling
Into The Bytecode Argent, building on StarkNet, and a primer on account abstraction w/ @sinahab & @jniset
Empire Pod An Inside Look: MakerDAO w/ @MonetSupply & @hexonaut
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan @RasterlyRock & @Matt_Hougan
Mission DeFi Episode 68 Users & Projects Win Big Just For Sending & Receiving With Fluidity w/ @b05crypto & @shahmeerx
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