This Week In Ethereum
Your weekly update of everything going on in Ethereum
Top Ethereum News of the Week
On page 6 of the complaint against SBF, the CFTC declares ETH and Tether as commodities defined under Section 1a(9) of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. § 1a(9)
PayPal partners with MetaMask to integrate new crypto services. Users are now able to fund their wallet with ETH
Optimism hits ATH in daily transactions
Blocknative raises $15 million to provide global infrastructure to Ethereum
Since Ethereum turned off PoW, ETH inflation has been 872x less than BTC
Stats
Daily transactions on Arbitrum and Optimism have skyrocketed the past 90 days
Ethereum number of addresses holding 100+ ETH hits a 21 month high
Daily unique ETH addresses are now at their highest level since May 2021
Ethereum News
Tim Beiko releases the last Ethereum All Core Devs update of 2022
The Daily Gwei AMA Series is back
Chainlink automation goes live on Arbitrum
Polygon zkEVM is being audited by two firms
r/ethdev has grown 23% this year and is up to 99k members
Tether helps Binance swap 3 billion USDT to Ethereum from Tron
Coinbase launches asset recovery tool for unsupported Ethereum-based tokens
Gas paid by Arbitrum and Optimism to settle on Ethereum has continued to trend up over the past 1.5 years
Daily txns on Arbitrum & Optimism are close to flipping Ethereum L1 txns
MetaMask Institutional is live on Safe
Optimism announces The Optimist NFT
The ETH/BTC ratio is looking to breakout
Aztec announces $100 million in Series B funding
@trent_vanepps announces the KZG Ceremony Grants Round
The Hong Kong Stock Exchange to list CSOP Asset Management’s Ethereum ETF on December 16th
Bank of International Settlements announces new policy that allows banks to hold 2% of reserves in crypto
ConsenSys announces the private beta release of their zkEVM testnet
Crust Network is launching on Arbitrum
PartyDAO introduces the all new PartyBid
@macflapd releases Weekly liquid staking updates
@DeFi_Dad shows how to switch to a different RPC endpoint
Mailchain announces you can now email using any .eth wallet address
@pseudotheos shows a breakdown of Scroll's zkEVM architecture
Orbiter Research shows off the top 5 rollups with the most transactions the past 7 days
Immutable has grown from 5 to 100+ games in 2022
Phi mainnet goes live
Fjord Foundry is live on Arbitrum
zkSync releases Ecosystem Update 18
NFT buyers on Polygon continue to grow exponentially
@terencechain releases EIP-4844 implementer call notes
zkSync releases their Fair Onboarding Alpha and Full Launch Alpha milestones on their 2.0 roadmap
Ledger releases guide on how to withdraw from Binance and Crypto-com to your Ledger
Magic Eden adds Polygon NFT support
LamaNode RPCs are now live
Stader Ethereum releases their vision
Contango releases sneak peak into their interface
These 5 protocols have continued to grow during the market downturn
CoW Swap announces limit orders from CoW Protocol are officially live
@pierreyvesg7 publishes new Dune Analytics dashboard to compare lending and borrowing rates across top DeFi protocols
Articles and Threads
Paradigm release L2 report vol 11
@PaoloRebuffo releases What is Ethereum after The Merge thread
@odin_free releases How to avoid 95% of all rugs on StarkNet
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #45
@thiccythot_ releases thread on GMX
@jessepollak releases his take on Ethereum's roadmap
@expctchaos releases alpha thread on EigenLayer
@freeshreeda interviews @TimBeiko in then latest Moonshots issue
@daddysether releases new Layer 2 Weekly Roundup
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet & StarkEx thread
@MihailoBjelic releases thread on why Polygon has multiple zk efforts/teams
@hudsonjameson releases thread on his thoughts on the process around EIP-1153's potential inclusion in Ethereum
@SalomonCrypto releases how to learn about Ethereum scaling and how you can contribute on inevitable ETH
Flipside releases what you need to know about Optimism's AttestationStation
@packyM releases The Zero-Knowledge Landscape
Slingshot releases November in Review
@takenstheorem releases An Archeological Trip Across Early Ethereum Contracts
StarkCon releases What is a zero-knowledge proof thread
Week In Ethereum News releases Latest Week In Ethereum News
@mhonkasalo releases Diary of an obsessed ultrasound.money user
Stakewise releases What is osETH? A Deep Dive Into the Overcollateralized Staked Ether Token of StakeWise V3: Part 1
Twitter Spaces
Stark Spaces Safe Cex
NiftyKit x Arbitrum AMA
Podcasts
zkSync’s @gluk64 &@anthonykrose join @0xResearch to discuss zkSync's Technical Roadmap
Staking Rewards has Fireside Chat with ethStaker
The Unstoppable Podcast The Tokenization Of Everything
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