This Week In Ethereum
Your weekly update of everything going on in Ethereum
Top Ethereum News of the Week
ETH flips BTC in Options Open Interest for the first time in history
Proposed US Senate legislation will treat ETH as a commodity under the CFTC
Coinbase Prime announces Ethereum staking for institutional clients
Meta adds supports for third-party wallet connections for MetaMask, Trust Wallet and Rainbow on Instagram
CME Group announces they are launching ETH Euro Futures
Stats
The ETH/BTC chart is up 30% the past month
EIP-1559 hits its 1 year anniversary. Over 2.5 million ETH have been burned since its inception 🔥
ETH trading volume hits highest level against BTC in 2022
Optimism TVL surpasses Arbitrum for the first time ever
Over 10.9% of all circulating ETH is now in the ETH deposit contract
Over the past 2 years USDC has grew 50x (from $1B to $55B)
Ethereum derivative activity hits new highs as hedge funds get involved with the Merge
Ethereum number of addresses holding 1+ ETH hits an ATH
Ethereum number of addresses holding 32+ ETH hits 17 month high
Ethereum News
ETH has now replaced BTC as the first pair in Coinbase’s new advanced trading platform
Arbitrum releases nitro node version Beta 8
Gitcoin Grants Round 15 is coming Sept 7
Ethereum KZG-Ceremony Call #5 was this week
Genesis Global says ETH is coming the gateway for institutional capital
Robot known for outperforming crypto markets has its biggest allocation in ETH
Ethereum generated $109.5 million in total revenue for the month of July
ENS Domains releases July 2022 ENS stats
LensProtocol goes over 50,000 profiles
Arbitrum will be migrating to Nitro on August 31
Rainbow and Optimism collab to let users unlock a Optimistic Explorer NFT
Vitalik shows how much data space we can save by improving compression
MyEtherWallet collaborates with Web3Foundation & Parity Tech to build Enkrypt
Aave Vault strategies go live on Alchemix
ETHGlobal x ZORA Metabolism Hackathon is live
Index Coop introduces the first Market Neutral Yield token
StarkWare announces new partnership with Empiric Network
The Optimism Liquidity Mining program is now live on Aave V3
opensea.eth sold for 99.8 ETH
Chainlink prices feeds go live on MetisDAO
Teller rolls out Make an offer feature
Sigma Prime releases new Lighthouse release
Aspect launches the first NFT marketplace on StarkNet
Santa Browser, a Web3 native browser built on Polygon, beta is launching 8/15
Alchemy announces the Arbitrum Nitro Goerli testnet is now fully supported
@ensdomains registrations hit ATH of 377.8K in July
Only Dust beta is now live on Testnet
@ETHeyAndBeTChy releases new comics
Scroll releases An overview of Scroll’s architecture
Rocket Pool announces The Governance Delegate Profile website is coming soon
StarkGalaxy releases Account Abstraction Simply Explained
Aleo announces the release of Aleo Testnet 3
Wonderland announces Solidity Hacking Competition
LeagueDAO announces 2nd Mega League Division Partner, gm.xyz
Scalara announces the July rebalance of the DeFi pulse Index
The Merge
The Ethereum Mainnet Merge date will be set next week! 🐼
The Prater/Goerli upgrade to Bellatrix was successful
On August ~11th the Goerli Testnet Merge transition will go live
Goldman Sachs releases note about the Merge
@finematics releases new video on the Ethereum Merge
@TimBeiko releases recap of the Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 144
@TrustlessState releases Everything You Need to Know About the Merge
After the Merge there will be a reduction of over $7.5 billion in annual sell pressure for ETH
Banking giant Citi highlights the significance of the Merge
Bloomberg Report: The Merge will catalyze Ethereum into a global institutional grade asset
@christine_dkim releases Ethereum dev call summary
Poloniex to list and upport potential ETH hard fork tokens
@TrustlessState releases Everything You Need to Know About the Merge
@cryptauxmargaux releases Goerli Is Coming: Ethereum’s Last Rehearsal Before the Merge
Articles and Threads
@jon_charb releases The Complete Guide to Rollups
@dennis_qian releases new Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@samczsun releases behind the scenes thread of the Nomad hack
@lemiscate releases thread about Eth PoW and what is likely to happen
@thecryptocactus releases Market Report #28
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #28
@BarryFried1 releases How it works to provide liquidity of Uniswap V3
@defiprime releases The Defiprime Post #104
@CryptoHayes calls for $5K ETH post merge and releases Max Bidding
@Wpeaster releases How to Earn High Yields on Velodrome on Bankless
@coinmetrics releases Ethereum after 1559
@blockworksres breaks down Polygon’s scaling platform
@WeekInEthNews releases The latest Week in Ethereum News
@SpencerNoon releases OurNetwork #132
@OlimpioCrypto releases A Megathread on Optimism
@Paradigm_fund releases L2 report vol. 5
@0xAlec releases Understanding The Merge, Surge, Verge, Purge, and Splurge
@korpi87 releases thread on will ETH be deflationary after the Merge
@hasufl releases threads on my take on a eth pow fork
Fortune releases article saying The Ethereum flippening event is getting closer by the day
@TheStalwart releases Bloomberg article on why the Ethereum narrative looks so much better than Bitcoin's
@SalomonCrypto releases thread on Token Standards and Composability
@0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet
@ryanberckmans releases L2s won't (and probably can't) leave Ethereum thread
@abcoathup releases thread on Ethereum ecosystem projects that are hiring
Twitter Spaces
Argent Let’s talk zkSync 2.0 w/ @MinakoOikawa @MintSquareNFT @anthonykrose & @matthewargenthq
SSV Network ETH PoW is going to 0. Do you agree? w/ @sassal0x & @mudit_gupta
Grateful Show #28 w/ @GratefulApe_eth @Ape4249 @beast_eth @tinoforbidden & @danielgothits
Podcasts
Bankless The zkWars w/ @TrustlessState @ben_chain @gluk64 & @yezhang1998
Ethereum Cat Herders PEEPanEIP#81 w/ @poojaranjan19 & @EthDreamer
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan & @traviscannell of Orchid
Unchained Why Kevin Zhou Believes Ethereum Will Have 3 Forks After the Merge w/ @laurashin & @Galois_Capital
DeFi Talks with DeFi Dad - Building for the 1st Billion Users in Web3 w/ @DeFi_Dad & @StaniKulechov
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