Top Ethereum News of the Week
In the Ethereum Core Devs Meeting a final mainnet TTD of 58750000000000000000000 was confirmed!!!
This means the Ethereum Merge will officially go live in ~23 days around September 14th!
CME Group to launch ETH Options on September 12
Ethereum open interest continues skyrocket against Bitcoin as ETH options open interest hits new ATH
Coinbase Wallet users can now bridge between Ethereum and Polygon
Over 2 million ENS names have been created
Stats
Ethereum flips Bitcoin in Total Value Secured
There is now over 13.3 million ETH staked, which is almost double of the amount staked from a year ago
Ethereum number of addresses holding 10K+ ETH hits 1 month high
Ethereum News
Yuga Labs announces it will only recognize NFTs on the Ethereum PoS chain after the Merge
Go Ethereum hosts AMA
Citigroup explains why they are so bullish on the Merge
StarkWare announces Banxa can now integrate into StarkEx
CoinCenter gives full analysis of the Tornado Cash action by OFAC
Coinbase CEO: We'd Shut Down Ethereum Staking If Threatened by Regulators
NFL franchise Houston Texans to accept ETH for single game suites this season
Australia’s largest convenience store, OTR, now allows customers to purchase with ETH
Uniswap blocks 253 crypto addresses related to stolen funds or sanctions
Curve Finanace turns 2 years old
Ultra Sound Money teases a Ultra Sound POAP coming soon
Tether hires BDO Italia for monthly proof-of-reserve reports
Coinbase announces pause of ETH & ERC-20 trading during The Merge
Aave companies propose ARC for the Aave DAO to show support for PoS ETH after the Merge
Brazil’s largest broker, XP, launches ETH trading for its 3.6 million users in partnership with major American stock exchange Nasdaq
WalletConnect now supports Sign-in With Ethereum
Arbitrum Nova is now live on Layerswap
The Ethereum KZG-Ceremony Call #6 goes live
Flashbot has open sourced the Flashbots Relay
Compound III USDC market launches on Ethereum
MakerDAO announces you can borrow with 0% stability fees
Rainbow announces you can swap tokens on Polygon with Rainbow’s Swap Feature
Nucleo introduces the first private, non-custodial, auditable multisig on Ethereum
Gemini announces ETH staking through Gemini Staking
GitPOAP raises a $4M seed round
The Optimism Ecosytem Index is announced
Loopring is launching their new beta HQ is Decentraland
Aztec will be co-funding Aztec Connect bridges alongside Balancer
Ramp Network teams up with Argent and announces zero fees for the next two weeks
ConsenSys exec says “Post-Merge, DeFi projects will have to compete with the returns offered by the core ETH protocol”
Gitcoin Grants Round 15 kicks off September 7
MatchboxDAO announces $7.5M raise
Mycelium Perpetual Swaps go live
Ribbon Finance announces Ribbon Earn
Connext announces support for Arbitrum Nova
Argent adds Address Book feature into Argent X
The StarkNet developer guide goes live on devpill.me
Polygon Zero announces Plonky2 ZK proving system is now open-source
StarkWare announces developer partnership with Ledger
Starknet.id is now allow users to claim their StarkNet identity
GalleonDAO introduces Galleon Portfolios
1inch fully integrates with Synthetix Atomic Swaps
Homora V2 is now live on Optimism
Gnosis Safe to airdrop 50 million Ethereum tokens to wallets
gm.xyz releases Weekly Product Update
DAppNode’s Multiclient is now live
EPNS introduces SNS module for push delivery nodes
The Merge
Google searches for "Ethereum Merge" spike to an ATH ahead of the Merge
Tim Beiko confirms TTD for the Merge in the All Core Devs call
I released The Ethereum Merge Is Scheduled, Here’s What You Need To Know
Tim Beiko leads All Core Devs Call #145
@christine_dkim releases Ethereum Core Developers recap
Updated Merge documents about Ethereum nodes are now live on Ethereum.org
FTX releases What happens to ETH after the Merge
Crypto.com announces it will support the Ethereum Merge
Hal Press releases Is The Merge Priced In on Bankless
Coinbase releases The Ethereum Merge is Coming: Here’s what you need to know
@VivekVentures releases The Ethereum Merge is no longer an if, but a when
@dunleavy89 releases How Traders are Positioning for the Merge
Everything is now completed on the Merge Mainnet Readiness Checklist
@indexcoop releases How to Buy The Merge
Articles and Threads
Arthur Hayes releases ETH-flexive article
@thecryptocactus releases The Great Merge - Ethereum Update
@dennis_qian releases Monday DeFi Market Alpha
0xNurstar releases Recap of the previous Day on StarkNet & StarkEx
@WeekInEthNews releases Latest Week In Ethereum News
@nansen_alpha releases deep dive into ZK-Rollups
@DeFiSurfer808 releases Contextualizing the Arbitrum Ecosystem’s Opportunity
@terencechain releases Blob Sidecar handling in Prysm
@spencernoon releases The ETH merge is imminent thread
@mallowsxyz releases The current state of Ethereum dApps and defi
@Ingo_zk releases A Mathematical Theory of Danksharding
@apolynya releases The Anon Game
@pseudotheos releaes The zkEVM Sweet Spot
@BitMEXResearch releases OFAC Sanctions & Ethereum PoS - Some Technical Nuances
Gamma X Exchange releases thread breaking down ZK-rollups
@korpi87 releases thread on How a simple signature in MetaMask can drain your wallet
@ArbitrumDevs releases thread on questions about the Arbitrum Nitro migration
Twitter Spaces
RhinoFi AMA w/ @rossdefi
MEV & the Merge What you need to know w/ @sassal0x & 0xjim
Framework Ventues The Merge w/ @NorthRockLP @pythianism & @im_manderson
Messari The Merge & Macro Update w/ @chasedevens @dunleavy89 @Saypien_ & @mikeykremer
Podcasts
Bankless Is The Merge Priced In w/ @TrustlessState @RyanSAdams & @ryanberckmans & NorthRockLP
The Ethereum Merge Thesis w/ @NorthRockLP @draecomino& @SquishChaos
Vitalik Buterin & Evan Van Ness - Q&A Session
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