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
The Ethereum Gray Glacier hard fork was successful
Anchorage launches Institutional ETH Staking
Facebook begins testing Ethereum and Polygon NFTs on profiles
Ethereum L2 Arbitrum surpasses Bitcoin in daily fees
Instagram shows off new feature that allows you to place an Ethereum or Polygon NFT on a surface and share it to your stories using AR
Stats
Arbitrum daily transactions hit new ATH of 287,019
Ethereum did over $29M in revenue this week
Over 2.5 million ETH have now been burned since EIP-1559 went live
Ethereum number of addresses holding 100+ ETH hits an 14 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 32+ ETH hits 15 month high
Ethereum number of addresses holding 10+ ETH hits ATH
Ethereum News
Circle's Euro Coin is now live on Ethereum and is supported by leading exchanges and DeFi protocols
000.eth sold for 300 ETH
Arbitrum pauses Arbitrum Odyssey
Coinbase Commerce adds support to pay with ETH
Vitalik Buterin jokes that EOS is Ethereum On Steroids
Immutable announces IMX staking
New York Community Bank to hold assets backing Circle’s USDC
40% of Ethereum’s transactions the past year came from institutions
The Polygon Avail Testnet is live
DEX trading volume on @optimismPBC grew by 250% the past month
Argent announces users can now buy crypto on Starknet with Banxa
Ethereum.org releases updated wallets page
ETH transfers top the Ultra Sound Money burn leaderboard
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Woods says the revolution around crypto and DeFi is underway and will not be stopped
Vitalik Buterin releases Validator set size capping strategies
porno.eth sold for 184 ETH
Gitcoin is now live on @tokenterminal
Polygon donates $100,000 to Gitcoin GR14
Optimism is now available for purchase via Ramp Network
FTX & Coinbase announce support for the Ethereum Gray Glacier network upgrade
DAI is going to be added to Vivid digital banking & investment app with 500,000+ users
Hop Protocol is leading all bridges in ETH Amount Transferred and New Users Count
Argent explains Account Abstraction
Vertex is launching their testnet on Arbitrum
Lyra introduces Avalon on Optimism
ETHGlobal announces the 10 ETHNewYork finalists
MetisDAO introduces roadmap for the 2nd half of 2022
Compound releases code repository to the Compound Community
Coinbase now allows users the ability to trade on Ethereum DEXes
Beefy Finance is now on Optimism
Opium V2 is on Arbitrum
Loopring is looking to hire 7 new positions
gm.xyz Community Roles are live
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance releases the 2022 Ethereum Business Readiness Report
ConsenSys and StarkWare announce new partnership
@EthereumPools adds more operators/pools to their dashboard
Solace Portfolio Insurance V3 is live
Nethermind goes under the hood of EIP-1533
Dynamic announces $7.5M seed round led by a16z
Go Ethereum Geth 1.19.20 is out
PieDAO acquires BasketDAO
Prismatic Labs releases June 2022 Community Update
Ethereum Swarm releases v1.6.2
TempleDAO is open sourcing their codebase
EPNS announces collab with Pine Loans
Revert Finance announces you can now manage LP positions directly from Revert
Matcha is looking to hire 2 Full Stack Software Engineers
xBankFinance now supports myBraavos wallet
@wilburforce_ shows ETH stakers by entry price
Sandclock is integrating Liquity’s LUSD
Nethermind releases v1.13.4
@pmcgoohanCrypto announces the zeromev.org frontrunning explorer is live
Zapper announces dHedge v2 is now supported on Optimism & Polygon
The Merge Updates
At current hashrate the Ethereum Sepolia Testnet Merge transition is set to go live on July 8th
Merge Community Call #5 is scheduled for July 15
The Ethereum Consensus Layer Call #90 went live
Ethereum Mainnet Shadow Fork 8 configs are out
Morgan Stanley is now realizing how bullish The Merge will be
Anthony Sassano & ethStaker will be hosting an Sepolia Merge livestream
@christine_dkim releases thread summarizing the Ethereum Consensus Layer Call #90
Prism validator on Kiln testnet are fully utilizing mev-boost for block productions
Articles and Threads
@korpi87 releases The Merge The Most Significant Ethereum Upgrade Ever on XDEFI_Wallet
@0xMiddy releases thread on Ethereum L2 reads
@0xNurstar releases Recaps of the previous Day on StarkNet
@polarpunklabs releases The One Word That Defines Ethereum’s Goals
@OlimpioCrypto releases Arbitrum Odyssey Week 1 Update
Blockworks releases The Investor's Guide to the Ethereum Merge
@BradyDale releases Ethereum’s new version is still on track for 2022
@Spencernoon releases Our Network Issue #128
CoinMarketCap releases The Ultimate Guide to the ZKSync Ecosystem
@Dennis_qian releases new Monday DeFi Market Alpha
@Swagtimus releases StarkNet Roundup #23
@bitsplaining releases Layer 2 Landscape #25
Rocket Pool releases The Merge & Redstone
Nansen releases Demystifying stETH’s “De-peg”
@chunza2542 releases Gitcoin Grants 2.0 thread
@EthereumPools releases thread on what % to expect after The Merge and where it’s coming from
@Crypto_Texan releases what is DeFi, what makes it decentralized thread
zkLend releases a thread on Argent
@henrlihenrli releases ELI5: The data availability problem
Defiprime releases The Defiprime Post #99
Twitter Spaces
SSV Networks hosts Building on Ethereum Post-Merge w/ @sassal0x & @Benjaminion_xyz
SSV Networks hosts The Merge’s impact on DeFi Twitter Spaces w/ @sassal0x & @StaniKulechov
MatchboxDAO Special MatchboxDAO Hackathon Workshop Episode 2 w/ @guiltygyoza @sylvechv @0xMyst_ & @heynejc
Podcasts
Bankless Ethereum’s Hidden Power Structures w/ @RyanSAdams @TrustlessState & @mcutler
Defiant News Lido’s Staked ETH Poses No Systemic Risk to DeFi w/ @CamiRusso & @hasufl
Polygon Alpha Podcast w/ @Crypto_Texan & @hal2001 of @UMAprotocol & @AcrossProtocol
Zero Knowledge Aztec Connect and Private DeFi w/ @AnnaRRose @jaosef & @0xA57EC
Funding Ethereum with the Protocol Guid w/ @trent_vanepps
Rehash The Future of Decentrazlied Social w/ @ddwchen & @0xChristina
Unchained The Chopping Block Ep. 368 w/ @tomhschmidt @rleshner @hosseeb @tarunchitra @tayvano_
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