EthHub Weekly #173
ESP allocation update, Aave Pro detailed, Nansen raises $12 million, Slingshot goes mobile and much more!
Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)
đŠÂ Crab Season
Iâm sure youâve all seen the popular âcrab seasonâ meme on crypto twitter by now thatâs being used to describe the current state of the market and well, itâs incredibly accurate. Both ETH and BTC are rangebound between 2,000-3,000 and 30,000-40,000 respectively. The market doesnât really show any clear signs of where it wants to go and sentiment is mostly neutral from what I can tell. Will the bull market resume or are we heading into a longer-term crypto winter? Only time will tell.
I was very busy over the last week - I published my bullish case for governance tokens piece in the DeFi Pulse Farmer newsletter here, appeared on Banklessâ new Top Signal show here and joined a group of amazing ETH bulls to give an updated bull case for Ethereum here.
Have a great week everyone!
-Â Anthony
News of the Week
đŹÂ Crypto Exchange Bithumb Bans Employees from Trading on its Platform
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has banned its employees from trading on its own platform.
Announcing the news on Friday, Bithumb said the move is to enhance transparency over crypto transactions, but an upcoming law in Korea mandates local crypto exchanges must prohibit employees from trading on their own platforms.
The law becomes effective September 25. If crypto exchange employees don't comply by the date, they could face a fine of up to 100 million won (around $88,000) from the Korea Financial Services Commission (FSC) if they get caught trading on the platforms they work for.
đŠÂ Worldâs Biggest Interdealer Broker to Launch Crypto Trading Platform
TP ICAP, the world's biggest interdealer broker, is set to launch a crypto trading platform for institutional investors.
The platform is being developed with crypto custody providers Fidelity Digital Assets and Standard Chartered's Zodia Custody, alongside liquidity provider Flow Traders. The idea is to provide clients a separate but interoperable model for execution and settlement.
Simon Forster, co-head of digital assets at TP ICAP, said the current crypto market infrastructure prevents many institutional clients from trading because most execution venues require pre-funding and also act as custodians.
Project Updates
Whatâs New in Eth2 - 2 July 2021
A jam-packed update this week from Ben including an editorial piece, coverage of the Beacon Chain, the usual great explainers and much more.
ESP Allocation Update: Q1 2021
In this update, the Ethereum Ecosystem Support Program details all of the teams and individuals that received funding in Q1 of 2021.
Introducing Otterscan
Otterscan is an open-source, blazingly fast, laptop-friendly Ethereum block explorer built on top of Erigon.
EY Releases Nightfall 3
EY is open-sourcing the prototype code for Nightfall 3, a Layer 2 protocol focused on Ethereum scaling that utilizes zero-knowledge proofs.
Element Finance Live on Mainnet
The Element Protocol has officially been deployed to Ethereum Mainnet and will initially support a 3-month crvLUSD term.
Aave Pro Launching in July
Aave Pro will be the first permissioned decentralized liquidity protocol being co-launched by Aave and Fireblocks.
Opyn Launches Partially Collateralized DeFi Options
The upgrade allows options to be collateralized with less than their max loss (<1 asset for call, <strike for puts), increasing capital efficiency and providing leverage for DeFi options
Index Coop Ambassador Program Launched
The Protocol Ambassador Program is designed to give the coop a better pulse on the DeFi ecosystem by having individuals dedicated to monitoring each of the protocols within DPI.
Nansen Raises $12 Million
Nansen, a DeFi-native crypto tracer, has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Also participating in the round was Skyfall Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, imToken Ventures, Mechanism Capital and QCP Capital.
Tracer DAO Raises $4.5 Million
The round is supported by Framework Ventures, DACM, Maven 11, Apollo Capital, Distributed Global Ventures, Paperclip Fund and Supernova. GSR and Efficient Frontier have also joined the round as strategic market making partners.
Dune Analytics Integrates Polygon
Dune Analytics has integrated Polygon blockchain data, for rich insights into the vibrant DeFi, NFT, and Gaming ecosystem on Polygon.
Compound Treasury Announced
Compound Treasury is designed for businesses and financial institutions to access the benefits of the Compound protocol.
Andre Releases Prototype Projects
Andre has released the code for a number of new projects:
levX (leveraged on-chain spot perps)
ProtectionMarkets (on-chain pay as you go insurance with dynamic pricing), AaveDelegate (integrate usersâ debt)
CurveGaugeMetaPool (new metapool that natively earns CRV rewards)
FixedForex (a governance-minimized forex protocol).
Balancer Joins Polygon
Balancer Protocol has been deployed to Polygonâs PoS chain accompanied by a new liquidity mining campaign.
Loopring Quarterly Update: 2021/Q2
Updates on Loopring Wallet and the launchpad, exchange v2 improvements + collaborations, liquidity mining and much more.
Slingshot Goes Mobile
You can now trade 2,000+ tokens on Polygon with real-time DeFi charts in the new Slingshot mobile-web app.
Perpetual Protocol v2 Announced
The upgrade, codenamed Curie, dramatically improves capital efficiency and increases fee capture for liquidity providers. It will be launched on Arbitrumâs layer 2 network in the coming weeks.
DVF DLM Overview
In this guide, Lexi Short from DeversiFi explains how users can participate in the upcoming DVF sale.
Hermez Mobile Wallet Live on iOS and Android
The mobile wallet will have just a few features, minimising complexity and making the app more accessible to new users.
Introducing one1INCH
The ICHI Community has launched one1INCH, a stablecoin for the 1inch community. one1INCH will provide a stablecoin for the community that can be used to create USD exposure during 1inch operations, help diversify the 1INCH at 1inch Foundation treasury that is the part of 1inch Network DAO, more easily pay operating costs, provide liquidity, and earn rewards.
Interesting Tweets
The tradeoffs and differences in pay between tech and crypto
How does the process of verifying transactions look for zkRollups?
Ecosystem Bits
Blog Posts
DeFi Banks - The Daily Gwei
Let the Games Begin - The Daily Gwei
DAO Landscape - Cooper Turley
DAO First Capital Formation - Kain Warwick via Synthetix
Understanding the Risks of Owning FLI Tokens - Cormac Daly via Index Coop
Are All Eth2 Validators Created Equal? - Cento Validatori
A Guide to Understanding ETH as an Investment - Celia Wan via Dragonfly Research
Podcasts
The Creator Economy | Jesse Walden, Li Jin, Cooper Turley - Bankless
Centrifuge | Introducing Real-World DeFi - Epicenter
Videos
Misc
Track how much in ETH fees you have paid using this Dune Analytics dashboard
Otterscan - an open-source, fast, local, laptop-friendly Ethereum block explorer
Meme of the Week
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