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EthHub Weekly #198

Polygon introduces Plonky2, OpenSea raises $300 million, Connext and LayerSwap partner up and much more!

Anthony Sassano
Jan 12
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Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)


đŸ» To Bear or Not to Bear

It seems that what’s on everyone’s mind right now is if the crypto markets are going into another long-term bear market similar to what we experienced in 2018 and 2019. Personally, I don’t think this is going to happen and I believe the recent sell-off is mostly macroeconomic driven (something that I’m certainly no expert in). There’s just too many things to be bullish about when it comes to Ethereum - the layer 2 rollout, the merge, DeFi, NFTs and so much more - and because of this I think ETH is undervalued at these prices (and I continue to buy more whenever I can). Of course, that isn’t investment advice, but you need only pay attention to see why it’s impossible to be bearish on Ethereum and ETH.

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony


Project Updates

Ethereum

  • Kintsugi merge testnet split recap

  • Vitalik’s multidimensional EIP 1559

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

  • Polygon introduces Plonky2 - world’s fastest ZK scaling tech

  • Orbiter launches ETH transfers between mainnet, Arbitrum and zkSync

  • Phonon Alpha: Getting Started

  • Connext and LayerSwap partner up

  • Loopring Quarterly Update (Q4) + 2021 Recap

DeFi

  • Vesta Finance announces fundraise

  • Index Coop launches Bankless GMI index

  • Squeeth now live on mainnet

  • Aave Arc market launched with 30 regulated financial institutions

  • Introducing the mStable Dashboard

  • Euler launches $1M ImmuneFi Bug Bounty Programme

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

  • ENS.Tools announced

NFTs

  • OpenSea announces $300 million Series C

  • JPG announces $3.8 million fundraise

Misc

  • Etherscan adds charts to ERC20 token pages

  • Etherscan launches NFT tracker


Interesting Tweets

  • A thread on L2 tokens and tokenomics

  • 2021 in review via top 20 Ethereum gas consumers

  • Vitalik’s reflection of the past decade

  • Web3 developer next steps

  • How to see the value of web3

  • A glossary of terms for modular blockchains


Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

  • L222 - The Daily Gwei

  • Degen vs Boomer Mindset - The Daily Gwei

  • A Token Model for Layer-2 Block Production - Fuel Labs

  • A Succinct Story of Zero Knowledge - Nalin

Podcasts

  • Endgame | Vitalik Buterin - Bankless

  • Fei Protocol: Introducing Fei v2 - Epicenter

Misc

  • StarkWare resources list

  • First chapter on incentives for Ben’s Upgrading Ethereum book

  • [AMA] We are the EF's Research Team (Pt. 7: 07 January, 2022)


Meme of the Week

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January 8th 2022

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Looking for Work?

Top jobs listed on Cryptocurrency Jobs this week:

  • Community Manager - Superfluid

  • Libp2p Networking Engineer - Status

  • Senior Smart Contract Engineer (Solidity) - Ondo Finance

  • Security/Cryptography Researcher & Engineer - Least Authority

  • +1000’s more on the Cryptocurrency Jobs website!


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