EthHub Weekly #198
Polygon introduces Plonky2, OpenSea raises $300 million, Connext and LayerSwap partner up and much more!
Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)
🐻 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
Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging
Polygon introduces Plonky2 - world’s fastest ZK scaling tech
Orbiter launches ETH transfers between mainnet, Arbitrum and zkSync
DeFi
Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling
NFTs
Misc
Interesting Tweets
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
Podcasts
Endgame | Vitalik Buterin - Bankless
Fei Protocol: Introducing Fei v2 - Epicenter
Misc
First chapter on incentives for Ben’s Upgrading Ethereum book
[AMA] We are the EF's Research Team (Pt. 7: 07 January, 2022)
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