EthHub Weekly #207

Kiln merge testnet now live, Optimism updates, Stripe now supports crypto, WalletConnect raises $11 million and much more!

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

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🥩 10 Million ETH Staked

Over 10 million ETH is now staked on the Beacon Chain giving it tens of billions of economic security - and The Merge isn’t even here yet! It’s pretty crazy to see how far the Beacon Chain has come in just ~16 months especially given that there are currently no withdrawals of staked ETH (and there probably won’t be until Q1 2023). With The Merge rapidly approaching and an 80-90% issuance reduction coming with it, it’s very hard to be bearish on ETH.

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

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Project Updates

Ethereum

• Kiln merge testnet now live

• Ethereum Foundation Vulnerability Disclosures

• Nethermind’s full pruning is here

• Execution layer merge clients named ‘Paris’

• What’s New in Eth2 - 11 March 2022

• Lighthouse Update #40

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• Argent’s layer 2 features now available for everyone

• Optimism’s pragmatic path to decentralization

• Optimism details Cannon

• Arbitrum research forum released

• Biweekly zkSync newsletter announced

• Socket bridge raises $5 million

• zkSync 2.0 portal upgraded

• DeversiFi releases Arbitrum bridge

• StarkWare teams up with Alchemy

• xPollinate is now Connext Bridge

• StarkNet Alpha 0.8.0 now live on testnet

DeFi

• Galleon launches the ETH Max Yield Index

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• Stripe now supports crypto businesses

• WalletConnect raises $11 million

NFTs

• Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks and Meebits

Web3

• Lens Protocol API beta now live

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Interesting Tweets

• Don’t fall for the new chain fallacy

• Preston on PryLabs’ role in the Beacon Chain

• Pat explaining EIP-4844

• On scaling layer 0

• Dune Analytics dashboard on Ethereum Gas

• Why are Layer 2s a superior solution vs low-fee alt-L1s?

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Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• The Tokens Are Coming - The Daily Gwei

• Tasty Yield Burgers - The Daily Gwei

• Five Indicators That the Ethereum Merge Will Occur in June, 2022 - Superphiz

• Secured #2: Public Vulnerability Disclosures - Fredrik Svantes via Ethereum Foundation Blog

• WalletConnect: The Narrow Waist Protocol Between Wallets & Dapps - Nichanan Kesonpat via 1kx

Podcasts

• I Was Wrong, We Need Crypto | DHH - Bankless

• How Justin Sun Has Allegedly Tried to Manipulate Markets and Escape Regulation - Unchained

Misc

• Self-Destruct Inflation Vulnerability Postmortem

• Difference between EIP-4488 and EIP-4844

• A quick barycentric evaluation tutorial

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Meme of the Week

ETHey & BeTChy 🦇🔊 @ETHeyAndBeTChy

#ETH #Ethereum h/t @pseudotheos

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Looking for Work?

Top jobs listed on Cryptocurrency Jobs this week:

• Engineering Manager - Gnosis

• Lead Product Designer - Gitcoin

• Software Developer in Test - Status

• Lead Technical Recruiter - Matter Labs

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

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