Bullletin #12

Hi everyone!

There it is, your weekly recap from world of web3. Enjoy your reading!

🗞 Weekly Highlights

1. MetaMask Partners With Lido, Rocket Pool To Enable ETH Staking

2. Polygon Completes Hard Fork to Reduce Gas Fee Spikes, Disruptive Reorgs

3. Amazon Web Services Taps Avalanche to Help Bring Blockchain Technology to Enterprises, Governments

4. FTX Has Recovered 'Over $5B' in Assets, Bankruptcy Attorney Says

5. SEC Alleges Gemini, Genesis Sold Unregistered Securities

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🧐 Deep Dive to web3

🪪 NFTs

1. IBM Executive on Enterprise Use Cases of NFTs and Metaverse

2. Tribeca Film Festival Will Sell VIP Passes as NFTs

3. Music NFTs are helping independent creators monetize and build a fanbase

💰 DeFi

1. Lido’s Total Value Locked Spiked 33% In Past Month, Becoming Largest DeFi Protocol by TVL, Says DeFiLlama

2. Societe Generale Withdraws $7M in DAI From MakerDAO Vault

3. Alameda Research liquidators lost $72K during fund consolidation attempt

🎮 GameFi & Metaverse

1. Polygon enlists Xternity to migrate multiplayer Web3 game from Solana

2. Davos Day 3 Shows Conflicting Visions for the Metaverse, CBDCs

3. South Korea Launches Metaverse Replica of Seoul

🧪 Infrastructure

1. KZG ceremony is live!

2. zkSync integrating Espresso Systems technology to enable private transactions

3. Papyrus: An Open-Source StarkNet Full Node

⛑ Security

1. Binance, Huobi team up to recover $2.5M from Harmony One hackers

2. Solana Foundation warns about security incident with Mailchimp

3. Defrost Finance Says Hacked Funds Have Been Returned

📂 Business & Law

1. MiCA Delay Until April Gives EU Crypto Firms Ample ‘Breathing Room’

2. DOJ Busts Crypto Exchange No One Has Heard Of

3. Genesis creditors negotiating prepackaged bankruptcy: Sources

🤑 Raises

1. Blue raises $3.2M

2. The Easy Company raises $14.2M

3. Obol raises $12.5M

📌 Project(s)

1. Espresso Systems

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Figures & Lines

📈 Performance

📊 Dune Dashboard of the Week

Optimism Project Usage Trends

📏 Metrics:

Top dapps and blockchains based on daily cumulative fees in the past 7 days.

📝 Graphs/Analysis:

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…and the Oscar’s goes to:

🎙 Podcast:

🎬 Video: Future of Smart Contract Security Audits: REKT or WAGMI

🧵 Thread:

Tyrannosaurus Haym@SalomonCrypto

(1/18) Computer Science Basics: Stack A stack is a data structure built for simplicity and built for speed. Elements are added, one after another and can only be accessed in reverse order. Last in, first out.

9:47 PM · Jan 16, 2023

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✍🏻 Blog:

How does new Ethereum work?

📜 Article/Paper: Blockchain based Resource Governance for Decentralized Web Environments

📝 Reports: Electric Capital Developer Report

🛠 Tool: cryptofees.info

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📆 Tech/Event Calendar

Events

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Tech

• Jan 17-31 – Gitcoin grants round

• Jan 31 – KZG ceremony grants deadline

• Jan 31 - deadline to nominate for Optimism retroactive public goods round 2