Crypto && Coffee 095
- 5 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Lightning Network channel openings via Coinjoins are now in the PoC phase! The test was done via regtest.
- Electrum wallet developer, ghost43, posted to the Lightning-Dev mailing list about some of the challenges of scanning the blockchain for a wallet’s channel close transactions.
Ethereum:
- Solidity v0.8.8 is here! This brings user defined value types as a major feature and so much more!
- Ben Edgington shares the latest in eth2 and all things Beacon Chain, Altair, The Merge, staking and more!
- The Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Team publishes their grantee roundup for August 2021.
- Prysmatic Labs announces Prysm v2.0.0-rc.2 which implements the Altrair spec and contains significant changes relative to the latest production release.
- Erigon releases v2021.09.04-alpha which includes the TxPool v2 option, and dynamic transaction fees.
- Vitalik Buterin publishes his thoughts on cryptoeconomics and more!
- Danny Ryan shares the initial Merge specs that should be implemented as a prerequisite for the Interop.
- Check out ERC-4337: Account Abstraction without Ethereum protocol changes!
Other Chains:
- 1inch Network deployed both the 1inch Aggregation Protocol and 1inch Limit Order Protocol on Arbitrum One, a layer-2 solution on Ethereum.
- KyberDMM DEX has been integrated by aggregator ParaSwap!
- Bitfinex and DeversiFi have launched the first bridge between a centralized exchange and a layer-2 DEX, enabling fast and low-cost transfers for ERC-20 tokens!
- OpenZeppelin releases their Cairo contracts for StarkNet, a decentralized ZK Rollup from StarkWare.
- Optimism’s OVM v2.0 is coming to mainnet on October 28th, 2021.
- A proposal has been created to add Fireblocks as a whitelister on Aave Arc. Arc is a permissioned version of Aave.
- StarkWare releases Cairo v0.4.1! This version includes improved local testing environments, and now supports tuples and structs in external function arguments.
- Cosmos shares what they discussed in a recent AMA and all the new things coming to the Cosmos Hub!
- The Electric Coin Company releases v4.5.1 which include all necessary ZIPs for the Network Upgrade 5. NU5 will activate on testnet at block height 1,590,000. A subsequent release will come soon that will add support for generating and using Unified Addresses.
- Connext shares that NXTP is officially live on mainnet with support for Arbitrum, Polygon, xDai, Fantom, and Binance Smart Chain!
- Shell Protocol has released details on their V2 roadmap.
- Lobby Wiki launches which aims to be the Wikipedia for Web3!
- AlchemyNFT’s AutographNFT is now live on Polygon!
- The e-Money mainnet upgrade is now complete, enabling an IBC bridge between e-Money, Cosmos Hub, and Osmosis.
- The Osmosis v3 Berylium upgrade has been completed!
- With Twitter rolling out Bitcoin tipping via Strike API, they now have an awesome educational screen to teach users the difference between custodial and non-custodial wallets!
- Mercurial Fi announces a collaboration with Wormhole to set up Solana’s first 4Pool for wrapped wormhole tokens, allowing swaps to happen between all major ETH stablecoins.
- Vauld has now listed Monero and Zcash.
- The Zcash Foundation publishes their Q1 2021 Report!
- Beam releases their latest update including the completion of their full security audit of the Beam DAO contract!
- Fei Protocol has utilized G-UNI for their liquidity mining program.
- Wrapped has selected Chainlink for additional transparency into wrapped assets.
- Stellar releases their stance on why Stellar is most relevant to CBDCs.
- Matcha launches Gasless Trading via an open beta for users to trade on Ethereum without using gas.
Mainstream Recap:
- Jack Mallers announces the Strike API which has been integrated into Twitter to provide free, instant, global payments for their uses on iOS via tips on the Lightning Network!
- BitMEX announces two new grantees on their no strings attached Bitcoin developer grant program. Rene Pickhardt and Chris Coverdale have each been provided an eight month grant, $33,333 USD of committed funding each until May, 2022.
- Nicholas A. Bax publishes the tracing of WannaCry 2.0 through Monero transactions.
- Bloomberg features Flashbots and their impact on the crypto ecosystem.
- Coinbase shares that they will be rolling out the ability for customers in the US to deposit their paycheck into Coinbase to more easily make regular crypto trades, spend on Coinbase Card, earn crypto rewards and more!
- CoinDesk shares why Civic Technologies is building DeFi identity tools through their Civic Pass on Solana.
- The Wall Street Journal shares that Robinhood’s crypto unit has now hired a new Chief Compliance Officer, Benjamin Melnicki, who was recently Chief Compliance officer at Grayscale Investments LLC.
- Coinbase announces that as of September 24th, 2021 when they launch new assets on the Coinbase Exchange - they will be using a price auction to help price discovery.
- Fortune shares that AMC will let customers pay in Ethereum and Litecoin by the end of the year.
- Dan Finlay of MetaMask shares info on the recent rise of phishing attacks and airdrop scams!
- Immutable X’s token sale on CoinList sold out in under an hour, raising more than $12.5M.
- DeversiFi claims the crazy ETH transaction with $22M in fees on September 27th, 2021. Plus, they got the fees returned from the miner!
- Avantgarde Finance announces the close of their $5.5M Series A led by Blockchange Ventures along with a network of strategic investors including Placeholder VC, Jump Capital, Collaborative Fund, Acrew Capital, and Coinshares.
- Antonio Juliano, Founder of dYdX shares how on September 26, 2021 dYdX traded more in volume than Coinbase for the first time ever. This comes 5 years after Antonio left Coinbase.
- Angle Labs, a startup focused on offering stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies such as the Euro has raised $5M in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
- Securitize has launched a secondary marketplace for trading tokenized shares of private companies under a subsidiary called Securitize Markets.
This Week’s Cup of Coffee:
This week, we are headed to Bentonville, AR for a cup of Buffalo Blend from Airship Coffee. This two-part blend made from a washed coffee from Guatemala and sun-dried natural from El Salvador yields flavors of vanilla, brown sugar, and hints of caramel! Sip up and enjoy!!
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