Crypto && Coffee 102
- 2 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Taproot finally activated this past weekend at block height 709632!! With the upgrade, very few exchanges are actually supporting P2TR outputs at the moment. One of the first to support however was BitGo which is actually used and integrated into many services.
- Binance, which also runs miners, is currently not including P2TR transactions into their mined blocks. This can be viewed when looking at the missing transactions list from MiningPool.
Ethereum:
- The latest AllCoreDevs call covered all things for Arrow Glacier which is coming on block 13773000 around December 8th, 2021 as well as Kintsugi for Merge devnets.
- Erigon releases their latest Beta version with various bug fixes for RPC Daemon, default limits and more!
Other Chains:
- MetaMask v10.5.1 includes support for the latest Optimism fee scheme and is now live on Chrome and Firefox.
- Developers can now manage their StarkNet deployments through Nile. Nile just released v0.2.0 which includes Cairo v0.5.0 support, and a full suite of deploy and invoke commands.
- Uniswap shares that 0.01% fee tier pools have now been added!
- Copper announces that it will be integrating and going live with Polygon on November 22nd, 2021.
- The Zcash Foundation releases their Q3 2021 Transparency Report.
- Mellow Protocol shares their design of permissionless Vaults and more!
- Blocknative shows the impact on Ethereum gas fees during major NFT launch events.
- MetaMask has partnered with Ledger to improve it’s user experience that so many have been dealing with for ages.
- Director of Operations at ENS demos an implementation of the Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE) standard that anyone can now try out!
- Check out how FIAT DAO incentivized staking works and the impact it has on the Age of Romulus NFT drop!
- Spruce releases the Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE) library with a full list of examples!
- Paradigm sets up a new faucet for users to bootstrap their testnet wallets!
- CowSwap users are now also eligible for the ParaSwap airdrop.
- zkSync shares that Blockchain.com Ventures is now a strategic partner with Matter Labs and that Blockchain.com plans to leverage zkSync to scale their platform.
Mainstream Recap:
- Gallery announces their $2.69M round which will help them build the curation and social layer for NFTs.
- Jimmy Fallon joins the BoredApeYachtClub!
- Staples Center in Los Angeles is being renamed to Crypto.com Arena after a 20-yr deal was made between the exchange and AEG.
This Week’s Cup of Coffee:
This week, we are heading to Antioch, TN for a cup of Deck the Halls from Good Citizen Coffee Co.. This blended roast yields flavors of milk chocolate and hints of warm fig. Sip up and enjoy getting into the holiday spirit!!
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