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- 5 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Lightning Labs releases their December issue covering Lightning Terminal, Bitcoin Suisse, Exodus, OpenNode, and more!
- Okcoin dives into Taproot and takes a closer look at what Taproot does for Bitcoin as a whole for the further expansion into DeFi.
- MuSig2 has been merged into the secp256k1-zkp repo!
Ethereum:
- Tim Beiko announces the Kintsugi Merge Testnet! After four ephemeral devents, Kintsugi is now live. Dive deeper to learn how to interact with the network, use the faucet and experiment with the community.
- Ben Edgington shares the latest in eth2 with focus on Miga Lab’s official release of Ant Crawler for the Armiarma Beacon chain crawler, Kintsugi, syncing, and more!
- Erigon releases the last beta release of 2021 which includes gRPC health checks, the RPC Daemon is now part of the Docker compose, support for eth/65 p2p protocol has been removed, and more!
- Solidity v0.8.11 has been released! This adds the first implementation of a Language Server and allows a safer way to perform ABI-encoding.
Other Chains:
- Tornado Cash introduces Tornado Cash Nova, an upgraded Tornado Cash pool which presents unique features such as shielded transfers of deposited tokens while now allowing users to set their own amounts instead of fixed values.
- Optimism announces that the whitelist is now gone and anyone can deploy to the Optimism mainnet!
- As of December 19th, 2021 StarkEx has settled $300B in cumulative trading.
- Superfluid shares that they are coming to Optimism and Arbitrum to make digital asset streaming much more accessible to layer-2 networks/users.
- Energy Web announces their partnership with Parity to build the Energy Web Consortia Relay Chain in 2022. This is positioned as the first multi-chain network connected to Polkadot.
- DeversiFi successfully upgraded to StarkWare’s StarkEx v4!
- Composable Finance is expanding the capabilities of Mosaic by integrating StarkNet into their cross-layer asset transferal system! This integration will provide Mosaic users another layer-2 to utilize when making transfers.
- Rektdrop is announced, a genesis airdrop for Evmos. The focus is to provide support to long term users and participants of ATOM and OSMO.
- Emeris shares their upcoming major upgrades which will bring more value to the Interchain and more!
- DODO launches on Aurora to encompass all the benefits of NEAR Protocol and will use DODO as a “blue chip” DEX on NEAR.
- Element Finance announces that layer-2 scaling is coming to their platform via Aztec.
- Tezos shares how more people than ever are choosing to build on Tezos and points to their developer portal for easy integration support.
- Union Finance introduces the Union Protocol which is a credit network that enables any address to accumulate a credit line on-chain in a permissionless, crypto-native way.
- The Metaswap attacker who used Synapse was ultimately stopped by the community. As a result of the paused Metapools, a re-deploy was issued as V2 pools.
Mainstream Recap:
- ConsenSys announced the launch of ConsenSys Rollups, to provide enterprise-grade scalability to leading financial organizations via Quorum stack with help from Mastercard.
- Seven Seven Six announces their $200M joint initiative with Polygon to explore better ways for humans to virtually connect by backing web3 projects.
- The Senate of Paraguay passed a bill last week that regulates the mining and trading of cryptocurrencies.
- Switzerland’s SEBA Bank submits a proposal to Aave Governance to add SEBA as a whitelister on Aave Arc.
- Blockstream shares their official sponsorship of The Mempool Open Source Project to further develop the Liquid Network block explorer and preserve it as a free and open-source tool for the Bitcoin community.
- JP Morgan Chase has partnered with German industrial group Siemens to develop a blockchain for various payments across Siemens’ own accounts.
- Aztec Network shares that they have raised a $17M Series A led by Paradigm to bring programmable privacy to web3.
- Socean Finance announces a $5.75M seed round led by Dragonfly Capital. The round also had participation from CMS Holdings, Defiance Capital, Foundation Capital, Genblock Capital, Infinite Capital, Jump Capital, Marin Digital Ventures, MGNR, Ratio, ROK Capital, Sequoia India, Solana Ventures, and Valhalla Capital.
- Multichain, previously Anyswap, raises a $60M round at $1.2B valuation led by Binance Labs with participation from Sequoia China, IDG Capital, Three Arrows Capital, DeFiance Capital, Circle Ventures, Tron Foundation, Hypersphere Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Magic Ventures, and HashKey.
- Gelato Network shares the full post mortem on the Sorbet Finance vulnerability which resulted in the community rescuing back $27M from an attacker.
- Kevin Durant shares that Boardroom and 35 Ventures are partnering with Coinbase on content and education around crypto.
- The “U Up?” Interview series turns to Samczsun to chat bug hunting, smart contract auditing, and more!
- Check out this article on how someone got compromised and how to mitigate certain actions.
- Bitfinex shares that DeversiFi (DVF) will be listed!
- Figment announces their $110M Series C round with focus on a multi-chain web3 with focus on Proof-of-Stake.
This Week’s Cup of Coffee:
This week, we are headed to Grand Rapids, MI for a cup of Winter Solstice from Madcap Coffee! This blended roast yields flavors of dark chocolate with hints of cranberry. A great addition to Christmas morning as everyone gathers around. Sip up and Happy Holidays!!
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