Crypto && Coffee 107
- 5 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Check out this fun gist on reusable Taproot addresses!
- BlueWallet publishes their supported wallet types ranging from Multi-sig vaults to legacy and the addition of Wrapped Segwit + Lightning.
- Bitcoin Core PR #23789 addresses a privacy concern that early Taproot adopters’ change outputs can easily be identified when they pay legacy addresses.
Litecoin:
- Litecoin v0.21.1rc1 includes Taproot and is now available for testing.
- David Burkett releases his December 2021 update on MWEB integration! The final MWEB reviews are now scheduled and we are looking for a January release!
Ethereum:
- The Ethereum Foundation releases a full roundup from their Research and Development teams on everything covered over the past year!
Other Chains:
- Uniswap announces that v3 was deployed on Polygon on December 22nd, 2021!
- Cosmos shares what is coming in 2022 including but not limited to Interchain Security, Interchain Accounts via the Theta upgrade in Q1, Liquid Staking, and more!
- Aave Arc, a permissioned version of Aave, has launched today with Fireblocks becoming the first whitelister.
- Evmos’ ERC-20 Module is introduced! This module allows users to instantly convert ERC-20 tokens into native Cosmos coins and visa versa. This will enable users to exchange assets interchangeably in two entirely different environments, the EVM and Cosmos.
- Slingshot is now available on Optimism! Slingshot includes positive slippage, real-time charts for every token, and full DEX liquidity.
- Across Protocol now supports round-trip bridging with integrations of Optimism, Arbitrum, and Boba Network.
- Gnosis Safe has officially deployed to Optimism!
- The Electric Coin Company releases v4.6.0 of zcashd. Zcashd nodes will reach End of Service on or around January 10th, 2022 - prior to that time all testnet and mainnet nodes should upgrade to v4.6.0 or later.
- BeInCrypto shares a post discussing layer-3 developments and the work that StarkWare is doing to push the boundaries on hyper-scaling Ethereum.
- Ren provides a full development Year in Review featuring relative information on what they will be working on in 2022.
- Matcha announces that liquidity from Uniswap v3 on Polygon is now available.
- Stani Kulechov of Aave shares that Aave is building a mobile wallet!
- Moxie Marlinspike, notable for Signal and contributions to MobileCoin, releases another NFT and dApp focused around autonomous art.
- Foundry, a portable and modular toolkit for Ethereum development, now supports structured call traces.
- Larva Labs announces a new open-source, community-driven interface to the decentralized Cryptopunks market.
- ZigZag Exchange adds their market maker addresses to their docs, which as of December 24th, 2021 has roughly $13.4M in liquidity.
- Anish Agnihotri of Paradigm publishes a full merkle-airdrop-starter to make airdrops easier for everyone.
- Bored Breakfast Club shares how their NFT unlocks coffee for life!
- Amber Group publishes an article diving deeper into ZK technology and the use of rollups.
- View the ranking of all tokens on Cosmos and how together they are contributing to the shared interop economy of $75B USD.
- Phantom shares how Phantom and the Solana ecosystem has grown dramatically over the past few months. In just 9 months, Phantom has grown to over 1.8M monthly active users!
- Cosmos-based Juno Network shares stats on their layer-1 network with ~52,318 JUNO addresses, 39+ dApps, 405M market cap, with 104% APR JUNO staking!
- Across Protocol has enabled deposits to be integrated into Zerion.
- Tempus Finance announces that Tempus is launching governance on January 10th, 2022. TEMP holders will be able to discuss the future of the protocol and how Treasury Funds should be spent.
- Tezos announces $200K in prizes for the Gitcoin Tezos hackathon.
- Vesq, a decentralized reserve currency that remains unbound by a peg on Polygon, has purchased 2,065,433 Dai worth of OHM from Olympus DAO and wrapped it to gOHM for their treasury.
Mainstream Recap:
- Banca Generali, an Italian bank with ~$87B in assets, will reportedly integrate Bitcoin into its platform early this year!
- El Salvador’s government will send roughly twenty bills covering financial markets and investment in securities to provide a legal foundation for issuing bitcoin bonds.
- Review Blockchain Research Institute’s report on Cosmos vs. Polkadot!
- The Human Rights Foundation has announced its latest round of Bitcoin grants, a total of 4.25 BTC which will be gifted to developers, educators, and activists working to improve the Bitcoin ecosystem.
- Goldman Sachs estimates that Bitcoin’s float-adjusted market capitalization is just under $700B and if its store of value were to rise 50% over the next five years, its price would increase just over $100K.
- BTCS Inc. shares were up 32% this morning after the company said it would become the first-ever Nasdaq-listed company to pay its dividend in Bitcoin.
- OpenSea raises $300M in a Series C funding at a $13.3B post money valuation. Paradigm and Coatue led the round with participation from new and existing investors.
- Fold shares that next-day ACH funding has begun rolling out to various users.
- ZEC is now available on OkCoin!
- Binance is called out on Twitter and StackExchange as a user’s withdrawal was processed but sent to the wrong address due to Binance not fully supporting Taproot as previously mentioned.
This Week’s Cup of Coffee:
This week, we are staying local and grabbing a cup of Farmhouse from Zolo Coffee Roasters in Alamo, CA. Farmhouse is a blend of Sumatran and Central/South American washed coffees to endure the full breadth of a solid dark roast. This roast yields flavors of semi-sweet chocolate and hints of hazelnut. Sip up and Happy New Year!!
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