Crypto && Coffee 108
- 4 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Murch shares that Coinbase doesn’t see adding bech32m support as a priority at current times.
Ethereum:
- The Go Ethereum team releases Geth v1.10.15, Faryar! This release resolves a few regressions introduced by the previous release and fixes some P2P issues.
- Vitalik Buterin publishes an article which proposes an alternative solution for EVM capacity with Multidimensional EIP-1559.
- Last week was the first AllCoreDevs call of the new year with focus on The Merge, Shanghai, and the Kintsugi devnet.
- Vitalik shares his argument on why the future will be “multi-chain” and not “cross-chain”.
- Erigon published their first release of 2022, via v2022.01.01-beta which fixes a debug RPC call, removes noise in the logs for incorrect RLP messages, and more!
Other Chains:
- Polygon Zero, the zero-knowledge scaling technology from Polygon, releases Plonky2, a new proof system and major milestone for ZK cryptography. Plonky2 combines both PLONK and FRI which has been in the works for a while now.
- Zaki Manian, co-Founder of Iqlusion Inc. and Sommelier, shares that the first release of LiquidStaking for the Cosmos Hub has now been published.
- Moonbeam is now live on Polkadot! Moonbeam is the first fully operational parachain on Polkadot which will bring new integrations, activity and users.
- StarkWare publishes an article on the computational richness of layer-2s and how they can now flourish free of traditional layer-1 gas restrictions.
- Monero announces GUI v0.17.3.1, Oxygen Orion, this fixes startup crashes on Apple Silicon and minor bug fixes and UI improvements.
- Solana publishes a stable release, v1.8.12, for Mainnet Beta which includes improvements to Executor cache performance, BigTable query reliability, support for native builds on Apple Silicon, and various stability/performance improvements.
- Blockstream shares their 2021 In Review with focus on all things Bitcoin.
- Matcha is now available on Optimism! Matcha will search all major DEXs on Optimism to find the best prices for tokens, and even split trades across multiple liquidity sources.
- The Gnosis Protocol team is rebranding to CoW Protocol.
- Kyber Network shares how DMM is now KyberSwap and that it’s multi-chain, with capabilities to swap on Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, Avalanche, Fantom, Cronos and soon on Aurora.
- INJ yield farming is now live on Solana! Injective shares how users can earn a projected 20% APY on INJ using the wINJ Covered Call vault on the exclusive Katana protocol.
- Lido Finance joins Flashbots eth2 working group.
- Cartel conducts a strategic acquisition of the bribe facilitators for Tokemak reactors, Votemak. This acquisition will be overseen by elected community members of the cartel, LiquidityWizard of Tokemak, and the core-team of Votemak, 0xTomoyo, DCF Intern, 0xMattyb, and DCFGOD.
- Katana announces a new treasury management partnership with Injective Labs. Katana will act as their destination for treasury management and more.
- The Bibliotheca and Realms team share a 5 ETH grant from StarkWare to build an ERC-1155 AMM inspired by NiftySwap.
- Goldfinch Protocol releases the GFI token! The token has been deployed and the protocol is now governed by the community via the Goldfinch Council.
- Angle Protocol shares that their smart contracts have been audited and focus is now turned towards their full upgrade timeline.
- Archway shares how to build your first Archway dApp with cosmwasm contracts.
Mainstream Recap:
- Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal and backer of MobileCoin writes some notes summarizing his first impressions of web3.
- Jack Dorsey announces the Bitcoin Legal Defense Club via the bitcoin-dev mailing list.
- CashApp starts rolling out Lightning Network support to its users!
- Strike announces that they have now launched Bitcoin lightning services in Argentina!
- Bitcoin Suisse AG hired Dirk Klee, the Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Plc’s U.K. Wealth Management & Investments business, as its new CEO.
- Fidelity Investments Canada, the country’s first regulated institutional bitcoin custodian, has added a bitcoin allocation to two of its All-in-One exchange-traded funds.
- Goldfinch announces an additional $25M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto). Goldfinch’s focus is unlocking an entirely new level of borrower capacity.
- Bitso enters into a three-year sponsorship agreement with Brazilian football club, São Paulo Futebol Clube (SPFC), which will enable payment by cryptocurrency for tickets and merchandise in six months.
- Citadel Securities, a leading global market maker, announced that Sequoia and Paradigm have made a $1.15B minority investment in the firm.
- Arbitrum, one of the top layer-2 protocols aiming to scale Ethereum, went down on January 9th for over 6 hours due to a Sequencer issue. Read the full post mortem here and be aware of which protocols are controlled/centralized vs. decentralized.
- Hester Pierce, SEC Commissioner, shares the SafeHarbor-X GitHub repo mentioning the importance around creative thinking on what a crypto safe harbor could be.
- Golden State Warriors SG, Klay Thompson, announces that he will take part of his paycheck in bitcoin via CashApp. In addition, he will be giving out $1M in BTC with Andre Iguodala!
This Week’s Cup of Coffee:
This week, we are headed to Denver, CO for a cup of Four Leftys from Novo Coffee. This house blend yields flavors of nutty dark chocolate with a full body and solid notes to start your day off! Sip up and enjoy!!
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