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This Week In #Ethereum is out! - CFTC declares ETH as a commodity - PayPal partners with MetaMask - Optimism hits ATH in daily txns - ETH inflation has been 872x less than BTC since the Merge + more cryptogucci.substack.com/p/this-week-in

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Prayers up for Damar Hamlin 🙏 Stop what you’re doing and please pray for this young man! twitter.com/ABsneurosurgeo

Dec 26, 2022

Hey frens, I’m going to spend some time with my family the rest of the week. I’ll be back next week with my usual ETH updates.

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Optimism’s Goerli Testnet is Migrating to Bedrock

Dec 26, 2022

Merry Christmas frens! Christ our Savior is born!!

On Jan. 12, Optimism’s Goerli Testnet is migrating to Bedrock! Most users & apps won’t be impacted by the upgrade, and we’re working with node operators to ensure a smooth migration. Check the blog post for full details; read on for hype👇

dev.optimism.io

After a year of intense research and development, Optimism has built the cheapest, fastest, most minimal codebase for an Ethereum-equivalent rollup, ever. We plan to bring this game-changing archit...

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Presenting: Zero Knowledge Proofs and the Metaverse by

@ElanNadav

How ZKPs will bring Truth to our digital future medium.com/@ingonyama/zer #zeroknowledge #Metaverse #Web3 #Metaphysics #Truth

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Zero Knowledge Proofs and the Metaverse

🔮 Today in Layer 2 Ethereum 🔮 -

@optimismFND

Goerli migrating to Bedrock 🔴 -

@StarkWareLtd

publish new blog post 👀 -

@0xPolygon

upgraded testnet 🤩 🧵👇

The past 48 hours in #Ethereum, a quick thread🧵

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Ethereum number of addresses holding 0.01+ ETH just hit a 4-month high 📈

Cashtags on Twitter now show charts and data when searching 🔥

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releases Layer 2 Landscape #45

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@bitsplaining

Layer 2 Landscape #45

---------------------------------------- (1/20) Hello

! Are you still here or off on holiday? #Ethereum #L222 never sleeps, so here's your final thread about it for the year!

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releases How I used GitHub, Fleek, and Heavens Tools to create a decentralized website on an ENS name

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dr3a.eth

@dr3a_eth

How I used GitHub, Fleek, and Heavens Tools to create a decentralized website on an ENS name

Note: If I can do this anyone can

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24/ Taiko releases blog post on Rollup Decentralization

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Taiko

@taikoxyz

We wrote a blog post on rollup decentralization. We cover what it means, why it's important, and an overview of what it takes to get there. mirror.xyz/labs.taiko.eth A summary of the main points in thread

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23/ Stader releases Ethereum's Differential Slashing Mechanism

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Stader Ethereum

@staderlabs_eth

ETH's slashing mechanism is designed to penalize validators based on the scale & timing of the event. Whether it’s just an isolated incident, Or part of a larger attack on the network— It is designed to protect the network & discourage bad actors. Here's how it works.

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22/ Pods raises $5.6M in seed funding

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Pods

@PodsFinance

We are thrilled to announce that Pods has raised $5.6MM in seed funding

This round funds the team's mission to establish frictionless structured products for crypto assets. Read more about it here

blog.pods.finance/pods-raises-5- 1/

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21/ Orb's public beta is now available on iOS and Android for all

@LensProtocol

users

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orb

@orbwagmi

Holiday gift

Orb's public beta is now available to download on iOS and Android for all @LensProtocol users; no waitlist anymore. Just visit orb.ac to get started and try out the app. Happy holidays from the Orb team!

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releases Ethereum NFT Aggregators dashboard

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hildobby

@hildobby_

Despite Ethereum NFT marketplace aggregators' wild past year, it's hard to find good freely available stats for them, introducing 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗡𝗙𝗧 𝗔𝗴𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀

Dashboard

dune.hildobby.xyz/NFT-Aggregators

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releases How to Onramp to Crypto without a CEX

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Bankless

@BanklessHQ

DYK that you can onboard to crypto without a CEX? @WPeaster shows us how with a guide to taking up crypto

without

getting into bed with central exchanges

Full read

newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/how-to-onram

18/ Active core developers and daily active users are trending up on Optimism

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Token Terminal

@tokenterminal

Active core developers & daily active users trending

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17/ Polygon's year-in-review video is out twitter.com/Fwiz/status/16

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16/ Optimism releases 2022 Year in Review

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sup nerds! As we bid adieu to ‘22, we thought we'd take a look back at another prolific year of Optimism. So pour yourself a mug of your favorite hot beverage and let's review 2022 at Optimism together.

optimism.mirror.xyz/O8DesNLJ5HXD6C

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15/ ETHGlobal announces the 2023 ETHGlobal hackathon season

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ETHGlobal

@ETHGlobal

Finally. We're announcing

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻

Thanks for an incredible 2022. We know that 2023 will be a massive year for our community. ethglobal.medium.com/announcing-the

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Ryan Berckmans - ryanb.eth

14/ The ETH flippening ratio continues to look good

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@ryanberckmans

Decrypt’s 2022 Crypto Project of the Year: Polygon - Decrypt

Progress towards the flippening is looking good. The ratio has never done so well in a bear market

13/ Decrypt's 2022 Crypto Project of the Year is Polygon

decrypt.co

Mainstream brands like Starbucks, Reddit, and Instagram are adopting Polygon, and the Ethereum scaler is building for even broader adoption.

12/ Mercedes files NFT trademark applications

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Mike Kondoudis

@KondoudisLaw

#MercedesBenz has filed trademark applications for:

Mercedes Benz

Mercedes

S-Class

G-Class

Maybach claiming plans for:

NFTs

Virtual clothing + goods

Financial services

Cryptocurrency trading ...and much more! #NFT #Metaverse #Crypto #Finance #Web3

11/ Polygon flips BSC in daily transactions

10/ MetaMask Swaps adds support for Arbitrum

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MetaMask

@MetaMask

You can also do swaps on @arbitrum from the comfort of your

wallet

Connect to Arbitrum (click on the network dropdown at the top → click “Add network” → you’ll find it listed under popular networks, click “Add”) and then click the Swap button. Easy

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9/ Zero Day Labs breaks down Visa's proposal for an atomatic payments system on Ethereum

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Zero Day Labs

@zdlabs

Huge news to the L2 Ecosystem: @Visa is proposing an automatic payments system on #Ethereum using @StarkNetEco! Let's break it down to understand how would that work

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8/ Ethereum L1 + L2 processed over 152M transactions, 58% of which happened on L2

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L2BEAT

@l2beat

The last two months have been special for #Layer2 in terms of activity. Both layers of Ethereum processed a total of over 152 million transactions, 58% of which happened on L2. @arbitrum and @optimismFND combined are also becoming close to flipping Layer 1 daily transactions.

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7/ Ethereum balance on exchanges hits a 4 year low

6/ You can now buy crypto with your credit card or bank transfer on the Uniswap Web App

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Uniswap Labs

@Uniswap

UBS Launches Tokenized Bonds for APAC Wealth Clients

DEXs are the safest way to trade digital assets and we’ve made it easy and cheap to onboard directly to your self-custodied wallet with no intermediaries. Buy crypto with your card or bank transfer on the Uniswap Web App!

5/ UBS Wealth Management launches tokenized bonds for APAC Wealth Clients This marks the first time that uncertificated securities on a blockchain have been constituted under English & Swiss law, and tokenized on a permissioned Ethereum-based blockchain

finews.com

For the first time ever, UBS has issued tokenized bonds for wealthy clients in Asia Pacific involving multiple jurisdictions.

4/ Ethereum is poised to outshine Bitcoin per Bloomberg

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Mike McGlone

@mikemcglone11

Bitcoin crosses series; Ethereum may be top candidate to continue outperforming the first born crypto - #Ethereum's advances vs. #Bitcoin have been unshaken by 2022 deflation in most risk assets and may be gaining underpinnings.

says Ethereum is poised to be the asset of 2023. If you look at developers building on networks, Ethereum has run away with it

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2/ The CEO of Paxful removes ETH from their marketplace, but still offers stablecoin trading while paying ETH fees/burning ETH on every single transfer

1/ Stablecoin Total Value Settled is at ATHs and surpassed every major credit card company in 2022 except Visa, which is on pace to be surpassed in the next year

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@TheChicagoVC

1/ Last year, stablecoins settled >$7tn on-chain. Current run-rate is ~$9tn/yr. This is significantly more than Mastercard (~$2.2tn), Amex (~$1tn), and Discover (<$200bn). In 2023, on-chain stablecoin volumes will surpass the largest card network, Visa, which processes ~$12tn/yr.

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