Curated by Anthony Sassano (@sassal0x) and Eric Conner (@econoar)

🌕 A Terrable Week

Well that was a completely insane week, wasn’t it? We had the full collapse of the Terra ecosystem (both LUNA and UST effectively went to 0) and the fallout from this was a market-wide sell-off. The craziest thing for me was that we actually saw a blockchain “die” as its security was compromised due to the fall in LUNA price and the chain was halted to prevent attacks. Anyway, I wrote more about this here - I hope none of you were effected by the fallout of this - but in some way we all were!

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• Latest allcoredevs notes

• Ropsten testnet merge happening June 8th

• Secured #4 with major bug bounty program

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• Optimism introduces Warp Speed bridge

• Kucoin now supports Optimism

• Polygon Nightfall to become first zk live on mainnet

DeFi

• Bancor 3 now live

• Slingshot mobile app announced

• dYdX mobile app now live

• Sushi live on Optimism

• Introducing The Tracer Voyage

• Element Finance open-sources research

• Compound Treasury Receives S&P Credit Rating

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• EY announces general availability of EY Blockchain Analyzer: Reconciler

• Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) announces support of Goerli Testnet for Ethereum

NFTs

• Instagram introduces NFTs

Misc

• Token-gated calls with Huddle01

• Cloudflare to experiment with Ethereum staking

Interesting Tweets

• A thread on stake centralization in Ethereum

• Thread on stETH/ETH depeg

• Is your bridge censorship-resistant?

• WTF is retroactive public goods funding?

• What DAO’s actually are

• Bear Market Survival Guide

• Thread on EIP4844 (danksharding)

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• The Protocol Guild - The Daily Gwei

• Max Pain - The Daily Gwei

• Migrating from Prysm to Nimbus - Somer Esat

• The Sustainability Checklist - Polynya

• Ethereum: A Generational Investment - Hal Press

• Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul - E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver and Vitalik Buterin

Podcasts

• The Merge - with Danny Ryan, Tim Beiko, and Hasu (Part 1) - Uncommon Core

• Dive into Danksharding | Vitalik, Dankrad, Protolambda, Moderated by Tim Beiko - Bankless

Meme of the Week

ETHey & BeTChy 🦇🔊 @ETHeyAndBeTChy

Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Flourishing and Focused on the #Ethereum merge. #ETH

May 16th 2022

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