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

✨ New Year, New EthHub Weekly

Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to the EthHub newsletter (the last one went out a few weeks ago)! I took a break during the holiday period as I was moving into my new place and I assumed that there wouldn’t be many new things to cover over Christmas/New Years. Eric and I will be back for the weekly podcast from next week!

There’s also some changes with the newsletter this year - the ‘News of the Week’ section has been removed as I felt it was redundant and I’ve collapsed the ‘Project Updates’ section into various categories with just links to each update as I felt this was a better way to digest the information.

A couple of weeks ago I was on a Bankless panel with DCInvestor, Cyrus Younessi, David Hoffman and Ryan Sean Adams discussing the bull case for ETH (part 3!) - check that out here.

Finally, the Ethereum.org team is looking for a Product Designer - if that’s something you’re interested in doing then head here to check out the role.

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• Announcing the Client Incentive Program

• Announcing the Kintsugi Merge Testnet

• What’s New in Eth2 - 17 December 2021

• EF-Supported Teams: Research & Development Roundup

• Announcing the ETHGlobal 2022 Season

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• Optimism removes their whitelist from the network

• Phonon DAO Launch: Overview, Resources, and PHONON Token Details

• Across Bridge Now Supports L1 → L2 Transfers

• Introducing: L2 Counterfactual Wallet and FIAT on-ramps

• Polygon Launches Bridge Explorer

• Polygon Nightfall moves to Ropsten testnet

• ConsenSys and Mastercard team up to build rollups

• Aztec Network Raises $17 million Series A

• Immutable and MoonPay team up to offer fiat on/off ramps to Immutable X

DeFi

• Uniswap v3 Live on Polygon PoS

• ARC: Deploying Aave on StarkNet

• Aelin Protocol Launch

• Fei v2 is Now Live

• Aave Boosted Pools now live with Balancer

• Introducing Optimistic Grants & Rewards

• Newt - the experiments arm of Aave, introduced

• Introducing the Hashflow Token

• Hashflow Public Pools announced

• L2 Scaling is Coming to Element Finance Through Aztec Network

• Better pricing with Uniswap v2 support in the auto router announced

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• 2021: A Great Year for Zapper

• Nansen raises $75 million Series B

• Superfluid to deploy to Optimism and Arbitrum

• Sign-In with Ethereum - December Updates

• Tornado Cash Introduces Arbitrary Amounts & Shielded Transfers

• Tutela, an open-source tool to help Ethereum users check their on-chain privacy, announced

DAOs

• Zodiac Bridge Module detailed

• $CLUB Introduced

Misc

• Announcing the Protocol Guild

• Alexis Ohanian and Polygon will invest $200M in decentralized social media

• Sell NFTs on Shopify

• Ethereum energy consumption page

Interesting Tweets

• A breakdown of what different zk terms mean

• Value accrual dynamics of different layers

• High level overview of recursive zk proofs

• Linda’s beginner’s guides on DeFi, NFTs, DAOs and social tokens

• Step-by-step look at what happens behind the scenes with ORU fraud proofs

• An overview of the POAP ecosystem

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• Make Software, Not Forks - The Daily Gwei

• Regens and Degens - The Daily Gwei

• The Mirrortable - Balaji Srinivasan

• Has EIP-1559 Fulfilled Its Objectives? - Pintail

• Fractal Scaling: From L2 to L3 - StarkWare

• Optimistic Rollups: The Present and Future of Ethereum Scaling - Offchain Labs

• A Glimpse of the Deep: Finding a Creature in Ethereum's Dark Forest - Robert Miller

Podcasts

• The Bull Case For ETH III | Anthony Sassano, DC Investor, Cyrus Younessi - Bankless

• Hasu gets STARK-pilled - with Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare) - Uncommon Core

Misc

• New sharding design with tight beacon and shard block integration

• A zk-evm specification

Meme of the Week

0xngmi @0xngmi

lmao checked vitalik's reddit account and he's out there commenting on memes of himself

January 1st 2022

40 Retweets842 Likes

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