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

😢 Is It All Over?

That’s the question on everyone’s mind this week - is the bull market really over? To be honest, based on my past experiences, I would have to say that the bull market has been over for a few months now and will probably not return for a while. The markets got too frothy, retail investors have now lost a lot of money, the macro environment is really shaky, overall investor sentiment is quite bad and it just generally feels very bearish. Of course, nothing has changed fundamentally for Ethereum and I remain very bullish for the long-term, but short to medium term markets aren’t looking hot right now.

But we Ethereans will continue to do what we do best during this bear market - build!

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• Ethereum Cat Herders Celebrates 3rd Anniversary

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• StarkNet Alpha 0.7.0

• StarkNet Roundup #1

• Vector 0.1.0 Mainnet Release

• First Major Release of Warp

• Phonon Protocol Vision (part 3): Native Phonons

DeFi

• Maple Finance Loans V2

• Themis Is Live On Mainnet

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• Introducing Snapshot X

• POAP inc. Raises $10M

• OpenSea Acquires Dharma

• The Graph Raises $50 Million

• Announcing CryptoStats: Community-Owned Data Metrics

• Offchain Resolution for ENS is Now Ready for Developers

NFTs

• Twitter Releases NFT Profile Pictures

• Introducing the NFT Security Group

• Coinbase and Mastercard Partner for NFT Purchases

• Gem, an NFT Aggregator, is Now Live

DAOs

• Announcing Drips

Misc

• Mirror Gets a New Look

Interesting Tweets

• Learning Solidity for non-beginners

• Spotlighting Arbitrum NFT projects

• Differences between layer 2 to layer 1 message passing

• Cyrus’ thread on OlympusDAO

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• Zoom Out - The Daily Gwei

• The Shared World - The Daily Gwei

• The Great Renaming: What Happened to Eth2? - Ethereum.org

• Hyperstructures - Jacob.eth

• zkSNARKs vs zkSTARKs: A Primer - Pseudotheos

• A Correct Model of Olympus DAO - 0xfbifemboy

• Flashbots Transparency Report - Xinyuan Sun via Flashbots

• ZK and the Future of Ethereum Scaling - Brendan Farmer via Polygon Blog

• Tackling the Staking Problem - Oisin Kyne via Obol Network

Podcasts

• Inflation, The Fed, & Macro Markets | Jim Bianco - Bankless

• Zodiac: The Expansion Pack for DAOs - Epicenter

Misc

• EVM Starter Kit

• Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation

Meme of the Week

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January 21st 2022

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