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

🤔 Personality Cults

Well, this week we saw the fallout of yet another “personality cult” known as the ‘Frog Nation’ which was led by Daniele Sesta and involved projects such as Wonderland and Abracadabra. Personally, I think that personality cults can be very damaging because people tend tie their investments to a personality and deify that individual which just inevitably leads to ruin once their investment falters. Anyway, I wrote more about this here so go give it a read!

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• AllCoreDevs Update 009

• What’s New in Eth2 - 28 January 2022

• The Great Eth2 Renaming

• Clientdiversity.org Announced

• New ‘Running a Node’ Page on Ethereum.org

• Rocket Pool Update

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• zkSync Community Update - January 2022

• Arbitrum Transaction Fees Lowered

• Polygon to Deploy $15 Million for Polygon Native Apps

• Immutable X and Stardust Team Up

• Introducing The Modular Interoperability Stack

DeFi

• Aave v3 Live on Testnets

• Galleon DAO Announces Seed Raise

• Rari Capital Fuse Now on Arbitrum

• Alkimiya Protocol Revealed

• Dopex Launches Alchemix Options Markets

• Hashflow Now Live on Polygon

• Tribe Turbo Announced

• Synthetix Layer 2 Roadmap

• Introducing Tracer Perpetual Pools V2

• PALM: Protocol-owned Active Liquidity Management

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• Rainbow for Android Released

• Ethereum ZK-Proofs for Airdrops

• Etherscan Releases Chat Client

NFTs

• Oasis Announced

• Introducing Reservoir

• Constant Rate Issuance Sales Protocol (CRISP) Detailed

DAOs

• Web3 Investment Clubs Introduced

Misc

• Ethereum-cryptography 1.0 released

• Diem to Sell Assets to Silvergate Bank for $200M

Interesting Tweets

• Data availability and its importance

• Authority in sidechains and rollups

• Some thoughts and predictions on the future death of alt-L1s

• Rollups scale more than just compute

• Danksharding explained

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• Decentralization Matters - The Daily Gwei

• The Layer 2 Wars - The Daily Gwei

• Soulbound - Vitalik Buterin

• Separating the Monolith - Pseudotheos

• Why Layer 2s Are the Future - Polynya

• Layer 2: Bridges, Tokens and Fungibility - Sam MacPherson

• Scalability & The Modular Blockchain Stack - Plaintext Capital

• What Shared Security Means and Why It’s Important - Vitalik Buterin

• A List of Open Problems in DeFi - Emperor

Podcasts

• Leaving Proof-of-Work - Compass Mining

• Blockchains are Cities | Haseeb Qureshi - Bankless

Misc

• Check out how much you’ve saved by using layer 2’s

• Tim Roughgarden’s 1st blockchain lecture

• Layer 2 news website

• Paths toward single-slot finality

Meme of the Week

Steve Dakh @stevedakh

Layer one. Layer two.

January 19th 2022

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