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

⚔️ PvP vs PvE

PvP and PvE - if you’re a gamer you know what these terms mean - but for everyone else: they stand for Player vs Player and Player vs Environment respectively. You may have seen many people in the crypto ecosystem referencing these concepts over the last year or so to describe crypto market conditions but may be confused as to what they team - well in this piece I break it all down!

Be sure to check out the podcast I did with Matt Leising where we discussed all things not Ethereum (for once)!

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• What’s New in Eth2 - 11 February 2022

• Kiln milestone tracker released

• Nomic Labs to become Nomic Foundation

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• Polygon raises $450 million

• Optimism patches critical bug and pays out $2mil bounty

• New consensus mechanism for zk-rollups from Polygon Hermez

• Starkware reflects on 1 year of Starknet

• Movr Network is now Socket

• Urbit launches a rollup

DeFi

• Vesta Finance now live

• Element Finance introduces Voting Vaults

• Strips Finance launches on Arbitrum

• BarnBridge launches SMART Alpha Pools on Optimism

• Swivel Finance now live

• Set Protocol integrates with Perpetual Protocol

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• Argent and LayerSwap partner up

• Alchemy raises $200 million

• Lens Protocol detailed

NFTs

• Introducing racOS v0.1

• Sup raises $12 million seed round

• SO-COL raises $1.75 million

DAOs

• Strider raises $3 million

• Sismo Discord now open to all

Misc

• L2fees.info updated to show how much fees layer 2’s pay to Ethereum

• Mirror deploys first L2 contracts

• Polygon Academy now live

• Dune Analytics launches Wizard Grants Program

Interesting Tweets

• Some thoughts on rollups from polynya

• Mega thread on StarkWare

• Bartek’s thread on bridges

• Deep dive on the Starknet ecosystem

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• PvP vs PvE - The Daily Gwei

• Squashing Bugs - The Daily Gwei

• Client Diversity on Ethereum’s Consensus Layer - jmcook.eth

• The Market Cap of the Ethereum Ecosystem - brunny.eth

• What L222 Means For The Ethereum Ecosystem - Megan Dias and Dominik Schmid via ConsenSys Blog

Podcasts

• Will MetaMask Drop a Token? Breaking Down the Biggest Wallet Merge Ever - Bankless

• Gitcoin: Building and Funding the Open Web - Epicenter

• How Law Enforcement Tracked Down $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin - Unchained

Misc

• Kiln milestone tracker

• New client diversity website

• StarkWare crypto twitter list

Meme of the Week

CoinMamba @coinmamba

Lmao

February 9th 2022

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