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

😔 This Crazy World

It’s kinda crazy that since the last time I put out this newsletter (just a week ago), a new war has started between Russia and Ukraine. Along with the war came plenty of second-order effects including harsh financial sanctions on Russia which has got people talking about how this all effects crypto and how governments would react if Russia started using crypto rails to get around sanctions. Of course, I’m no geopolitical expert, but I do find the discussions that I’m reading to be quite fascinating and thought-provoking.

I hope that this war is ended swiftly via peaceful means - I personally stand with Ukraine in all of this.

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• What’s New in Eth2 - 25 February 2022

• Eth2 renaming blog post translated into 10 more languages

• Grantee Roundup: January 2022 - Japan Local Grants Edition

• Ethereum.org adds page on blockchain bridges

• EF ESP gets a brand new website

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• zkSync’s zkEVM testnet is now live

• StarkNet decentralization: Kicking off the discussion

• Immutable X marketplaces can now set their own custom fees

DeFi

• DeversiFi and Opera team up

• Lyra partners with Hop Protocol

• Yearn launches on Arbitrum

• Hegic HardCore Beta Release

• Vote to add a gauge to wstETH-rETH pool

• MuteSwitch launched on zkSync 2.0 testnet

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• Obol Proto Community launched

• Moloch v3 launched

• Introducing Astrodrop Shrines

• Polygon launches Finity

NFTs

• OpenSea completes contract upgrade

DAOs

• A Sneak Peak into DAOhaus v3

Misc

• MEV-Explore v1 is live

Interesting Tweets

• Optimistic rollups vs zkRollups

• Coinbase Cloud on eth2 client diversity

• Cool new apps on Arbitrum

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• Neutrality is Neutrality - The Daily Gwei

• Pooling Our Resources - The Daily Gwei

• The Endgame Bottleneck: Historical Storage - Polynya

• Understanding Rollup Economics From First Principles - Barnabe Monnot

• Why Sign-In with Ethereum is a Game-Changer: Part 1 - Rocco

• How to Stake on Ethereum, March 2022 Edition - Superphiz

• Immutable X Protocol Orderbook: Solving Order Fragmentation - Immutable X

• ETHDenver: Rollup Recap - Optimism PBC

• ZKVerse: Why Zero Knowledge Rollups Need a New Consensus Mechanism - Polygon Team

• Arbitrum: A Deep Dive into the Layer 2 Scaling Solution and its Fascinating Ecosystem - The Average Joe’s Crypto

Podcasts

• What's Real About Crypto Gaming | Ryan Wyatt - Bankless

• AssangeDAO: The NFT Funding the Julian Assange Case - Epicenter

Misc

• ETHDenver hackathon submissions

Meme of the Week

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