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

🐻 Are We Bear Yet?

Is it a bear market? What even is a bear market? Is ETH going back to $80? Well, I don’t have the actual answers to any of these things, but in my opinion we’ve been in a bear market since late last year and will probably continue to be in one for the foreseeable future. This is okay though - we all know that bear markets are amazing for building - so let’s keep doing just that.

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• EF ESP Grants Round for Academic Research

• Nimbus update

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• Arbitrum announces AnyTrust chains

• Optimism to be first ORU to deploy calldata compression

• Starknet full node Pathfinder released

• Immutable raises new funding round

DeFi

• Diagonal raises $2.5 million

• Alpha Road Finance vision detailed

• ApeX Protocol public beta live on Arbitrum

• Yield Protocol live on Arbitrum

• zkLend introduced

• Kromatika Finance live on Arbitrum

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• MetaMask adjustments on EIP-1559

• Lido adds Polygon support

• Tally adds a swap feature to its wallet

• Avado adds support for Rocket Pool minipools

NFTs

• Statros NFT marketplace introduced

• DeFraf announces strategic partnership round

• 0x Protocol v4 NFT swap now live on Ethereum

• FloorDAO protocol deployed to mainnet

DAOs

• Gitcoin Grants Round 13 announced

Interesting Tweets

• Medium-term bottlenecks for scaling

• Hop Protocol’s security/trust model

• Thread on Devconnect events accepting applications

• Visualizing the bytecode of a single Ethereum transaction

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• Digitally Native - The Daily Gwei

• A Clash of Cultures - The Daily Gwei

• Olympus DAO: An Economic Analysis - Norswap

• One Pool to Rule Them All - Jasper

• Encapsulated vs Systemic Complexity in Protocol Design - Vitalik Buterin

• Evaluating Beacon Nodes 2022 Edition - Jim McDonald via Attestant

Podcasts

• The zkEVM is Here | Alex Gluchowski of zkSync - Bankless

Misc

• Devpill.me public good blockchain development guide

• List of StarkNet developer resources

• How to run your own StarkNet node

• New Arbitrum analytics dashboard

• Starknet ecosystem dashboard

Meme of the Week

starbust @inversebrah

March 7th 2022

49 Retweets780 Likes

Looking for Work?

Top jobs listed on Cryptocurrency Jobs this week:

• Product Designer - Set

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• Junior Full-Stack Engineer - Multis

• Javascript Blockchain Engineer - WalletConnect

• +1000’s more on the Cryptocurrency Jobs website!