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

[Sponsored] Ambire, the first smart wallet with email authentication, is pushing for new standards in security and protection inside the DeFi ecosystem, by bringing the latest, cutting-edge blockchain tech to your screen. With a non-custodial approach and security-driven development philosophy, Ambire Wallet is leading the way for trustless DeFi tools. 

Being a smart wallet allows Ambire to create protective layers against sandwiching and frontrunning from bots, while also enabling upgradable security. You can choose between an email/password account, another software wallet or a hardware wallet as signers, or combine them. 

Already gaining momentum as a secure and trusted browser app, with a mobile app and a debit/credit card in the pipeline, Ambire Wallet brings blockchain and DeFi to everyone’s fingertips. The team building Ambire believes the future belongs to exceptional, easy-to-use tech for a new autonomous and responsible lifestyle, so they are developing the wallet exactly for this. If you haven’t already switched to Ambire, you can do so now and follow them on Twitter for updates on how they plan to reshape the way we do DeFi.

🛫 On The Road Again

I’ll be travelling to Amsterdam on Friday for the Devconnect event and I couldn’t be more excited since it’s the first time I’ll be heading overseas since February of 2020 (before that whole COVID thing). Though due to this, there probably won’t be an EthHub Weekly Newsletter (or podcast) until the week I get back (May 2nd) - I’ll see you all again then!

Oh and by the way don’t miss this video I did with the Altcoin Daily YouTube channel about The Merge!

Have a great week everyone!
- Anthony

Project Updates

Ethereum

• Mainnet merge shadow fork completed

• What’s New in Eth2 - 8 April 2022

• Condrieu testnet April 5th, 2022 update

Layer 2/Scaling/Bridging

• Polygon announces Liquidity Mining 2.0 campaign

• Arbitrum Nitro now on testnet

• Loopring Quarterly Update (Q1/2022)

DeFi

• Index Coop introduces icETH

• Presenting Elixir. The Alchemix Algorithmic Market Operator (AMO)

• veDAO to relaunch on Optimism

• NOTE Staking is Live

• Liquity Q1 2022 Report

Infrastructure/Wallets/General Tooling

• Umbra now live on Optimism and Arbitrum

• Gradual Dutch Auctions introduced

• Hide transactions involving tokens with Poor Reputation on Etherscan

NFTs

• GitPOAP Now live

• New at Gem: Listings Analytics

Web3/DAOs

• Wildfire Season One introduced

Misc

• Polygon Village announced

Interesting Tweets

• A couple of dashboards showing interesting data about the Ethereum beacon chain

• A thread on StarkNet’s gaming ecosystem

• Advantages of enshrined rollups (speculative)

• Decentralizing sequencers for rollups

• Quick thoughts on the Merge and GPU miners

Ecosystem Bits

Blog Posts

• You Don't Own Enough ETH - The Daily Gwei

• Narrative Layers - The Daily Gwei

• Exploring Eth2: Stealing Inclusion Fees from Public Beacon Nodes - Adrian Sutton

• Exploring Eth2: Cost of Adding Validators - Adrian Sutton

• Polygon Avail: Unlocking the Modular Blockchain Future - Polygon Team

• Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How - Miles Jennings

• David Hoffman Is Creating A Bankless Future One Podcast At A Time - CryptoStaker

Podcasts

• How to Be Early | Olaf Carlson-Wee - Bankless

• Here’s Why USDN De-Pegged From the Dollar – And Why UST Might Too - Unchained

Misc

• Simplified SSLE

• Ethereum Roadmap FAQ

• First cut of the Randomness chapter is done for the Upgrading Ethereum book

• Open-source Data Analytics of Ethereum Staking Pools

• Predicting Access List: A Potential Way to Speed up the EVM for Portal Clients

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