Jul 30, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Happy 6th Birthday Ethereum: a look back through the years (00:09) StatefulWorks: 100 physical Beacon Books being auctioned (09:05) Pplpleasr image on Fortune cover/story "Crypto vs. Wall Street" (10:46) @ultrasoundmoney on ETH's scarily engines: Staking, DeFi & Burn (14:41) Synthetix's Kwenta: live alpha release on Optimism (18:05) Bloomberg article on EIP-1559/London - w/ errors h/t ChanLinkGod (20:13) Yearn Finance's limited edition "The Blue Pill" book w/ NFTs (24:27) ethereum.org is building a new security page; invites contributions (25:27) Altair devnet successfully forks; getting closer to The Merge (27:57)
Jul 29, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) StatefulWorks proceeds delivered trustlessly via Contributors Split Contract (00:09) 6.6 ETH now staked on Beacon Chain. Remember when ppl doubted min of 525k would be hit? (01:47) EIP-3675: Upgrade consensus to Proof-of-Stake has been merged (05:44) StarkWare's decentralised AMM: no more ponds of fragmented w/ asynchronous liquidity pooling (11:03) Nader from Edge & Node lists of all the teams hiring amidst an explosion of jobs in crypto (15:35) Shyam Sridhar: "Measuring decentralisation in PoS Ethereum" post (22:02) Thales dapp live on Ethereum mainnet (24:27) Polygon 10 (P10) index proposal on Index Coop (26:32) Ethereum 2's 5th client - Lodestar (28:37)
Jul 28, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) AMA w/ Anthony & Daniel (from Cryptocurrency Jobs) TDG Discord, Sat 31st July 13.00 UTC (00:10) Anthony's 1/1559 Supporter NFT from StatefulWorks displayed on his Meural 2 (01:35) London/EIP-1559 is *not* delayed / is happening as planed in ~8 days at block 12,965,000 (02:57) @sassal: Coca-Cola issuing NFTs on ⟠; 'does Warren Buffet still think crypto is "Rat Poison²"?' (06:56) @sassal: "be great if all these NFT projects waited until after EIP-1159 is implemented to launch" (09:57) CryptoFees.info dashboard now supports bundling multiple implementations of one protocol (13:51) TokenTerminal: daily protocol revenue growth for Optimism (18:23) StarkEx 3.0 live, inc.: L1 Vault DeFi Pooling & dAMM; & indep. dApps sharing proof/splitting gas (18:47) Binance integrates w/ Polygon, supports $MATIC deposits & withdrawals (21:32) @sassal: "Short Binance, Long DeFi" via Hsaka: "Binance non-kyc daily withdrawal of 0.06 BTC (23:13) Reality Cards NFT prediction market moving to Polygon (26:25) Chris Dixon: New tech often '"toy-like, expensive, janky" To predict development "dig deeper" (27:14)
Jul 27, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) @sassal: Ξ1 would be worth ~$1M w/ Oil's market cap. And ETH is more than just 'digital oil' (00:09) Rune Christensen: If US hampers DeFi innovation it'd be 10x worse than China's DiDi crackdown (07:18) Danny Ryan's Finalised #27: update your nodes; more upgrades coming (12:05) L2Beat.com welcome Sorare fantasy football game power by StarkEx using Validium (13:39) Gnosis Safe now supports Uniswap natively (16:32) Etherscan adds Blockscan button / icon for viewing address activity on 17 other EVM chains (17:16) Anish Agnihotri: PawnNFT.co - a way to take out loans against NFTs deployed to Rinkeby (18:49) @0xmons: ZKNFT proof-of-concept NFT marketplace on zkSync public Alpha release (20:57) Sandeep Nailwal teases "game changing" expansion to Polygon (22:42) MakerDao enabling delegation from August 2nd (24:19) Lyra Finance options protocol raise $3.3m in seed-round led by top funds & Ethereum angels (25:59)
Jul 26, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Uniswap removes several coins from its UI & the larger story re. decentralisation & regulation (00:09) 200k plus validators now staking 6.6.m ETH now securing Beacon Chain (11:29) All-core devs call decides London upgrade will *not* be delayed (18:17) Mohamed Mansour's watchtheburn.com website update; London est. Aug 5th 19:16 UTC (20:08) Kevin Owocki: "Biggest take away from ETHCC: DeFi is just the start" (21:22) Kris Kaczor: 'best talks last week in Paris were at a Geth workshop organised by Optimism' (24:46) Ethereum on ARM: full validation node syncs on Raspberry Pi running Erigon (27:22) CelerNetwork release their multi-chain L2 "cBRIDGE" (29:37)
Jul 23, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Next The Daily Gwei AMA on Discord Sat 24th Jul, UTC 13.00 (00:09) 300th edi. of TDG NL ft. EIP1559 piece co-authored by man who collected cans for $ETH (01:07) The Streisand Effect of #ETH Twitter now displaying Ethiopia's flag (02:08) StatefulWorks' EIP-1559 NFT sold out raising Ξ243.05; Patron NFT still available (05:34) Reddit adopts Arbitrum for scaling their Community Points (10:02) @sassal: EIPs 1559, 3074 & 3675 represent "The Holy Trinity of Ethereum" (15:41) Index Coop on launch of Bankless DAO's $BED index token (19:23) Andrew Bakst's piece evidencing why 'ETH will become world's most valuable asset' (21:04) Brantley Millegan from ENS: over 100k Ethereum accounts now hold at least one ENS name (22:32)
Jul 22, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Ultrasound Money™️, EIP-1559 & when gas prices will actually go down (00:09) London Testnet accidentally forks resulting in possible (brief) delay of upgrade (04:12) Daniel Luca: 'if you feel smarter than everyone you meet, go to an Ethereum conference' (08:13) StatefulWorks release limited-edition EIP-1559 NFTs (13:02) Immutable launch $IMX token including airdrop & earning opportunities (15:40) Ashton Kutcher's Krypto video with Mila Kunis (and Vitalik, in Ashton's kitchen) (18:27) Elon Musk owns $ETH ($BTC & $DOGE) but who cares (21:53) EthBlockArt - NFT project for minting on-chain art announce pre-seed rou (26:19)
Jul 21, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) The Daily Gwei hits 10k subscribers! (00:09) @sassal: "We are a part of generation Ethereum" (01:43) @sassal: the prospect of play-to-earn games like RimWorld on Ethereum (07:49) Mark Anstead lists $DPI on zkSync - may be 1st permission token listing there (13:15) SushiChef: "Trident" - a next-generation AMA coming soon to Sushi platform (17:06) Maple Finance's new, much-improved website (19:56) Vitalik article explores the idea of Retroactive public goods funding (22:04) Hasu skeptical of MEV-action-based desig; & Anthony's counterargument (27:24) Jake Chervinsky on NJ BOS classifying BlockFi as DeFi & the need to educate regulators (30:10)
Jul 20, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) StatefulWorks announce EIP1559 supporter NFTs (00:10) Bearish market coping strategies (01:39) Superphiz: promote open source clients not 3rd party tools developed for $ (07:34) Alejo Salles: Flashbots research post on "MEV post EIP-1559" (12:29) MakerDAO launch DAI token bridge on Optimism (14:07) Lido referral program: rewards for promoting benefits of staking w/ Lido (15:58) Polygon Studios: Polygon's new arm for BC gaming & NFT ecosystem (19:26) Blocknative: ETH Gas 101: Introduction to Ethereum Gas for Traders & builders (22:03) Rajeev announces launch of "The Secureum" bootcamp for SC security auditing (22:51) Terrence from Prylabs: we are still hiring for security & Q&A roles (25:50)
Jul 19, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Preamble re. the bearish market lagging bullish fundamentals (00:09) "Ethereum: the infinite garden" doco fully funded in quick time (05:55) EIP-1559 Ecosystem Readiness Checklist (08:26) Tim Beiko: on POS current chain would be deflationary at ~11 gwei (09:53) StarkWare: StarkNet L1 to L2 alpha released (14:01) Dharma waitlist to get access to L2 (15:52) Michael Silberling's Uniswap on Ethereum v Optimism dashboard (16:25) L2beat site's major update (17:52) ScoopyTrooples leaks 'beautiful new' interface (19:01) Photos from 2014 where Vitalik refers to "The Lego of Crypto Finance" (20:09) ChainLinkGod: 'FinTech will adopt DeFi in their backend' (25:10) ILiveinLambo's graphic on Ethereum network effects (29:29) Stani from Aave discusses building Twitter on Ethereum (31:33) Philip Daian's "Flashbots on Reorgs" & "sustainable" MEV (35:09) TheSquanch's list of rug-pulls/hacks on Ethereum & EVM platforms (37:25)
Jul 16, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Happy Birthday to Anthony! (00:09) Jack Dorsey wants to build another Ethereum on Bitcoin. Why? (01:11) Trent's Ethereum's Upgrade Path graphic & the need for more such beginner-centric content (08:59) @protolambda: Altair devnet forked successfully w/ all mainnet clients (14:34) CADLabs's open-sourced Ethereum economic model using cadCad (16:09) Kobi on StarDrop - distributing rewards in privacy-preserving manner (19:18) Immutable's graphic of the many projects building on their platform (20:59) Sushi's controversial proposal to raise ~$60m by selling 25% of treasury (22:50) Uniswap product update to simplify process of LPing (27:59) Frank Chaparro: stablecoin supply crests above $110b mark (29:02)
Jul 15, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Shout out to Justin x Anthony AMA (00:10) Jackson Palmer trolling crypto again; Anthony rebuts Jackson's claims (00:54) Linda Xie's "Ethereum: the Infinite Garden" doco crowdfunding now live (17:21) Ryan Watkins: in Q2 2021 Ethereum settled $2.5t, on pace to settle $8t in '21 (19:21) ultrasound.money: adjustable supply projection chart (20:39) Ethereum Foundation's official announcement / details for London HF (22:27) zkSync's upgrade inc. NFT minting/transfer/swap/withdrawal; ERC20 swaps/limit orders (22:50) @0xmons: minting NFTs on zkSync costs around 0.0001 ETH (23:08) DeFi Pulse: newly proposed Pulse Aggregate Yield (PAY) index (23:40) @TheSquanch3 maintaining list of staking mishaps; fortunately there few thus far (24:24) Metamask extension's 1st EIP1559-compatible tx (25:58) Blocknative critical back-infrastructure announce $12m Series A (26:44) OKEx now supports Polygon direct deposits & withdrawals (28:43) Kris Kaczor from L2Beat.com on fast txs & sequencers for Uniswap on Optimism (29:18) Stani from Aave: "new version of Aave protocol is in audit" (29:58)
Jul 14, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) "Ethereum: the infinite garden" doco being funded by $INFINITE token (00:10) Geth London HF-ready version available for download (02:18) Coinbase Wallet announce now support for Polygon (in addition to Optimism) (03:16) TokenSets released on Polygon (05:25) Uniswap live on Optimism in Alpha release (08:03) Connext Network bridging infrastructure raise $20m from angel investors within Ethereum (14:43) SuperFluid programmable money-streams also raise $9m (19:24) Nifty Island for NFTs comes out of stealth, likely launching exclusively on a L2 (23:25) Emilio from Aave teases their own bridging infrastructure (25:35) mStable releases alUSD/mUSD pool (27:20) Cobie's satirical proposal on UniSwap forum to draw attention to problems w/ their gov. process (28:30)
Jul 13, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony livestream w/ Justin Bram, Thu Jul 15th 1am UTC (00:09) DeFi drama!: unproven "DeFi Education Fund" team granted 1m UNI tokens which they immediately sell (00:48) Immutable X will soon be permissionless; Mint 0 gas-fee NFTs (08:48) Jordan from Synthetix profiles very positive experience working for the protocol (10:56) HopProtocol now live, enabling USDC swaps b/t Polygon, xDai, & Ethereum (17:20) Lyra options protocol from Synthetix team launch trading competition on Optimism (19:48) Matthew from Index Coop report on growth of protocol (21:05) Dharma teases fiat onramp directly to Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon (23:43) Infura now supports Arbitrum (26:07) Alchemix relaunch alETH - with cap immediately filled (28:38) ENS announce grant to build "Sign-In with Ethereum" (29:32)
Jul 12, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) TDG AMA from Saturday online if you missed it (00:10) Ultrasound.Money website based on meme & CTers w/ 🦇🔈 in profile (00:52) Loopring: “Loopring security layer (ETH) is becoming ultra sound” (06:15) L2Beat.com website w/ L2 updates (07:38) Arbitrum update: just missing a couple of key infras. before releasing (08:13) Kain.eth: Synethix exchange launching on Optimism week of July 26th (11:02) @sassal0x: DAOs creating truly global, decentralised, digital-first orgs (13:57) Kyber liquidity mining program for $KNC $MATIC live on their DMM (21:43) @0xmons: paper on new ways to bring liquidity to NFTs (22:42) Seb Audet from Zapper teasing “zapmail.eth” (24:31) Linda Xie’s “A beginner’s guide to NFTs” w/ collectibles @viamirror (25:57) Index Coop internship project article (28:35)
Jul 9, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) The Daily Gwei AMA w/ Anthony Sat 10th Jul 13:00 UTC (00:10) @EdgarErout’s controversial software for chain reorgs & MEV: Anthony unpacks the story (01:00) Anthony: “I believe that both Optimism & Arbitrum’s public mainnets will go live this month or I will eat my hat” (21:02) Stani from Aave: protocol is experimenting with NFT collaterals (23:45) Zapper: Aave integration accompanied by new weekly quest depositing to Aave (25:12) Mikhail Kalinin’s The Merge Mainnet Readiness Checklist (25:41) Jeremy Allaire’s Circle becoming a publicly listed co. under $CRCL (26:42) Balancer Labs launch 3 new pools inc: weighted, stable & ElementFi pools (29:21) Terrence from Prylabs announce the 1st beacon chain to Altair upgrade finalised (30:12) Nader from Edge & Node releases app & tutorial for building Metamverse Marketplace (31:00) Sam MacPherson from MakerDAO: daistats.com updated to clarify the two important charts relating to Dai collateral (31:58)
Jul 8, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) London Upgrade confirmed. Live now on Rinkeby. (00:10) Etherscan’s feature for displaying EIP-1559 TxnFee savings (01:15) David Hoffman’s article “ETH: The World’s Most Capital Efficient Asset” (04:51) Zapper now supports Balancer on Polygon (07:06) Marius Van Der Wijden on how Ethereum, unlike Bitcoin, can run an archive node (08:36) @LevxApp: preview of SushiSwap’s NFT platform (11:25) Friends With Benefits protocol launching Season Three (16:17) Does TDG needs a token? and other thoughts re. the channel’s future (17:26) $MVI token providing greater exposure to the Metamaverse ecosystem (20:40) Anthony: ‘The super cycle is about where we are re adoption rather than price’ (22:57)
Jul 7, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Stateful Works’ Beacon book released inc. (some remaining) NFTs to mint (00:10) Arthur0x: “Fundamentals do matter” looking at Axie Infinity’s growth as example (02:10) Index Coop treasury $7.7m diversification w/ investment firms (11:24) zkSync upgrading contracts, main-net will be down July 14 11:00 UTC (14:49) Tim Beiko: London / EIP-1559 mainnnet expected 4th Aug 2021 block #12,965,000 (17:17) DiversiFi launch new platform / UI (19:48) The Ethernaut launches Ethernaut DAO for devs (21:00) Looping introduce Dapp browser (22:14) Synthetix: fee now being enforced on Optimism main-net (23:39)
Jul 6, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony: “the stars are aligning for ETH” (00:10) Sygnum Bank now offers Ethereum 2.0 staking service (The Block) (06:31) $ETH oexchange reserves reaches a 2.5 year low (CryptoQuant) (07:47) ShibaSwap initial launch from an externally owned account (10:12) Tim Kang of universe.xyz vests all his tokens, takes $0 salary & commits to funding other projects (13:11) Austin Griffith of BuildGuild, and the complexities of registering a DAO as a LLC (16:58) Nethermind survey for developments; pls help teams like this who aren’t getting funding from a token (21:57)
Jul 5, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony’s piece in the @defipulse Farmer Newsletter (00:10) London mainnet: deciding on a date & Anthony’s comments on governance (00:58) Bitcoiners discover Ethereum MEV & Jacobs Franek’s response (recommended reading) (07:35) Ben Edgington’s latest “What’s New in Ethereum 2” inc. discussion on relevance of the term "Eth2" (15:58) Andrew Cronje open sources some potential protocols on Github (17:40) Willian Mitsuda on “Otterscan” - an open-source Ethereum block-explorer built on Erigon (20:00) Samuel Shadrach: Token-lists for Arbitrum & Optimistic (21:41) Noah @TraderNoah: Aave Pro for institutions coming in July (23:45) Trent Van Epps: Sign-up for Beacon Book updates & own a piece of Ethereum history (26:41) Ethereum Name Service seeks applicants for Governance Lead & Integrations Lead (27:42)
Jul 2, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Gitcoin R10 finishes, catch the live-stream wrap-up tomorrow (00:10) Paul Brody on “Nightfall” - an ZK Optimistic Roll-Up Privacy on L2 (00:58) Balancer on Polygon including a token incentivise program for yield farming (04:37) Loopring Q2 report inc deploying their smart wallet on Arbitrum (06:59) EF support program report in Q1 project allocations (11:59) Andre Cronje’s new project "Fixed Forex" (14:31) Uniswap's V3 Liquidity mining contracts (18:53) brantly.eth: ENS app records most registrations in a month + other milestones (19:49) mev.wtf: summit on all things MEV, highlighting role of flashbots (23:15)
Jul 1, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) London / EIP-1558 Goerli testnet live (00:10) Gas prices per day of the week graphic (02:35) Vitalik quote on blockchains automating-out intermediaries rather than workers on periphery (05:38) Antimatter’s advanced rug-pull & the difficulty of identifying all the different scams (10:51) Twitter drops NFTs on Rarible & why this is a big deal (21:15) Perperutual Protocol’s V2 “Curie” launching straight to Arbitrum bypassing L1 (24:39) Synthetix trading vol hit one billion last month,; details on their move to L2 (27:18) Six million ETH in eth2 deposit contract (28:57) Plans for “soft-imit” of 30m ETH staked allowing 60m overall with only half active at one time (31:23)
