Dec 30, 2021
No links today!Dec 29, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Dankrad's new sharding design (00:10) Huobi now supports Arbitrum One (04:38) Argent's L2 wallet integration (09:55) Gnosis Guild releases the zodiac bridge module (13:05) Recapping EIP-1559 and looking forward to 2022 (14:24)
Dec 28, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony rebutts anti L2 arguments (00:10) Polynya's ex of dydx's security expenses only ~2% of their monthly profits (07:04) Superphiz.eth's on "investing in Ethereum", looking beyond the coins (24:41) Sandeep on the centrality of Ethereum in Web3 (26:12)
Dec 27, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Miscellaneous Christmas news (00:10) Ye Zhang's article on zkEVM (01:45) 0xmons vampire-attacks OpenSea w/ $SOS drop (06:40) Lucas compares current staking yields for $ETH & $BTC (10:38) Kain.eth's L222 Optimism mentorship program (13:48) Banxa now supports Arbitrum (17:56) LayerSwap adds zkSync onramp (19:48) Slingshot now on Optimism (21:05) NBA's Stephen Curry joins Polygon's NFT family (23:27) Gnosis Safe deployed to Optimism (24:47) DiversiFi integrate MoonPay onramp (27:26)
Dec 23, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Loopring announce release of "Counterfactual" (L2 only) wallet (00:10) Uniswap v3 live on Polygon (03:44) Slingshot enable access to all Uniswap v3 liquidity on Polygon (05:47) Opera browser soon to be powered by Polygon (06:40) Ethereum Foundation 2021 roundup (07:40) Across bridging protocol now supports L1 → L2 & back again (09:46) MetaMask's next iteration improvements (10:54) Pintail's article asking whether EIP-1559 has achieved its objectives (12:24) "SHAQ.ETH" now on @SHAQ'S Twitter profile (15:24) Ethleadearboard,xyz shows top Twitter accounts w/ ".ETH" in their bios (16:43) Element Finance announce new primitive for their grants (19:31)
Dec 22, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony on Web2 magnates attacking "Web3" (00:10) Transak Finance onramp to Arbitrum & Optimism. Except for the USA (08:52) Aztec grants announced (13:48) StarkWare and OKEx strategic partnership (15:06) Polygon Cares program for quickly onboard to their platform (18:10) Hashflow announce their $HFT governance token (20:40) ethereumdotorg's homepage now translated into over 20 languages (24:41)
Dec 21, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) New bull case for Ethereum podcast with Bankless (09:00) Tim Beiko's blog post about the Kintsugi testnet (8:11) Scott Lewis' fat ETH thesis (8:55) Polynya's tweet about rollup-centric Ethereum (14:37) New York Times' piece on web2 brain drain (16:21) zkSync's commitment to open source (20:20) XYZ domains now supports ENS (23:11) Danny Ryan on new job opportunity at the Ethereum Foundation (24:45)
Dec 20, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Polygon to invest $200M in social media (01:43) Uniswap v3 being deployed on Polygon (03:28) Polygon PoS Bridge Explorer (04:42) Polygon Nightfall testnet launch (05:12) Optimism remove whitelist (06:16) "Optimism" rebrand replacing "Optimistic Ethereum" (08:36) Arbitrum Optimistic rollups explained (09:59) ConsenSys rollups in partnership with Mastercard (11:34) Aztec $17M Series A led by Paradigm (14:06) Element Finance L2 scaling on Aztec (15:53) Louis reaffirms StarkWare are 100% focused on Ethereum (17:37) Kintsugi Merge testnet live (20:52) PhononDAO launch details (22:16) Dune Analytics potentially raising funds at $1B valuation (25:16) Nansen raise $75M Series B (28:13) Using Shopify for your NFT drops (30:24) EthereumOrg launch page re Ethereum's energy consumption (33:09)
Dec 16, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Spencer Noon's chart showing how "When it comes to making money ETH is king" (01:40) Ether Capital stake over $50M worth of ETH (06:41) Immutable: Ecomi move to Ethereum (11:02) Immutable On Ramp: instant cc purchases of L2 ETH w/ zero gas fees via MoonPay (16:25) Coinbase's guide to using Polygon w/ Coinbase Wallet (18:07) Superfluid payment streaming protocol coming to Optimism & Arbitrum (19:17) Balancer Labs launch Aave Boosted Pools (23:47) Stani: after testing Aave V3 I am fully in love with L2s (26:49) DiversiFi announce platform's upgrade to StarkEx v4 (27:47) Slingshot's Genesis Drop NFTs (28:47)
Dec 15, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Gitcoin Grants R12: two days left to donate (00:10) DCInvestor: We're in AOL like era of blockchains - slow, expensive but rapidly expanding (01:45) Brantly on how ENS DOA formed w/o VCs (10:29) DCInvestor on the imperative for L2→L2 bridges to be decentralised (13:46) Hashflow launch single-sided LP-ing (18:35) POAP's COO on their mission as a scrapbook for on-chain identity (20:21) MakerDAO growth team thread on what Layer 2 means for Ethereum (22:11) SpruceID's progress re Sign-in with Ethereum project (23:54) Argent's integration w/ zkSync; simple UX is the futur of France (24:59)
Dec 14, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony's bare-ish room (00:00) Details on EF's Ethereum Client Incentive Program (01:27) New "Devconnect" conference announced (08:08) ETHGlobal's long list of events in 2022 (09:18) Polynya: beyond 'rollups bad' &r 'rollups great only on my L1' to a modular future (13:10) Prysmatic Labs update on team expansion & their work towards The Merge (19:33) Polygon's EIP-1559 integration now on the Mumbai testnet (20:35) Bankless & Optimism on Twitter Spaces discuss OΞ whitelist removal & 10-100x gas optimisation (22:49) Rune teases Maker Vaults coming to Arbitrum, Optimism & maybe StarkNet (24:22) Tunks.eth on Nike acquiring a RTFKT NFT w/ Ethereum once again the base layer (25:26) Euler permissionless money market now live on mainnet (27:04) Li.Finance explainer on their role as cross-chain swap bridging aggregator (28:17)
Dec 13, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) EIP-4448 now after The Merge (00:10) Polynya on other avenues to lower fees on rollups (03:47) Optimistic whitelist removed very soon (07:10) Final vote on whether to have or not to have liquidity mining Uniswap on Optimism (09:00) Sandeep: Ethereum transition from 'Chain to User' to 'Chain to Chain' via L2 (11:41) Polygon Zero sub-second ZKs (14:44) Metamask teasing Transaction Insight feature (17:23) $ETH TVL on Aztec exploding (19:53) ENS profile pics w/ NFTs on display in Times Square (22:12) Meme comparing Crypto in 2013 with now (23:53)
Dec 10, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Arrow Glacier network upgrade now live (00:09) FreeRoseDAO wins Ross' NFT (01:37) Polygon acquires Mir Protocol for $400mil (03:35) Final vote to get Uniswap on Polygon now live (07:44) Umbra Cash now live on Polygon (08:26) Aztec Connect now live on testnet (09:22) Arbitrum and Chainlink team up for MEV-resistance (12:15) Optimism's thread on projects that have launched since OVM 2.0 (13:50) Robbie's tweet on projects building on Immutable (14:30) Lyra token going live on December 14th (16:53) Across Protocol now supports Optimism bridging (17:14) Hop Protocol bridge fees to Optimism reduced by 30% (17:43) Joel Kite's zkRollups.xyz resource (19:06) Coinbase customers can earn interest on DAI using Compound in the background (19:48) Slingshot announces $15mil Series A (23:59) Index Coop's FLI on Polygon with Set Protocol (25:09) mStable introduces Emissions Controller (26:08) David Mihal launches moneyprinter.info website (27:48) Block Earner announces fundraise and waitlist (32:08) Frontier's website redesigned (33:31)
Dec 9, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) L2Beat building a state explorer for dydx in collaboration w/ StarkWare (00:10) Bartek.eth on Optimistic & zk Rollups ultimately coexisting on Ethereum (02:14) zkSync's ZigZag dex now offers DAI & WBTC (ontop of ETH & USDC/T) pairs (06:47) Influence protocol's list of all the projects currently being worked on within StarkNet (09:49) Polygon introduce their "ZKVerse" guide to Zero Knowledge Proof tech (12:04) Pods now live on Arbitrum (13:53) Rainbow mobile wallet's upgrade details (14:59) Index Coop's $2.5m raise (18:00) Voltz Protocol's $6m raise (23:04) Anthony: "the hardest part of crypto investing is not making money; it's keeping it" (26:09) Patrick McCorry addressing Web3 talent shortage with an 8-week course (36:28)
Dec 8, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Anthony: 'easiest way to involve community is with a token' (00:10) Momus NFT Collective donate $1M to Gitcoin (05:38) Ethereum Cat Herders Update #51 (08:39) Argent X as the first wallet for StarkNet, starting in dev. mode (10:51) Primative Finance derivate w/o oracles protocol (12:14) JellyFi for under-collateralised loans announce their seed round (15:30) Paradigm announce "Foundry" Ethereum development toolbox (17:20) Mean Finance DCA protocol v2 launching on layer 2 (18:27) Ramp Network building toward universal L2 fiat on & off ramping (21:08) HopProtocol's new darkmode UI (23:47)
Dec 7, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Reflections on TDG 1st Anniversary NFT minting (00:10) Gitcoin Round 12 stats so far (03:34) Anthony: Ethereum as "digitally native global empire. ruled by no one; owned by everyone" (05:03) Vitalik's "Endgame" blog post (11:57) Polynya's "Fanciful Endgame" riff on the above (12:58) 0xMon's "OwenSea" alt to OpenSea after the later opted for IPO w/o a token/retrodrop (14:05) Parallel's new "Inb0x" for messaging between Ethereum wallets (16:51) Brian Armstrong tweets about Coinbase's "kryptology" providing open-source tools for devs (19:57) Mirror updated website w/ new, improved Dashboard (22:01) Uniswap V3's record vol over recent days inc more ETH.USD vol. than Coinbase (24:26)
Dec 6, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) TDG 1st Anniversary NFT minting details (00:10) Gitcoin Grants 12 details (04:16) Coinbase: 'we are on it' re L2 deposits/withdrawals (04:58) Anthony bullish on projects deploying directly to ⟠L2 (07:40) Argent: LidoFinance staking on their L2 wallet using zkSync (10:15) zkSync now listed on L1fees[.]info (12:16) Polynya on obsolescence of monolithic Layer 1s in the long term (16:18) Token Terminal on "The effect of EIP-1559 visualised" (21:38) Brantley's meme on 'the weight of responsibility' re ENS airdrop (24:28) Lodestar release Ethereum consensus light-client (25:39) Geth's next version will see 30% faster chain download (27:23) Ben Eddington's latests" What's New in Eth2" (29:23)
Dec 3, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) TDG Refuel NFT minting details/preview (00:10) Vitalik's updated roadmap of Ethereum development (08:05) Sign in with Ethereum mockup (15:08) Tim Beiko's AllCoreDevs update inc. Arrow Glacier, Kintsugi, EIP-4488 (16:06) FreeRossDAO launch (16:47) Euler money market protocol testnet launch (18:49) Polygon hosting ZK Day featuring Vitalik (20:05) The Graph & historical Ethereum data access after EIP-4444 (22:14) Kain on the ~20 calls he's had w/ aspiring OΞ native projects this week (22:53) Ramp Network fiat onramp to zkSync for things like Gitcoin grants (24:46) Kylin's dashboard of zkSync activity (26:02) Badger exploit details (27:53)
Dec 2, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Gitcoin Grants matching round 12 now live (00:09) Noun NFT project donates 169 ETH to Gitcoin (00:30) Analyzing the dynamics of the ETH genesis allocations (02:54) Proto breaks down EIP-4488 (10:00) ZK teams and ORU teams need to work together (13:14) Litocoen's thread covering projects on Arbitrum (17:34) Hifi Finance now live on Polygon (18:26) Component launches YTC tool on Element Finance (18:53) Lyra Finance details retroactive community airdrop (19:41) Lemma Finance now live on mainnet (21:38) StarkWare's blog post on scalability (23:25) Brantly from ENS shares November metrics for ENS (24:02) Immutable X integrates MoonPay (27:47) Immutable hiring 30+ BDs/CSMs (30:27)
Dec 1, 2021
Introductory song (00:00) Beacon Chain/POS network's 1st birthday: some stats (00:10) Flashbots group collaborating on development of neutral MEV software (05:27) SEC consistent w/ FInCen in excluding self-custody wallets/devs from regulation (06:21) Gitcoin Grants Round 12 starts today (09:14) Dom reflects on historic hurdles to CEX token listing that we've removed w/ DEXs (10:33) Anthony's take on merger between Gnosis & xDai chain (17:35) Polygon hosting zkSummit w/ ETH Global Dec 9th (23:56) Wintermute announce $20M venture fund dedicated to projects on Polygon (24:54) ZKOPRU now on Testnet (26:35) Premia now live on Arbitrum (27:26) Latests proposal for Uniswap LPing on Optimism looks like it will pass (28:12) TokenSets teasing they will be on Arbitrum & Optimism (29:41) Data Always chart shows annualised inflation rate of BTC now higher than ETH (30:20)
