Eduardo (@eduardo) • Hey
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- Decentralized, autonomous artist governed by the community Botto raised $ 1.67M in a funding round
- Google adding Ethereum Name Service data into search results through Etherscan
- Blast L2 distributed Blast Gold
- Majority of EU Parliament lead committees approve ban on cryptocurrency transactions made through custodial crypto wallets
- A watch-to-earn socialFi platform Everyworld has launched its points program. Users are rewarded for their interaction with Everyworld on X (Twitter).
- The main news of the last week is Dencun. The fees in many L2 have already decreased to very low levels. We are looking forward to the reduction of the fees in the rest of L2
- ZkLink Nova launches mainnet, first zk stack-based aggregated L3 rollup on zkSync
- EtherFi was listed in major excchanges. And users can claim airdrop.
- Polyhedra Network raised a new round of funding. They will open Airdrop checker for users on March 19, 9:00AM UTC
- Eigen Labs $ 100M investment from a16z crypto
- Liquid staking platform Ether Fi raised $ 27M in a Series A
- Asset management and payment platform Mesh (ex Front Finance) raised $ 6.50M funding round led by PayPal Ventures
- Magic Eden launches multi-chain wallet for Solana, Bitcoin, Polygon and Ethereum
- Web3 infrastructure for a decentralized Internet Grape raised $ 35M
- Namada airdrop extended until Jan 12th.
- Andreessen Horowitz planning to target $3.4 billion for next early-stage funds
- After the mainnet launch and the airdrop of 60M TIA tokens to 580K users, Celestia has been listed on several major exchanges
- Celestia is airdropping 60 million tokens in bid to build its network
- The crypto gaming studio Proof of Play raised $33M in a seed round, with investors including a16z crypto
- ZetaChain raises 27M
- Connext $NEXT airdrop revealed
- Mantle Mainnet is Live
- Binance Labs has invested $10M in Radiant Capital [RDNT]
- Manta Network has launched the Manta Pacific testnet
- Taiko Labs raises $22 million in funding
- Zora will launch l2 solution
- Sui (SUI) will launch its blockchain on Mainnet on May 3rd
- Berachain has raised $42M in a Series A funding round led by Polychain Capital
- 1inch Network (1INCH) has announced expansion to zkSync Era
- zkSync Era mainnet is live
- Sui Mainnet will launch in Q2 of this year. We’ll share more information as soon as possible.
- Microsoft testing crypto wallet on their Edge Browser
- Zero-knowledge crypto startup proven raises $15.8M in seed round
- Ethereum Layer 2 network Scroll raised $50 million in new funding
Scroll is now valued at null.8 billion
- Lens Protocol ecosystem by rekktguy.
- Yuga Labs drops bitcoin-based NFT collection TwelveFold
- Kraken is on track to launch bank 'very soon' despite regulatory 'weird place'
- Uniswap Labs announced early access to mobile wallet. Now available as a limited early release - through Apple TestFlight.
- "GHO will become an SDK for developers to build next-generation online and real-life payments, pushing blockchain into the mainstream." @stani.lens @gho.lens
- Seaport v1.4 has been activated on OpenSea
- Ethereum developers are delaying the Shanghai upgrade until early April.
- In February 2023, the monthly decentralized exchange volume showed an increase of 26% from the volume registered in January: $61.3B —> $77.2B.
- Dynamic public beta is live
- NFT finance protocol Insrt raises $2.2 million in SAFT round
- Few and Far raised $10.5M
- zkEVM Testnet Guide 🦊
ConsenSys has been whitelisting more users to its testnet.
Here's a step-by-step thread on how to bridge from Goerli to zkEVM, using Hop.
Will zkEVM have a token? 🧵👇
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✅ About zkEVM
• ConsenSys is a private blockchain software technology company, which owns MetaMask, Infura, zkEVM, and several other products
• One of the things they are working on: their own zkEVM rollup, Ethereum scalability using ZK Proofs.
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Recently, Infura endpoints to access ConsenSys zkEVM became available to a closed group of early registrants
To become one of the testers, you should sign up for the waitlist.
(If you signed & didn't get an email, don't forget they are sending beta invitations in batches)
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For those who are whitelisted: how to test the product?
STEP 1: Go to faucetlink.to/goerli & request Goerli ETH
STEP 2: Login into your Infura account app.infura.io/login
STEP 3: Create a new key and select network Web3 API.
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STEP 4: Select the ConsenSys zkEVM Testnet endpoint (screenshot below)
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STEP 5: Go to goerli.zkevm.consensys.net
STEP 6: Add zkEVM Testnet RPC to your MetaMask
STEP 7: Bridge from Goerli to zkEVM using Hop Protocol: goerli.hop.exchange
STEP 8: Test the zkEVM - play around app.dexchange.live
(bridge, swap, provide LP)
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Is there any $INFURA information?
• On the 1st screenshot, the Team said they are "discussing ways to reward those who help test". This does not necessarily means $INFURA, but it means rewards
• On the 2nd screenshot, the Team said that no token will be launched
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Why should we care?
• ConsenSys is a company that owns MetaMask
• Joseph Lubin already confirmed that MetaMask will have a token (check the thread below)
• Infura is actively thinking about rewarding its token holders for the contribution
https://twitter.com/OlimpioCrypto/status/1590425920506318849
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💡 Note:
Getting involved with the community is always a good way to get to know the team and what they are building.
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💡 Activities that you can engage with:
1. Taking an Infura survey that will give you an NFT: https://research.rallyuxr.com/consensys/lp/cle4f709z00vz2zby305x37b2?studyId=cle4f709x00vx2zbyfqpmc7ga
2. Monitor ConsenSys Events. There was a community call 8 days ago: https://www.crowdcast.io/consensys
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💡 Didn't receive their email yet?
The registration for zkEVM private testnet is closed at the moment.
If you missed the registration period, don't worry! The next phase will be a permissionless testnet. We will have more communications on this to come, stay tuned.
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- Polychain Capital eyes $400 million raise for fourth fund
- Robinhood Wallet is now available on iOS.
- Chiliz sets up $50 million incubator backed by Jump Crypto
- Binance NFT releases AI-powered NFT generator Bicasso