Schnorr and Taproot merged to Bitcoin / First Bitcoin Mixer penalized by FinCEN / Universal Basic Income App Launches
- OKEx exchange founder Xu Mingxing is reportedly cooperating with the Chinese police. As a result, OKEx halted all withdrawals. There’s no timeline or stated criteria for resuming withdrawals.
- An Ethereum 2.0 developer predicts the protocol’s deposit contract will be released in a matter of days, and that ETH 2.0 staking will go live this year.
- Filecoin Mainnet has launched. It raised $200 million in an ICO three years ago and was beset by delays.
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- First Bitcoin “Mixer” Penalized by FinCEN for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
- Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract to launch this week: ConsenSys dev
- CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert Talks Ethereum, DeFi, and the Next BitMEX
- Fidelity recommended that portfolios consider a 5% allocation in bitcoin
- Schnorr and Taproot Upgrade Proposal Merged Into Bitcoin Core
- Filecoin Categorically Denies Any ‘Mining Crisis’
- Universal Basic Income App Launches, Gives Users Free Crypto
- No Timeline for Resuming Bitcoin Withdrawals: OKEx
- Uniswap’s First Governance Vote Ends in Ironic Failure
- Digital Yuan Rolls Out for Use in Shenzhen Gas Stations
- Stone Ridge Reveals $115 Million Bitcoin Investment As Part Of Billion-Dollar Spinoff
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- Doing Old Things Better Vs. Doing Brand New Things
- An Introduction Guide on Bitcoin TAPROOT
- 2020: Reason Enough to Take Another Look at Bitcoin
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- Risk Scores for DeFi — Alpha Release
- DAOs & Token-based Governance is a fantasy
- Creators, Communities, and the Gray Space in the Middle
- Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
- 7 big takeaways and 20 data points about the current state of ETH and DeFi in 2020
- DeFi in Q3 2020
- Dissecting Risk in Defi Projects
- ANTIFRAGILE — A Definition Worth Living By
- A data-driven look to NFT platforms
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Developers
- Turning a page in Ethereum JavaScript history
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- Ethereum DEX GraphQL APIs with Examples
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- SkyDB: A Mutable Database for the Decentralized Web
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- The Life of EIP
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- Verify Your Contracts On Etherscan 100% Of The Time
- A Long Way To Go: On Gasless Tokens and ERC20-Permit
- How to re-send a transaction with a higher gas price using ethers.js
- Sushiswap smart-contract bug and quality of audits in community
- Building for interoperability: OpenZeppelin Upgrades Plugins
- Smart contract test-driven development using Waffle & Buidler
- Building on Ethereum Mainnet — An Opinionated Guide
- A Guide to NFTs in Upland
Miscellaneous
- Stake ETH2 using the Prysm UI
- ETH2.0 ETL
- Solidity v0.7.4 is out! Fixes a storage corruption bug
- Introducing Litentry
- Install IPFS for Linux using Snap store
- Slingshot — A community competition for storage clients
Podcasts 💽
- Designing Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin
Hackathons, Events & Summits
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- Liquidity 2020
- Seed Club Hackathon
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