Dearest Degens,
Happy New Year! Dystopia Labs is currently sourcing speakers for ETH Austin (March 17th during SXSW), ETH Portland (April 7th-9th), and ETH Seattle (July 8th). Apply here if interested.
NFTs / Gaming:
Wikipediaβs first edit was bought for $750,000 by @santiagoroel for PleasrDAO. π Read More
Vodafone auctions first ever SMS as an NFT to support refugees. π Read More.
Web 2 firm Zynga partners with Forte for blockchain games. π Read More.
Veve launching Disney Mickey Mouse NFTs. π Read More
OpenDAO created & airdropped $SOS tokens proportionate to how much ETH you spent on OpenSea π Read More. Hereβs a caution on $SOS. π Read More.
Kraken plans to offer custody services for NFTs, as well as the ability to use NFTs as collateral for loans.Β π Read More.
How Solana NFTs differ from Ethereumβs. π Read More.
CeFi / DeFi:
Cowswap, an AMM w/ MEV protections, is spinning out of Gnosis & will be launching its token $COW. The snapshot for $GNO holders will take place Jan 9th. π Read More.
Arca x Frog Nation proposal on the future of Sushi. π Read More.
Rari<>Fei Merger Passes, creating a $2B Liquidity Player. π Read More
The stealth payments protocol, Umbra, is now live on Polygon - offering users cheap fees for privacy payments. π Read More
Hidden Intel Trapped in Options Chain Data:
Tornado Cash Intros Arbitrary Amounts & Shielded Transfers. π Read More
Balancer launches Boosted Pools which allows unused liquidity to earn yield in Aave. π Read More.
Aave looks set to upgrade to version 3 under a business license that restricts use of their code for a year. π Read More.
Opyn has invented and is about to ship a new DeFi primitive called SQUEETH that improves hedging for non-linear things like AMM pools. π Read More
Index Coop launches new leverage index on Polygon using DeFi Pulseβs FLI methodology. π Read More
With Nova you can make trades on L1 Uniswap, ape into L1 NFTs and use L1 AAVEβ all from L2. π Read More.
Transak Launches Fiat Onramps to Arbitrum and Optimism. π Read More
Gnosis Safe Integrates with Avalanche. π Read More
Uniswap goes live on Polygon. π Read More
The Hummingbot Foundation launches $HBOT. π Read More
DeBank closed a $25M equity round at a valuation of $200M. π Read More.
RadioShack Has Pivoted to DeFi. π Read More
Myanmar's anti-junta govt recognizes Tether as its 'official' currency for local use after the group began fundraising for a campaign that seeks to topple the military regime. π Read More.
A directory of zkrollup projects. π Read More
DAOs, Governance, Culture:
This public document describes the design process for a community town hall or other similar community gathering events:
"DAOs and the Free-rider Problem." Alex Kroeger makes the case that DAOs should start paying out rewards to voters. π Read More.
OpenZeppelin will take on the unusual role of an on-call security auditor for CompoundDAO. π Read More
Seed Club, the YC of web3 communities, is introducing their membership token $CLUB to the world. π Read More.
A DAO wants to buy Blockbuster and turn it into a decentralized film streaming service. π Read More
After a devastating $130 million hack, BadgerDAO is moving forward with the first steps in an ambitious restitution plan. π Read More
Reddit is expanding its Community Points beta, allowing any subreddit to request access. π Read More
BitDAO partnered with students and faculties from some of the worldβs most prestigious universities to form EduDAO. π Read More
βThe Hardest Part of Building a DAO Isn't What You Think.β PubDAO talks about scaling as the difficulty in building successful DAOs. π Read More
What You Should Do In A DAO. π Read More.
Layer-1s, Layer-2s, Tools:
MoneyPrinter.Info by David Mihal tracks asset issuance & shows how much money protocols are paying in order to grow. π Read More
Gnosis and xDai merged to form GnosisChain π Read More.
Polygon was hardforked on Dec. 5 to patch a critical vulnerability in the MRC20 contract. Before the hardfork, a hacker was able to steal 801,601 MATIC due to the bug.π Read More
NEAR Appoints Ex-Circle Exec Marieke Flament as CEO. π Read More.
Solana launches SOLAR bridge which bridges Solana ledger data onto Arweaveβs Permanent Network. π Read More.
Starkware: Fractal Scaling: From Layer-2 to Layer-3. π Read More.
Joining the L2 wars is MetisDAO, an optimistic rollup scaling solution which has just received a $100m fund to boots its ecosystem. π Read More.
Events:
We're currently sourcing speakers for ETH Austin (March 17th during SXSW), ETH Portland (April 7th-9th), and ETH Seattle (July 8th). Please apply here if interested π https://dystopialabs.typeform.com/to/UmgD3wrk