January 13, 2021

With the launch of Optimistic Ethereum (OΞ) mainnet in a few days we are entering a new era for the project, OΞ presents an opportunity to scale the protocol but it also presents a number of challenges. One of the most critical is how to gracefully transition from L1 to a protocol running on both L1 and L2 simultaneously. As discussed in a recent call there remain some unknowns. However, we believe we have a reasonable transition plan. It is not yet clear whether this plan needs to be included w… … More

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Level up your open finance game five times a week. Subscribe to the Bankless program below.Join the Bankless NationIn this episode we chat with a crypto OG on Shapeshift’s new DEX Aggregator, Regulation, Deplatforming, and the Bull Market.Listen to Episode 29 of State of the Nation!Listen to podcast episode | iTunes | Spotify | YouTube | RSS FeedTools from our sponsors to go bankless:⭐️ AAVE – BORROW OR LEND YOUR ASSETShttps://… … More

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Click here to join Our Network Alerts on Telegram.Our Network is an on-chain analytics newsletter that reaches nearly 7000 crypto investors every week 📈Subscribe nowIntroducing Deep DiveToday I’m excited to introduce a new initiative for Our Network — the Deep Dive series. As you all know, our regular Friday newsletter aims for brevity with its network updates, but I’ve long wanted to give our data-driven contributors a platform to write more long-form pieces on ne… … More

Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today:Aragon community exodusCrypto calls for decentralized social mediaRecord CryptoPunk saleFixed lending protocol Notional launchesKain Warwick posts Synthetix 2021 roadmapAndre Cronje says (again) “building in DeFi sucks”The open economy is taking over the old one. Subscribe to keep up with this revolution. Click here to pay with DAI (for $100/yr) or sub with fiat by clicking on the button below ($10/mo, $100/yr).Sub… … More

To investors,European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde gave an interview this morning and made some interesting comments about Bitcoin. Her main points were that (a) Bitcoin has been used by criminals for money laundering, (b) Bitcoin has to be regulated, and (c) there should be global coordination of rules for Bitcoin.Lagarde is correct in all … Read more … … More

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Kain Warwick, founder of Synthetix Protocol has recently published an long-form blog post detailing the protocol’s 2021 roadmap. It covers everything from layer-2 scaling to new features that users can expect in the long awaited V3 update. I just published Synthetix 2021. Which is nothing more than a veiled attempt to cling to a sense of power in this ever more decentralized world. https://t.co/qCaWwGqBzI— kain.eth (@kaiynne) January 12, 2021 One focus of this announcement i… … More