This Week in Web 3.0 #002

📆 This Week in Web3 📆 🤌 ETH hits ATH 🤌 a16z invests in fwb 🤌 Defi 2.0 🤌 AnubisDAO $60m rug pull 🤌 Alchemy $250 Series C 🤌 FB rebrands to meta 🤌 $500m Cryptopunk Wash Trading 🧵 Details 🧵

ETH hits ATH https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-hits-new-ath-after-altair-upgrade-shows-clear-path-to-the-merge

a16z invests in FWB https://a16z.com/2021/10/27/investing-in-friends-with-benefits-a-dao/

Defi 2.0 gist https://twitter.com/helloshreyas/status/1452588609635184640?s=21

Anubis DAO rug pull https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/122529/crypto-fork-uses-dog-meme-to-raise-60-million-then-the-money-goes-missing

Alchemy raises $250 Series C led by a16z https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/28/aws-for-blockchain-alchemy-boost-valuation-to-3-5b-with-250m-raise/

FB rebrands to meta, "metaverse" related tokens surge like $AXS, $MANA, $SAND https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambysheva/2021/10/29/metaverse-tokens-soar-following-facebooks-rebrand-news/

Punk 9998 sells for $500m, likely to be a wash trade https://protos.com/cryptopunk-500m-wash-trading-crypto-nft-of-course/

📝 Also, some interesting tweets threads I came across 📝

https://twitter.com/jarroddicker/status/1451580567200301068?s=20

https://twitter.com/PaulRBerg/status/1452569175772237828?s=20

https://twitter.com/charliecfeng/status/1454204843912880129?s=20

🧑‍💻 For developers, some web3 repos I found to be fun and interesting 👩‍💻 https://github.com/kevinz917/zk-NFT > zk-NFT allows users to create and prove ownership without revealing the full underlying metadata

https://github.com/pcaversaccio/xdeployer > "Hardhat plugin to deploy your smart contracts across multiple EVM chains with the same deterministic address."

https://github.com/lebed2045/WeightedGnosisSafe > A weighted multisig built on top of gnosis-safe to allow for more complex cases