This Week in Web3 #008

by Shun Kakinoki · Dec 19, 2021

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📆 This Week in Web3 #008 📆 🤌 Adidas NFT $23mil drop 🤌 Eth POS testnet 🤌 First NFT index fund 🤌 Gravity bridge 🤌 Polkadot parachain launch 🤌 Bitcoin devs leaving 🤌 Uniswap to polygon 🧵 Details 🧵

1/ Adidas NFT $23 mil drop https://decrypt.co/88705/adidas-ethereum-nft-drop-nets-23-million-and-shoots-to-top-of-charts

2/ Eth pos testnet https://twitter.com/econoar/status/1471967904090386434?s=21

3/ First NFT index fund https://twitter.com/Matt_Hougan/status/1471489244824674306

4/ Gravity bridge launch - huge for the cosmos ecosystem! https://cointelegraph.com/news/gravity-bridge-brings-ethereum-to-the-multichain

5/ Polkadot parachain launch parachains are custom slots that are designed to integrate natively with the polkadot ecosystem https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2021/12/18/polkadot-parachains-go-live-capping-yearslong-tech-build-for-ambitious-blockchain-project/

6/ Bitcoin core developers are leaving https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-developer-samuel-dobson-decides-it-is-time-to-go

7/ Uniswap is going to be live on polygon! https://twitter.com/uniswap/status/1472200289919053826?s=21

✨ New web3 products and features announced this week ✨

Sign-in-with Ethereum EIP is merged https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-4361.md

Shopify NFT Beta https://twitter.com/justinaachuaa/status/1471536990000762892?s=21

Thirdweb launch @thirdweb_ https://twitter.com/thirdweb_/status/1470438460196536332?s=20

Layer 3 contribution profiles https://twitter.com/layer3xyz/status/1472012115162529794?s=21

Eth os @EthereumPhone https://www.ethereumphone.org/

etherum signin for clairty @clarityteams https://twitter.com/clarityteams/status/1471913111309504512?s=21

Optimism whitelist is now gone https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/127891/ethereum-layer-2-optimism-removes-whitelist-opens-to-all-developers

📝 Also, some interesting reads I came across 📝

Adidas NFT drop frontrrun https://twitter.com/Montana_Wong/status/1472023753865396227?s=20

2022 Crypto trends https://twitter.com/scottmelker/status/1470757148179185669

How open source is ruling the world https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1471568961330462730

🧑‍💻 For developers, some web3 repos I found to be fun and interesting 👩‍💻

blitz.js for web3 https://github.com/dillonraphael/web3-blitz

Core code for @thirdweb https://github.com/nftlabs/nftlabs-protocols

Browse contracts on etherscan like from vscode https://twitter.com/dethcrypto/status/1471173109998882819?s=20

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