⟠ Latest Week in Ethereum News
🛡️ @aztecnetwork private rollup live
⛏️ Proposal to prioritize turning off PoW
🏆 @Gartner_inc Supply Chain of Year award is $MSFT @Azure tracing built on Eth
⏩ https://t.co/O3lNu90g6F
🙏 thanks to @trailofbits for making this issue possible
DeFi is constantly evolving. Every week there's a breakthrough in innovation, financial engineering, and creativity. To keep up with this pace, Opyn holds two learning groups per week. Last week @snarkyzk & @andrewjleone taught intuitive derivation of Black-Scholes & Options AMMs
9/9 Again, we're incredibly appreciative of your continued support. Opyn is on a mission to build a more open and inclusive financial system, and we wouldn’t be here without the input or support from the DeFi community.
Happy New Year! 🎉 Let's do this 2021
1/ While Opyn v2 is still in audit, we will keep posting threads outlining the main improvements and changes in v2!
🍄 Opyn v2 introduces cash-settled options: the actual (physical) underlying asset is not delivered on exercise
An increasing number of on-chain price oracles are being exploited via flash loans, as a way to easily manipulate prices used in DeFi contracts. Developers, please be aware of these risks as detailed in various posts from us here:
https://t.co/AlPCU76mza
https://t.co/ssCnMq2LBM
Synthetix partner @dHedgeOrg is live!
dHEDGE offers a unique way to invest along-side talented portfolio managers while rewarding portfolio managers that climb the ranks of the leaderboard.
Decentralized asset management on Ethereum is here.
https://t.co/kYUGd8dsVK
⚡️@SnapshotLabs offchain governance has been sweeping #DeFi by storm.
@AragonProject and @BalancerLabs just doubled down with a $200k grant to ratify proposals onchain 🤯
More on the emerging governance standard ⬇️
https://t.co/e4i9Ezi1lA
Set-and-forget staking has returned with Synthetix GranstDAO funded project @xtokenmarket!
$xSNXa allows users to passively stake their $SNX, simplifying the process of managing your staked funds.
Learn more about xSNXa here: https://t.co/JEAWgswvco
Today is the launch of the new Synthetix Stats website, replacing the previous Dashboard. It's available at https://t.co/hWZlUJSllS and is fully aligned with our new visual branding, + holds a host of new valuable information about the Synthetix protocol!
https://t.co/KE3uIX9EWt
As #DeFi markets continue to mature, we are enthusiastic about developments in aggregators, #Layer2 and smart contract generator/management tech https://t.co/yYbAFgOcjw
Today Aave takes a leap towards decentralisation with our tokenomics upgrade: the Aavenomics Proposal.
Read our latest blog post for a synthesis of the Aavenomics Proposal here: https://t.co/cDavQH4Xxn
3/ Matic Offers
1. Security via Plasma predicates on Ethereum: Reliable exits to Ethereum (Proof-of-Stake based decentralized multi-operator Plasma construction which mitigates mass exit occurrence)
2. Composability (EVM Support)
#DeFi Session 8: Saving on $ETH transaction fees, especially when gas prices are so high and you're interacting with contracts calling on @KyberNetwork,
@Bancor & @UniswapProtocol https://t.co/dODXhMzrbW
In preparation for #BancorV2, we are introducing a protocol upgrade — Bancor v0.6.
What's new?
⛽️ Major reduction to gas costs (avg. 30%)
🏊♂️ New pool creation process
📄 Simplified contract interface
⚙️ New SDK
More details from Bancor CTO @yudilevi: https://t.co/uLctjFmFIh