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Happy Friday! The Weekly Market Highlights is an initiative from the #Binance Research team to round up the week, summarizing key market events and views from the team.

Let's get the ball rolling 🧵👇
1/ Macro

Non-farm payrolls are set to have increased by 200,000 last month, according to a consensus forecast compiled by Bloomberg. The slowdown in November is a further sign that demand for new workers is easing amid the Federal Reserve’s historic efforts to cool the economy.
2/ L1

#Ropsten, the first public testnet to support @ethereum 's transition to a PoS, will be shut down this month. The remaining validator nodes will stop supporting the network between Dec 15 & 30.
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(1/21) Lots of reasons to be down right now, let’s focus on something exciting!

THE @ethereum MERGE IS ALMOST HERE!!!

As we celebrate the success of the #ropsten testnet merge, let’s talk $ETH staking.

Continue on for an explainer of @Rocket_Pool
(2/21) Not financial advice.

Special disclaimer: @Rocket_Pool is tied very closely with The Merge, for better or for worse. For worse:

- extra exposure to any potential delay/failure of The Merge
- Staked $ETH and $RPL is locked >6 months

(3/21) The world is a mess right now. The charts make it glaringly obvious, but charts are the later signals that the world is off track.

It seems like many of our worst issues can be boiled down to trust; when I think of the future @ethereum promises, I see a way forward.
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Some commentary on the #Ropsten testnet upgrade to Constantinople: what happened this past weekend, where we’re at now, and what this means for Constantinople. Hopefully this helps get everyone on the same page. It’s long but there’s a lot of information to convey!
The Ethereum core devs have been working on the Constantinople hard fork for months. The two major clients, parity and geth, were feature complete nearly a month ago. See the progress tracker here: github.com/ethereum/pm/is…
On the core devs call on Sept. 28, the decision was made to hard fork Ropsten at block 4.2M on or about Oct. 9. There were some concerns that we were rushing the hard fork, but two factors drove this decision. github.com/ethereum/pm/bl…
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