Thread by @CryptoGucci

1/ This week in #Ethereum, a thread🧵

$ETH had $10b+ in revenue in 2021
@VitalikButerin says the Merge will happen by July
Ethereum Creator Revenue was $3.5b+ in 2021
PayPal is exploring a stablecoin
Ethereum has more developers than Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, & Bitcoin combined

2/

ETH total revenue this week was over $272m
ETH growth rate is expected to surpass BTC again in 2022
@benjaminion_xyz releases Upgrading Ethereum article
Ethereum staking post merge is projected at 10.5% APY
ETH did 89x the fee revenue of BTC this week

3/

@VitalikButerin releases Multidimensional EIP-1559 proposal
@TimBeiko hosts 1st Ethereum All Core Devs meeting of the year
@MyCrypto’s Gnosis Chain implementation now supports EIP-1559
Over 1.4m ETH have been burned since EIP-1559 went live

4/

@BanklessHQ releases How use zkSync guide
@polygonscan announces ERC-1155 support
@optimismPBC fees are now ~30% cheaper
31.7b gas spent in Dec to settle L2 transactions
Ethereum Foundation research team hosted Reddit AMA on 1/7

5/

@trent_vanepps releases Myth of the mesh-dreamers
@epolynya releases The lay of the modular blockchain land
@0xPolygon welcomed 7.2k new devs in Dec 2021
@aoxborrow launches @enstools
7.48% of the ETH supply is in the 2.0 deposit contract

6/

@loopringorg Q4 report + 2021 recap is out
@optimismPBC releases new status page: status.optimism.io
@zksync proposes $200M DAO with @mirana
Top 10 floor on @ethleaderboard is now > 2.1m followers
OpenSea burned over 3600 ETH this week

7/

@0xPolygon drops 2021 Rewind
@ETHMovie OG Mint 2 date set for 1/16
@AmbireWallet rolls out new version
ETH protocol revenue has been over $20m for 104 days in a row
Gas prices on @0xPolygon temporarily hit record high from @0xSunflowerLand game

8/

@rainbowdotme adds QR scanner back to app main page
@LefterisJP announces @rotkiapp v1.23 is now out
@gitcoin releases Gitcoin 2021 Year in Review
@APompliano to change Twitter name to apompilano.eth if Eth community can raise $1m for @HRF

9/

@optimismPBC goes over 169k active addresses
@JimmyRagosa updates the Ethereum Obituaries list
Ethereum addresses holding 0.1+ ETH hits new ATH
@apoorvlathey releases new extension that allows you to right-click any address in Etherscan & open in a popular site

10/

@pseudotheos drops killer EVM thread
@awkweb releases React Hooks library for Ethereum
@natimuril compiles & releases the best @StarkWareLtd resources
@dshin_eth releases Ethereum Investment Thesis 2022 thread

11/

@ConnextNetwork Connect Weekly #2 is out
@fuellabs_ Fuel v2 repos are now public
@go_ethereum Geth v1.10.15 is released
@etherscan adds NFT tracker and ERC20 DEX tracker
@arbitrum sequencer is back online

12/

1 ETH is now burned every 10 seconds on average
@RealmDao chooses to build on @arbitrum
@nethermindeth releases Securing Warp: A formal specification of the Yul IR
@easyDNS new and expanded @ensdomains integration is now online

13/

@usevaportrade now supports @ensdomains
@nibnalin releases A Succinct Story of Zero Knowledge
1 ETH 2.0 validator (32 ETH) is now worth > $100,000
@l2beatcom goes over 10k followers
Ethereum net issuance goes negative a few times this week

14/

@aelinprotocol is now live
@Teku_ConsenSys v22.1.0 is out
It’s been 5 days without an ETH 2.0 slashing incident
@skiffprivacy now allow you to set your display name and share to ENS names using @ensdomains

15/

Ethereum Podcasts of the week

@BanklessHQ Endgame w/ @RyanSAdams @TrustlessState & @VitalikButerin

@ensdomains Early #003 w/ @futurealisha & @jmj of @chapterone

@Unchained_pod Ep 306 w/ @laurashin & @MariaShen of @ElectricCapital