ETH has gained an additional ~15% this week and teased a brief top over 2k on Aug. 13th.
On the other side of the land, the L2 narrative that was constantly outperforming the previous week fell slightly downstream.
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While it's soothing to see a relatively greener week, it is also important to note that, the market remains under fast rotation, where it's best to remain risk-averse.
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As for the news segment, all of the enthusiasm from the $ETH rally was eclipsed by the beginning of what would most likely go down in history as one of the most essential debates.
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#TornadoCash is a cryptocurrency mixing service that lets users make tx privately with the help of #zk-SNARK technology.
On August 13, the US Department of Treasury hit Tornado cash with sanctions.
What is their reasoning?
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Because Tornado Cash enables users to execute anonymous #Ethereum tx by removing the on-chain connection between the source and destination chains.
Acc. to the treasury, this could be a pretext for illegal but not immoral tx.
Also, let's just note that:๐
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Privacy is a fundamental human right.
Code is free speech, and freedom of expression is also a fundamental right!
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Just in - It is being alleged that ETH devs who proposed an ETH PoW fork following the merge claim that they have disabled the difficulty bomb, which allows the base fee to be managed by miners and the community; adjust starting mining difficulty.
Is this the beginning of a monumental error? Share your thoughts below๐
- Stablecoin de-pegs are back in the news:
MakerDAO's founder says that its "almost inevitable' that DAI will abandon its USD peg"๐
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As of now, $USDC backs 50% of the total value locked in MakerDAO at $8.9B
While opinions about this event remain divided, concerns rise over several acute and multi-faceted risks associated with MakerDAO's collateralization by the USDC token๐
Hackers printed 1.2 billion $AUSD on the @AcalaNetwork through an exploit.
This vulnerability is indicated to be caused by a misconfiguration of iBTC/aUSD liquidity pool which caused a fault minting of aUSD tokens in large amounts.
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Following the hack, AUSD has depeged to $0.009527 at the time of writing this report.
Moving let's look at some good reads for our degens this week๐
What is the most exciting thing about #Web3 to you?
Decentralization? Open access? Ownership?
For us, at @biconomy the most interesting lego of Web3 is --โจ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒโจ
Why does it excite us so?
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Composability accelerates digital innovation in Web3 much more rapidly than Web2 could ever achieve:
Unlike Web2, developers don't have to wait for a code to be unveiled after reaching maturity.
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Thanks to the smart contracts being composable, developers can build on top of apps (even nascent ones) because code is open and verifiable and trust is not required.
This weekโs glossary covers EIP-4337, a proposal meant to handle a top preoccupation of the #Ethereum community: ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
Weโll go over why the proposal was necessary and what solution it offers.๐งต๐
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First, a quick note: #accountabstraction allows a contract to become the top-level account that handles fees and starts the execution of the transaction.
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Ethereum developers have been preoccupied with account abstraction for a while.
The goal is to use #EVM code not just for implementing the logic of applications but also for the verification logic of individual wallets โ nonces, signatures, etc.