Welcome to Inbox Dump where we include the updates and announcements that flood our DMs each week and didn’t make it to The Defiant’s content platforms. 

Welcome to Inbox Dump where we include the updates and announcements that flood our DMs each week and didn’t make it to The Defiant’s content platforms. 

Hello Defiers! Here's what we are covering today!

This week on The Defiant podcast, Tegan Kline hosts Jesse Pollak, senior director of Engineering at Coinbase, Eva Beylin, the director of the Graph Foundation, and Ben Jones, the director of the Optimism Foundation, to give us a deep dive into the launch of Base, Coinbase's recently-launched Layer 2 blockchain.

GM Defiers, we have a DEX and “Layer” heavy newsletter today. The main piece of DeFi drama rippling through the community’s town hall (aka Twitter) is Arbitrum’s first governance vote. Amid that Layer 2 controversy comes the LayerZero raise at a staggering $3B valuation. Meanwhile, Layer 2s are enabling next-gen DEXs, and also on the…

GM Defiers! And happy Friday. Another ETH-heavy newsletter. Ether is holding on to its post-Shapella gains, hovering above $2,000 at the time of writing, as staking deposits outpace withdrawals. Also, most of those withdrawing are taking out rewards, not principal, signaling they want to continue supporting Ethereum. As the Ethereum community runs a victory lap,…

Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today: News Delong Shares Lessons Learned at SushiSwap and the Need for Hierarchy in DAOs in Provocative Talk at ETHDenver Ethereum’s Old Guard Meets the Newbies at ETHDenver and There Are So, So Many of Them

Market Overview, NFT Roundup & Tutorial

Hello Defiers! Here’s what we’re covering today: News The Merge Won’t Drive Big Scalability Gains For Ethereum, But EIP-4844 Might Synthetix Community Considers Ditching Inflationary Tokenomics Stargate’s STG Token Surges Ahead Of FTX Listing Rocket Pool To Incentivize rETH Liquidity

Hello Defiers! Happy weekend! It’s been six weeks since The Merge, which is just enough time to take stock of how Ethereum’s shift to Proof of Stake consensus is unfolding and how it’s changing DeFi’s primary network.DeFi, NFT & Web3 Insights - The Defiant is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my…