This week in Dapps - 101st edition
Convo Space, Instagram NFTs, e-rupee, Binance & FTT, Polygon, Copperx, WalletConnect, Fundraiser data API, learning resources, jobs, bounties & more 🤯
Project of the week - Convo Space 🎉
Major Highlight 🤯
Reserve Bank’s pilot to launch Digital Rupee (e₹). Know more
NFTs on Instagram powered by Polygon. Learn more
First industry pilot by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for Digital Asset and Decentralised Finance. Learn more
Binance exits it’s position from FTX (equity) & received ~$2.1b equivalent in cash (BUSD and FTT). Learn more
New launches 🚀
GameStop’s NFT marketplace & a $100m fund with Immutable X. Learn more
Indexing historical data from Dfyn’s DEX pools, swaps, and liquidity data on Polygon by Transpose. Learn more
Grants protocol by Gitcoin on Fantom. Learn more
Solana NFTs on Instagram. Learn more
FIS subsidiary WorldPay to enable USDC settlements on Polygon. Learn more
Snaps by MetaMask, allowing devs to expand the functionality of MetaMask. Learn more
Mellow Protocol by Voltz. Learn more
Copperx - a blockchain payment infrastructure. Learn more
A.P. Morgan Sailing Club by Float protocol. Learn more
Fundraises data API by Llama. Learn more
Fundraises 💰
WalletConnect raised a $12.5m ecosystem round. Learn more
Paragraph raised a $1.7m pre-seed round. Learn more
Rekt 🚨
Gabriel Leydon’s Twitter account got hacked & lured in followers to lose their holdings. Learn more
pGALA pool drained on BSC. Learn more
Deribit, the Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Exchange, has lost $28M from their hot wallets. Learn more
Skyward Finance, a NEAR-based token launchpad had its treasury drained of 1.1M NEAR, worth approximately $3.2M at the time. Learn more
Read, Watch & Listen 🎙
Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change with David Ehrlichman. Watch here
SFTs - Semi-Fungible Tokens. Learn here
Build your own farm by Dapp Factory. Learn more
WTF is Quadratic Funding? Learn here
Blockchain Legos and DeFi - Bill Laboon, Parity Technologies. Watch here
Web3 Gaming Review by the Serotonin. Read here
Sybil attacks. Learn more
Security and Privacy for Crypto with Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Watch here
Bounties 💸
Jobs 👨💻
Engineering Manager - Zerion. Apply here
Business Development Analyst - Delta Money. Apply here
Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Coinshift. Apply here
Senior Front-end Developer (Typescript, React) - ZKX. Apply here
Principal Senior Developer - APY Vision. Apply here
Integration Engineer - Offchain Labs. Apply here
Blockchain Operations Engineer, Protocol/Infrastructure - ChainSafe. Apply here
Executive Assistant - Ethereum Foundation. Apply here
Project Manager - Organizational & Team Support - Ethereum Foundation. Apply here
Distributed Systems Engineer - WalletConnect. Apply here
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