This week in Web3 - 111th edition

Amazon & Avalanche, Beacon chain ETH withdrawal, DCG under investigation, Mastercard incubator, Shiba’s NFT collection, fundraises, bounties and much more 🤯

Major Highlights  🤯

• Avalanche and Amazon ink partnership to boost Subnet deployment. Learn more

• Gitcoin to test decentralized funding protocol. Learn more

• Ethereum devs prepare a plan to let stakers withdraw ETH from Beacon. Learn more

• Digital Currency Group is under investigation by U.S. authorities. Learn more

New Launches 🚀

• Consensys opens zkEVM testnet to whitelisted users. Learn more

• Yuga Labs announces skill-based NFT mint. Learn more

• Mastercard launches a web3-focused artist incubator with Polygon. Learn more

• Shiba Inu (SHIB) launches a limited edition Shiboshis NFT collection. Learn more

• Abu Dhabi-based Venom Foundation launches $1B fund for Web3 and blockchain. Learn more

Fundraises 💰

• The Easy Company raises $14.2M seed funding. Learn more

• Cosmos-based decentralized asset manager QuasarFi raised $5.4 million. Learn more

• Open Forest Protocol raises USD 4.1m in pre-seed round. Learn more

• Exactly Protocol raised $2M funding. Learn more

Rekt 🚨

• Coinbase to cut 20% jobs, abandon ‘several’ projects to weather downturns in the crypto market. Learn more

• Binance admits flaws in maintaining stablecoin reserves. Learn more

• MetaMask warns crypto users about address poisoning. Learn more

Read, Watch, Listen 🎙

• How Microsoft is leveraging blockchain. Listen here

• What’s going on with Grayscale - Jeff Dorman. Listen here

• Defi derivatives explained. Read here

• About Ethereum Shanghai update. Watch here

• Year Ahead for Crypto report by Delphi. Read here

Bounties 💸

• RociFi bug bounty: $1000. Learn more

• Pods bug bounty: $75K. Learn more

• ZetaChain bug bounty: $100K. Learn more

• Hyerlane bug bounty: $2.5M. Learn more

• Paraspace bug bounty: $20K. Learn more

Jobs 👨‍💻

• Web3 Marketing Lead at PrePo. Apply here

• Growth for Monad Labs. Apply here

• SEO Expert at Defi Lead. Apply here

• Treasury manager at DXDao. Apply here

• Venture Analyst at Nascent. Apply here