This week in Web3 - 143rd Edition
Recur shuts down, Tornado cash loses, Farcaster OP, PancakeSwap V3 on Linea, Exactly & Harbor protocol rekt, Fundraises, Jobs and much more🤯
Major Highlights 🤯
Leading NFT startup Recur announces wind down of Web3 platform amid crypto winter struggles. Learn more
Tornado Cash faces legal defeat over violations of US sanctions. Learn more
OpenSea deactivates the royalty enforcement tool, making creator fees optional. Learn more
Coinbase takes an ownership stake in Circle, leading to the USDC issuer centre dissolution. Learn more
Binance to suspend its crypto debit card in Latin America and the Middle East. Learn more
New Launches 🚀
Farcaster is to launch on Optimism mainnet next week. Learn more
Solana Pay and Shopify integration: Fee-free Web3 payments for merchants until 2023. Learn more
Pancake swap V3 launches on Linea. Learn more
Fundraises 💰
Maple Finance raises $5 million in strategic funding. Learn more
Web3 social platform Drip raises $3 million in seed funding. Learn more
Rekt 🚨
Optimism’s Exactly protocol was exploited for $7.2 million. Learn more
Vulnerability found in Balancer pools, $2.8 million at risk. Learn more
Wallet addresses of 101,000 users on Friend.tech exposed through scraped data. Learn more
Harbor protocol exploited, a portion of the funds drained from the stable-mint, stOSMO, LUNA, and WMATIC vaults. Learn more
Read & Watch 🎙
The last crypto cycle is here. Watch here
Decentralizing today’s top L2s. Read here
The Covid shock, the rise of DeFi and Bitcoin’s increasing market risk. Read here
A guide to building economies through governance. Watch here
Reimagining Work and Community. Watch here
Bounties 💸
Optimism bug bounty: $2M. Learn more
Kiln Protocol bug bounty: $100K. Learn more
NFTfi bug bounty: $20K. Learn more
Jobs 👨💻
Community manager at El Hippo. Apply here
Technical account manager at Chainlink Labs. Apply here
Senior Front-end developer at Kodex. Apply here
Developer relations at Chronicle Labs. Apply here
Data Engineer at Clearmatics. Apply here