This week in Web3 - 183rd Edition

US CBDC anti surveillance act, Gala games recover stolen assets, Gnosis partners with Visa, Paypal USD launches on Solana, Aave to launch blockchain after V4, fundraises, jobs and much more 🤯

Major Highlights  🤯

• U.S. House passes CBDC anti-surveillance state act. Learn more

• Gala Games and Binance identify hackers and recover 90% of stolen crypto assets. Learn more

• Veda partners with EtherFi to offer tokenized vault infrastructure. Learn more

• Uniswap teams up with Across Protocol for cross-chain trading API. Learn more

• Gnosis Pay teams up with Visa to enhance Web3 payments. Learn more

New Launches 🚀

• Sphere Labs introduces fiat on-ramp/off-ramp services for stablecoins on Telegram. Learn more

• PayPal USD stablecoin launches on Solana blockchain. Learn more

• ENS announces plans to deploy its forthcoming v2 iteration on Layer 2. Learn more

• Aave to launch its own blockchain after the V4 upgrade. Learn more

Fundraises 💰

• Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon raises $70 million pre-launch funding. Learn more

• Permissionless oracle service provider Switchboard raises $7.5 million Series A funding. Learn more

• Ultichain infra layer OpenSocial raises $5 million seed funding. Learn more

• Web3 gaming studio Supervillain Labs raises $4.5 million seed funding. Learn more

Read, Watch, Listen 🎙

• NFTs are dead by Marc Bauman. Read here

• On memecoins and VCs. Read here

• All about ETH ETF approval. Listen here

• How do money markets really work? Watch here

Bounties 💸

• Floki ecosystem bug bounty: $50K. Learn more

• Open source frontend bounty for OpenBook: $3.5K. Learn more

• Content creation on CUDIS: $1.5K. Learn more

Jobs 👨‍💻

• Chief of staff at Open Sea. Apply here

• Marketing director at MatrixPort. Apply here

• Backend engineer at Uniswap Labs. Apply here