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Optimism Bedrock Coming

Optimism (✨🔴_🔴✨)@optimismFND

We're extremely excited to put this historical proposal in front of the Token House. We see Bedrock as the culmination of years of R&D—and the next crucial step towards a modular, simplified, and performant multi-chain future.

Optimism Governance @OptimismGov

The Optimism Foundation has proposed the first protocol upgrade to the Optimism Collective: Bedrock. 🛏️🪨 See the full proposal here: https://t.co/ulJcbGKFsk

10:02 PM · Feb 1, 2023

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Optimism Foundation proposed Bedrock, the next upgrade to Optimism that will bring improvements to the network including transaction costs, throughput characteristics, and sync speeds.

Pirex for GMX Live

██████@redactedcartel

Introducing Pirex @GMX_IO 🍇 Launching tomorrow, 1/31/23. mirror.xyz/0xE90c74145245…

mirror.xyz

Introducing Pirex GMX

7:01 PM · Jan 30, 2023

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Redacted Cartel launches Pirex for GMX (liquid wrapper for staked GMX and staked GLP). Users are now able to deposit GMX and/or GLP and receive either pxGMX or pxGLP that earn yield as if the underlying tokens were max staked on GMX natively.

Threshold tBTC v2 Live

Threshold Network@TheTNetwork

We are officially live! 🎉 Introducing tBTC v2’s first mainnet release. Be the first to earn with your #Bitcoin on #DeFi with the industry’s only decentralized and scalable BTC-to-ETH bridge. Mint tBTC now👇 dashboard.threshold.network/tBTC

4:00 PM · Jan 31, 2023

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Threshold (merger protocol of NuCypher & Keep Network) launches tBTC bridge v2, allowing users to mint and bridge tBTC between Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Ethereum Zhejiang Testnet Live

Nethermind@nethermindeth

Ethereum's first public #withdrawal testnet is live 🔥 Shanghai+Capella will be triggered at epoch 1350 (next week). Get set up & help #TestingShanghai! 👇 Zhejiang link dashboard: zhejiang.ethpandaops.io Specs & features: notes.ethereum.org/@launchpad/zhe… #TestingShanghai #Ethereum

3:46 PM · Feb 1, 2023

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Etheruem launches the Zhejiang testnet, and will implement the testnet version of Shanghai/Capella upgrade on Zhejinag at epoch 1350 (~6days after the testnet launch).

Damus App Live

jack@jack

a milestone for open protocols... #nostr is now officially on the Apple App Store with @damusapp:

apps.apple.com

‎Damus

10:38 PM · Jan 31, 2023

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Built by Jack Dorsey, Damus is a web3 social app running on Nostr, a decentralized social protocol based on cryptographic key pairs. Most implementations of Nostr support Bitcoin payments over Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.

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