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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

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.xyzIntroducing Pirex GMXWhen we launched Pirex, our goal was to frequently expand its offerings and continue shipping best-in-class liquid staking wrappers, auto-compounders, and yield futures for users across various projects and chains. Sticking with that goal, we’re excited to introduce Pirex GMX.

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

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

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.com‎Damus‎The social network you control. It’s your very own Twitter for your friends or business. Built on open internet protocols, there is no platform that can ban or censor you. You are in control of your data & speech. - Encrypted. End-to-End encrypted private messaging. Keep big tech out of your DMs…

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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