Ethereum Growth, Uniswap Grants Program, and the Upcoming Berlin Hardfork

Decentralise #87

Jan 19, 2021

Ethereum's daily transaction volume is going parabolic. It now settles $12 billion in transactions daily - $3 billion more than Bitcoin. Imagine not being bullish $ETH.

Ethereum is far surpassing Bitcoin in daily volume, now handling over $12b of daily volume.

This stat does NOT include ERC-20 volume (except stablecoins) in order to prevent double counting.

The network is also supporting $31b of TVL according to DeFiLlama, with Wrapped BTC and MakerDAO managing over $4b.

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🦄 $500m UNI Vested to Community Treasury

Hayden Adams 🦄 @haydenzadams

~$500M worth of UNI has already vested to the Uniswap governance community treasury out of $4b total (based on current price) What are some of the most impactful ways governance can allocate this UNI? Dream big 🚀

Uniswap’s Grants Program is kick-starting, with $500m worth UNI now available to fund the ecosystem.

Uniswap remains the leading DEX, generating $5.1b of weekly volume and 49.6% of total DEX volume.

Read the full breakdown of the Grants Program here, and head to the governance forum to get involved in the discussion.

🏗️ Berlin Hardfork EIPs

ً @lightclients

The next hardfork is named "Berlin" & is scheduled to ship with 4 EIPs: * EIP-2929: Gas cost increases for state access opcodes * EIP-2930: Optional Access List Txs * EIP-2718: Typed Transaction Envelope * EIP-2315: Simple Subroutines

Lightclients broke down the current Ethereum roadmap, including the four key EIPs scheduled for the next upgrade, Berlin.

Head over to the Ethereum Magicians to learn more and discuss.

Make sure to follow Lightclients and also subscribe to Evan Van Ness’ Week In Ethereum News for the latest updates.

Week in Ethereum News @WeekInEthNews

⟠ Week in Ethereum News 🚀 @lightclients busy year for Eth protocol 🗞️ @optimismPBC soft launch with @synthetix_io ⚡️ @ethStaker call with @dannyryan: is turning off PoW on the agenda? ⏩ weekinethereumnews.com/week-in-ethere… 🙏 thanks to @CelerNetwork for making this issue possible

🗞️ Yesterday’s Newsletter:

Optimism Mainnet, SNX L2 Staking, Yearn v2, and the Iron Bank

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