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gm. This is a special Saturday edition because I’m still recovering from ETH CC week. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week. Enjoy frens.
🚀 Launches & Deployments
GHO is officially live on Mainnet
Introducing Solace Derivatives Accelerator
Introducing Infinex, What Comes Next Synthetix
Meet UniswapX
Introducing Liquity v2
Introducing Pendle Earn
Mantle Network goes live
📑 Insights & Reports
Report on the Upgradeability of Ethereum L2s
The Three Pillars of Polygon 2.0 Governance
Endgame: Proof of Governance
Stablecoins: The Next Financial Platform
A Flexible Voting Money Market on Compound V3
Should Protocols Make Money?
Is Aave More Conservative than Compound?
🧗 Milestones & Updates
Introducing the Arbitrum Foundation Grants: Phase 1
Velodrome V2: Just Getting Started
🗞️ Miscellaneous
WinterGov - Delegate Tool Dune Dashboard
Proposal to transition Celo L1 to an Ethereum L2
BIP-372: Adopt Service Providers Standards
Start Exploring Solana DeFi
💸 Raises
Ethena Finance raises $6M
📺 Podcasts & Listens
Hasu & Jon Charbonneau: The Reboot on Uncommon Core 2.0
ETH CC
Doo Wan Name (StableLab) - The Rise and Fall of Governance
Marcos Miranda (StableLab) - Quantifying Governance Maturity in DAOs
Gustav Arentoft (StableLab) - The Evolution of Governance for DeFi DAOs
Cassidy Daly (Centrifuge) - DAO Treasury Management
Paul Frambot (Morpho Labs) - The Metamorphosis DeFi Lending Needs
Tadeo - MakerDAO Endgame: Spark Protocol
Dennison Bertram (Tally) - The Hyperscale Public Infrastructure Thesis for DAOs
Marc Zeller (Aave Chan) - The Decentralization Journey
Romain Figuereo (Paladin) - Learning to Love Vote Markets for What They Are
DeFi Security Summit
Xin Wan (Uniswap Labs) - Economic Security of Onchain Oracles
Andrei Kozlov (BGD Labs) - Security Challenges of Aave Governance V3
Ernesto Boado (BGD Labs) - Where to introduce formal verification in a protocol like Aave?
❲ Proposal Watchlist ❳
Balancer - veToken Launchpad
Compound - Compound Grants Progam 3.0
Safe DAO - Safe Token Value Alignment Program
Aura Finance - Polygon Deployment
Rarible DAO - On-Chain Protocol Governance and Security Council
Rocket Pool - Updating of Grants Management Committee
❲ From the Lab ❳
ETH CC Photo Dump
❲ This Week’s Voting ❳
📆 July 14th → July 20th | 🗳️ Total Votes: 22
See our full vote history and rationale here.