Skills you need in Web3

An event on skills you need in Web3 and the best news from the week

Good morning 💫

This week, we hosted our community town hall. Next week, we’re talking about underrated skills in Web3 and its impact in emerging economies. As always, we’ve rounded up the best news in Web3 for you.

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What’s happening in Odyssey

Last week, we hosted:

• A town hall. We discussed the state of the crypto market and future plans for OdysseyDAO. Here’s the summary in case you missed it.

• Our weekly study group, focussing on Web3’s impact in Africa. Slides available here.

Next week, we’re hosting the following events:

• Underrated skills in Web3 - Tuesday, 12 July 2022 8 PM PST. Register for the event here.

  

• Weekly study group - Thursday, 14 July 2022 8 AM PST. The topic for this week is The Utility of Crypto in Emerging Economies.

You will find all future Odyssey events here 💫 . Also, check out our free learning guides.

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What’s happening in web3

Given the bear market, it’s nice to hear from OGs in the space. Pantera capital was the first ever crypto fund in the USA. Here’s an interesting thread from the origins of the fund.

Dan Morehead @dan_pantera

Nine years ago today @PanteraCapital launched the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States. That fund is up 27,790%. I wanted to share the original logic I wrote to investors in 2013 – as it is equally compelling to me today:

Reddit is launching an NFT avatar marketplace on Polygon. Interestingly, they’ve stayed away from the term “NFT” and refer to it as digital collectibles instead.

Sandeep | Polygon 💜🔝3️⃣ @sandeepnailwal

GM @0xPolygon Fam! @Reddit is launching its NFT Marketplace on @0xPolygon! Goal : #Top3 by impact - BTC,ETH, Polygon; nothing less, nothing more. Never stop building! WAGMI!

techcrunch.comReddit launches new NFT avatar marketplace – TechCrunchReddit has joined a long list of companies that are experimenting with NFTs.

The Ethereum merge is one step closer. There are 3 test environments where the merge will be tested. Two of those have been completed successfully.

bankless.eth @BanklessHQ

BREAKING - Ethereum completes another successful test of The Merge on Sepolia 🐼 Goerli next. Mainnet after. Don't sleep.

Aave is launching a stablecoin.

Aave @AaveAave

1/ Calling all GHOsts 👻  We have created an ARC for a new decentralized, collateral-backed stablecoin, native to the Aave ecosystem, known as GHO. Read more below and discuss your thoughts for the snapshot (coming soon)!👇 governance.aave.com/t/introducing-…

governance.aave.comIntroducing: GHOSummary Aave Companies is proposing to the DAO the introduction of a native decentralized, collateral-backed stablecoin, GHO, pegged to USD. With community support, GHO can be launched on the Aave Protocol, allowing users to mint GHO against their supplied collaterals. GHO would be backed by a dive…

Robinhood users can now send and receive Bitcoin from their account.

Bitcoin Archive 🗄🚀🌔 @BTC_Archive

💥BREAKING: Robinhood just enabled ALL USERS to send + receive #Bitcoin

A few months ago, Axie Infinity was hacked and $600 million was stolen. This week, details emerged of how the hack took place. Hackers duped a senior engineer by offering him a job.

Voyager, a CeFi platform, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Customers who deposited funds with Voyager will receive a mix of crypto, proceeds from 3AC, Voyager tokens and shares.

Stephen Ehrlich @Ehrls15

Customers with crypto in their account(s) will receive in exchange a combination of the crypto in their account(s), proceeds from the 3AC recovery, common shares in the newly reorganized Company, and Voyager tokens.

The makers of USDC launched a new stable coin denominated in Euros.

Circle @circlepay

1/ Euro Coin ($EUROC) is now live via the Circle Account! Our newest #stablecoin is designed with the same full-reserve model as $USDC so that it’s always redeemable 1:1 for euros. Learn all about it: circle.com/en/euro-coin

Aztec launched as a privacy-focussed DeFi protocol. Check out the thread below for more details.

jonwu.(🗽, 🍎) @jonwu_

Today we launched Aztec Connect, the VPN for Ethereum. I just used it to get some $stETH on mainnet Curve for $1.50 in fees, with complete privacy. Fully private DeFi, with huge cost savings. Why I think our private rollup is ridiculously bullish for Ethereum:

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