#81 Probably Nothing

💻 Arweave Hackathon, new Praise system in Discord, and more 👀

📅 This Week

Upcoming Events

• DevNTell: Deploy Rollups on a Celestia Light Node — Fri, Aug 4, 3:3pm UTC. In this week’s episode, Josh Stein will be showing us how to deploy a rollup on a Celestia Light Node. Register here.

Arweave Hackathon with $2k Earmarked for D_D

• Apply to hack at the ongoing Arweave hackathon (Jul 28-Aug 10) with $2k earmarked exclusively for D_D members.

• Missed the Twitter Space with @wc49358, @pbillingsby_, @wise_Tyy? Check out the recording here👇

D_D Job Board

• For jobs from Biconomy and others, check out the D_D Job Board.

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🤝 Community Highlights

• Tenderly Smart Contract Simulations by @pbillingsby_

• Building a Balance History Tracker: a Developer’s Guide to Trustless Ethereum Data Access Using Axiom by @abruzuc

• D_D DevNTell: Aspecta with their Chief of Staff Jane Yang [video] [article]

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📰 Ecosystem News

• Unfortunately, an eventful Sunday in the defi space with a Curve Finance exploit as a result of malfunctioning reentrancy lock. MEV bot runner “c0ffeebabe.eth” returns $5.4m amid exploit

• Worldcoin launch stirs controversy in the crypto community, see this tweet by Eric Wall for a nuanced take

• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says SEC asked it to delist all cryptocurrencies except Bitcoin

• US House Financial Services Committee advances landmark crypto bill

• SBF maybe hasn’t escaped campaign finance charges after all — DoJ pulls one charge but is still pursuing eight others

• Conic Finance users flee after hackers steal $4m through reentrancy and sandwich attacks

• MakerDAO considers boosting DAI savings rate to 8%

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🎖️ Initiative Updates

Discord Praise System

• D_D is introducing Praise to Discord, a system which empowers members to yes, praise other members for their contributions to the community. If you’re unfamiliar with Praise, you can review their documentation here.

D_D Academy

• D_D Academy is a D_D project on a mission to educate coders about building web3 open source.

• For more on the project, check out the ACADEMY section in Discord. For the latest, check out the team’s July 27 meeting notes.

Probably Nothing Newsletter

• The Probably Nothing newsletter (the one you’re reading right now 😅) team will be taking the next two weeks off for summer break. See you all again on Aug 21, and happy summer! 🏖️

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😎 WAGMI

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