1/ Happy to announce an ecosystem investment round to make ZKsync (∎, ∆) Ethereum's main payment backbone — and to turn into an EVM-compatible ZK rollup. medium.com/@matterlabs/le…

1/ Recently, a couple Keep #tBTC and nucypher community members reached out to broker a call. Two whirlwind weeks later, and the teams are putting a joint proposal in front of our communities. The proposal? To join forces in the first on-chain protocol hard merge.

#MinaMainnet is here 🎉 We are excited to announce the official launch of Mina’s mainnet today! After three years of testing, and thousands of nodes synced, we are proud to release Mina –– the world’s lightest blockchain. Read the full story: bit.ly/MinaMainnet

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1/ The ZK vs optimistic rollups debate is about to end. zkPorter, an engine for mass crypto adoption, is coming with EVM-enabled ZKsync (∎, ∆) 2.0 this August. It will reshape the entire L2 landscape. medium.com/matter-labs/zk… Key highlights:

Thrilled to back Aleo as howardwu.aleo 🦁 and team build a blockchain that addresses privacy and scalability in what we believe is an elegant and pragmatic way. علي and I explain more about our investment here 👇a16z.com/2021/04/20/inv…

ZKSYNC 1.X TESTNET OUT NOW! medium.com/matter-labs/zk…

1/ 📞 Hello Ethereum! It's zkSync 2.0 speaking. medium.com/matter-labs/zk…

1/ We are thrilled to announce the launch of FiatLux DAO, a collective of UC Berkeley alum focused on funding scientific and technological innovation in a novel, crypto-native way.💡🐻

Honored to have this talk given at our event 🙏

Special thanks to the @BitDAO_Official team, jon allen, and @FortePlatform for committing resources to our vision. We're excited to join forces with all #blockchaingaming #P2E organizations to accelerate the adoption of our industry.

Huge thanks for all the effort that went into this proposal from @BitDAO_Official, @FortePlatform, and Ronen Kirsh. I truly believe that BitDAO will become the Web3 native coordination layer for the world’s most exciting innovations, and Forte

The beginning of something big...

Education is the 🔑

UC Berkeley RDI is honored to be recognized by @BitDAO_Official as a leader in education & research in blockchain. Our new campus-wide, cross-disciplinary Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence launched to bring together students, educators & researchers UC Berkeley

Education and community, an initiative we can get behind! 👏

New DAO alert ⏰ Community owned and empowering builders 🙌

1/10 🚨 2022 Game Developer Report 🚨 After months of research we are proud to announce the release of the 2022 Game Dev Report. game7.io/dev-report-2022 Read more below for some key takeaways!

Submit your paper (full paper or work-in-progress) to cesc.io by Aug 7! Registration and student-travel-grant application open now! Join us at this leading conference in blockchain and web3, hosted by UC Berkeley RDI at UC Berkeley, also part of SF Blockchain Week!