One part of L2 scaling is Ethereum increasing its blob capacity. The other part is rollups becoming more data-efficient. Good to see Starknet rising to the challenge.

Would love to see more EVM rollups increasing data efficiency too (see https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/17/futures2.html#3 )

https://x.com/Starknet/status/1858471396323836276

Ethereum

Watch the @bankless podcast with Roman Storm.
Then donate.
Privacy is an imperative for Ethereum. If the industry can't raise 2M$ for a legal case so critical to its own survival, I'm not sure what we are doing here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFhe9kSbLGs

Degen

GM Degens! We just hit 69k followers on X! If you’re not following yet, join the crew—though we all know Farcaster is where we hold it down. Still, always good to get normies aware of what we’re building. Let’s keep growing together! https://x.com/degentokenbase

Vyper 🐍

The contract here is a sublinear staking contract: if you are in the whitelist (specified as an ERC1155 collection), then you can stake N coins, and get a return of N ** 0.75 coins per slot, for as long as the contract has coins to pay for it. There is a fundedUntil mechanism that ensures that if the contract runs out of money, every staker gets rewarded for every slot up to the fundedUntil timestamp, and the mechanism doesn't turn into a fractional reserve.

https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/sublinear_staking/code.vy

Bounty of total 2 ETH for identifying any bugs / vulnerabilities in the contract and proposing specific fixes, if multiple issues are found the bounty will be split based on severity.

Amount: 2 ETH

@bountybot

This is a fascinating essay on education (that happens to be a tweet)

https://x.com/justinskycak/status/1858012912557633800

Base

Listen to @jessepollak, @vitalik.eth, and others talk about Ethereum's rollup-centric future at /devcon 

Tune in live: youtube.com/watch?v=JMZcRMy-Oow

Two great new educational songs dropped this week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzN148WQ2OQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS8SdwzlKCQ

How much on an OG DeFi Degen are you? What was the first dex you ever traded on? 🎩 


https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/26464

base-builds

Base Builds is now hosting week-long rounds

Share what you've built in /base-builds throughout the week using the prompt "This week I built" to earn your share of 2 ETH

Unlock referral rewards by casting "inviting @[friend]" to invite friends

https://rounds.wtf/base-builds/base-builds-by-roundswtf-20

VCs tend to take none of the risk and all of the credit so part of me hates to share these 

But since some people asked 

https://x.com/ntmoney/status/1848692953554031107?s=46&t=CJb1D8GzV2qvXPeMRuc_Wg

Hey Degen! Just a reminder — there’s only one week left in Season 9! This season, you can put your $DEGEN tips to good use by supporting tree planting through /treeplanting on @degenpad. It’s a cool way to spend those tips and do some good at the same time!

Number of active wallet addresses that interacted through the thirdweb platform in the last 7 days! 📈

Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 4: The Verge

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/10/23/futures4.html

Basics:

So @shrutz built Basics, to make it easy to navigate the onchain world for normies. 

Problem: I totally resonate with the starter problem of being overwhelmed. Basics solves it. 

What I loved:
- The design of the whole project, just so cool
- The gamification storyline of surfing, shells, waves. 
- The logo

Devfolio Link:
https://devfolio.co/projects/basics-b60f

Project Link: 
https://www.basicsxyz.com/en

What did you build on Base this week?

Share a post in /base-builds with the prompt "This week I built" to earn a slice of the 1.25 ETH prize pool via @rounds 

Members can invite their friends to the channel by casting "Inviting @:friend", and earn referral rewards if they participate

https://rounds.wtf/base-builds/base-builds-by-roundswtf-18

Create a Based frontend for your app with @onchainkit

Yoooooo I duno how this is possible but thanks for the boost 

My name is Bill

And i do podcasts and share interesting stories from super rad builders and people 

Im also documenting my journey from unknown  content creator to hopefully one day super chad. 

Check out my @jessepollak interview. 

https://pods.media/late-night-on-base/jesse-pollak-base-builder-001?referrer=0x96127abbA054403920090c65D54E5dCFb8360aa9

Didn't submit your project in time for the Base Around The World regional buildathons?

You now have until October 20

Let's build

https://wallet.coinbase.com/nft/mint/eip155:8453:erc721:0x803Fc79D31AB30a39B3BD2A90171470cC82Ba44a

binghai

@binghai