Crypto Trends
A summary of the crypto trends for the week.
PayPal supporting Crypto
PayPal has 26 million worldwide merchants and ~ 300 million customers.
Note: it is within PayPal’s walled garden, with payments to merchants converted to fiat. Starting in the USA with plans to expand internationally.
Buidler evolves into Hardhat
We plan to update the OpenZeppelin Learn guides from buidler to Hardhat in the next week or so.
We will also be updating the OpenZeppelin Upgrades Plugins to Hardhat.
Falsehoods that Ethereum programmers believe
Santiago Palladino keeps shipping.
Audits
Please contact the team when you are ready to request an audit!
Events
- Solidity Underhanded Contest - submission deadline October 31st.
- TruffleCon - 6-7 November
- Devcon Bogota - 10-13 August 2021
Jobs
OpenZeppelin are hiring:
Finally
Why Optimism by Kain Warwick (Synthetix)
I’m optimistic that Optimism will be the VHS of Layer 2.