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Achievement unlocked! Etherscan reached meme-able status over the last month as several on point memes about the explorer were shared across the community. The wider space had their own 'achievements' as well, with new ground broken for rollups, hacks and... sanctions.
On the features front, July saw us improving the Token Approvals tool and adding a new Exchanges page on Blockscan.
For this issue our Guest Post provides a product guide for understanding Layer 2 chains, while the quiz tests your knowledge on a few Etherscan features. Answer it for a chance to win $10 in ETH!
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Unsure what Layer 2s are or how to differentiate between them? This product guide helps you to do so by comparing four dimensions:
- What makes an L2
- Validation Method
- Market Specialization
- Ecosystem Progress
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Much faster loading times and less noise on the page by default.
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A list for quickly discovering which leading exchange supports your favorite EVM chain.
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Scroll, Polygon and zkSync each announced their brand of ZK-EVM. Vitalik describes the various approaches, supplemented by this Immutable X post.
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In a first for DeFi, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control made it illegal for any U.S. persons to interact with Tornado Cash on Ethereum.
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In what was described as the first decentralized robbery, hundreds of addresses exploited a flaw in the Nomad bridge and emptying its balance.
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Thousands of addresses in Solana and Ethereum were hacked, causing major FUD. Why? Slope had logged users' wallet seed phrases in plaintext!
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Nova, Arbitrum's first AnyTrust chain, is optimized for gaming and social applications. It hosts Reddit's long-awaited Community Points.
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An introduction to evm-trace, a fast and correct Python library to work with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) traces.
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A common, chronological list of reentrancy attacks, analyses included. Shared with the goal of improving developer design patterns.
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A massive 83-minute read covering the economics of modular blockchains and various flavors of rollups - sovereign, enshrined, settlement and more.
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Finematics is back with an article and video on the upcoming Merge, touching on its economic implications, risks and misconceptions.
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Following the hack, Nomad reached out to hackers on-chain asking for funds to be returned. At least $36 million has been returned.
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An on-chain troll withdrew 0.1 ETH from Tornado Cash to dozens of public Ethereum addresses, after OFAC announced its sanctions.
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Questions received last month: |
Can addresses be blacklisted from using USDT or USDC?
Yes. Both tokens have functions built into their smart contracts to blacklist addresses from interacting with their token. These addresses are labelled with "Blocked" on Etherscan.
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Why do some ENS names have * and bolded characters in their name?
ENS names may include unicode characters used to mislead others, such as added accents or even invisible changes to a character. The bolded characters and * allow users to easily identify names with these characters.
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Confused with some terms in this newsletter?
Remember to check the Etherscan glossary! |
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How well do you know Etherscan's features? Answer and stand to win $10 in ETH!
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