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1. ETH’s weekly summary a. ETH Research Grant announces round 2 recap and result link The Ethereum Research Grant has completed its second funding round at DoraHacks.io. Out of the 26 teams that applied for the grants, five were chosen to receive grants of $5,000 in total based on their community voting ranking. Here are the grantees selected from the 2nd round applicants of ETH Research Grant, ranked by MACI community voting: Antsyb, Eigen Network, Topia, DeGov MODEL, MemeBook. b. Ethereum node operators urged to upgrade ahead of Shanghai/Capella upgrade link All node operators on Ethereum are encouraged to upgrade their nodes in advance of the upgrade, which is scheduled to activate on April 12, 2023 at 6:27 PM (ET). The maximum bug bounty for identifying a vulnerability in the Shanghai/Capella upgrade has been doubled from $250,000 to $500,000 between now and the time of the fork. 2. MakerDAO to keep USDC as its primary reserve link On March 24, the MakerDAO community voted to keep ...

A new project aims to use the Internet of Things to let smartphone users establish nodes, providing connectivity to IoT smart devices. Smartphones could become an integral part of blockchain networks, powering connect ivity between smart devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) industry. Nodle is the firm behind a connectivity platform that incentivizes users to become nodes of an IoT network. Making use of the increasing proliferation of smartphones worldwide, the network uses Bluetooth connectivity to rent computing power, storage and Bluetooth capability of devices to broaden the footprint of IoT networks. Nodle CEO Micha Anthenor Benoliel outlined details of the project in an interview with Cointelegraph, which looks to tap into a global network of electronic devices connected through Bluetooth Low Energy communication. Leveraging the ability to communicate with smartphones through this connectivity, Nodle’s network taps into a worldwide pool of devices and computing power witho...

Author: @0xMavWisdom The VR track project has regained attention with the recent CZ shoutout, and just in time Highstreet is riding the wave with a marketing partnership with Jay Chou. CoinGecko data shows that Highstreet’s native Token HIGH rose over 300% in January, and the floor price of the Genesis NFT Forever Fomo Duck Squad has risen from 0.55E at the beginning of January to the current 1.3E. Dubbed “Shopify on a Chain,” Highstreet is a business-centric metaverse platform that combines shopping, gaming, NFT, legacy brands and cryptocurrency brands with MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) gaming experiences. Founded by Travis Wu and Jenny Guo, Highstreet was formerly known as LumiereVR, a company founded in 2015 with virtual reality as its primary means of doing business. The VR company’s predecessor coupled with partnerships with great hardware manufacturers like HTC gave Highstreet the technical foundation to build its metaverse. Like Axie Infinity, Star Atla...