Next week’s highlights:
opBNB will reduce network transaction fees for the first time on December 4;
Starknet will upgrade to V 0.13.0 on the testnet on December 5;
Optimism The third round of RetroPGF voting will end on December 7th;
Kava 15 mainnet will be launched on December 7, and the KAVA token inflation rate will be permanently reduced to zero;
BlockFi: Deadline for international customers to submit proof of debt is December 9.
From December 4 to December 10, more noteworthy events in the industry are as follows:
December 4
US judge sets criminal trial for Mango Markets attackers for December 4
Odaily Planet Daily reported that U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan announced that the criminal trial of Mango Markets attacker Avraham Eisenberg will be held on December 4. He is charged with commodity fraud, commodity manipulation and wire fraud, but has pleaded not guilty. Eisenberg faces up to 20 years in prison for wire fraud charges. (Bloomberg)
Hut 8 Completes Merger with USBTC; Common Stock to Begin Trading on December 4
Odaily Planet Daily News Hut 8 Mining Corp. (NASDAQ/TSX: HUT) announced the completion of its business merger with USBTC. As a U.S.-registered entity, Hut 8 Corp. officially operates, managing 825 megawatts of energy at 11 sites, and has self-mining, hosting, managed services and high-performance computing capabilities.
According to the press release, New Hut common shares will trade on the Nasdaq and Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HUT starting at the opening of trading on December 4, 2023. Hut 8 shareholders will receive 0.2 New Hut common shares for each Hut 8 share held, and USBTC shareholders will receive 0.6716 New Hut common shares for each USBTC share held.
Neo will upgrade to Neo-CLI v3.6.2 mainnet on December 4
Odaily Planet Daily News According to Neo's official Medium, Neo-CLI v3.6.2 was released on November 17, and will be deployed to the T 5 test network on November 21, and deployed to the main network on December 4. Improvements and optimizations in this version include: adding a new system call "CurrentSigners" to obtain the current transaction signer; adding a new function "StrLen" to the native StdLib contract name to obtain the string length in the smart contract; setting attribute fees for transactions with "conflict" attributes; adding a cancel command in neo-cli and rpc to cancel transactions that have not yet been on the chain.
This upgrade involves changes to the native contract and virtual machine. When upgrading, it is critical to resynchronize your data. Do not use the old version of the configuration file config.json.
Viction Horizon Hackathon opens, online submissions begin on December 4
Odaily Planet Daily News Layer 1 blockchain Viction (formerly TomoChain) announced the launch of the Viction Horizon Hackathon, with a total reward of more than 200,000 US dollars, covering five tracks: social, games, payments, stablecoins, and DeFi. The online submission time is from December 4 to December 27, 2023, the evaluation time is from December 28, 2023 to January 5, 2024, and the Demo Day time is from January 8 to January 9, 2024.
This hackathon is supported by Coin 98 Super Wallet, BTSE Exchange, DWF Labs, Verichains, Poolz, RockX, BlockPi, Renverse and Covalent.
opBNB will reduce network transaction fees for the first time on December 4
Odaily Planet Daily News As part of the new technology roadmap for the Layer 2 network opBNB, developers hope to more than double transaction speeds and cut network fees by 90%. According to the plan, this move will increase the number of transactions processed per second (TPS) from around 4,000 to 10,000 and reduce costs to $0.0005 within six months. The first fee reduction is scheduled for December 4, and the fee will be reduced from $0.005 to $0.001. (Coindesk)
DODO proposes to migrate 2 million tokens to Scroll and invest $100,000 in development funds. Voting will end on December 4th
Odaily Planet Daily News: DODO recently released the DIP-17 proposal, announcing plans to migrate 2 million DODO tokens to the zkEVM Layer 2 solution Scroll. The move aims to leverage Scroll's advanced technology to provide DODOX, DODO's cross-chain DEX aggregator, with greater scalability and performance. At the same time, the proposal also includes an allocation of $100,000 from the DODO Community Fund, which aims to promote Scroll's trading volume and user engagement through an ecosystem incentive program with liquidity and trading volume as milestones.
The proposal is now open for voting and will end at 5:00 p.m. on December 4th. The current approval rate is 100%.
December 5th
Starknet will upgrade to V 0.13.0 on the testnet on December 5
Odaily Planet Daily News Starknet Community Forum released the next version (V 0.12.3, V 0.13.0) and related information of Sepolia test network migration, including:
1. V 0.12.3 will bring a very important change, that is, the feeder gateway will be deprecated, and builders should migrate to the API service or run a full node independently; V 0.12.3 also introduces some changes to the _validate_ of the account contract;
2. V 0.13.0 will include a new transaction type V3. This transaction type lays the foundation for future features on the roadmap, including paying transaction fees in STRK in addition to ETH, fee markets, paymaster, and nonce generalization; In addition, V 0.13.0 will come with a new Cairo version V2.4.0, which introduces string literals and basic string operations;
3. The following are the planned dates for network upgrades:
- November 19, 2023: V 0.12.3 Goerli testnet;
- December 11, 2023: V 0.12.3 mainnet. Note that this is one week earlier than the previously communicated date;
- December 5, 2023: V 0.13.0 Goerli testnet. This date may be pushed back a week to December 13 if necessary;
- January 22, 2024: V 0.13.0 mainnet, awaiting governance voting;
4. In addition to version updates, Starknet will migrate the testnet to Sepolia after Goerli is deprecated. The Goerli testnet will be supported until the end of 2023, and developers are encouraged to migrate to Sepolia as much as possible.
Starknet will begin migrating to the Sepolia testnet on November 15, 2023. At that time, full nodes, API services, SDKs, and other Starknet development tools will also begin migrating to Sepolia.
Arbitrum community "ArbOS 11 version" proposal voting will end on December 5
Odaily Planet Daily reported that the Arbitrum community has started voting for the "ArbOS 11 version" AIP proposal, which will end at 06:11 on December 5th. The current support rate is 99.78%.
The proposal proposes to introduce several improvements to Arbitrum, including support for the EVM Shanghai upgrade and the PUSH 0 opcode, as well as various bug fixes. It is reported that these improvements have now been audited and are ready for adoption, involving the Arbitrum Orbit chain, Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova (the proposal involves the latter two), while the ArbOS upgrade can be regarded as an Arbitrum hard fork.
Arbitrum community voting on "community arbitrator" proposal ends on December 5
Odaily Planet Daily News: The Arbitrum community has started voting on the proposal to "empower early contributors: community arbitrators", which will end at 2:55 on December 5. The proposal proposes to distribute 500,000 ARBs equally to 24 members.
Cosmos Hub community proposal to allocate 600,000 ATOMs to pSTAKE will end on December 5
Odaily Planet Daily reported that the Cosmos Hub community is voting on the proposal to "allocate 600,000 ATOMs to pSTAKE for liquidity staking growth". The voting deadline is December 5th.
The proposal aims to increase ATOM liquidity staking on pSTAKE stkATOM by allocating 600,000 ATOMs as Cosmos Hub protocol owned liquidity (stkATOM Hub POL) on Astroport (Neutron) and Dexter (Persistence). In return, pSTAKE Finance (through PSTAKE governance) has committed to share 15% of its total ATOM liquidity staking revenue with the Cosmos Hub and waive the protocol fee (currently set at 5%) charged on 300,000 ATOM liquidity staking.
December 6
Binance Liquidity Mining will remove AAVE/ETH and other liquidity pools on December 6
According to the official announcement, based on the latest review results, Binance Liquidity Mining will remove the following liquidity pools at 12:00 on December 6 (Eastern Time Zone 8):
AAVE/BNB、AAVE/ETH、AAVE/USDT、AVAX/USDT、BCH/BNB、BCH/USDT、CAKE/USDT、CHZ/USDT、COMP/BTC、DOT/BNB、DUSK/USDT、DYDX/BTC、DYDX/USDT、EDU/BTC、FIL/USDT、FTM/USDT、GALA /USDT、GMT/BTC、GMT/USDT、HOOK/BTC、ICP/USDT、INJ/BNB、MANA/USDT、MATIC/BTC、NEAR/BTC、NEO/USDT、RUNE/USDT、SHIB/DOGE、SOL/BNB、TRX/USDT、USDC/USDT、VET/BTC、VET/ETH。
If the user still holds a position in the above liquidity pool, the system will automatically return the assets to the user's spot wallet at 12:00 on December 6 (Eastern Time 8).
Coinbase will suspend Polymath (POLY) trading on December 6
Odaily Planet Daily News According to official news, Coinbase will suspend Polymath (POLY) trading on Coinbase.com, Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Prime platforms at around 3 am Beijing time on December 6. POLY is migrating from Ethereum to Polymesh Network (POLYX). Coinbase currently has no plans to support POLYX. The deadline for upgrading POLY to POLYX is January 31, 2024. If users still hold POLY after the trading suspension, they will need to use the upgrade bridge and self-custodial wallet to convert POLY to POLYX before the upgrade bridge is closed on January 31, 2024, otherwise they may face significant losses of assets.
Republic plans to launch its digital security token Republic Note on INX on December 6
Odaily Planet Daily News: Financial services company Republic recently said in an email statement that it will launch its profit-sharing digital security token Republic Note on INX's trading platform through the Avalanche blockchain on December 6.
The security will provide investors with exposure to more than 750 private companies in Republic Ventures’ portfolio, including Web2 and Web3 companies, as well as assets such as SpaceX, Dapper Labs and Carta. It is reported that the token will be available to non-accredited investors with lower minimum investment levels. (CoinDesk)
December 7
Binance will delist BTS, PERL, TORN and WTC on December 7
Odaily Planet Daily News: According to the official announcement, Binance decided to stop trading and delist the following currencies at 11:00 on December 7 (Eastern Time 8): BitShares (BTS), PERL.eco (PERL), Tornado Cash (TORN), and Waltonchain (WTC).
Binance will soon delist the following trading pairs: BTS/USDT, PERL/USDT, TORN/BUSD, WTC/BTC, WTC/USDT. After trading is stopped, all pending orders will be automatically cancelled.
Coinbase International Exchange will launch MATIC and BCH perpetual contracts as early as December 7
Odaily Planet Daily News Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced will launch Polygon (MATIC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) perpetual contracts. MATIC-PERP and BCH-PERP markets will be open on or after 18:00 on December 7, 2023.
Coinbase will suspend QUICK trading and has no plans to support new tokens
Odaily Planet Daily reported that Coinbase posted on the X platform that it would suspend the trading of QUICK at 3:00 on December 7 (UTC+ 8). Coinbase stated that QUICK will split into new tokens at a ratio of 1000:1, but there is currently no plan to support the new version of the QUICK token.
Optimism 3rd round of RetroPGF voting will end on December 7
Odaily Planet Daily News: Optimism officially announced on the X platform that the third round of Retrospective Public Product Fundraising (RetroPGF) voting has officially begun and will end on December 7. 643 contributors to the Optimism ecosystem will be allocated 30 million OPs. The results and token distribution will be announced in early January 2024.
Kava 15 mainnet will be launched on December 7, and the KAVA token inflation rate will be permanently reduced to zero
Odaily Planet Daily News Kava Network officially announced that the Kava 15 mainnet will be launched on December 7, and plans to implement a new function, that is, to permanently reduce the KAVA inflation rate to zero at midnight UTC time on December 31. At that time, the circulating KAVA supply will be set to the maximum KAVA supply, and new KAVA coins cannot be created. KAVA tokens can only be destroyed. All KAVA inflation mechanisms are reset to zero or removed from the chain protocol, thereby strengthening Kava's commitment to a stable and predictable ecology.
After December 31st, the operation of the Kava chain will shift to a sustainable model driven by transaction fees, emissions from the native project, and temporary allocations from the Kava Foundation. This model aims to maintain and generate a net surplus of KAVA through on-chain activity. The Kava community will have the power to decide whether to destroy this surplus or reinvest it to promote further adoption, enhance security, and promote decentralization within the network.
Chainlink will open staking V0.2 in December, and early access will start on December 7
Odaily Planet Daily News Chainlink announced that staking V 0.2 will be launched this year, with the specific time being: Priority migration: 12:00 noon EST on November 28, 2023; Early access: 12:00 noon EST on December 7, 2023; General access: 12:00 noon EST on December 11, 2023.
XAI: Sentry node sales are expected to start on December 7
Odaily Planet Daily News Game Layer 3 solution XAI posted on the X platform that Xai Sentry node sales are expected to start at 12:00 on December 7, 2023. In addition, in order to maintain fair sales, there will be no private sales, no whitelists, and no special treatment.
Gabby World will release the final batch of Masterpiece series NFTs on December 7
Odaily Planet Daily News: The blockchain game Gabby World officially announced on the X platform that it will release the last 33 Masterpiece series NFTs on December 7.
December 8
Bytom announces strategic transformation plan, SuperTx service will be terminated on December 8, 2023
Odaily Planet Daily News BytomDAO (Bytom) officially announced the roadmap on the X platform and announced the BMC service suspension notice. At the same time, according to the new version of the white paper released by Bytom, Bytom Chain will transform into the AI track, committed to the combination of decentralization and AI, and will promote the implementation of the DAO governance mechanism and the launch of the AI ecological fund.
About the suspension notice: All nodes must retrieve their assets before 7:00 am (GMT time) on December 22, 2023. The operation of the SuperTx service will be terminated at 9:00 am (GMT time) on December 8, 2023. Users are advised to transfer SUP and other related assets to the mainnet. BMC has suspended all deposit functions. The detailed timetable and procedures for the ERC-20 token migration will be announced in a separate announcement.
The Provisional Autonomous Committee has decided that a limited-time buyback initiative will take effect immediately and will last until 9:00 AM (GMT) on December 15, 2023. This buyback is for early ICO participants who have not yet claimed their tokens and for participants who have already claimed their tokens. The buyback offer is 0.0345 USDT/BTM. After the buyback period, all unclaimed tokens will be donated to the DAO Treasury.
Sushi: V2 rewards program ends today, V3 rewards program will end on December 8
Odaily Planet Daily reported that according to official news, Sushi stated in a statement that with the completion of the minting of 250 million SUSHI tokens with a total supply, all SUSHI tokens are now in circulation and there will be no further unlocking, so the current reward plan will undergo major updates.
The V2 rewards program will end today, and the V3 rewards program is expected to end around December 8, 2023. There are 14 days left in the Merkl rewards distribution cycle.
Sushi also said that its future focus will shift to enhancing its token economic model.
December 9
BlockFi: Deadline for international customers to submit proof of debt is December 9
Odaily Planet Daily News BlockFi posted on the X platform that the Bermuda court order has set the final deadline for BlockFi International Ltd creditors to submit proof of debt as 16:00 ADT time on December 8 (3:00 Beijing time on December 9). If the creditor has already submitted a claim or the claim has been arranged in the United States, no further action is required.
December 10
Ethereum modular execution layer Fuel has launched its first quarter grant program, and applications will close on December 10
Odaily Planet Daily News: Ethereum modular execution layer Fuel posted on the X platform that it has launched the first quarter grant program. Each of the 10 projects will receive up to $50,000 in funding to build new Web3 use cases on Ethereum powered by FuelVM. The application period is from November 27 to December 10.
