Hey team!
First off, Welcome @jazz! We are so stoked to welcome a new engineer to the team and benefit from his background and experience.
Last week was ETHDenver and from the looks of it, a ton was going on. Matt had great meetings with a lot of top firms who are all excited about XMTP, caught up with Paradigm and Katie Haun’s new firm, and many more.
It looks like ETHDenver is great conference with a lot of the best engineers and founders attending.
Let’s have a great week.
XMTP Updates
- A ton of great work by @petermdenton on the public websites and plan
- Wallet Connect demo and progress was great by eng
- Continuing to bring more developers into our Discord and community
- Our first GitHub contributor last week, yeehaw!
- Let’s work hard this week to define our public release date for our website, docs, SDK, and lite paper.
Crypto industry news
- Opensea had a serious Spoof situation that highlighted even more the need for trusted and secure communication channels with wallet auth built in https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/20/22943228/opensea-phishing-hack-smart-contract-bug-stolen-nft
- The Canadian government authorized banks and financial service providers, including cryptocompanies, to freeze or suspend accounts without a court order. The emergency powers were a part of an effort to choke off fund flows to protesting truckers who oppose Covid-19 restrictions. Link
- Georgia and Illinois are the latest US states to consider potential tax incentives for cryptominers. Link