TLDR Crypto 2022-07-25

The founders of Three Arrows Capital have spoken in an interview with Bloomberg. They denied pulling money from the fund before its collapse. Investors claim that the fund owes them $2.8 billion. The founders declined to say where they were, but their ultimate destination is the United Arab Emirates. They say they are cooperating with authorities while trying to keep a low profile.

FTX is planning to offer early liquidity to customers of Voyager Digital. It is working with West Realm Shires and Alameda Ventures to allow Voyager customers to create new accounts on FTX with an opening cash balance funded by an early distribution on a portion of their bankruptcy claims. Customers will be able to withdraw the cash immediately or use it to purchase assets on FTX. Voyager customers are not required to participate in the plan.

Zoonies is the first Solana NFT project to use OpenSea's new launchpad feature. The launchpad feature allows collectors to mint NFTs during a primary sale. Zoonies did not immediately sell out, and some of the NFTs have been sold or are listed at below the public mint price on OpenSea's secondary marketplace. The project is considering cutting its supply down to secure its 'sold out' tag without a lengthy wait.

Uniswap is integrating Sudoswap to allow users to purchase NFTs on the platform while accessing the on-chain liquidity provided by sudoAMM. sudoAMM is an automated market maker that allows digital assets to be traded using liquidity pools rather than a marketplace. It allows users to create pools that gradually buy or sell NFTs along price curves, provide liquidity to NFT pools to earn fees, and directly list NFTs at fixed prices. The integration will allow users to purchase NFTs on Uniswap while accessing the on-chain liquidity offered by sudoAMM.

Five key phases need to be completed before Ethereum will be able to process 100,000 transactions per second. The Merge will make Ethereum a deflationary asset and cut its power usage by 99%. The Surge will introduce Sharding and significantly increase the network's scalability. The Verge will introduce verkle trees and optimize storage and help reduce node size. The Purge will reduce the hard drive space needed for validators, reducing network congestion. The Splurge will involve a series of miscellaneous smaller upgrades to ensure the network runs smoothly.

ZK-rollups can prove that a complex calculation has been successfully and accurately completed without showing the whole computation. They put a lot of information into a little proof, which then gets posted to Ethereum. ZK-rollups are faster and cheaper to transact on than layer 1 Ethereum and they are a key part of Ethereum's scaling plan. Polygon, Scroll, and Matter Labs have recently announced zkEVMs. For users, zkEVMs will mean cheaper fees, fewer security assumptions, quicker transactions, and a better user experience.

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FTX is preparing to become the dominant player by buying struggling companies during the bear market.

The next generation of Polkadot's governance system will aim to solve issues with centralization, but some things won't change.

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The acquisition of Bitvo is part of a global push targeting regulated companies in various jurisdictions.

This Twitter thread analyzes 10 whale wallets with a combined portfolio size of around $450 million.