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Ausgezeichnet Curve news amidst Ethereum's Berlin Upgrade

Ethereum’s Berlin fork went live yesterday, the first such update since Istanbul over a year ago. Most of the Berlin fork improvements are relatively modest stepping stones on the path to the seemingly more impactful London fork which will include the revolutionary EIP 1559. The major EIPs in Berlin include:

• EIP 2565: ModExp Gas Cost to reduce gas costs when using modular exponents

• EIP 2718: Typed Transaction Envelope introduces “envelope transactions” to allow backwards compatibility for future new transactions

• EIP 2929: State Access OpCodes actually increases gas prices for a denial-of-service attack vector

• EIP 2930: Access Lists implements a new transaction type (allowed by 2718) that can pass a specific list of addresses to save gas.

None of which should be causing any major impact immediately. Yet likely by sheer coincidence, we’re seeing a minor renaissance in DeFi. Gas prices have plummeted to as low as 60 gwei in some cases. There’s also been no break in the announcements from Curve crew over the past 24 hours.

Here’s everything you may have missed if you took time to blink:

Curve chief Michael Egorov spoke about Curve and Physics with Bitcoin Suisse’s event on Demystifying DeFi, the video of which is posted behind the registration wall here:

Curve Finance @CurveFinance

An online event with @BitcoinSuisseAG is happening right now, and we'll be speaking

crowdcast.ioDemystifying DeFi: A Closer Look - CrowdcastRegister now for Bitcoin Suisse’s event on Crowdcast, scheduled to go live on Wednesday April 14, 2021 at 5:30 pm CEST.

Three new metapools launch on Curve, FRAX, BUSD v2, and Liquidity Protocol:

Curve Finance @CurveFinance

3 new pools - frax [@fraxfinance], busdv2 [@binance] and lusd [@LiquityProtocol] are up in UI. They are all metapools (so can swap with 3Crv, USDT, USDC, DAI)

Liquity @LiquityProtocol

The $LUSD / 3Pool is now available on the @CurveFinance UI! 🎉 Find it here: curve.fi/lusd/

Convex Finance launches a platform to simplify access to entering Curve and boosting yields.

Convex Finance @ConvexFinance

Introducing Convex Finance! A new platform, built by Defi Natives, to simplify your Curve-boosting experience to maximize your yields. Read more here!

convexfinance.medium.comConvex Finance: Pre-Launch AnnouncementIntroducing Convex Finance, a platform built to boost rewards for CRV stakers and liquidity providers alike, all in a simple and easy to use interface. Convex aims to simplify staking on Curve, as…

Charlie - Curve.fi @charlie_eth

With another airdrop to veCRV holders.

Ellipsis Finance released its week 4 airdrop, and now represents 5% of BSC traffic:

Ellipsis @Ellipsisfi

#Ellipsisfinance is not even a month old and is currently capturing over 5% of the daily #BSC volume. Thank you for making $EPS the number 1 low slippage stable swap on #BinanceSmartChain

Curve’s largest transaction ever brings it close to rocketing into its 7th billy:

Curve Whale Watching @CurveSwaps

⬆️ Tri Pool deposit 321,899,302.37 DAI | USDC | USDT | LP & veCRV Holder Fee: $64,379.86 | Hash etherscan.io/tx/0x563630a61… | 🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙🦙

At this point Curve is integrated into so many protocols we may need to switch to an hourly newsletter.

J◎n Galt☀️ @JonGalt14

@gggonecrypto @CurveFinance Have you seen a tally of all the other services that rely on Curve for a signifcant part of their offering? I'll start: * Yearn * Harvest * Pickle * StakeDAO * Badger * Alchemix * Ellipsis * arguably Synthetix (cross asset swaps) * arguably Aave (flash loans) Others?

While this is not a newsletter for price discussion, if you are into such a thing you may be interested in checking elsewhere to see if there’s been any recent effect… 👀

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