Ethereum week update

This week in Ethereum

-$ETH had $10b+ in revenue in 2021. -Vitalik Buterin says the Merge will happen by July.

-Ethereum Creator Revenue was $3.5b+ in 2021.

-PayPal is exploring a stablecoin.

-Ethereum has more developers than Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, & Bitcoin combined.

-ETH total revenue this week was over $272m.

-ETH growth rate is expected to surpass BTC again in 2022.

-Ethereum staking post merge is projected at 10.5% APY.

-ETH did 89x the fee revenue of BTC this week.

-VitalikButerin releases Multidimensional EIP-1559 proposal .

-TimBeiko hosts 1st Ethereum All Core Devs meeting of the year.

-MyCrypto’s Gnosis Chain implementation now supports EIP-1559 .

-Over 1.4m ETH have been burned since EIP-1559 went live.

-BanklessHQ releases How use zkSync guide.

-polygonscan announces ERC-1155 support.

-optimismPBC fees are now ~30% cheaper.

-31.7b gas spent in Dec to settle L2 transactions.

-Ethereum Foundation research team hosted Reddit AMA on 1/7.