- Week in Ethereum News
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- Week in Ethereum News July 5, 2020
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Week in Ethereum News
Week in Ethereum News
June 6, 2021
Eth News and Links
Mainnet execution layer
- OpenEthereum are sunsetting the legacy Parity codebase and are instead working on Akula (Rust version of Erigon – formerly Turbogeth). OpenEthereum v3 functionality including tracing being added to Erigon
- Geth changing default to snap sync from fast sync (
11hrs)
EIPs/Standards
- EIP3601: Fractional NFT with Royalty Distribution system
Proof of stake consensus layer
- Latest what’s new in PoS: 6 months of Beacon Chain – one major incident, >150k validators staking
5m ETH
Layer2
- Uniswap V3 live on Arbitrum after community vote. Currently only for Arbitrum listed devs, no changes required once open to the public
- Interact and deploy to Arbitrum mainnet via Alchemy
- Deep dive into zkSync 2.0 architecture: includes zkEVM which supports most opcodes
- Non-technical intro to rollups
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Stuff for developers
- Update to ethers v5.3.0+ to prevent a DoS issue in earlier versions of ws if you’re using WebSockets in node and allow users to enter their own URL
- JS-Waku: library to use Waku v2 in the browser, dapps can send/receive p2p messages, query for missed messages and send with confirmations
- NFT.Storage: free decentralized storage and bandwidth via IPFS and Filecoin
- Approve and transfer ERC20 tokens atomically using Flashbots
- Solidity library to read and write to a storage slot
- Go-ethereum transaction signer for AWS Key Management Service managed private keys
- Circom and snarkJS library now support PLONK
- Open Source Insights: interactive view of open source dependencies
- Ethereum Stackexchange moderator elections
Security
- Tincho from OpenZeppelin: make your auditors love you tweet storm
- Due to the number of projects on Binance Smart Chain being hacked, we’ll only mention them going forward if they are truly massive or technically interesting
Ecosystem
Enterprise
- ConsenSys private transaction manager Tessera integrated with Hyperledger Besu. Orion being sunset
- Norton 360 adding Ethereum mining (reminder: PoW turning off in
Application layer
- Umbra: stealth address payment protocol beta live. Payer sends funds to a new address, controlled by the receiver and known only to both parties
- Uniswap V3 fee calculator
- Nexus Mutual yield token cover for up to 90% of loss if yield bearing token de-pegs in value >10%, currently available for yEarn and Curve
- 1inch adds flashbot transactions
- Matcha v2: fiat on-ramp via MoonPay and OTC trades avoid front-running or sandwich attacks
- ETH flipped BTC in several metrics in May including settling more value
Regulation/business/tokens
- Reserve Bank of India advises banks not to use its repealed anti-crypto order from 2018
- Google to allow US advertising for exchanges and wallets (only banks and registered money transmitters)
- Fee volume > PoS issuance even at 6 month low
General
Job Listings
- Argent is hiring Layer 2 Solidity Engineers, JS Full Stack, iOS & Android
- Quant (DeFi Options): Solidity Eng, Designer, Marketing Lead, DevOps
- A leader in the NFT ecosystem, Immutable, are hiring a Head of Blockchain
- Livepeer is hiring a Protocol Engineer
- Kumavis from MetaMask is looking for a JavaScript Security Engineer
- Nomic Labs are hiring: Snr Software Engineer and Lead Software Architect
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- June 16 – July 1 – proposed dates for Gitcoin Grants Round 10
- June 16 – July 7 – Gitcoin Grants Round 10 Hackathon
- June 18 – July 9 – ETHGlobal – Hack Money 2021
- June 23 – Ethereum Foundation PoS team AMA
- June 25-27 – Edcon (Shenzhen/online)
- July 10 – Road to Devcon Quest: Devcon Trivia Game
- July 28 – tentative date for London hard fork (Ropsten June 23, Goerli June 30, Rinkeby July 7)
- July 20-22 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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Week in Ethereum News
Week in Ethereum News
Jan 18, 2021
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Eth2
- Latest what’s new in eth2. The chain “could hardly be running better.” Upgrade in
6 months to fine-tune and reset slashing penalties.
Layer2
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Stuff for developers
Security/incidents
Ecosystem
Application layer
- Notional finance fixed-rate loaning launches on mainnet
- Yield has fixed-rate, fixed-term loans for Maker using flash loans
- Personal tokens this week from techno DJ Carl Cox, Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, indie rockers Portugal the man, and DJ 3LAU
- Cream’s Ironbank – protocols get whitelisted and then can borrow up to credit limit without collateral
- 1559 will allow Oiler to create native gas price derivatives
- Stablecoin designs: Fei, a dollarcoin collateralized by ETH on a bonding curve
- Coinbase, Kraken, Binance and Gemini users can buy cover for custody risk on Nexus Mutual
Regulation/business/tokens
General
Job Listings
- Trail of Bits is looking for a technical editor/writer & security engineer
- Nexus Mutual: experienced Solidity dev in Euro timezones
- 0x looking for devs of all types and a Matcha marketing manager
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Jan 22 – Feb 21 – EthIndia’s EtherPunk hackathon
- Feb 5-12 – EthDenver (virtual)
- Mar 5 – Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop
- Apr 6-8 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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Week in Ethereum News
Week in Ethereum News
July 5, 2020
Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Nethermind v1.8.60 memory usage during sync reduced 70%
- Ethereum without block limits
- Igor Mandrigin explains the ReGenesis proposal for curbing state growth with transaction witnesses
- a proposed binary trie format – no more RLP?
Eth2
- Altona multiclient testnet launched almost a week ago with Lighthouse, Nimbus, Prysmatic and Teku clients and (so far) is stable. One more testnet after Altona until launch.
- Step by step guide to run an Altona validator on Raspberry Pi4B 8 GB
- Prysmatic client update
- Weak subjectivity in eth2
- Deanonymization using time sync
- Public single leader election with secret probabilistic backup
Layer2
- IvanOnTech rollups explainer
- Brick async payment channels implemented in Solidity (revised arxiv paper)
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Stuff for developers
- Gelato automation protocol is live on mainnet, an IFTTT-like way to automate Eth contract execution
- Hack on eth2+libp2p at HackFS
- buidler deploy. Buidler plugin to deploy contracts to any network with same testing environment
- seth now lets you step through the transaction in debugging
- Debugging your transaction with Tenderly
- A simple ABI decoder
- Build Ethereum apps on Python with EthVigil SDK
- Vyper v0.2 – breaking changes release
- State machines in Solidity
- Class features provided by Solidity
- 1inch writeup of Balancer deflationary’s token issue which BalancerLabs chose to cover for affected users
Ecosystem
- Transaction fees on Ethereum in first half of 2020 (44m) exceed 2019 (34m)
- the plan for Waku v2 private p2p messaging
- Austin Griffith’s xmoon exchange: get your Reddit MOONs onto mainnet
- Quadratic matching with MACI (anti-collusion) explainer
- MetaMask v8 – better privacy, better onboarding, erc1193 provider api
DAOs and Standards
Application layer
- Synthetix launches binary options
- 0x’s Matcha dex aggregator is live with a focus on non-hardcore traders
- MCDex launches 10x ETH perpetual with the funding rate coming from the automated market maker
- It’s now easier to host on IPFS the latest Uniswap frontend
- MakerDAO is exploring Peg Stabilization Modules, ie stablecoin to stablecoin trading
- Augur v2 launches July 28
- dxDao launches Omen prediction markets using Realit.IO and Kleros as oracles and available atomen.eth or omen.eth.link
Tokens/Business/Regulation
General
- Swarm released Bee client v0.1 and announced a future token sale
- Staking is now live on Matic Network
- Skale sidechains launches with POA and no transfers
- Attacking less than 85 Lightning Network channels will result in a successful attack
- Harry Denley rescued a victim’s 5k from a fake TrustWallet app in the GooglePlay store by DOSing the Telegram API
Job Listings
- GridPlus is hiring US remote firmware engineers.
- Donut is looking for a CTO to bring DeFi to the masses. Interested?
- 0x is hiring full-stack, back-end, front-end engineers + 1 data scientist
- Trail of Bits is looking for masters of low-level security. Apply here.
- Celer Network: Android developer
- Chainlink: Senior Software Engineer and Lead Test Engineer
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- July 6-Aug 6 – HackFS Filecoin/IPFS and Ethereum hackathon
- July 10 – next core dev call
- July 10 – eth2 research team Reddit AMA
- July 20 – Fork the World MetaCartel hackathon
- July 28 – Augur v2 launch
- July 30 – EEA’s Ethereum in the Enterprise 2020 virtual conference
- Aug 2 – ENS grace period begins to end
- Oct 2-Oct 30 – EthOnline hackathon
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