Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest Turbogeth weekly release
- Sponsored transaction precompile draft
- Piper’s state availability doc
Proof of Stake launch
- Deposit contract at least 2 weeks away, pending audit report of blst BLS sig library
- Context: Justin Drake writes the history of BLS sigs and Eth2
- Mass-slashable unavailability faults
Layer2
- StarkWare’s plans for layer2 interoperability, aiming at q1 2021
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.7.4 bugfix when copying empty byte arrays from memory/calldata to storage
- B̶u̶i̶d̶l̶e̶r̶ is now Hardhat; much easier mainnet forking, better support for multiple solc versions in production
- Tenderly’s deep integration with Hardhat, with accompanying guide
- Truffle v5.1.50, now with web3js v1.2.9
- Chainlink VRF now providing randomness on mainnet
- Prestwich’s memview-sol: memory access with runtime typechecking in Solidity
- Falsehoods that Ethereum devs believe
- Detecting ownership takeovers using Mythril
- Trail of Bits intern on using n-grams in SlithIR and machine learning on their audit reports; data prep is hard!
- A story of saving 200m in DeFi cover from getting bricked
- How Argent upgraded to Solidity v0.6
- 3box’s IDX, an SDK for decentralized identities (DIDs)
- A more gas efficient version of WETH
- Autoconnect your Unity game to MetaMask
- Learning Solidity for attorneys
- Austin Griffith’s eth.build course for web devs new to eth on BlockGeeks
Ecosystem
- Ethereum is on pace to settle over 1 trillion USD in 2020 eth tx volume
- Mamba: Cicada 3301 for web3
- Vitalik’s round 7 gitcoin matching review
- Some Medalla data challenge submissions:
- Splunk dashboard with health score
- Some whale data viz over time
- Elias Simos and Sid Shekhar plethora of stats
Enterprise
- Provide and Unibright merging into a “low-code, end-to-end Baseline integration suite”
- Baselining the end consumer, how people use mainnet without knowing it
- Villanova sending private Ethereum chain into space on a satellite
- Interact with the chain using Curvegrid’s Google Sheets add-on
Application layer
- Defi now has a yield curve: Yield Protocol is live with beta launch. Fixed-term, fixed-rate lending/borrowing, or add liquidity.
- pooltogether v3 is live, removed admin control, randomness via VRF, rewards for deposits and referrals
- Novel Air Pollution Measurement System on Ethereum
- a synthetic token for impermanent loss via prediction market
- DeFiSaver’s loan shifter to easily move between protocols and assets
- Opolis Employment Commons unveils tokenization system for processing payroll or getting health insurance through the commons
- Music streaming platform Audius on mainnet; airdrop to 10k most popular artists
Regulation/business/tokens
- Federal bank regulator Brian Brooks compares banks in the age of DeFi to the post office in the age of email
- Kik settles with the SEC by paying $5m and freezing their 3 trillion tokens
- de la Rouviere: seasons & longevity of community tokens
- web3 ownership will eat the software that’s eaten the world
General
- PayPal adds ETH and BTC in the US, held by Paxos. Venmo to follow.
- GridPlus’s Lattice1 hardware wallet ships pre-orders
- Reason’s cypherpunk series, video 3
- Build a high performance fuzzer with GPUs for 10x performance in the cloud
Job Listings
- Want a new challenge? mStable seeks experienced Smart Contract/Protocol Dev
- DeFi devs! Yield is hiring for Solidity and front-end – contact@yield.is
- 0x hiring a Matcha marketing manager and all flavors of developers
- Chainlink has 30+ openings at the moment across marketing, ops, & devs
- Trail of Bits hiring blockchain security engineers & cryptography analyst
- Celer hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Oct 29 – ETHBKK
- Oct 30 – Ethereum’s Impact on the World – ETHOnline summit
- Oct 31 – submission deadline for Underhanded Solidity Contest
- Nov 6-7 – virtual Trufflecon
- Nov 16 – MetaMask Provider breaking changes
- Nov 19 – EthBerlin 2.5: Talk Show
- Dec 3 – Ethereum in the Enterprise – Asia Pacific
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