Eth News and Links
Eth1
- 1559 update: more testing, tx pool management fine. 1559 Mainnet checklist
- Latest 1559 implementation call. Beiko’s notes
- Alexandria state network update – full header chain available in Jan
Proof of Stake
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Mamy and Ben. Early planning for q1/q2 2021 fork, to shift some accounting to mid-epoch and add light clients
- This week, we crossed 1 billion USD worth of ETH in the deposit contract (no link)
Layer 2
- Optimism testnet adds fraud proofs, with a 3.2 eth bounty for anyone who finds their fraudulent transaction
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.8, say goodbye to SafeMath, internal errors will revert instead of invalid
- Solidity 0.7.6, better support for calldata types, fallback function can return data
- ethersjs is now equally as used as web3js
- MyCrypto’s testnet faucet – Kovan, Rinkeby, Ropsten, Goerli
- TheGraph launches on mainnet for decentralized indexing, subgraphs will begin migrating to decentralized in 2021
Security and incidents
- Slither v0.7, adds 26 detectors including what would have caught last week’s Aave bug, plus support for Solidity top level objects
- Neat: run the Aave exploit in a Hardhat repo
- Warp Finance (something I’d never heard of until it got attacked) got attacked for 6.8m in DAI/USDC (plus 1400 ETH) by swapping nearly 200m on Uniswap and 50m on dydx which depegged the price of WETH. Warp managed to get ~75% back of the DAI/USDC
Ecosystem
- OpenGrants: long-term incentives for open source through streaming payments. First grant is 3600 ETH for Eth2 development
- Money movers: compare value moved by ETH vs other blockchains
- Sassal’s Eth now vs eth then. Comparing stats of when ETH first crossed $500 and where it is now.
Enterprise
- Microsoft DRAM/SSD orders, shipments, and assets track and trace for Azure using private chain built on Quorum
- EY and Microsoft expand XBox’s royalty management to be end-to-end. Also on a private Quorum chain
Application layer
- Tornado.cash now incentivizing deposits to increase privacy (“the anonymity set”) through a token. Plus airdrop for early users
- USM “minimalist stablecoin” on mainnet, though in size-limited “baby form”
- Beeple makes 3.5m USD in last weekend’s cryptoart sale
- Sorare signs up Real Madrid and Gerard Piqué in the same week
- Defi777 is on mainnet. Wrap your erc20 tokens so you don’t have to approve and then you can interact with protocols by sending to an ENS name
- Treum’s Swether – design your Christmas sweater NFT (plus free sweatshirt with that logo if in US)
Regulation/business/tokens
- CME announced ETH futures to launch Feb 8. Cash settled, 1 contract = 50 ETH
- CFTC releases Digital Assets Primer
- Germany legalizes securities on chain
- Mnuchin’s ill-considered midnight rulemaking proposal on crypto addresses
- Coinbase submits S-1 to begin IPO process
General
- Halo Infinite, any additive polynomial commitment scheme
- Prover time comparison of GKR+Groth16 vs. Groth16 for proving MiMC hashes
- Compound announces PoA appchain plans; governed by COMP, with a collateralized stablecoin as the unit for paying fees.
- Multiple US federal agencies compromised in attack on SolarWind. The feds are blaming Russian state action
- Deleting Google’s malware to 10x your machine’s performance: Chrome (and Keystone)
Job Listings
- Passionate about DeFi? Join us and drive BD at mStable
- SigmaPrime is hiring a blockchain security engineer
- 0x looking for devs of all types and a Matcha marketing manager
- Chainlink Labs is looking for a DevOps Engineer (Monitoring)
- Nexus Mutual: experienced Solidity dev in Euro timezones
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Dec 22 – Deadline to apply for proof of stake community grants
- Jan 15 – Feb 7 – ETHGlobal’s Market Make hackathon
- Feb 5-12 – ETHDenver (virtual)
- Apr 6-8 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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