Eth News and Links
Mainnet
- Options for controlling state size growth
- Using verkle tries for eth state
- A pay-for-storage model for evolving tree hashed data structures
- GetNodeData DHT approach to state availability
- Transaction gossip network for light clients
Proof of Stake
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Alex, discussion of what goes in the first network upgrade, draft spec in the next couple weeks to turn off PoW
- chaind v0.2, get data off your eth2 node
- 1 million in staking community grants from EF
- Adrian Sutton’s hard truths for eth stakers. Those truths didn’t seem that hard to me.
- Dankrad: it’s important to go stateless
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Stuff for developers
- solc-select v0.2 for easy switching between Solidity versions
- Remix IDE v0.10.10
- Intro to Solidity’s fuzzing approach
- Coding Roulette in Solidity tutorial
- Automatically verify your code with Sourcify
- Find the unit test failures in your code with Tarantula, implemented in a VScode plugin
- Infura TX, autobump gas prices metarelayer, is live on mainnet
- Hardhat plugin to fetch the ABI for you
- Setup a vending machine that accepts crypto payments with Arduino device
Security/incidents
- Paradigm CTF solution writeups: Christoph Michel, Stephane, Ansgar Dietrichs
- yearn clone BT got hit for 1.5m with the same attack as last week’s yearn attack
- AlphaHomora 38m hack in a series of complicated transactions. If you were still confused, check out Bartek Kiepuszewski’s explanation
- ArmorFi bug bounty exploit writeup, a mistaken hardcoded value
- Dedaub finds another no-source code exploit, this time in an arb bot with no checks on who calls the function
- Flashbots and MEV over the last month. MEV-geth has 3-4% of hashrate
- Dependency confusion: successful supply chain attacks against BigTech. MetaMask’s Lavamoat tools for sandboxing your dependencies
Ecosystem
- Check for claimable airdrops and POAPs
- Hackathon submissions from MarketMake and EthDenver, and the winners for MarketMake and EthDenver
- Coingecko adds an easy way to get tokens into MetaMask
- Etherscan now shows the cost for standard types of transactions
- Secureum with more case studies to teach users how to read audits
- Although it’s long been clear that EIP1559 is the most popular EIP ever, there’s a #SupportEIP1559 campaign
Enterprise
- “Mastercard will start supporting select cryptocurrencies directly on our network”
- Amazon had job listings up for digital payments in Mexico, but after it was reported the job listings were removed
- BNYMellon developing a prototype for digital asset custody and administration. Deutsche Bank getting into custody and prime brokerage
Application layer
- Colony v2 soft launches DAO platform
- synthetix’s $TSLA synth, and with afterhours trading on Balancer
- YAM doing ustonks on UMA, 10 synthetic stocks of r/WallStreetBets’s favorites
- mStable does a tokenized BTC basket, mBTC
- Contribute to clr.fund round 4; it’s live, using MACI’s snark magic to hide who you donate to
- themanymatts.lol: Matt Condon gives out NFTs to people who find the stickers he leaves around the world or who meet him and hit the chip in his hand.
Regulation/business/tokens
- Mark Cuban: “ETH has an advantage over BTC as a store of value“
- St Louis Fed publishes DeFi overview and review
- People have been talking privately about how much MetaMask is making, Tom Schmidt tweeted it. They’re sustainable.
- Simon dlr: exploring NFTs for authors, experimenting with NFTs for his novel
General
- Tim Swanson: Bitcoin and other proof of work coins are an environmental nightmare
- Matic rebrands as Polygon to implement Mihailo Bjelic’s EVM network vision
- GridPlus’s Lattice hardware wallet is back on sale! And now with an affiliate program – if you want to support this newsletter and haven’t yet bought the Ethereum community’s hardware wallet, then click the link
Job Listing
- NEAR is looking for an EVM interoperability engineer
- Trail of Bits is looking for a technical editor/writer & security engineer
- 0x looking for devs of all types and a data analyst
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Feb 28 – Nimbus Grafana dashboard submissions due
- Mar 5 – Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop
- Apr 9 – May 14 – ETHGlobal’s Scaling Ethereum hackathon
- May 14 – papers due for WoSCA 2021
- Jul 20-22 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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