Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
- A list of what exactly might make it into Dencun besides 4844 (protodankscaling). Discussion at the next call on April 27
- Latest consensus layer devs call. Notes from Christine Kim
- EIP4788 (expose CL state in EL) likely included in Dencun
- 4844 devnet5 next week
- discussion of long-lived subnets to reduce bandwidth use
- Latest 4844 implementor call
- KZG ceremony is open again for public contributions, but your Eth account needs over 128 mainnet transactions. If the waiting list declines, then the threshold will be reduced. Follow @carlbeek to find out if threshold is reduced
Layer 1
- Four options for transitioning to Verkle trees would look like
- Two slots proposer builder separation with unconditional payment
- Paprika, Nethermind’s experimental storage abstraction of Patricia tree
- Equivocation attacks in MEV-boost and ePBS
- Optimistic relays increase validator profits and are cheaper to maintain
For Stakers
- How to track the performance of your validator
- Benchmarking bandwidth consumption with Shapella (Geth and Lighthouse) finds ~20% increase
- Lighthouse v4.1 – fix excessive CPU usage
- Geth v.1.11.6
- Rocketpool Atlas upgrade live, allows staking with 8 ETH and triples Rocketpool’s capacity
- How to start running a distributed validator with Obol
Layer 2
- Client diversity coming with Optimism’s Bedrock upgrade:
- Magi, a16z’s Optimism client in rust
- OP-Erigon, a fork of Erigon for Optimism
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs:
- ERCs:
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Stuff for developers
- viem v0.3.x, bugfixes and ethcall batch aggregation
- wagmi’s plan for migrating to viem
- Diamond standard in Foundry
- ZeroMEV API, transaction level MEV summary data
Security
- Hundred hacked for 7.4m on Optimism, due to poorly deployed fork of compound v2
Ecosystem
- Scaffold-eth v2 hackathon winners
- ETH Tokyo winners
- Gas prices highest this week since the Merge (ie ~80 gwei during UTC day and ~35 gwei during UTC night) lead to over 100k burned since the Merge
- Devconnect announced in Istanbul for November 13-19
Enterprise
- Société Générale launches Euro stablecoin on mainnet
Notable at app layer
- Kwenta launches SmartMargin and currently has 3 different rewards programs for traders
- Use an onchain NFT as your Uniswap frontend
- Brantly Millegan’s proposal for an onchain follow protocol
- Who is delegating to you in DAOs?
- Ameen announces Hai, multi-collateral Rai fork on optimism
- Alchemix self-repaying .eth domains
- State of zk-apps in Ethereum
- What can you do with zk-ECDSA at the app layer?
Job Listings
- Snr React Native UI Dev at Status: All jobs
- Solidity team are looking for a highly skilled Dev Advocate
- EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Coinbase licensed in Bermuda to launch derivatives exchange
- Gensler repeatedly refuses to say ETH is not a security, even though in 2018 he recognized that ETH was not a security
- SEC labels Algorand an unregistered security in complaint against Bittrex.
- Gary Gensler’s contradiction in the middle
- Europe votes for uniform legal framework for EU crypto markets
- Next week Alex Pertsev to be released to house arrest to prepare for June trial
General/crypto
- Poseidon and Grobner basis attacks
- Consensys reports data leak of Metamask support tickets
- Tayvano on a mysterious wallet drainer, where there is no common thread between compromised keys
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Apr 25 – May 9 – Gitcoin Program Beta Round
- Apr 27-30 – Istanbul ETH Privacy conference & hackathon
- Apr 28 – deadline for EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 3
- May 5-10 – ETHTallinn hackathon & NFT Tallinn conference
- May 9-12 – EY blockchain summit
- May 12-14 – ETHGlobal Lisbon
- May 19-23 – EDCON Montenegro (changed from Vienna)
- May 20-21 – ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
- May 24-26 – Spaghett ETH (Naples) conference
- May 26-28 – ETHDublin hackathon
- Jun 2-4 – ETH Seoul
- Jun 2-7 – ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon
- Jun 9-11 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
- Jun 23–25 – ETHGlobal Waterloo (changed from Toronto)
- Jul 5-7 – ETHBarcelona
- Jul 17-20 – EthCC (Paris)
- Jul 21–23 – ETHGlobal Paris
- Aug 13-16 – ETHToronto & ETHWomen
- Aug 16-19 – Ethereum Argentina (Buenos Aires)
- Aug 28-30 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
- Aug 30 – Sep 3 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
- Sep 1-3 – Ethcon Korea hackathon
- Sep 10-12 – Ethereum Singapore hackathon & conference
- Sep 11-13 – DappCon (Berlin)
- Sep 15 – Protocol Berg (Berlin)
- Sep 18-21 – ETH Montréal hackathon & conference
- Sep 22–24 – ETHGlobal New York
- Oct 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
- Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon
- Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
- Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)
- Nov 17-19 – ETHIstanbul (EthGlobal)
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