Week in Ethereum News
July 8, 2023

Eth News and Links

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

  • Latest all core devs – execution (ACDE) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
    • Impact of EIP6404/6466 SSZ transition on existing contracts using RLP: EIP6404 is low impact whilst EIP6466 is manageable due to upgradeability of 3 impacted projects [Reminder: SSZ EIPs already removed from Dencun upgrade]
    • Dencun updates: devnet issue tracker, plan to stress test EIP4844 on devnet 7 & in parallel develop full set of Dencun EIPs for devnet 8
    • Discussion on Engine API flag for EL to suggest CL use local block building
  • EIP4844:

Client releases

  • Consensus layer:
    • Lighthouse v4.3.0: bandwidth reductions and slasher breaking changes: broadcasting enabled by default & backend reverted to LMDB
  • Execution layer:
    • Reth v0.1.0-alpha.2: Engine API stability improved, fixes for out of memory issues, RPC corner cases fixed including for tracing and added new metrics

For Stakers

Research

Layer 2

EIPs/Standards

  • EIPs:
    • EIP7266: Remove blake2f (0x09) precompile
  • ERCs (application layer):
    • ERC7265: Circuit breaker
    • ERC7272: Ethereum access token (authorize function calls from offchain service)
    • ERC7280: NFT metadata extension like JSON-LD
    • ERC7281: Sovereign bridged token (xERC20)
    • ERC7291: Purpose bound money (ERC1155 extension)

Stuff for developers

Security

Ecosystem

Notable at app layer


Job Listings

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Regulation/business/tokens

General


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