Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Geth v1.9.22, bug fixes and a flag to override max gas price
- Weekly Turbogeth alpha. Much faster logs using roaring bitmaps.
- Using the Turbogeth API, a UI to find eth supply at any block
- Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s notes
- Transactions overhaul overview doc
- block header sync in light clients
EIPs/Standards
Proof of Stake launch
- Latest what’s new in eth2, the 2 year anniversary issue
- “I believe the deposit contract deployment to be days, not weeks, away.”
- eth2 quick update
- Spadina showed we need better client diversity, so another dress rehearsal named Zinken
- Eth2 client benchmarks
- SigmaPrime fuzzing found some slashing vulnerabilities and 2 bugs in blst library
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Mamy
- Attack via time servers and mitigation
- Attestant wrote their own validator client so they can switch between eth2 nodes
- secret shared validator PoC
- If you’re running in the cloud (not advised!), check out Kotal (switch clients and/or cloud providers easily) or 1 line helm/kubernetes cluster command to switch between Nimbus/Lighthouse
- Pintail has the first entry I’ve seen to the Medalla data challenge
Layer2
- Rollups as “fast pipes and smart VMs”
- Barry Whitehat on sidechains vs layer2. Echos of Georgios’ “sidechains are not layer2” tweetstorm
- Easy way to run a Raiden node
- The story of how Geohot helped fix Optimism’s transpiler
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.7.2 – bugfix for free functions; adds compiler-generated utility file export. Expanded SMTChecker.
- Jolly Roger: wighawag’s Eth app with PWA frontend template
- Damnvulnerabledefi.xyz: practice finding security holes
- Solidity bytes library had a bug in the slice method, please update
- Testing with waffle v3
- Solidity railroad grammar
- abi to sol: generate Solidity interface from ABI
- ethers-rs now has rust implementation of secp256k1
- NPM package to deploy to same address on EVM chains
- Coding a leaderboard tutorial in Solidity
- Breaking Eth nodes with TeaTime; 34 RPC scans
- How EMN got hacked this week using a flashloan
- Sam Sun finds bug on Incognito’s bridge
Ecosystem
- A rollup-centric Ethereum roadmap. Vitalik argues that we should make some rollup-friendly changes to mainnet; launch sharding for data availability for rollups (phase 1), then swap out proof of work for proof of stake. This is all happening soon™, whereas phase2 is not close (and maybe not necessary?)
- It’s been clear for awhile that this was Eth’s roadmap: eth2 is a rollup
- In September, miners made more from fees than block rewards
- An update on Waku v2 messaging, moving to libp2p, better routing, more nodes
- Devcon Bogotá: August 10-13, 2021
Enterprise
- EY Opschain Network Procurement: e2e private enterprise procurement on mainnet using Baseline Protocol
- SEC Chairman Clayton says all stocks could become tokenized
Application layer
- Uniswap’s volume exceeds Coinbase for the month of September
- Andre Cronje deployed some test code for a game from an address known to be his, and 15 million flooded in before a hacker found a bug and sent half back. Link in devs section for hack details.
- Augur: foundry.finance to easily provide liquidity to whether Trump will win, and a Uniswap-like interface for end users to predict Trump or Biden
- Aggregator wars: Matcha claims it has the best prices, adjusted for transaction fees
- RAC’s $TAPE is the most expensive cassette of all time. He’s also giving out $RAC to his supporters.
- DefiSaver adds Aave liquidation protection
- A new round of Dark Forest is live. Now spawn to safe spaces; uses burner wallets.
- Shield mining: any token can incentivize Nexus Mutual staking so that there is more Nexus Mutual coverage for their project
Regulation (“end of agency fiscal year” issue)
- SDNY judge rules against Kin in summary judgment (legal term for “Kin loses; not even close”)
- SEC forces Salt to repay investors from q2 2017 sale
- Bitmex charged by DOJ and CFTC for money laundering and unlawful operation of an exchange
- Americans are de facto no longer allowed to pay ransomware
- Venezuelan dictatorship attempts Eth-based dex to circumvent US sanctions
Business/tokens
- Wax announces Eth bridge: “Ethereum is best positioned to become the monetary system for all blockchains”
- Arjun Balaji: crypto market structure 3.0
- Moats in crypto
- The bull case for social tokens
- Danger Zhang: defi forks have been value acretive
- A liquidity mining taxonomy
General
- Stark-based VDFs
- Brave is at 20m monthly active users
- Life after losing crypto, a practical guide
- To help avoid losing crypto, learn how to read audit reports
Job Listings
- Livepeer is hiring a Blockchain Community Marketing + Ops Lead
- BnkToTheFuture is hiring a high performance dev team! Come create the future!
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- Trail of Bits hiring elite blockchain security engineers & app security
- DeFi devs! Yield is hiring for Solidity and front-end – contact@yield.is
- 0x is hiring devs! Full-stack, back-end, front-end or Solidity
- Celer Network: hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
- Nexus Mutual: experienced Solidity dev; prefer European timezones
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Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
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- Oct 20 – submission deadline for Medalla data challenge
- Oct 31 – submission deadline for Underhanded Solidity Contest
- Nov 6-7 – virtual Trufflecon
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