Eth News and Links
Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
- Update your nodes ready for mainnet Shapella upgrade on April 12, including both your beacon node & validator client
- Consensus layer mainnet releases:
- Execution layer mainnet releases:
- MEV-Boost v1.5.0
- Latest all core devs – execution (ACDE) call video. Summary by Tim Beiko. Notes from Tim Beiko & Christine Kim:
- Final Shapella mainnet shadow fork planned for next week
- Flag for EL to suggest CL override external builder to be added before Cancun
- SELFDESTRUCT removal (EIP6780) added as Cancun candidate
- EOF spec updated to avoid code & gas observability, too big to include in Cancun
- Proposal for trust-minimized CL access from EL inside the EVM
- Verkle trees readiness discussion for Prague upgrade
- EF mainnet Shapella announcement
For Stakers
- Beacon chain withdrawals technical explainer
- When to broadcast BLS address change
- Switch to a smaller pool after Shapella to make Ethereum more resilient
- Orange Pi 5 running Geth+Lighthouse, 139 €, syncs in ~27 hours
- Mac mini M1 running Geth+Nimbus, syncs in ~18 hours
Layer 2
- Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta, gas pricing as EVM but lacks some precompiles, Security Council initially, AGPL v3 license
- Linea (ConsenSys zkEVM) testnet now public
- Conduit managed rollups using OP Stack, with block explorer, RPCs, metrics & transaction tracer
- L2BEAT risk rosette: visualization of risks
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs:
- ERCs:
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Stuff for developers
- Foundry tip: warp to present time in base test setup function for more realistic testing
- Vulcan template: Foundry template using Vulcan development framework
- Protect against donation attacks on ERC4626 vaults & liquidity pools
- Gambit: Solidity mutation generator in Rust, integrated with Certora Prover
- Curta CTF: what are buckets solution
- Decipher EVM puzzles: extension of Franco’s EVM puzzles
- Ethereum-indexer: in-browser indexer in TypeScript for use in games/apps, demo
- P256 on EVM: demo of user onboarding, wallet creation using WebAuthn
- Arbiter v0.1.0: agent based analysis tool in Rust, beta
- Ethereum Attestation Service private data attestations using Merkle Trees
Security
- Tincho found ENS DNSSEC vulnerability in undeployed code, any DNSSEC name could be taken over, 100k bounty recommended
- DAO gas refund vulnerability, refund pots can be drained for DAOs with inexpensive tokens
- Euler exploiter returning funds
- Overview of sleuthing tools: Phalcon, MetaSleuth, Transaction tracer, ethtx and Tenderly
Ecosystem
- Optimism’s retroactive public goods funding round 2 recipients announced, 10 million OP shared by 195 projects
- Vitalik: SNARK-verify layer 1 using multiple Type 1 zkEVMs
- Etherscan adds option to use local time zone for time stamps
- ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum finalists
Enterprise
- Ticketmaster testing NFT gated ticket sales with metal band Avenged Sevenfold
Notable at app layer
- Maker voted for its constitution
- DeFi Saver adds limit orders & DCA strategies
- Sound Swap (music NFTs): 24 hour open editions & increasing price mints with instant selling
Job Listings
- EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison
- Nimbus is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer
- L2BEAT 💗 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer & Product Owner. Apply here!
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- CFTC charged Binance & CZ with law evasion & operating illegal derivatives exchange
- FDIC wants former Signature Bank crypto customers to cash out by April 5
- Bittrex exchange shutting US operations due to regulatory uncertainty
- NFT MEV strategies: mints, arbitrage & liquidations
General/crypto
- Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan: play commands at 16kHz-20kHz to attack voice assistants
- Bing CMS exploit allowed take over of Office 365 accounts
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Apr 5-8 – ETH Beijing hackathon
- Apr 8 – deadline for Scaffold-Eth-2 hackathon
- Apr 12 – Mainnet upgrades to Shapella
- Apr 12-14 – NFT NYC
- Apr 13-16 – Pragma Tokyo & ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon
- Apr 14-16 – EthereumZuri.ch conference & hackathon
- Apr 21-25 – EthTaipei hackathon & conference
- 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 2-6 – 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 22–24 – ETHGlobal New York
- Oct 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
- Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon
- Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
- November – Devconnect
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