Eth News and Links
Eth1
- EIP1559 fee market change simulations, assuming demand is exogenous
- EVM Bytecode Merklization – merklize code chunks for block witnesses, estimates 40-60% reduction
- Some more estimates on code merklization based on recent blocks
Eth2
- Bitfly’s explanations of eth2 block explorer charts
- PegaSys’s Teku client fully syncs with the Lighthouse testnet
- Latest Nimbus client update. Getting up to the multi-client testnet spec, networking improvements, interop ready with Lighthouse
- SigmaPrime’s update fuzzing the eth2 clients. Catching bugs, new fuzzing engine
- Work on formally verifying the eth2 spec using Dafny
- A look at the GUI for Rocketpool’s decentralized staking pool
- Aditya’s how FFG is implemented in Eth2 explainer
Eth2, post-BeaconChain launch
- A design for merging eth1 and eth2 clients to turn off PoW
- Better attestation aggregation algos
- Verifiable precompiled contracts
- An approach for cross-shard transfers at EE level
Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.6.6 and v0.6.5 – ‘immutable’ new major feature, tuple assignment bugfix, and memory array creation overflow bugfix
- Truffle v5.1.21 adds Solidity’s immutable
- wighawag’s Buidler Deployment Plugin
- Not new, but a comparison of ethers.js and web3js
- Example of using web3modal (former web3connect) with vanilla Javascript
- MelonJS v1 to interact with Melon’s deployed code
- Tool for decoding Ethereum storage
- Arrays and maps in Solidity
- Yul+ Remix plugin
- Chainlink redeployed ETHUSD contract; 2 weeks to migrate from old code
- Maintaining offchain NFT data using IPFS
- SQL queries on DuneAnalytics tutorial
- Django with web3py tutorial
Ecosystem
- discv5: an explainer of Eth networking’s peer discovery protocol
- Eth brand survey
Enterprise
- from the founder of Simple, Sila: payments API to take on ACH
- EEA mainnet survey
- Hyperledger Besu v1.4.3 – adds eth/65 for better networking, issue found for private transactions created with v1.3.4 and before
Governance, DAOs, and standards
- MakerDAO’s 13 improvement proposals to decentralize governance
- TheLAO launches April 28
- how to create a bankless DAO
- EIP2593: Escalator algo fee market change
Application layer
- Reddit is rolling out the tokenization of it its karma for more than just r/EthTrader?
- Status v1.2, adds Waku to replace Whisper for better messaging
- SmokeSignal.eth, post by burning Dai interface prioritizes higher burn
- Autumated dollar cost averaging of your stablecoins on Uniswap
- Suggestions and programs in Colony
- Overview of DxDAO’s Omen prediction markets
- Inspect, DeFi transparency registry
- Fairmint’s continuous securities offering is live on mainnet
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- PieDAO’s BTC++ is live on mainnet, a token of comprised of multiple versions of locked/synthetic BTC
- Is tokenized BTC on Ethereum good for ETH?
- Top 10 use cases of Dai
- NFTScribe – attach a message onchain to an NFT while you own it
- a16zcrypto: crypto’s biz model isn’t that different but who benefits is
General
- Chicago DeFi Alliance formed to connect market makers and DeFi startups
- CryptoHack: online puzzles to learn cryptography
- UTokyo paper on digital courts
- You can join the trusted setup ceremony for Semaphore, a zk privacy layer for apps
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Apr 19 – deadline to apply to EthGlobal’s HackMoney virtual hackathon
- Apr 21-23 – EY Global Blockchain Virtual Summit
- Apr 24-26 – EthTurin
- Apr 29-30 – SoliditySummit (Berlin)
- May 8-9 – Ethereal Summit (NYC)
- May 22-31 – Ethereum Madrid public health virtual hackathon
- June 17 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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