Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest Turbogeth alpha release
- Notes from latest Stateless Ethereum call
- Latest core dev call. Beiko’s notes.
- Increase gas price for SLOAD to 2300; CALL family, EXT* family and BALANCE to 2500
- EVM384: can we do fast crypto in the EVM?
- eip2666 benchmarking
- EIP1559 decreases the risk of 51% attacks
- Tim Roughgarden contracted to simulate eip1559 and escalator algo
Eth2
- This week, the Medalla testnet recovered from a catastrophic event and is finalizing again. Prysmatic’s catalog of events and Ben Edgington’s shorter writeup
- Shout it from the rooftops: client diversity matters. If you prefer to hear that in video form, I made a short video on why the incident shows we need client diversity (and why the incident is great for eth2!)
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- SigmaPrime’s BeaconFuzz update on bug finding – you can help fuzz eth2 clients using the dockerized fuzzer
- Lighthouse client update, nailing attestation inclusion
- Lodestar client update, lessons learned from Medalla and browser ready light client
- Nimbus client update, performance and stability fixes
- Tutorial to using rumor for client debugging
- an eth2 clock
- A list of eth2 tooling
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Mamy
- ZenGo initial results on VDF design cryptanalysis
Layer2
- USDT live on OMG
- Golem picks zk sync
- dYdX announces they’re planning a q4 StarkWare rollup
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Stuff for developers
- Test your Solidity code with the Echida fuzzer
- Sam Sun finds a xSNXa bug
- OpenZeppelin upgrades for Buidler and Truffle
- Golem wasm and VM payloads alpha release for devs
- Dynamic value arrays in Solidity
- For new web3 devs, remember: Ethereum code is not a database
- Debug and profile together with Tenderly Organizations
Ecosystem
- MetaMask restricts commercial use forks with more than 10k users
- How to get your old ENS deposit back and we’re now halfway through the decaying price premium for expired ENS domains
- Ethereum Foundation: beyond just ecosystem grants
Enterprise
- SAP.com: SAP integration with Ethereum mainnet
- AWS: mint tokens with BurnerFactory and monitor them with BlockScout
- TheBlock research report on CBDCs (central bank digital currencies)
Application layer
- More than 10b USD on ethereum (now 11.3b) after 1b migrated from Tron to ETH
- A primer on Synthetix futures
- YieldSpace, an automated liquidity provider using time to maturity as an input
- Opium’s credit default swaps using Aave credit delegation
- Andre Cronje is now going to do yinsure
- Arbol goes live with parametric rainfall insurance
- DeFi Safety: a score based on “process quality”
- POAP doing Merkle AirDrops and tool to create raffles
- Multis using Unlock for monthly automatic subscription fees
- Yield farming with Set
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- A framework for token value flows
- Haseeb Qureshi: Unbundling Uniswap
- Preparing your ERC20 token to list on Coinbase
- Proof of personhood paper, a review of sybil-resistance
- Hasu: YAM is a Nakamoto scheme
General
- MyCrypto: 10 steps to avoid getting hacked in crypto
- Binance on collaborating with governments to thwart ransomware ring
- Elaine Shi’s Foundations of Distributed Consensus & Blockchains textbook is available for free
- Brave research on using AZTEC confidential payments on a Quorum POA sidechain
- Sergio Demian Lerner: Satoshi had an optimized miner he didn’t release publicly
- Vitalik on philosophy of blockchain coordination and the accompanying X of n trust models in blockchains
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Dates of Note
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- Aug 28-29 – Chainlink’s Smart Contract Virtual Summit
- Oct 2-30 – EthOnline hackathon
- Nov 6-7 – virtual Trufflecon
- Nov 16 – MetaMask Provider breaking changes