Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
- Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
- Dencun testing overview
- Timelines for a short lived devnet 9 & upgrading public testnets to be discussed on next ACDE call
- KZG Ceremony finished with 141,416 contributions, largest ceremony ever
Layer 1
- Holešky testnet (Goerli replacement)
- Genesis file generated, launches September 15 with 1.46M validators
- ACDC agreed to change Shapella upgrade to epoch 256, validator ejection balance to 28 hETH and support compressed genesis state
- Dapplion: Whisk (SSLE) expensive duty discovery can be solved using a validator’s public key
For stakers
- Geth still supermajority EL client based on self-reported data from large pools & entities
- Siren v1 (Lighthouse’s validator management UI): monitor node & validator health
Client releases
- Consensus layer:
- Execution layer:
- Besu v23.7.1: performance & stability improvements, updated dependencies and extended functionality of EVM tool & RPC trace modules
- Reth v0.1.0-alpha.7: fixes for crawlers reaching nodes, RPC & txpool and rudimentary eth_getProof support for accounts
Research
- Super-finality confirmation rule for Casper, can implement client-side/wallets using Beacon API
- Proof of Validator: anonymous credential scheme for Distributed Hash Table participants
Layer 2
- RISC Zero Zeth: zk block prover based on revm
- Base uses 2/2 upgrade multisig (Optimism Foundation & Base)
- Coinbase will contribute minimum 2.5% of Base sequencer revenue to Optimism Collective for RetroPGF & ecosystem projects
- Optimism granting up to ~118M OP tokens (2.7% of supply) over 6 years to Coinbase
EIPs/Standards
- Updated EIP editor handbook (EIP5069)
- ERCs (application layer):
The Tornado Cash devs helped bring privacy to Ethereum. In return, the US federal government is trying to put them in jail
Watch Ameen Soleimani discuss the injustice of the US federal charges brought against Roman Storm and Roman Semenov for writing open source code. (Or listen)
Donate to the legal defense fund. (KYC required)
Stuff for developers
- Foundry:
- Vulcan v0.2.0 (dev framework): adds gas estimation and deployment address calculation
- Cast rpc with jwt secret allows Engine API calls to EL
- Full Stack dapp workshop using ScaffoldETH-2 and The Graph
- Ape Framework code coverage guide
- Ape-hackathon-kit: develop contracts in Ape framework and web apps in Next.js, Tailwind, RainbowKit & wagmi
- WhatsABI v0.8.0 (guesses ABI from bytecode): tested with ethers.js v5/6 & viem, bundle size reduced to 12KB
- TrueBlocks v1 and EF grant report
- tx2uml v1.1.23: adds options to hide parameter names/values in trace; v1.1.24 supports Base
- wagmi mipd: TypeScript utilities for ERC6963 (Multi Injected Provider Discovery)
- CTFs:
- Curta CTF: devtooligan’s Elohim solution
- Paradigm CTF October 28-30
- Cryogen: consolidate parquets into larger chunks for smaller datasets & faster queries
Security
- Balancer v2 pools vulnerability disclosed, withdraw affected LPs
Ecosystem
- Danny Ryan rebuts Lido’s claim that dual governance mitigates risks to Ethereum as Lido nears 33% of stake
- Hackathon projects: ETHToronto, ETHWomen and Ethereum Argentina
- Etherscan search bar shortcut: press “/”
Notable at app layer
- Privacy & Scaling Explorations Bandada v1: create/manage privacy-preserving groups of anons
- ScopeLift: DAO voting from Layer 2 with flexible voting, proof of concept
- Base apps:
- Friend Tech adds photo sharing with key holders
- StoryBase: fee per character collaborative writing, snippets minted as NFTs
- Parody bike race: mint/steal NFTs of NYC Citi Bikes in 10 day race
Job Listings
- EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team seek ZK circuits engineer
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit). Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Roman Semenov & Roman Storm (Tornado Cash co-founders) unjustly charged with conspiracy to launder money because they wrote open source code:
- Roman Storm arrested and out on bail.
- OFAC sanctioned Roman Semenov
- Donate to legal defense fund. (KYC required)
- web3 Builders: interview with Ameen Soleimani about the charges
- Nate Chastain sentenced to 3 months jail, $50k fine + proceeds for OpenSea insider trading
- Bitstamp ending Ethereum staking for US customers
- USDC changes: Circle to control issuance & Coinbase taking equity stake in Circle
- Proposed draconian US tax rules would require KYC for most blockchain transfers and blocking US citizens from nearly everything, comments open until October 30
General
- BlockFi, FTX & Genesis bankruptcy claimants data stolen from Kroll via T-Mobile SIM swap
- MACI v1 trusted setup ceremony
- Arnaucube: intuition for ProtoGalaxy folding scheme
- Soundness notions for Interactive Oracle Proofs (IOPs)
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Aug 28-30 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
- Aug 29 – Gitcoin Grants 18 ends (support Week in Ethereum News)
- Aug 31 – Sep 3 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
- Sep 1-3 – Ethcon Korea hackathon
- Sep 7-9 – ETHAccra hackathon
- Sep 10-12 – Ethereum Singapore hackathon & conference
- Sep 11-13 – DappCon (Berlin)
- Sep 15 – Protocol Berg (Berlin)
- Sep 15-17 – ETHChicago conference & hackathon
- Sep 15 – Holešky testnet genesis
- Sep 18-24 – ETHSafari (Kilifi Kenya)
- Sep 21–24 – Pragma & ETHGlobal New York
- Oct 5-6 – ETHMilan conference
- Oct 6-8 – ETHRome hackathon
- Oct 6-27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
- Oct 28-30 – Paradigm CTF
- Oct 13-15 – Ethereum Kuala Lumpur conference & hackathon
- Oct 21 – Ethereum México
- Oct 22-24 – ETH Hong Kong
- Oct 27-29 – ETH Miami festival & hackathon
- Oct 27-29 – ETH Vietnam
- Oct 27-29 – ETH London hackathon
- Oct 31 – Road to Devcon grants deadline (max $1k for local meetups)
- Nov 3-5 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
- Nov 3-5 – ETHBrno
- Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)
- Nov 16-19 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Istanbul
- Dec 4-5 – ETHVenice
- Dec 8-10 – ETHGlobal ETHIndia (Bangalore)
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