Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
- Merge-ready execution client releases, update your nodes:
- Besu v22.7.1
- Erigon v2022.08.02-alpha
- Geth v1.10.23 (fix for pruning issue in v1.10.22)
- Nethermind v1.14.0
- Merge-ready consensus client releases:
- ethereum.org Merge announcement:
- 4x multiplier on Merge vulnerability bounties until September 8. Up to $1 million for critical bugs
- Reminder: node operators/stakers must run an execution and a consensus layer client
- Somer’s mainnet staking guides: Teku, Lighthouse, Nimbus & Prysm; migration guide for existing stakers
- Merge checklist for home stakers
- Flashbots Protect will be down during the Merge until MEV-boost goes live after ~10 epochs have been finalized
- mainnet-shadow-fork-12 merges August 31
- Merge data analysis & data visualization blog post challenge
Execution layer
- Erigon architectural changes for the Merge
- Sustainability analysis of danksharding on network bandwidth costs
- Data Availability Sampling explainer & open problems
Proof of Stake consensus layer
- Danny Ryan’s Finalized PoS update
- PoS implementers call video. Notes from Ben Edgington and Christine Kim
- Final regular edition of What’s New in Eth2
- MEV-boost relay monitor code, work in progress
- consensus-specs in Rust
- Graffiti fetch: outputs Beacon chain graffiti since an epoch as CSV
- Coinbase liquid staking token: withdraw Coinbase staked ETH on-chain
- Swell Network (liquid ETH staking) guarded launch controlled by the DAO
- Monitoring staking infrastructure at scale
Layer2
- Arbitrum Nitro whitepaper
EIPs/Standards
- EIP5505: ERC1155 asset backed NFT extension
- EIP5516: Soulbound multi-owned tokens
- EIP5521: Referable NFT
- EIP5528: Refundable token standard
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Stuff for developers
- Variable Rate Gradual Dutch Auctions: sell NFTs using a custom schedule
- Chuff (Huff utility contracts): ownable & safe math
- Delegatable Diamond: add Delegatable framework to ERC2535 contracts
- Maurelian’s Solidity sandbox: simple repo to play with Solidity using Foundry
- Setup a PoS devnet (Prysm+Geth) using Docker
- Truffle v5.5.28: Truffle Dashboard faster + dark mode
- titanoboa (Vyper interpreter) user definable precompiles
- Nethereum v4.8.0: Host wallet RPC methods, batch RPC, AWS Key Manager external signer, EIP712 JSON support and ENS unicode
- MEV CFMM arbitrage via convex optimization
- MEV searching post-Merge
- OxPARC zkPairing: proof-of-concept implementation of elliptic curve pairings in Circom
- Paradigm CTF 0xMonaco: resource management PvP racing game using contracts; writeups of first & second place + (patched) exploit to win in a single turn
Security
- NEAR Rainbow bridge unsuccessfully attacked again, watchdog detected attack & created a challenge transaction
Ecosystem
- Superphiz’s #stakefromhome: home stakers share photos of their setups
- Eric Wall: case for social slashing
- ETHGlobal ETH Mexico finalists
- Etherscan token transfer warnings for tokens with poor reputation
Enterprise
- EEA EthTrust security levels specification v1
- VMware Blockchain for Ethereum, SBFT consensus, beta; Infosys vital record management built on top
- Blockchains provide businesses certainty about the future
- Dashboard of big brand NFT revenue, NIKE leads thanks to RTFKT acquisition
Application layer
- Compound v3 is live, single borrowable asset, collateral won’t earn interest
- Maker & Huntingdon Valley Bank first commercial loan
- Uniswap Foundation to be created after 86 million UNI voted in favor
- Fei Labs proposal to wind down Tribe DAO, disagreement over repayment of hack victims
- eth.link down: domain due to be released September 5, beware of phishing attempts
- ETH.LIMO DNS over HTTPS resolver for ENS
- Coinbase cb.id subdomains live
- Aelin NFT Gated pools
- BendDAO (NFT lending) adjusts liquidation levels
Job Listings
- Gnosis Chain looking for Head of Bridges, Head of Validators & DevRel Eng.
- Remix: frontend React/Typescript dev
- Ethereum Foundation seek a generalist ecosystem developer
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet or Layer 2. Pay with one click using 3cities. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Coin Center: Tornado Cash explainer
- EFF representing Matthew Green for republishing the Tornado Cash repos on GitHub
- Alexey Pertsev pre-trial detention extended by up to 90 days
- Tether waiting on law enforcement instruction before freezing Tornado Cash addresses
- Coinbase US voter registration portal to support crypto-forward policymakers
General
- How crypto can resist being captured by centralized actors
- Decentralized identity: abstraction vs composability
- Virgil Griffith in solitary confinement due to lack of space, you can write to him
- Mudge claims Twitter has major security problems
- LastPass portions of source code stolen via compromised developer account
- Hetzner (cloud services) states PoW & PoS against their terms
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Aug 28 – Ethereum a New Era (San Francisco)
- Aug 29-31 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford)
- Sep 1-4 – ETHWarsaw (hackathon & conference)
- Sep 3 – Ethereum Lima day
- Sep 2-28 – ETHOnline (ETH Global)
- Sep 6 – Bellatrix upgrade (epoch: 144896)
- Sep 6-9 – MCON 2 (Denver)
- Sep 7-22 – Gitcoin Grants round 15
- Sep 9 – Merge Community Call #7
- Sep 9-11 – Ethereum SP (São Paulo)
- Sep 12-14 – DappCon (Berlin)
- Sep ~15 – the Merge (TTD: 58750000000000000000000)
- Sep 16-18 – EthBerlin
- Sep 23 – ETH HCMC summit (Ho Chi Minh)
- Sep 23-24 – ETHSantiago
- Oct 7-16 – Devcon week (Bogotá)
- Oct 7-9 – ETHBogotá (ETH Global)
- Oct 7-9 – Infinite hackathon (Bogotá)
- Oct 11-14 – Devcon 6 (Bogotá)
- Oct 18-23 – Eth Medellin (Colombia)
- Oct 28-30 – ETH Lisbon
- Nov 4-6 – ETHSanFrancisco (ETH Global)
- Nov 11-13 – ETHBrno (Czech Republic)
- Nov 18-20 – Web3 Weekend (ETH Global)
- Dec 2-4 – ETHIndia (ETH Global)
- Mar 2-5 – ETHDenver
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