Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Geth v1.9.25, last in 1.9 series. Working on snapshot db and sync for next major release
- Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes, final steps for Berlin fork testnet
- Tim Beiko’s 1559 update, mainnet-sized testnets coming
- Wang, Zheng, et al, paper: ewasm slower than EVM in 256 bit and most 64 bit benchmarks
EIPs/Standards
Proof of Stake
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Mamy; everyone happy at how the chain is beating expectations
- A notebook on performance of the first 1000 epochs
- Understanding the minimum needed slashing protection
- Perfect is the enemy of the good: most stakers don’t need to worry about going down; the design is very forgiving of going offline for days
- Dangers of redundancy: running multiple validators on same key will likely eventually lead to slashing
- Lakshman explains how withdrawals will allow decentralized staking pools
- Creating eth2 withdrawal keys with ethdo
- A guide to staking on Mac with Lighthouse for those who don’t normally use terminal
- Etherchain’s mobile app for validator monitoring
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity Developer Survey 2020: tell Solidity what you want to see
- Remix over the last 6 months. (Studio is being deprecated)
- Scribble specification language and runtime verification tool
- web3api wasm standard for integrating eth into apps
- web3j now has solidity dependency management for npm importing
- Unity plugin to create NFTs on Eth and Matic
Security and incidents
- Symbolic execution with ds-test in hevm tutorial
- Trail of Bits’ Josselin Feist found an unintialized proxy in Aave v1 and v2 which could get self-destructed
- Immunefi: list of Ethereum bug bounties
Ecosystem
- Ethereum Foundation comprehensive update on what every EF team is doing
- Unlimited erc20 allowances considered harmful
Enterprise
- JPMorgan: first intraday repo market transaction using JPMCoin and digitized Treasuries. Built on Ethereum/Quorum.
- Two Japanese cities exploring online voting on Ethereum
- International standards body OASIS names Baseline Protocol their Outstanding New Initiative for 2020
- Hyperledger Besu releases Baseline Commitment Manager
Application layer
- Artist Beeple (1.7m instagram followers) auctioning 2020 collection on Niftygateway
- Rari is moving to Melon; it appears Melon is rebranding as Enzyme
- Cent is going to allowed verified Twitter accounts to sell NFTs of their tweet
Regulation/business/tokens
- Securities law and social tokens
- DeFi reveals that Bitcoin’s supply cap is the emperor with no clothes
- As Brian Armstrong warned us, rumors flying that Trump administration will issue ill-thought regulations requiring KYC on self-hosted wallets. Circle’s letter to Mnuchin points out that the regulations would benefit China at America’s expense. Four Republican representatives tell Mnuchin it’s a bad idea
General
- GridPlus’s Lattice hardware wallet store is open for North America, Europe, and Singapore
- Rogue Key attack on Joint-Feldman and DKG
- Brave Today: a privacy-first RSS reader. Neat architecture (private CDN)
- Electric Capital’s 2020 developer report highlights Ethereum’s dominance
Job Listings
- SigmaPrime is hiring a blockchain security engineer
- 0x looking for devs of all types and a Matcha marketing manager
- Nexus Mutual: experienced Solidity dev in Euro timezones
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Dec 17 – Gitcoin grants matching ends (here’s Week in Eth News)
- Dec 19 – SiliconValleyEth: Tim Roughgarden presentation
- Dec 19-20 – EthConKorea2020
- Dec 22 – Deadline to apply for proof of stake community grants
- Feb 5-12 – ETHDenver (virtual)
- Mar 2-4 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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