Eth News and Links
Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
- Shapella withdrawal-devnet-1 is finalizing
- The Merge had pandas, Capella has owls: Lodestar & Nimbus display owls at Capella transition for withdrOWLs
Cancun + D-starname upgrade
- EIP4844 (proto-danksharding) devnet 3 user guide
Layer 1
- TX-Fuzz v1.0.0: create random transactions, used to break withdrawal-devnet-0
- Afri: configure a network to use PoS from genesis, with Geth + Lodestar
- Lido: Distributed Validator Technology (DVT) pilot with Obol Network on testnet
- Evolution of Gasper (Ethereum Proof of Stake protocol)
Research
- Flashbots: running Geth inside SGX
Client releases
- Consensus Layer:
- Nimbus v22.12.0: improves doppelganger detection in the Nimbus validator client
Layer 2
- Polygon zkEVM testnet updated with recursion, faster proof time & batch aggregation
- Intmax (zk-rollup) testnet, command line only
- Justin Drake: SGX as pragmatic hedge against zk-rollup SNARK vulnerabilities
- Arbitrum:
- Taiko: rollup decentralization, definitions & high-level ideas
EIPs/Standards
- EIP6170: Cross chain messaging interface
- EIP6188: Nonce cap
- EIP6189: Alias contracts
- EIP6190: Functional SELFDESTRUCT
- EIP6206: EOF – JUMPF instruction
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Stuff for developers
- SELFDESTRUCT is deprecated, avoid using it as functionality will change
- Solarray: helper to initialize dynamic arrays in one line, useful for Foundry tests
- Quickpoc: create a sandbox for a mainnet verified contract including dependencies using Foundry
- Bash Foundry helpers: convenience methods & aliases
- Exploring upgradeable contracts by implementing a basic proxy
- Overview of Solidity storage packing
- Nexth: Next.js starter kit with Chakra UI, TypeScript, ConnectKit & wagmi
- Guide to understanding transaction call data
- TrueBlocks docker: local indexing & data access, beta
- Sourcify-snap: MetaMask snap displays function NatSpec from Sourcify
- Fleek Non Fungible Apps: NFT with on-chain metadata about an app, proof of concept
- Go-waku v0.3.0: adds new protocols peer exchange & device pairing
- Wallet devs call notes
Security
- High level process for understanding a code base
Ecosystem
- ETHGlobal 2023 events: Tokyo, Istanbul, Toronto, Paris, New York & Devcon plus virtual events Scaling Ethereum & ETHOnline
- Columbia CryptoEconomics workshop videos
- Ethereum.org non-English pageviews doubled from 14% to 28% in past year
- Nethermind: Systematization of Knowledge for decentralized identities & verifiable credentials
Enterprise
- Visa experiments with automated payments using account abstraction on StarkNet
Application layer
- Synthetix Perps v2 live on Optimism; trading on Kwenta & Decentrex
- Seatbelt (simulate on-chain DAO proposals) adds support for OpenZeppelin Governors
- Zodiac governor module: enable DAO on-chain voting for a Safe multi-sig
- Guide to reviewing a governance action
- SushiSwap voted to divert 100% of xSushi fees to treasury
- 3th.ws: uncensored ENS IPFS resolver with dynamic Tor onion services
- Giveth holiday giving DeFi4Good campaign
Job Listings
- Join a16z-backed Story Protocol as a founding smart contract developer.
- Alchemy seeking Product Managers to build the future of web3.
- Ethereum Foundation seek a generalist ecosystem developer
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Regulation/business/tokens
- SBF released on bail after being extradited to US; Tornado Cash developer Alex Pertsev remains jailed in the Netherlands for a 5th month
- Caroline Ellison (former Alameda CEO) & Gary Wang (FTX co-founder) pled guilty to fraud and are cooperating with authorities
- Brian Armstrong: what regulatory clarity looks like
- Swiss judge mandates ConsenSys shareholder vote on transfer of MetaMask, Infura & Truffle to VC-backed entity
- New York Fed: DeFi better protects investors but needs to mitigate contract & oracle risk
- $30 billion in NFT wash trading, 44% of volume traded
General
- LastPass attacker copied customer password vaults, users with a weak master password should change everything
- TikTok confirms its employees accessed data of US users, including reporters
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Upcoming Dates of Note
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- Jan 8 – Solidity developer survey deadline
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- Jan 31 – KZG ceremony grants deadline
- Feb 24 – Mar 1 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek
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