Eth News and Links
Mainnet
- Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes, discussion of what is needed to turn off PoW, mainnet Berlin fork set for April 14
- List of EVM features possibly worth deleting. Let’s rip the bandaids off, turning off PoW (“the merge”) is the opportunity
- Anyone want to become an EIP editor?
- EthereumJS’s Typescript EVM release with critical bugfixes
- Micah Zoltu’s argument for adding BLS precompile in London fork
- London fork with EIP1559 scheduled for July, when the difficulty bomb starts to go off
- Understanding how EIP1559 helps congestion control
Proof of Stake
- eth proof of stake date to slot converter
- New Lighthouse release will help head/target attestations for whole network, so if you’re running Lighthouse, please upgrade!
- Withdrawal credentials merged, should enable trustless staking pools
Layer2
- Celer’s cBridge, a cross-layer2 network for cheap, instant value transfers on EVM chains. Production ready, UI coming.
- layer2.finance: pool layer2 transactions from many users into a single transaction using Celer’s State Guardian Network for the rollup, coming in a month or two.
- Loopring’s rollup dex hasn’t been around long, has already done 500m USD, and is now doing $30m a day
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Stuff for developers
- Defi Simulation with Tenderly, spin up instant forks and manipulate the state/blockheight to simulate transactions
- How to stream pending transactions with ethersjs
- Prysmatic: finding an elusive bug where database calls were inperformant on startup
- Infura: why use Infura Transactions instead of your own in-house relayer
Security/incidents
- Samsun found bug in hashmasks sale, could have re-entrancy minted thousands of hashmasks
- Primitive Finance found a bug related to infinite approvals and rescued most funds
- Immunefi advocates for a scaling bug bounty
- Malicious Hardhat npm package on hardhat-waffle instead of @nomiclabs/hardhat-waffle. Hardhat has now squatted relevant package names. Beware of trusted code!
- Use strong Fiat-Shamir transformation and be careful when implementing snarks
- Reviews DAO: peer audits via barter
- An Eth code security checklist
Ecosystem
- Nvidia is introducing an Ethereum ASIC miner
- Why miners can be simultaneously paid too much and yet struggling to survive: miners as a group are overpaid yet individual miners are barely breaking even
Enterprise
- Christie’s to auction a Beeple NFT, it’s first purely digital art auction. It will also accept ETH for payment.
- Dubai government free trade zone will now accept ETH, BTC, and Tether
- Expo IDE puts some of its treasury into ETH. The devs know.
Application layer
- NyanCat creator sells NyanCat NFT for 300 ETH (~$600k) on Foundation
- Rai is live on mainnet. An Eth-collateralized asset with a reflexive self-peg set by interest rates
- Ideamarket on mainnet: bonding curves for Twitter accounts.
- uniswap over 100b lifetime volume
- PoolTogether incentivizes deposits to their no-loss lottery with the POOL governance token. Deposits have skyrocketed ~100x
- Ribbon finance is on mainnet with a strangle option strategy – an aggregator of Hegic and Opyn
Regulation/business/tokens
- Vitalik reflects on his post-election nTrump stacking
- Rekt.news says cryptoart is art: lots of money laundering
- NFTs as “port of entry” for internet media
General
- RFP for a full verification of the Pickles SNARK on Ethereum
- Consensus for async distributed key gen
- Apple takes steps to thwart M1 Mac “Silver Sparrow” malware
- Robinhood announces it will enable deposits and withdrawals for crypto
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Feb 28 – Nimbus Grafana dashboard submissions due
- Mar 1-5 – Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Program office hours
- Mar 5 – Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop
- Mar 19-21 – ETHGlobal’s NFT Hack
- Apr 9 – May 14 – ETHGlobal’s Scaling Ethereum hackathon
- April 14 – Berlin upgrade fork (testnets: Ropsten Mar 10, Goerli Mar 17, Rinkeby Mar 24)
- May 14 – papers due for WoSCA 2021
- Jul 20-22 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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