Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes: ephemeral yolov3 testnet launched, Berlin testnet tentatively Feb 24, aiming at Berlin fork in late q1/early q2, eth/66 discussion, EVM384/precompile discussion
- A call for devs interested in light clients and stateless Ethereum
Eth2
- Workshop video for merging mainnet with proof of stake as well as data shards
- Afri benchmarks the eth2 clients. Headline: “I would consider all of them production-ready”
- Staked got slashed from running redundancies. Never run two machines with same staking key and never disable slashing protection!
- Spectroscope: eth2 node monitoring tool
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Stuff for developers
- OpenZeppelin Contracts v3.4: erc777 security fix, virtual view functions, erc20 permit, beacon proxy, minimal proxy
- Latest Truffle releases add lots of Vyper support/features
- Vertigo v1.3, mutation testing framework now works with Hardhat
- Latest vscode solidity adds “import” autocomplete support
- App storage pattern for state variables in Solidity
- Austin Griffith’s flash loans intro
Security/incidents
- yearn got hacked via flashloans depegging oracle for 11m DAI, yearn stopped it while in progress and saved ~70% of the DAI. Some safeguard shields had been lowered to encourage moving to v2. A walkthrough of the attack
- Dedaub finds a DeFlast vulnerability by decompiling the closed source code and finding it lacked safeguards
- Artifact minting exploit via randomness in Dark Forest game
- Petty: what is a security audit and how should you prep for it?
- Writing your code properties with Scribble
- ArmorFi massive bug bounty pays off as Alexander Schlindwein found a vulnerability and got a (mostly vested) 7 figure payout
- Echidna v1.6.1, Eth code fuzzer now allows using compiler metadata to detect which contracts are deployed and performance optimizations for reverts
Ecosystem
- Ethereum crossed 1 billion transactions this week
- Gasnow.org adds historical data on gas price for the last week by hour/day
- Micah Zoltu: how Eth governance functions
- Noyes: what is MEV, how much is there, where are we now and tomorrow, and 1559 helps mitigate it
- epheph’s MEV of the week. Another example of the Flashbots tools
- Umbra stealth payments aiming to be on mainnet in a couple months
Enterprise
- In early 2022, Visa to issue a card for businesses to transact directly in USDC. I checked: ~99% of USDC is on Ethereum.
- EY and BSN partnering to deliver its Ethereum OpsChain product in China
- EEA’s dev tool survey results
- Setup a Clique POA network with Nethermind
- IBM Blockchain cut to zero. Never bet against Ethereum.
Application layer
- Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda is selling a crypto art NFT on Zora
- Gas fees are high, Uniswap still at record number of traders
- Short Bitcoin without having to short Bitcoin: short Bitcoin dominance on UMA
- Balancer v2 in next few months, currently being audited: uses less gas, customizable AMM logic, better capital efficiency. Single vault holds all assets in Balancer
- Balancer is partially reimbursing gas costs in select pools for users of its UI
- How to short using Synthetix
- Nexus Mutual can now invest the mutual’s funds
- APwine, tokenized future yield for Aave and Curve
- Long dated options: Primitive says their September dated options are longest in Defi
- ever.eth: Everest’s onchain directory of individual and entity KYC/data, where each record gets a subdomain
- autem.eth: a minimal wills and trusts app via dead man switch
Regulation/business/tokens
- Grayscale’s Ethereum valuation thesis: ETH as money, ETH as consumable commodity, ETH as interest bearing asset
- CME’s ETH futures goes live today at 6pm EST
General
- Status compares what messengers can really see. All the “private” messengers aren’t private.
- Attacking OSS using abandoned resources
- Brave at 25m MAUs, more than doubling in a year
- Chrome/Chromium 0day found. Immediately update your browser
Job Listing
- Showtime, the NFT social network, is hiring for a founding engineer
- Pocket is hiring a developer growth lead to supercharge dev adoption←apply
- Trail of Bits is looking for a technical editor/writer & security engineer
- 0x looking for devs of all types and a data analyst
- Reddit: Senior backend/Ethereum engineer
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Feb 7 – CME launches ETH futures
- Feb 9 – Stateless Ethereum call
- Mar 5 – Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop
- May 14 – papers due for WoSCA 2021
- Jul 20-22 – EthCC4 (Paris)
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