Eth News and Links
Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
- Latest core devs execution call video. Notes from Ben Edgington
- Discussion of using gwei and using same formats in EL/CL
- Capella release candidate spec
- Why is Warm Coinbase (gas repricing) being added to Shapella?
Cancun + Deneb
- KZG Ceremony is live!
- ~57 more days in the first general contribution period (currently a long wait)
- ~2500 have already contributed. Only one contributor needs to be honest
- Latest 4844 implementer call video. Notes from Terence
- devnet4 coming up before public testnet
Layer 1
- EF research AMA is a mustread from start to finish
- Various topics: the need for more than just 4844, technological solutions thwart attempted censorship, what is Ethereum good for anyway?, coming to consensus on roadmap prioritization, minimizing EVM changes for zkEVM, should Ethereum ossify?, synchronous composability across zkrollups and what is the Robust Incentives Group working on?
- Lido benchmarks DVT (DVT decentralizes staking pools)
Client releases
- Consensus Layer
- Lighthouse v3.4, high priority release. Proposer boost reorgs should incentivize performance improvements
- Execution layer
- Erigon v2.34, a few releases this week with debug trace improvements, multicore CPU threading and MBDX upgrade
MEV
- Flashbots privacy roast
- Prestwich: the next 5 years of MEV
- Crazy frontrun: frontrunner copies exploiter’s 4 previous transactions over 50+ blocks
Layer 2
EIPs/Standards
- ERC6150: Hierarchical NFTs
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Stuff for developers
- Hardhat and Foundry plugin v1
- Foundry toolchain now caches RPC calls in CI flows
- If you’ve deployed a contract to Mainnet, Goerli, or Sepolia before Nov 15, 2022, you can claim 10 goerli + 10 sepolia eth
- Chugsplash: tool to deploy and upgrade smart contracts securely
- Turborepo starter kit: NextJS, WAGMI, Ethers, Tailwind, Hardhat, Typechain
- Paul Berg on solving stack too deep
- Now over 225 contracts to fork and easily deploy on Cookbook.dev
- Node health monitoring tool
Security
- Damn Vulnerable Defi v3
- slither v0.9.2, 2 new detectors, integrates OpenAI’s codex to generate natspec and find bugs with GPT3
- Beware of Multi-block MEV and Compound Governor
- 2022 in Ethereum security review
Ecosystem
- DAOdrops: 250k USDC retroactive goods funding to be distributed via vote by 1) DAO voters, 2) POAP holders, 3) code deployers. Nominations open now.
- Randomness on Ethereum using SNARKs and VDFs
- Proof of concept to use Nym to anonymize RPC calls
- PeltaShield: tool to simulate your transactions via RPC call
Enterprise
- Norwegian government using Arbitrum to maintain cap tables of unlisted companies
- Société Générale withdraws 7 million Dai of its 30m Dai authorization backed by home loan bonds
Application layer
- Zkitter: post under your username or anon, public key written to Arbitrum for account recovery. Uses various zk tools: Interep, RLN, Semaphore
- chai.money back online to accrue the DSR on your Dai (currently 1%)
- Get the risk-free rate onchain? Ondo to tokenize 3 different ETFs of US treasuries/bonds and will fork Compound for its security tokens
- Revamped Gitcoin Grants alpha round launches next week with open source, Eth infra and climate solutions matching pools
- Ethunwrapp: retrospective of your onchain activity in 2022
Job Listings
- Arx, creators of KONG Cash and HaLo tags is hiring a Solidity developer.
- Status is hiring a Technical Writer for Waku Product, all other jobs here
- Join a16z-backed Story Protocol as a founding smart contract developer.
- Lighthouse seeking support tech to help its stakers
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet or Layer 2. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Wyre saved and processing withdrawals normally
- Gemini accuses Genesis of fraud
- SEC charges Gemini and Genesis calling GeminiEarn a security
- Nexo raided by Bulgarian police
- Treasury dodges Emmer inquiry over Tornado sanctions
- Metropolitan drops crypto.com and all other crypto clients
General/crypto
- Benchmarking RISC Zero and Polygon Miden
- A primer on pairings
- S𝛑PETs: private transactions using ECDSA or Schnorr
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Upcoming Dates of Note
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