Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade (meta EIP7569)
- Final public testnets upgrade to Dencun Jan 30 (Sepolia) & Feb 7 (Holešky)
- L2s testing blobs:
- RollCall (L2 standards) EIP4844 readiness call: L2s testing on Goerli or waiting for Sepolia & improving communications with core devs
- OP & Base devnets posting batches via blobs on Goerli testnet
- Starknet sent state diff blob on Goerli testnet
- Dencun interop testing call video: high memory usage after blob spamming, max churn limit (EIP7514) will be tested on Goerli and first blobs expire on Goerli Feb 5
- EF DevOps Attacknet: chaos testing tooling, plan to open source after Dencun
Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade (meta EIP7600)
- Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
- Electra upgrade scope (small cross layer fork targeting late 2024):
- Client team priorities: Lighthouse, Lodestar & Prysm
- Electra EIPs: EIP6110 (validator deposits onchain), EIP7002 (EL triggerable exits) & EIP7549 (move committee index outside attestation)
- Not in Electra: EIP6914 (reuse validator indices)
- Discussions ongoing: EIP7251 (increase max effective balance), EIP7547 (inclusion lists), EIP7594 (PeerDAS) & SSZification EIPs
- Electra upgrade scope (small cross layer fork targeting late 2024):
Client releases for Sepolia & Holešky testnets Dencun upgrade
- Consensus layer:
- Lighthouse v4.6.0
- Lodestar v1.15.0-rc.0
- Nimbus v24.1.2
- Prysm v4.2.1-rc.2
- Teku v24.1.1
- Execution layer:
- Besu v24.1.1
- Erigon v2.57.1
- Geth v1.13.11
- Nethermind v1.25.3
- Reth v0.1.0-alpha.16
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- 🚨 Lido at 31.84% is far too close to 33.3% threshold
- Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
- Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe
Layer 1
- Nethermind mainnet consensus issue on Jan 21, v1.23-1.25 were affected, patched
- Data viz on whether we can increase the gas limit
- Validator in-protocol consolidation in EIP7251 (increase max effective balance), to allow large stakers to consolidate without having to fully exit validators & redeploy
Research
- Potential changes to staking rewards & penalties to reduce issuance moderately at high staking levels
For stakers
- Rated list of solo stakers in CSV format (first 500k indices)
Support the Roman Storm & Alex Pertsev legal defense fund
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Layer 2
- RARI L3 (Arbitrum Orbit) live, with NFT royalty enforcement
- Public Goods Network, Aevo & Lyra (OP Stack) changed to Optimiums (sidechain DA)
EIPs/Standards
- ERCs (application layer):
Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.8.24:
- Cancun support (via EVM version flag): tstore & tload transient storage (EIP1153), blobhash & blobbasefee (EIP4844) and mcopy (EIP5656)
- Apple silicon support
- Mutexer: Solidity mutexes (contract, function & custom level), using Cancun transient storage (EIP1153)
- Forge proposal simulator: framework to create proposals (multisig, timelock & Governor Bravo) and deployment scripts/tests
- Ape (Python contract framework) custom network support
- CTFs:
- SmartSecRiddles: 7 challenges based on vulnerabilities with writeups
- Audit wizard find the bug challenge
Security
- Concentric $1.7M exploit on Arbitrum using social engineering to compromise deployer
Ecosystem
- Academic paper on transparency & concentration in Ethereum governance
- Suggest a city for a future Devcon or Devconnect
Job Listings
- Status is hiring: Technical Chief Operating Officer – Apply here
- Nethermind: Distributed System Engineer, Lead Engineer, Protocol Researcher
- ZK circuits engineer sought by EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team
- EF seek an Executive Assistant to support senior decision makers
Job listings: $600 for 4 issues (75 char limit). Pay using 3cities. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 6.3 to 82.4 gwei, with 17.6 gwei average
- Zero net issuance currently at 22.0 gwei
- 4k ETH net issuance this week
- ETHUSD: $2,186 – $2,491, currently $2,267
- ETHBTC: currently 0.054 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- Synthetix Perps v3 live on Base (Andromeda)
- UMA Oval live on mainnet, protocols can capture oracle extractable value
- 0x Tx Relay API live on mainnet, gasless swaps & approvals
- Ethereum Attestation Service MetaMask Snap decodes EAS attestation data for signing
Regulation/business/tokens
- SEC Twitter account compromised in January SIM swap had 2FA disabled since July 2023
General
- Support Roman Storm & Alex Pertsev legal defense via Juicebox fundraiser
- USDT on Tron is majority of consumer stablecoin transactions & how Ethereum can compete
- Field Merkle Tree: commit multiple STARKs using binary Merkle Tree
- Apple fixed WebKit confusion zero day, update your devices
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Jan 30 – Sepolia testnet Dencun upgrade epoch 132608
- Feb 2-4 – ETH Cinco de Mayo hackathon (Cholula, Puebla)
- Feb 3 – Ethereum Lima Day
- Feb 7 – Holešky testnet Dencun upgrade epoch 29696
- Feb 23-Mar 3 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek & hackathon
- Mar 13-14 – ETHLatam (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
- Mar 15-17 – ETHGlobal London hackathon
- Mar 19-21 – ETH Canal (Panama City, Panamá) conference & hackathon
- Mar 21-24 – ETHTaipei conference & hackathon
- Mar 27-30 – ETH Bucharest hackathon & conference
- Mar 29-31 – ETH Seoul hackathon
- Apr 5-26 – ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum virtual hackathon
- Apr 5-7 – EthereumZuri.ch conference
- Apr 12-14 – ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
- May 3-5 – ETHGlobal Sydney hackathon
- May 21-23 – DappCon (Berlin)
- May 24-26 – ETHBerlin hackathon
- May 31-Jun 2 – ETHDublin hackathon & conference
- May 31-Jun 2 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
- Jun 3-5 – ETH Belgrade conference
- Jul 8-11 – EthCC (Brussels) conference
- Jul 12-14 – ETHGlobal Brussels hackathon
- Jul 26-30 – EDCON Tokyo conference
- Aug 23-Sep 13 – ETHGlobal ETHOnline virtual hackathon
- Sep 20-22 – ETHGlobal Singapore hackathon
- Oct 18-20 – ETHGlobal San Francisco hackathon
- Nov 12-15 – Devcon 7 – Southeast Asia (Bangkok)
- Nov 15-17 – ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon
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