Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Piper Merriam argues that an Eth client needs to be easier to build
- Deploying Nethermind with Grafana/Prometheus/Seq monitoring stack
- Latest core devs call. Notes from Beiko and Ranjan, quick discussion of some EIP progress and then much discussion of Piper’s article above
- Simpler sync: state snapshots and blockchain and receipt files
- DHT-based state network sketch
- Vitalik’s stateless client witnesses deck
- Quilt’s account abstraction playground
Eth2
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- EF’s Eth2 research team AMA – on track to ship phase0 genesis in 2020 with phase1 hopefully close behind. Also a VDF update, among other nuggets.
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Mamy
- Beacon fuzz – eth2 client differential fuzzer is now dockerized so anyone can run it and try to find eth2 client bugs. The fuzzer has found bugs in Nimbus and Lodestar in last month
- Lighthouse client update – Altona testnet review, new BLS library doubles sync speed, better peer management
- Nimbus wants you to be able to run an eth2 validator on an old phone
- BeaconScan will have dashboard and email alerts for validators
- IPFS’s GossipSub v1.1 full evaluation (used in eth2)
Layer2
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.6.11 – inheritance for NatSpec comments, better debugging data output
- Truffle v5.1.34 – lots of dependency updates (eg, Node >=10.12)
- A 4 part series on web3.go, using go-ethereum as a library
- 5 year anniversary of the first Solidity release
- Transthereum, simple block explorer for local environments like Ganache
- Alchemys’s Build tool suite – block explorer, tx pool visualizer, RPC call composer
- Torus now supports Eth wallets for accounts from Google, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch, Discord, AppleID, Github, LinkedIn, Twitter, Line & Passwordless
- Legions – ConsenSysDiligence tool to query common node endpoints
- Verify invariants of your contracts using Manticore tutorial
- Austin Griffith’s scaffold-eth with IPFS tutorial
- Epheph video on avoiding honey pots with Tenderly
- Understanding the diamond proxy standard, contracts that share storage variables and Eth address.
Ecosystem
- TheGraph processed one billion queries in June 2020
- DeFi hits 2 billion dollars locked up
Enterprise
- Nethermind and Provide offer enterprise-focused privacy, messaging and key management
- EEA picks Daniel Burnett as executive director
Standards
Application layer
- Cryptograph art NFT auction where previous bidder gets ~10% of the diffential of the higher bid, with creator profits to charity. My NFT auction (I “drew” the Eth logo) ends in ~18 hours
- Aave adds credit delegation, so one address can delegate its credit to another
- Unstoppable Domains released dchat messaging using GunDB, which got some criticism from the folks at Status researching messaging
- Kyber’s Katalyst upgrade is live with KyberDAO staking/governance, custom fee/spread & lots more
- SEC approves tokenized (live on Eth mainnet) shares of Arca’s US Treasury debt fund
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- TheBlock broke the story that USDC blacklisted 100k
- Censorable assets are toxic collateral
- Aggregation theory applied to DeFi
- The Protocol Sink Thesis
- Experimental land rights in VR
- A list of yield farming opportunities
General
- Crypto companies taking US federal bailouts: differing lists from Coindesk and TheBlock
- Coinbase is talking to bankers about an IPO
- Brave Ads have a ~10% CTR
Job Listings
- Sigma Prime is hiring Blockchain Security Engineers and an Executive Assistant
- 0x is hiring a Periscope tech lead & full-stack, back-end, and front-end engineers
- Trail of Bits is looking for an elite blockchain security engineer
- Celer Network: Android developer
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Housekeeping
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Jul9 – Aug30 – EthPlanet’s Summer Camp virtual event series
- July 20 – Fork the World MetaCartel hackathon
- July 28 – Augur v2 launch
- July 30 – EEA’s Ethereum in the Enterprise 2020 virtual conference
- Aug 2 – ENS grace period begins to end
- Aug 28-29 – Chainlink’s Smart Contract Virtual Summit
- Oct 2-Oct 30 – EthOnline hackathon
- Nov 6-Nov 7 – virtual Trufflecon