Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Geth v1.9.17. Whisper is being removed from the Geth codebase
- Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes
- Backrunning has become an urgent network-clogging problem
- Abstract networking away from Eth client?
Eth2
- Danny Ryan’s eth2 update – the Medalla multi-client testnet scheduled for Aug 4
- Get a POAP for each of the 5 clients you stake with on the Medalla testnet
- The latest what’s new in eth2
- Attacknets: bounties for taking down the testnet. Right now single-client attacknets live for Lighthouse, Prysm, and Teku. How Jonny Rhea scored the first take down
- Latest eth2 call. Ben’s notes
- Eth2 spec v0.12.2 – mostly mild networking changes (will be used in Medalla)
- An Efficient CBC-Like Finality Gadget for 99% Fault Tolerance
- Infura’s eth2 API conformance testing tool
- eth1 and eth2 merger: working simulation of an eth2 client using eth1 client for block production
Crypto
- Starkware releases EthSTARK hash function with fast prover
- Vitalik’s fully homomorphic encryption explainer
Layer2
- Celer’s Hybrid Rollup is live on Ropsten testnet. DPOS Sidechain with optimistic rollup opt-in for devs that want more security
- Comparing OMG’s More Viable Plasmachain to a sidechain
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.6.12
- NomicLabs/Buildler’s initiative to improve the Eth developer experience, funded by EF
- Truffle v5.1.36 – debugger stacktraces with contract addresses in the printout
- Using Buidler with Truffle
- WalletConnect v1.1 – i18n support for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Korean & Chinese
- In-depth guide to testing Eth contracts
- Designing unbounded lists in Solidity
- build an ERC721 contract Factory with Webflow and DappHero video tutorial
- Create-eth-app v1.3 – ethers v5, adds Maker, Kyber, Synthetix, Uniswap v2
Ecosystem
- “Ethereum now settles significantly more value per day than Bitcoin”
- Vitalik’s Gitcoin grants retrospective
- Blocknative’s analysis of the transaction pool on March 12
Enterprise
- EEA’s mainnet use case analysis survey
- Visa on its blockchain approach – it says they’re network agnostic but most of the post implies Ethereum
Standards
- EIP2803: allow transactions from externally owned accounts to execute bytecode directly
- Micah Zoltu doing lots of EIP cleanup moving into last call, final, withdrawn, etc
Application layer
- yearn yield farming was the talk of the week. Here’s yearn.finance v2
- 1inch passed 1 billion USD in volume and Silicon Valley’s Russ Hanneman made 1inch a “3 comma club” video
- Dether protocol is on mainnet: peer-to-peer cash-to-crypto on/off ramp
- There is a big fight on Kleros over how an Omen market should resolve
- Before Augur’s v2 launch, the updated master plan
- Reality Cards is in private mainnet beta, an NFT-based prediction market with a gamification twist
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- OCC says US banks can custody crypto
- Only 8 buyers of Spencer Dinwiddie’s tokenized NBA contract for 10% of the total offered
- What explains the rise of automated market makers (AMMs)
- Sunny Agrawal is bullish on DeFi without the trustlessness
- Tokens before or after product market fit?
General
- MyCrypto and Binance return 10k to phishing victim
- The long-tail problem in AI and how crypto can solve it
- It’s always the banks: China pressuring banks to reveal pro-Hong Kong democracy accounts
- More than 1000 people had “God mode” ability to hack Twitter accounts
Job Listings
- Avantgarde Finance (Melon): hiring for senior solidity dev & frontend dev
- Reality Cards, a new NFT-based prediction market, is seeking a frontend dev
- 0x is looking for all types of devs: full-stack, back-end, and front-end engineers
- Celer Network: Android developer
- Trail of Bits is looking for: blockchain security engineer & cryptography analyst
- Chainlink has 19+ open roles! Join as the Head of Product Marketing
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- July 28 – Augur v2 launch
- July 30 – EEA’s Ethereum in the Enterprise 2020 virtual conference
- July 31-Aug 9 – Colorado Lottery & EthDenver Game Jam hackathon
- Aug 2 – ENS grace period begins to end
- Aug 9-11 – EDCON
- Aug 28-29 – Chainlink’s Smart Contract Virtual Summit
- Jul9 – Aug30 – EthPlanet’s Summer Camp virtual event series
- Oct 2-Oct 30 – EthOnline hackathon
- Nov 6-Nov 7 – virtual Trufflecon