Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
- Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
- Dencun upgrade discussions: MEV-Boost testing needed, decided against adding parent beacon block root to execution payload and when to rollout the fork choice change for confirmation rule
- EIPs can be presented in ACDC calls prior to scoping Electra upgrade
- Discussed EIP6914 (reuse withdrawn validator indices) updates and prototype of EIP6110 (validator deposits onchain)
- Increasing CL client spec compliance
- EIP4844:
- Latest EIP4844 implementer call. Notes from Terence: devnet 8 features, blob transaction pool design and no incentives for MEV-Boost builders to include blobs
- KZG Ceremony extended until August 23
Layer 1
- Nethermind implemented stateless verification, allows participation as a stateless client
- Teku planned caching changes & memory reduction
- Lighthouse subnet backbone revamp & IPv6 support in recent v4.3.0 release
- Consensus layer mainnet bootnodes location & IP address
- JIT EVM: convert EVM to machine code, using LLVM/inkwell, in Rust, proof of concept
Research
- Game-theoretic model for MEV-Boost auctions: builder strategies to win auctions
Layer 2
- Public goods network (OP Stack rollup) live, aims to generate funding for public goods
- Optimism law of chains proposed neutrality framework for Superchain (OP Stack) participants
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs:
- ERCs (application layer):
- ERC7390: Vanilla options
- ERC7399: Flash loans
- ERC7401: Parent-governed NFT nesting
- ERC7405: Portable contract accounts
- ERC7406: Multi-namespace onchain registry
- ERC7409: Public NFT emote repository
- ERC7410: ERC20 update allowance by spender
- ERC7412: On-demand offchain data retrieval
- ERC7417: Token converter (convert between ERC20 & ERC223)
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Stuff for developers
- OpenZeppelin Contracts Wizard adds Foundry project download
- Deep dive into Solady ERC1967Factory for deploying & managing ERC1967 proxies
- EIP4626 contracts (tokenized vaults) don’t all emit Transfer event on mint, deposit, burn & redeem
- Halmos v0.1.0 (symbolic testing): improved performance and expanded EVM & cheatcode support
- WhatsABI v0.6.0 (guesses ABI from bytecode): autoload improvements & bug fixes
- CTFs:
- Curta CTF sacred geometry solution
- Flashbots CTF August 5-7
Security
- EraLend on zkSync Era $3.4 million exploit via read-only re-entrancy
- Conic Finance post mortem for ETH omnipool (read-only reentrancy) & crvUSD omnipool (sandwich) exploits
Ecosystem
- ETHGlobal Paris hackathon finalists
- Etherscan input data messages, view all transactions with detected messages
Notable at app layer
- Rysk Finance (options AMM with uncorrelated returns for LPs) live on Arbitrum [Disclosure: Starbloom portfolio]
- Worldcoin (UBI via iris scan) live on Optimism
- Vitalik on biometric proof of personhood
- Farcaster adds ENS usernames
- A retrospective on TCR Party
- Gas guzzler: Pond0x memecoin allowed anyone to transfer tokens, based on a Solady mock ERC20
Job Listings
- Executive Director sought by Wyoming Stable Token Commission
- EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team seek ZK circuits engineer
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- US drops campaign finance charge against SBF claiming that Bahamas didn’t agree to that charge
- US SEC:
- Accounting firms warned about liability from crypto marketing of their non-audit services
- Quantstamp settles with SEC for unregistered ICO, fined with proceeds to be returned
- Couple to plead guilty for laundering $4.5B in BTC from Bitfinex 2016 hack
- How newly launched tokens manipulate prices though market makers so they can dump on retail
General
- Lazarus group suspected in payment processor exploits: $60M AlphaPo & $37M CoinsPaid
- Apple fixes zero-day
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Aug 4-18 – ETHGlobal Superhack virtual
- Aug 11-13 – ETHMunich hackathon
- Aug 15-16 – ETHToronto & ETHWomen
- Aug 15-29 – Gitcoin Grants 18
- Aug 16-19 – Ethereum Argentina (Buenos Aires)
- Aug 23 – KZG Ceremony closes (extended)
- Aug 28-30 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
- Aug 31 – Sep 3 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
- Sep 1-3 – Ethcon Korea hackathon
- Sep 7-9 – ETHAccra hackathon
- Sep 10-12 – Ethereum Singapore hackathon & conference
- Sep 11-13 – DappCon (Berlin)
- Sep 15 – Protocol Berg (Berlin)
- Sep 15-17 – ETHChicago conference & hackathon
- Sep 21–24 – Pragma & ETHGlobal New York
- Oct 5-6 – ETHMilan conference
- Oct 6-8 – ETHRome hackathon
- Oct 6-27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
- Oct 13-15 – Ethereum Kuala Lumpur conference & hackathon
- Oct 21 – Ethereum México
- Oct 27-29 – ETH Miami festival & hackathon
- Oct 27-29 – ETH Vietnam
- Oct 31 – Road to Devcon grants application deadline
- Nov 3-5 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
- Nov 3-5 – ETHBrno
- Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)
- Nov 16-19 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Istanbul
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