Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Nethermind v1.8.60 memory usage during sync reduced 70%
- Ethereum without block limits
- Igor Mandrigin explains the ReGenesis proposal for curbing state growth with transaction witnesses
- a proposed binary trie format – no more RLP?
Eth2
- Altona multiclient testnet launched almost a week ago with Lighthouse, Nimbus, Prysmatic and Teku clients and (so far) is stable. One more testnet after Altona until launch.
- Step by step guide to run an Altona validator on Raspberry Pi4B 8 GB
- Prysmatic client update
- Weak subjectivity in eth2
- Deanonymization using time sync
- Public single leader election with secret probabilistic backup
Layer2
- IvanOnTech rollups explainer
- Brick async payment channels implemented in Solidity (revised arxiv paper)
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Stuff for developers
- Gelato automation protocol is live on mainnet, an IFTTT-like way to automate Eth contract execution
- Hack on eth2+libp2p at HackFS
- buidler deploy. Buidler plugin to deploy contracts to any network with same testing environment
- seth now lets you step through the transaction in debugging
- Debugging your transaction with Tenderly
- A simple ABI decoder
- Build Ethereum apps on Python with EthVigil SDK
- Vyper v0.2 – breaking changes release
- State machines in Solidity
- Class features provided by Solidity
- 1inch writeup of Balancer deflationary’s token issue which BalancerLabs chose to cover for affected users
Ecosystem
- Transaction fees on Ethereum in first half of 2020 (44m) exceed 2019 (34m)
- the plan for Waku v2 private p2p messaging
- Austin Griffith’s xmoon exchange: get your Reddit MOONs onto mainnet
- Quadratic matching with MACI (anti-collusion) explainer
- MetaMask v8 – better privacy, better onboarding, erc1193 provider api
DAOs and Standards
- ERC2767: Contract Ownership Governance
- Democracy Earth is now a DAO explorer, starting with Moloch v1 and proof of personhood score
- TornadoCash forming a Moloch DAO with OpenLaw
- KyberDAO goes live July 7
Application layer
- Synthetix launches binary options
- 0x’s Matcha dex aggregator is live with a focus on non-hardcore traders
- MCDex launches 10x ETH perpetual with the funding rate coming from the automated market maker
- It’s now easier to host on IPFS the latest Uniswap frontend
- MakerDAO is exploring Peg Stabilization Modules, ie stablecoin to stablecoin trading
- Augur v2 launches July 28
- dxDao launches Omen prediction markets using Realit.IO and Kleros as oracles and available atomen.eth or omen.eth.link
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- USDC hit 1 billion in circulation on Eth
- A new Flippening tracker
- Common Stack’s trusted seed token
General
- Swarm released Bee client v0.1 and announced a future token sale
- Staking is now live on Matic Network
- Skale sidechains launches with POA and no transfers
- Attacking less than 85 Lightning Network channels will result in a successful attack
- Harry Denley rescued a victim’s 5k from a fake TrustWallet app in the GooglePlay store by DOSing the Telegram API
Job Listings
- GridPlus is hiring US remote firmware engineers.
- Donut is looking for a CTO to bring DeFi to the masses. Interested?
- 0x is hiring full-stack, back-end, front-end engineers + 1 data scientist
- Trail of Bits is looking for masters of low-level security. Apply here.
- Celer Network: Android developer
- Chainlink: Senior Software Engineer and Lead Test Engineer
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- July 6-Aug 6 – HackFS Filecoin/IPFS and Ethereum hackathon
- July 10 – next core dev call
- July 10 – eth2 research team Reddit AMA
- 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
- Oct 2-Oct 30 – EthOnline hackathon