Week in Ethereum News
July 9, 2022

Eth News and Links

PoW switch off (the Merge)

Mainnet execution layer

Proof of Stake consensus layer

Layer2

EIPs/Standards


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Stuff for developers

  • Hardhat v2.10.0 + Hardhat Toolbox opinionated bundle of plugins: deploy & interact with ethers.js, test with Mocha & Chai, interact with Hardhat Network, verify on Etherscan, gas reporting, test coverage and type bindings for TypeScript
  • Hardhat for Visual Studio Code out of beta
  • surl (http library): make web requests from Solidity scripts & tests
  • stack-packer: generate Solidity library for packed structs on the stack
  • Fe v0.19.1-alpha: return nested structs, adopts curly braces, traits as bounds for generic functions and complex types as array elements
  • micro-web3: minimal web3.js implementation 
  • MetaMask API deprecating eth_decrypt & eth_getEncryptionPublicKey
  • Semaphore v2: create private identities, add identities to groups & send anonymous signals

Security

Ecosystem

  • EF Research Team AMA
  • ethOS (mobile OS) supports unlocked Pixel 3 & 5a; light node, OTA updates 

Application layer


Job Listings

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Regulation/business/tokens

General


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