Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
- Sepolia testnet merged successfully:
- TTD config issue specific to PoW testnets
- Mainnet-shadow-fork-8 merged successfully
- Mainnet-shadow-fork-9 merges July 14, plan to test MEV-boost
Mainnet execution layer
- Tim Beiko’s core devs update: stakers prepare for merge, block times back to ~13s after Gray Glacier upgrade, testnets being deprecated & community calls
- Latest core devs call video. Notes from Tim Beiko and Christine Kim:
- Goerli merge TTD to be set at next PoS implementers or core devs call
- Discussion of Latest Valid Hash edge cases
- MEV-boost discussion
- Erigon v2022.07.02-alpha: passes all 114 engine Hive tests
- Besu v22.4.4: fixes for snap-sync & state root mismatch/worldstate unavailable
- Geth fix for regression impacting merge sync on Sepolia and Ropsten testnets
- KZG ceremony call video: audit of SDK output mid-August, audit of full system end-October, spec to be made executable
Proof of Stake consensus layer
- Prysm v2.1.3: merge fixes
- Nimbus: light proxy becomes possible using beacon chain light client protocol post-merge
- foobar: Proof of Stake explainer with common misconceptions
Layer2
- Aztec Connect (privacy zk rollup) live on mainnet; zk.money DeFi aggregator supports Element and Lido
- Proposal for Layer2 bridge risk framework
- Hop transfer delays post mortem during Arbitrum Odyssey bridging
EIPs/Standards
- EIP5202: Factory contract format
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- 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
- Synthetix logic error disclosed, $150k bounty
- Yield roll over vulnerability disclosed, $10k bounty
- Axie/Ronin bridge $600million exploit entry point was fake job offer PDF
- samczsun breaks down an attempted attack using a crypto stealer
Ecosystem
Application layer
- Maker DAO approves $100 million vault for US bank
- Aave proposes GHO collateral-backed USD stablecoin
- Tornado Cash Classic UI open sourced
- PoolTogether live on Optimism
- sudoAMM decentralized NFT marketplace protocol
Job Listings
- Waku is hiring Software & DevRel Engineer and Product Marketing Manager
- Ethereum Foundation seek a Front End Developer
- GridPlus hiring a Go/protocol dev for the private, scalable PhononDAO
- Nexus Mutual: Frontend/Solidity: Help build the web3 Risk Marketplace
- Taiko ZKRollup: hiring senior golang & rust backend developers.
- Status hiring:Comms & Activism Director, React Native UI & C++, Qt/QML Devs
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Regulation/business/tokens
- US government employees holding crypto restricted from participating in crypto regulation
- Jake Chervinsky: predictions for US SEC in Q3/Q4, exchange rule to be finalized in October and new enforcement actions before end of September
- Three Arrows Capital (3AC) filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York
- Former Celsius asset manager alleges that Celsius is a ponzi
- Class action lawsuit against Solana alleges unregistered security sold to retail
General
- Chrome zero-day: heap overflow vulnerability in WebRTC component
- Chinese data leak of 1 billion residents, apparently due to credentials published in a blog
- Balaji Srinivasan’s book The Network State released
- NIST selects quantum-resistant algorithms: CRYSTALS-Kyber for general encryption and CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON & SPHINCS+ for digital signatures
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Upcoming Dates of Note
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- Jul 14 – Devcon ticket auction & raffle ends
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- Jul 17 – EF Fellowship program applications close
- Jul 18 – Devcon wave 01 tickets
- Jul 19-21 – EthCC 5 (Paris)
- Jul 22-24 – EthCC Hackathon (Paris)
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