Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
- Mainnet-shadow-fork-7 merged with caveats: known Besu concurrency issue and Erigon issue with shadow forks
Mainnet execution layer
- Update your nodes for Gray Glacier upgrade
- Latest core devs call video. Notes from Tim Beiko and Christine Kim:
- Sepolia testnet merge planned for July 6
- Mainnet shadow fork 8 planned for first week in July
- Calls moving to Thursdays after next call
- Erigon v2022.06.05-alpha: regression fixes
- Geth making progress on historical state pruning
- KZG ceremony call video: plan to start ceremony in November (3 month general participation + 1 month special participation), use output in clients from March
- NiceNode (interface to run a client) adds multi-client support
- Vitalik: possible roadmap for account abstraction using ERC4337 and adding features to protocol to make account abstraction the default
Proof of Stake consensus layer
- EF seeks proposals to create technical documentation for staking operators
- Nimbus v22.6.0: Ropsten & Sepolia testnet support, UX improvements & fixes
- Prysm v2.1.3-rc.4: Sepolia testnet support and Panda Merge banner
- Lido expands node operators, includes four client teams
EIPs/Standards
- EIP5169: Client script URI for token contracts
- EIP5170: Asserting authenticity of client script for token contracts
- EIP5173: NFT future rewards
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Stuff for developers
- Testnet shutdown timeline: Kiln after mainnet Merge, Ropsten Q4, Rinkeby Q2-Q3 2023
- Sepolia testnet faucet
- EthereumJS VM v5.9.3 Gray Glacier support
- Foundry x Huff: compile & test Huff contracts using Foundry
- NFT gas optimization by encoding metadata into the token ID
- DeFi Hacks: reproduce DeFi incidents using Foundry
- Damn Vulnerable DeFi (CTF) Foundry version implements all levels
- Nethereum v4.6.1 (.Net library): MetaMask nuget package, Proof of Humanity integration
Security
- Horizon bridge between Ethereum & Harmony $100 million exploit, 2 of 5 multisig had addresses compromised
- Namecheap DNS attack for DeFi Saver, Convex Finance and Ribbon Finance; check your token approvals
Ecosystem
- EF Fellowship Program cohort #2 applications open
- Wallet devs call video and notes: discussions on EIP5139 RPC provider lists, interoperability testing and multi wallet support in a browser
- Metamorphic contract detector
- Etherscan watch list adds ERC721 & ERC1155 token transfer support
Enterprise
- Shopify token gated merch via Shop app and in-store POS
- eBay acquired KnownOrigin (NFT marketplace)
Application layer
- Uniswap Labs acquired Genie (NFT market aggregator) to expand into NFTs
- LooksRare conditional listing: list two items and automatically cancel the listing when one item sells
- Bancor paused Impermanent Loss Protection due to market conditions
- Timeless (yield market protocol) live on mainnet
- Arbitrum Odyssey: 8 week promotion to encourage bridging and usage of selected projects using NFT rewards
Job Listings
- GridPlus hiring a Go/protocol dev for the private, scalable PhononDAO
- People Operations Lead at EF
- Status is looking for a Senior Rust Engineer for Waku
- Taiko ZKRollup: hiring senior golang & rust backend developers.
- EF: generalist developer to drive strategic ecosystem initiatives
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Regulation/business/tokens
- UK Treasury [PDF] removes proposed KYC requirement for self hosted wallet transfers
- Erik Voorhees: benefits of being a DAO for ShapeShift
- Tether launching GBPT (British Pound sterling stablecoin)
- World Economic Forum: DAOs whitepaper [PDF]
General
- MEGA cloud storage vulnerabilities disclosed
- Decrypting a message from 1914
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Jun 27 – Devcon speaker applications close
- Jun 29 – Gray Glacier upgrade (block 15,050,000)
- Jun 30 – Devcon discounted ticket applications close
- Jul 1 – Data Availability Sampling proposals due
- Jul 6-8 – ETHBarcelona
- Jul 8 – ETH Seattle summit
- Jul 8 – Staking operator documentation proposals due
- 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)
- Aug 5-13 – ETH Seoul
- Aug 8-10 – ETHToronto
- Aug 11-13 – ETH LATAM (Buenos Aires)
- Aug 19-21 – ETHMexicoCity (ETH Global)
- Aug 27-28 – DeFi Security Summit (Stanford)
- Aug 27-28 – HackSummit (San Francisco)
- Aug 29-31 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford)
- Sep 1-4 – ETHWarsaw (hackathon & conference)
- Sep 2-28 – ETHOnline
- Sep 6-9 – MCON 2 (Denver)
- Sep 8-10 – ETHSantiago
- Sep 12-14 – DappCon (Berlin)
- Sep 16-18 – EthBerlin
- Sep 27-29 – Ethereum SP (São Paulo)
- Oct 7-9 – ETHBogotá (ETH Global)
- Oct 10 – DeFi Bogotá
- Oct 11-14 – Devcon 6 (Bogotá)
- Nov 4-6 – ETHSanFrancisco (ETH Global)
- Nov 18-20 – ETHGlobal Web3 Weekend
- Dec 1-4 – ETHDownUnder (Sydney)
- Dec 2-4 – ETHIndia (ETH Global)
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