Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
- Ropsten testnet is ready to turn off PoW forever with TTD set
- Tool to predict TTD arrival
- Stakers/nodes must manually override TTD in latest client release
- Manual override is useful practice in case of miner hijinx on mainnet
- Guides on running Ropsten nodes or specifically a Geth/LH Ropsten node
- Ropsten beacon chain is live
- Reminder: Ropsten to be deprecated post-Merge
- Merge Community Call discussion
- Latest PoS implementer call. Notes by Ben Edgington
- Lighthouse/Prysm changing deposit tracking to be more robust against unlikely edge case of minute block times
- Mainnet shadow fork 6 again merged successfully with some minor issues
Mainnet execution layer
Proof of Stake consensus layer
- Liquid staking derivatives over 25% of stake considered harmful
- Putting ETH into any liquid staking when it is over 25% of total stake is putting your ETH at risk
- Lido currently at about 30%
- Justin Drake: design for solo staker liquid staking derivative, but uses SGX
- Latest What’s New in Eth2
- Understanding Eth PoS as the next generation of consensus protocols
- An explanation of proposer boost and the recent 7 block beacon chain reorg
EIPs/Standards
- ERC5114: Soulbound token
- ERC5115: Super composable yield token
- ERC5131: ENS subdomain authentication
- ERC5133: Difficulty bomb delay (Editor’s note: I’m strongly against this at the moment)
Layer2
- Optimism token launched with its first airdrop
- Hiccups: JSON-RPC chain reads crashed but sequencer flawless
- Simple Docker setup to run your own Optimism node
- ImmutableX is turning 2% fees on to be sustainable
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Stuff for developers
- Foundry Solidity Scripting and Deploy
- thirdweb deploy – no private key deploy flow and auto-Sourcify verifiction as well as automatic SDKs for React/Node/Python/Go
- Delegatable: Solidity library to sign off-chain messages that grant non-transferrable powers to other people
- MEV Explorer: mev-inspect-js frontend; supports Eth, Polygon, and Arbitrum.
- Implementing zk-lotteries with Circom on top of Tornado Cash’s Nova
Security
- Metamask pays $120k bug bounty for iframe clickjacking vuln
- Rocketpool employee’s computer exploited for 15 ETH
Ecosystem
- Skiff offers end-to-end encrypted email using your Eth wallet and ENS
- A tweetstorm version of last week’s Eth roadmap explainer
- Massdrop: a frontend to do a Merkle airdrop
Application layer
- DeFiSaver live on Arbitrum and Optimism
- Conviction voting using GTC to sort frontend display of Gitcoin grants
- Proof of Integrity – a pilot program in Buenos Aires slums to ensure UBI doesn’t just go to those who don’t need it
- 1inch integrates Synthetix atomic exchanges for less slippage on big trades
- MobyMask: using web of trust to manage phishing reports
- Rune’s Endgame plan for MakerDAO: a synthetic ETH product and a first metaDAO with yield farming
Job Listings
- Ethereum Foundation: generalist developer to drive strategic ecosystem inits
- Sourcify: TypeScript/nodejs developer wanted
- People Operations Lead at EF
- Remix: frontend React/Typescript dev
- Hiring Coordinator wanted by EF
Job listings: $600 for four issues (~75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet/Arbitrum/Optimism. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Nate Chastain charged with money laundering and wire fraud in SDNY for OpenSea insider trading
- Pooly: buy NFT to support PoolTogether legal defense against the Liz Warren staffer’s class action suit
- Absurd lawsuit to hold all bZx founders and tokenholders liable for security bugs
- ~25 academics/BigTech employees wrote a technically sloppy letter to Congress against crypto
General
- MS Word in Windows “Follina” unpatched zero-day vuln. Reminder: almost all loss of crypto comes from Windows users. [Disclosure: small MSFT shareholder for almost 30 years]
- WSJ reports that Fidelity is hiring to support Eth custody and trading services
- Coinbase rescinding offers that employees had already accepted after promising 2 weeks ago that they wouldn’t
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