Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Expectations and limitations of upcoming Turbogeth release
- Compilation of the history of account abstraction work
- YOLO testnet is live – an ephemeral testnet to try to break EIPs for the upcoming hardfork
Eth2
- Danny Ryan: the state of Eth2
- Latest Prysmatic client update. Syncing to spec, adding eth1 clients, relaunch testnet plans
- Teku: an Eth2 client for enterprise
- Stats from crawling Eth2 testnets
- More eth2 validator agent based simulations in CadCAD
- A guide to testnet staking with Nethermind and Lighthouse
Layer2
- Deversifi went live on mainnet using StarkEx’s engine and offchain data (kept by a consortia) for 18000 transactions per second
- Offchain data with zk proofs is now being called Validium
- What is the difference between zk rollup (data onchain) and Deversifi’s Validium (data offchain)?
- An attack illustrating Validium trust assumptions
- StarkWare demo of onboarding 1.3m Reddit accounts onto Eth using Validium
- OMG goes live with their More Viable Plasma implementation (running POA for now); Bitfinex integrated USDT on OMG
- Loopring Pay is live. Free, instant Eth/token transfers on Loopring’s zk rollup
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Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.6.9 adds SMT-checking to solc-js, allows
calldatafor all variables and provides a mechanism to specify an import directory. - Testing the effects of a call in Waffle
- Buidler v1.3.6 adds Solidity v0.6.x
- Sourcify decentralized automated contract verifying service
- Covalent’s DeFi SDK for historical data
- VS Code extension to write DeFi applications in NodeJS
- Using Dapphero for your frontend
- How Aragon minimized gas costs for Aragon Court
- Loredana’s Taylor lisp-like language is on four testnets
- Austin Griffith’s tutorial on buidling a simple decentralized exchange
- Tornado Cash integrates Chainlink gas price oracles for TOR users
- Verifying merkle multiproofs in Solidity
- Trail of Bits found 20 bugs fuzzing the Solidity compiler
Ecosystem
- ETHGlobal’s HackMoney finalists and all sponsor prize winners
- Receive email notifications to renew your .eth names
- 1inch releases Chi, an optimized gastoken
Enterprise
- Newly updated client specs for Enterprise Ethereum from the EEA
- Federal Reserve Chairman says AMERIBOR (built on a private Eth chain) meets the benchmarks for a reference rate, though “it may not be a natural fit”
DAOs and Standards
- Democracy Mars: a DAO to fund Mars-related projects
- ERC2696: JavaScript ‘request’ method RPC transport
- ERC2700: JavaScript Provider Event Emitter
Application layer
- Synthetix adds liquidations
- Maker adds TUSD and USDC-B (a second set of collateralization parameters for USDC aimed at emergency situations)
- Satellite – sign data with your Eth address, with data distribution on IPFS and BitTorrent
- Simplified pricing for Nexus Mutual
- View keys for Tornado Cash to show origin of funds
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- Defi will do to banks what the web did to newspapers
- Opyn put options as a trading strategy
- Kaiko launches historical tick-by-tick order book data for Coinbase, Bitfinex, and Bitstamp
General
- MyCrypto’s mnemonic phrase explainer
- Bobbinthreadbare’s STARK-based VM has more instructions
- Multi-scalar multiplication ZK study club video
- Haseeb Qureshi’s latest installment of his intro to crypto class
- Matic Network is now live
- Brave hits 15 million monthly active users and 5m daily
Housekeeping
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- June 15 – Gitcoin CLR matching grants begins
- June 16 – deadline to apply for Gitcoin’s Kernel incubator
- Oct 2-Oct 30 – EthOnline hackathon