Week in Ethereum News March 9, 2020

Eth1

Latest core devs call on ProgPoW and EIP1962/curve precompiles. Notes. ProgPoW appears to be dead.
A ProgPoW exploit from Kikx. Kristy’s explanation
Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.35, Beam Sync with better pivots, -goerli flag, ENRs
DHT solution to solve data retrieval problem in stateless Ethereum

Eth2

Latest what’s new in Eth2
Prysmatic client update – big RAM reduction, first slashing success, updated to latest spec
Lighthouse client update – 70% faster block processing, 110 blocks/sec sync, big RAM reduction
zk tooling for an ewasm EE
Combining Ghost and Casper paper proving safety and liveness under various assumptions

Layer2

iden3’s zk-rollup is live on Goerli testnet, ongoing work to reduce the proof generation bottleneck

Stuff for developers

any.sender tutorial – tx relayer that ensures block inclusion by a certain time
Kollateral flash loan pool aggregator, available through JS or Solidity (though unaudited!)
Why ENS had to migrate due to samczsun’s bughunting
Easy multi-contract analysis with Mythril
Fast modular multiplication in Go library
BSol: benchmarking Solidity computation and gas usage
Truffle v5.1.16 – better debugger/decoder with Solc v0.6.3
Understanding event logs
Terminal and IPFS for easy frontend deployment
Argent’s method for easy wallet access, one click transactions, available as npm package
web3connect is now web3modal, still focused on being a web3 solution for all wallets

Ecosystem

Semaphore: a generic privacy layer using snarks, audited and ready for devs to build on
Zeropool, live on testnet
Questions DeFi users should ask their DeFi apps
Linda Xie’s list of oracles per DeFi project
EthCC videos are already online.

Enterprise

EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys announce the Baseline Protocol, using mainnet as a message bus for enterprise that is private using snarks
Paul Brody’s Baseline Protocol explainer, based around the enterprise volume procurement prototype
“Morningstar Rates First Ethereum Security In $40 Million Fatburger Deal,” with the deal structurer aiming at doing 500m USD in projects this year on mainnet

Governance, DAOs, and standards

An update on EIP1559 – predictable transaction fees and intrinsically tying ETH to the protocol
OracleDAO – a MolochDAO style booster of Augur/REP
0x governance update, progressing toward full decentralization

Application layer

PieDAO, a DeFi asset allocation DAO, where governance tokens vote for allocations with fees accruing to the token
Providing insurance on Opyn to earn premiums from your ETH
Building liquidity into token distribution, highlighting the flexibility of Balancer
Hegic Protocol, on-chain options trading protocol
Golem Hive, PoC of a virtual network of Docker containers on Golem
Unstoppable Domains adds a Chromium-based browser running a local IPFS node
Sell music tracks with Unlock + IPFS + ENS
Instadapp’s DeFi accounts to abstract things away for DeFi users
Messaging and privacy in Status