Week in Ethereum News May 10, 2020

Eth1

Step by step guide to running a Hyperledger Besu node on mainnet
Nethermind v1.18.30 query the chain and trace transactions within minutes with Beam sync
A primer on block witnesses
Installation guide to running eth1 nodes (or eth2 testnet) on RaspberryPi4

Celer has just released a new state channel mainnet upgrade enabling everyone to easily run a layer-2 state channel node and to utilize the low-cost and real-time transactions enabled by Celer. Game developers with no blockchain knowledge today monetize their games through CelerX gaming SDK that leverages the underlying layer-2 scaling technology with ease. Celer has also released the world’s first skill-based real money game apps where players can join multi-player game tournaments and win cryptocurrency prizes, Follow us on twitter, blog, discord and telegram.

Eth2

Danny Ryan’s latest quick eth2 update – bug bounties doubled, latest IETF BLS standard
PegaSys’s Teku client is now syncing the Schlesi testnet – which has been much more stable than expected
Latest Prysmatic client update – reducing RAM usage, slashing protection
SigmaPrime’s Beacon fuzzer update, struct-aware, bugs found in Teku and Nimbus
Latest Eth2 networking call, gossipsub v1.1. Ben’s notes
Python notebook to simulate a network partition
Apostille, an Eth1x64 variant
Scoping what is necessary to port eth1 to an eth2 shard and turn off proof of work

Layer2

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.6.7, EIP165 (standard interface detection) support. Also survey results on what devs love and hate about Solidity
Solhint v3 – Solidity linter removes styling rules and recommends prettier Solidity instead
Open Zeppelin ethers.js based console
Etherplex: batch multiple JSON RPC calls into single call
Time-based Solidity tests with Brownie
MythX now has 46 detectors
Quiknode has an online tool to test endpoints
Reading Eth price from Maker’s medianizer v1
Build an app with Sablier’s constant streaming tutorial
Building a bot using MelonJS to automate your Melon fund
StarkWare found a vulnerability in Loopring’s frontend where passwords were being hashed to only 32 bit integers

Ecosystem

Enterprise

PegaSys’s Hyperledger Besu suite available on Azure Marketplace and Microsoft’s blockchain devkit now supports Besu
Quorum v2.6 – breaking database schema changes, update to geth v1.9.x

Governance, DAOs, and standards

Application layer

Use POAP for sybil-resistant voting or to determine Discord channel access
Yield: a revised implementation of Dan Robinson’s yTokens for fixed rate, fixed term loans that give a yield curve
Comparing total value locked in DeFi to unique active addresses
75 interesting uses of social money by Roll
Personal tokens were the topic du jour, check out this overview from Dan Finlay
Strike: perpetual swaps with 20x leverage

Tokens/Business/Regulation

Nic Carter: are stablecoins parasitic or beneficial?
OpenRaise: a continuous offering fundraiser for DAOs
dxDAO’s kickstarter using OpenRaise sold out before public announcement – though the curve is still live, plus a secondary Uniswap market

General

Aggregatable Subvector Commitments, the future may not involve Merkle trees
This week, Ethereum mined its 10 millionth block.
Here’s MyCrypto’s history of Eth hard forks to celebrate 10m blocks
IPFS releases Testground suite for p2p networking tests
PayPal blocked tokenized real estate startup RealT despite a lack of chargebacks, so they’re switching to Wyre

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