Week in Ethereum News May 3, 2020

Eth1

Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s notes. Updates on EIPs for eth2 curve, EVM subroutines. ProgPoW shelved due to clear lack of consensus. Discussion of migrating to binary trie
Analysis of EIP-2315 simple EVM subroutines
DHT+SkipGraph for chain and state data retrieval
Notes from the fee market change call
Vitalik’s EIP1559 fee market change FAQ

Eth2

Latest what’s new in Eth2
Schlesi multi-client testnet launched with Lighthouse and (slightly updated) Prysmatic clients. Then Nimbus joined Schlesi a few days later.
Bitfly has a Schlesi explorer
Nimbus client update – up to date, joining Schlesi testnet, RFP for security audits, and benchmarking Nimbus on a 2018 midrange phone
Update from ConsenSys’s TXRX team: prkl network monitoring tool, verifiable precompiles, cross-shard tx simulator, fork choice testing, discv5 sim, and work on turning off proof of work.
A step-by-step guide on joining Prysmatic’s Topaz testnet for Windows10 and MacOS
ConsenSys’s high-level eth2 FAQ

Layer2

Channels funding channels: how state channels reduce latency and onchain transactions

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Stuff for developers

buidler v1.3 – test time-based cases in Buidler EVM, works with TheGraph
Waffle’s plan for making testing better with v3
Testing with Python and Brownie
Typechain v2 – Typescript bindings. truffle v5 support, natspec
Solidity docgen v0.5 – documentation generation for Solidity project
Running async/await scripts in Remix IDE
Austin Griffith’s scaffold-eth, a toolkit to prototype and win hackathons
A linked hashmap in Solidity
How to add proxy Ethereum addresses to BigQuery
Authereum’s batched transactions API for interest rate arbs
discv5 feasibility study for Status
Tutorial to testing on mainnet fork with Ganache, Jest and Uniswap
Etheroll security issue: hacker monitoring for onchain forks and then uses that info to frontrun transactions. Novel (to me!) hack
Dragonfly releases an oracles tracker
Synthetix CTO Justin Moses on 10 things they did to improve their Ethereum development experience. tldr: Buidler, Slither, TheGraph, and Tenderly.

Ecosystem

Contribute to the TornadoCash trusted setup ceremony. It takes about 5 secs of clicking and requires you to leave the browser tab open a few minutes.
Multisigs controlling multisigs: Avsa’s vision for a usable web3
Renew your ENS names or you will lose them. Names start to expire May 4th

Enterprise

Governance, DAOs, and standards

Governance processes for Maker and Compound add WBTC to Maker and USDT to Compound. TBTC also proposed for Maker
Maker’s MIPs ratification vote is live
MetaClan: DAOs for in-game coordination
ERC2611: Geotimeline Contact Tracing Data Standard
Last call: ERC1363 Payable Token
Last call: EIP1193 Eth provider Javascript API
ERC 2612: permit, 712-signed approvals
EIP2357: Total difficult in block header

Application layer

DeFiZap and DeFiSnap merged to be ZapperFi: now track and trade your DeFi together
Gnosis Safe apps: interact with apps straight from the Gnosis Safe interface
dforce/lendfme plan post-hack: user airdrop, dSAFU insurance fund, large bug bounty
OpenBazaar now supports Eth
A rough proposal for a GasToken forward
Everest: a project registry from TheGraph and MetaCartel

Tokens/Business/Regulation

UMA did an Initial Uniswap Offering, and there was a 5-10x spike
It appears Telegram will have to return $1.2 billion to investors
Ideo’s Simple Agreement for Future Governance for DeFi
Auditing the 10k top Eth addresses: ETH is better distributed than BTC and a bunch of other interesting claims

General

First issue post-ConsenSys. As a reminder, this newsletter is and has always been 100% owned by me.

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