Week in Ethereum News
November 2, 2024

Eth News and Links

Eth R&D protocol call (All Core Devs)

Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade

Fusaka (Osaka + Fulu) upgrade

Amsterdam upgrade

Layer 1

Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH

Client Releases

  • Consensus layer:
    • Nimbus v24.10.0: improvements to sync & validator client scalability
    • Teku v24.10.3: improvements to GossipSub publishing & IDONTWANT usage

For stakers

Layer 2

  • Base fault proofs live, to become a stage 1 rollup final step is using a security council for upgrades
  • Blob burn simulator: visualize the impact of blob usage on ETH burn

EIPs/Standards

  • EIPs (Ethereum improvement proposals):
    • EIP7799: System logs
    • EIP7801: eth/70 – sharded blocks protocol
    • EIP7804: Withdrawal credential update request
    • EIP7805: Committee-based Fork-Choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL)
  • ERCs (application layer):
    • ERC7798: Tap to pay
    • ERC7802: Crosschain token interface
    • ERC7803: EIP712 extensions for account abstraction

Stuff for developers

  • Argot collective: dev tools including Solidity & Sourcify spinning out of EF as a non-profit with 5-10 years of funding
  • Vyper (language) security: audit coverage for key parts of codebase & ABI decoder fuzzer
  • Tornado Cash (rebuilt): Foundry project with latest versions of Circom & snarkJS, for educational purposes
  • Swiss knife contract diff: compare verified contracts across chains using Etherscan API v2
  • Based agent: create AI agent using Coinbase developer platform & OpenAI
  • CTF:

Security

Ecosystem

Enterprise


Job Listings

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Onchain stats

  • Fees (via ultrasound.money):
    • Gas: 2.4 to 39.2 gwei, 8.8 gwei average; zero net issuance at 24.3 gwei 
    • 11.6k ETH net issuance this week
  • ETHUSD: $2,434 – $2,720, currently $2,514, all time high $4,878
  • ETHBTC: currently 0.036 (Flippening at ~0.164)

Notable at app layer

Regulation/business/tokens

General


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