Eth News and Links
Eth1
- OpenEthereum v3.1 – continues from last stable release (v2.5.13), removes all non-core things from client; includes db migration tool for v2.7
- Péter Szilágyi benchmarks snap sync v fast sync
- Optimal chunking size for code merklization
- Video and notes from latest 1559 call, lots of talk about how to do more tests
- Micah Zoltu: we need 1559 so normal people can use Ethereum
EIPs/standards
Proof of Stake launch
- Deposit contract is live at 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa or depositcontract.eth. Chain launch on Dec 1 if we get 16384 deposits (524288 ETH) by Nov 24.
- you can use the launchpad or CLI deposit tool
- Please verify with multiples sources the address/domain that I or anyone else gives you
- Proof of stake spec v1.0.0
- Vitalik: why proof of stake; more decentralized, much better security
- Towards formal semantics of the proof of stake spec
- Video of team presentations from Medalla data challenge
- Lighthouse update: deposit contract launch
- Prysm update: mainnet announcement and learnings from Medalla non-finalization
Layer2
- Arbitrum ports Uniswap to its rollup. 2k gas per trade, available using Kovan testnet as layer1
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Stuff for developers
- typechain v4
- Tenderly adds proxy support
- Solt: contract verification from command line (formerly solc-sjw) regardless of framework/structure
- Running a keeper from Keep3r Network on Zeppelin’s Defender
- Getting randomness in an NFT with Chainlink tutorial
- BitQuery compares themselves to TheGraph
- Learning about the EVM by reading GasToken code
Security
- PercentFinance bug freezes balances. Forking good code and adding to it can easily make it buggy.
- Axion gets immediately hacked. CertiK says malicious code added post-audit
- Sandwich attack – frontrunning and backrunning your uniswap transaction to avoid the slippage tolerance
Enterprise
- AP records its American election race calls on Ethereum mainnet
- Verizon to log press releases on Mad Network, an Ethereum sidechain
Application layer
- 1inch v2 – new algo for discovery and routing, new front end, fewer failed txs
- Request Network adds recurring invoices
- Voting on Ethereum? Check out Vocdoni
Regulation/business/tokens
- SEC loosens some security registration exemptions
General
- Dilbert’s election day cartoon was about Ethereum
- ZenGo’s Two Party Distributed RSA Modulus Generation in Rust
- Brave hits 20 million monthly active users
Job Listings
- Argent is hiring a Senior Android Engineer (Remote, Europe only)
- Celer hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
- Join Chainlink as a Node Operator Community Manager
- Trail of Bits hiring cryptography analyst & blockchain security engineers
- 0x looking for Matcha marketing manager and all flavors of developers
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Nov 12-13 – Baseline Protocol Summit
- Nov 16 – MetaMask Provider breaking changes
- Nov 19 – EthBerlin 2.5: Talk Show
- Nov 24 – last day to deposit to be in proof of stake genesis block
- Dec 1 – Proof of stake launch (if enough deposits by Nov 24)
- Dec 3 – Ethereum in the Enterprise – Asia Pacific
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