Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest geth v1.9.23, some security bugfixes and disc v5.1
- Beiko’s 1559 update and Vitalik’s 1559 slides; slowly but surely
- Latest core dev call. Beiko’s notes. Discussion of binaries tries, code merkleization, what goes into the next hard fork
- Getting an EIP in a hard fork from Tomasz Stańczak
- First draft binary trie format spec
- First draft of Eth witness spec
- EVM384 update: miller loop, but not final exponentation
EIPs/Standards
- EIP3041: Adds
baseFeetoeth_getBlockByHash - EIP3044: Adds
baseFeetoeth_getBlockByNumber - EIP3045: Adds
baseFeetoeth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex - EIP3046: Adds
baseFeetoeth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex - ERC3000: Optimistic enactment governance standard
Proof of Stake launch
- Latest what’s new in eth2; deposit contract any day now, CLIENT DIVERSITY A MUST FOR EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT HATE MONEY
- Latest proof of stake launch call after a successful Zinken testnet launch. Notes from Ben
- Latest Lighthouse client update, last audits before mainnet
- Prysm’s browser GUI for stakers
- eth2 ETL
- A fee market contract for eth2 shards in eth1
Layer2
- Arbitrum’s optimistic rollup is live on Kovan testnet. Copy and paste your Solidity code
- ENS on layer2 update
- AZTEC’s zkrollup with 300 private transactions per second by default, live on Ropsten testnet. Mainnet ETA: 2020
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Stuff for developers
- Nomic Labs gets rid of node-gyp dependencies across the Ethereum ecosystem and replaces with pure JS cryptography primitives
- “Verify your contracts on Etherscan 100% of the time” with solc-sjw
- Truffle v5.1.49, compatible with Node14, new package
abi-utils - vyper v0.2.7, security bugfixes
- More on the nascent Fe, a pythonic language (with some elements from Rust) written in Rust and targeting Yul
- Ethworks on security first process: test-driven pair programming with Buidler and Waffle
- Kendrick Tan’s opinions on devtools for devs new to the space
- Why OpenZeppelin Upgrades Plugins? To make running upgrades in production easier for devs
- Cheaper gas upgradable proxy without using storage
- Paul Berg’s off the shelf Solidity contracts library
- Andre Cronje’s liquidity delegated governance boilerplate
- Certora’s writeup of a corrupted storage bug in Solidity
- A gotcha in forking SushiSwap if you don’t have governance
- Updating contract data in Unity
- Resend a transaction bumping gas price using ethersjs
- A guide to erc20 permit
- Nifty.ink’s tutorial on building with TheGraph
Ecosystem
- Embrace and cultivate Ethereum’s dark forest
- Be careful of brainwallets. Bitmex hashes some fiction passages and gets insta-sweeped (with dark forest action)
Enterprise
- Luxury watchmaker Breitling adds Eth NFTs for authenticity and history/repairs tracking
- Stream private chain events to PostgresSQL
Application layer
- Andre Cronje-mania struck again with a twist on pool2 design: with an LBI token on a bonding curve that people started market buying on Uniswap. Andre on the aftermath: I don’t build for speculators
- Perez, et al paper analyzing Compound liquidations
- Numerai Signals: becoming the last hedge fund
- Mia and the marbles: hamster-powered marble race betting
- MakerDAO to cover itself using Nexus Mutual?
- Synthetix’s Kwenta is live
- CirclesUBI is live
Regulation/business/tokens
- CFTC Chair Tarbert: “If Bitcoin is email, a one trick pony but obviously revolutionary…Ethereum goes far beyond that, it’s more like the internet.”
- Financial Stability Board’s stablecoin recommendations for central banks
- Paradigm’s open questions about Uniswap LP strategies
- Linking usage to valuations
- NFTs as Bowie’s “gray space in the middle” between creators and fans
- web3 as read-write-own
General
- Quarks: quadruple-efficient transparent SNARKs
- The Tally, a newsletter on decentralized app governance
- OkEx suspends withdrawals amidst rumors that founder has been arrested
- part 2 of Reason’s cypherpunks video series
Job Listings
- 0x hiring a Matcha marketing manager and all flavors of developers
- Dune Analytics: hiring 1st non-founder team members – remote ~CET time zone
- Own Chainlink’s gaming strategy as VRF Product Manager
- Trail of Bits hiring elite blockchain security engineers & app security
- Celer hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Oct 19-26 – EthLagos energy hackathon
- Oct 20 – Golem’s layer2 event
- Oct 20 – submission deadline for Medalla data challenge
- Oct 21-23 – ACM’s Advances in Financial Technologies
- Oct 23 – ETHOnline’s Future of Ethereum summit
- Oct 29 – ETHBKK
- Oct 31 – submission deadline for Underhanded Solidity Contest
- Nov 6-7 – virtual Trufflecon
- Nov 16 – MetaMask Provider breaking changes
- Nov 19 – Talk Show – EthBerlin 2.5
- Dec 3 – Ethereum in the Enterprise – Asia Pacific
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