Eth News and Links
Mainnet execution layer
- PoW switch off community call November 5, for infrastructure providers and application developers
- Geth v1.10.11: fixes pending transaction retrieval RPC and snapshot corruption bug
- Stateless Ethereum cheat sheet: current state of verkle trees, address space extension and state networks
- Piper Merriam’s Aperture Portal Network update: State Network testnet coming, agreed on a wire protocol, considering using libp2p and an ultra light client in the browser
EIPs/Standards
- Summary of EIPs for signing and identity, informing EIP4361 Sign-in with Ethereum
Proof of Stake consensus layer
- UPDATE YOUR NODES BEFORE OCT 27.
Danny Ryan’s Finalized reminder: if you don’t update, you’ll get penalties - 46% nodes ready for Altair upgrade (nodewatch.io)
- Visualization of client diversity change over time. It got worse in the last year, but is now slowly improving.
- Latest What’s New in Eth2
- PoS implementers call. Notes from Ben Edgington: teams working on issues and stability of Pithos testnet, Prysm can now sync with Pithos, beacon chain upgrade as part of PoW switch off needs a name
- Pithos testnet consensus monitor
- Three reorg and liveness attacks on staking fork choice rule
Layer2
- Optimism upgrade to EVM equivalence delayed until November 11
- Celer cBridge v2.0 testnet: improved user experience and LPs have option not to run a cBridge node, mainnet mid November
- Springrollup proposal for zk rollup where sender can batch unlimited number of transfers with only 6 bytes of calldata
- Private AMM proposal with weak secrecy using a zkRollup
- Comparison of Arbitrum and Optimism’s fraud proofs
- Systematisation of knowledge of validating bridges [PDF]
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Stuff for developers
- js-ethereum-cryptography v0.2.0: cryptographic primitives, 15x smaller with 3 dependencies, experimental, awaiting security audit
- prb-proxy: execute multiple calls in one transaction, modern DSProxy with deterministic proxy addresses and 3rd party permissions
- smart-batched-auction for ERC721, implementation of Paradigm’s NFT launch design
- template-ethereum-contracts: Solidity template with Hardhat deploy, updated with dapptools tests
- starkex-clientlib-js: JavaScript wrapper of StarkEx API
- starknet-devnet: Flask wrapper of Starknet dummy network
- Ethernal block explorer for private chains, open sourced, adds free and paid ($20/mo) hosted tiers
- pool-sniper: Uniswap v2 pool creation sniper
- 13 lessons from developing USM stable token
Security
- Polygon Plasma bridge double spend vulnerability:
- $2 million bounty paid
- Exit transaction could be resubmitted 223 times
- ~$850 million was at risk
- Unlock Protocol’s UDT vulnerability, token could be burnt for any address, contract has since been upgraded
- Indexed Finance identified attacker, details being provided to law enforcement after expiry of request to return 90% of funds
- Hot wallet private key committed to Git: NFTs rescued via gasless private zero ETH sales and using Flashbots
Ecosystem
- gasprice.io: gas price estimates with visualizations of recent and monthly prices and transaction pool analysis
- ETHOnline finalists
- LisCon videos
- Parity 2017 multisig hack of 153k ETH now worth ~$600 million, hacker asked to return 90% of funds
Enterprise
- Associated Press providing economic, sports and election data via Chainlink
- Facebook’s Novi [PDF] wallet piloting in US and Guatemala with USDP (Paxos) held in Coinbase Custody
Application layer
- DeFi has $100 billion in TVL
- PoolTogether v4: single prize pool across Ethereum and sidechains, rather than siloed
- Worldcoin: iris scans using zk proofs (Semaphore) on Hubble optimistic rollup
- Kwenta testnet futures trading competition
- Decentralized Gitcoin Grants: quadratic funding grants protocol
- Sismo: aggregate reputation on public profile without giving away all your accounts using zk attestations
- Paperhands: check current floor price of NFTs you sold
- Tellie: creator sites with token gated content
- DAO owning and managing a real life farm
Job Listings
- Team Lead for the Ecosystem Support Program at the Ethereum Foundation
- Senior Engineer @Gitcoin – build the future of public goods funding!
- Solidity is hiring a C++ dev
- Nomic Labs hiring a Tech Lead for Hardhat VSCode
Reach people experienced with Ethereum. $420 for two issues (~75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- New York Attorney General directs two lending platforms to cease activities in New York and three others to provide info on their activities; failure to redact names suggests Nexo was sent a cease letter and Celsius was sent an info request
- Australian Senate committee crypto regulation recommendations covering regulatory structure for DAOs, capital gains tax events and CDBCs
- Epic welcomes games making use of blockchain (unlike Steam)
- NFTs more efficient at signaling cultural fluency than traditional art
- PleasrDAO purchased Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased album from US DoJ
General
- ECFFT on the BN254 base field implemented in Rust
- Google Threat Analysis Group: phishers target YouTube creators with cookie theft non-persistent malware in a smash-and-grab
- New York Times: Sneaker flippers using bots
- Argentina’s National Registry of Persons allegedly hacked, identity data of entire country could be at risk
- 3.1 million email addresses from CoinMarketCap were being traded
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Oct 25 – Dec 13 – Gitcoin DAO Global hackathon (virtual)
- Oct 27 – Beacon chain upgrade to Altair epoch 74240; EthStaker viewing party
- Oct 28-29 – ETH Portland hackathon
- Nov 1-4 – NFT.NYC
- Nov 5 – PoW switch off community call
- Nov 11 – Optimism upgrade
- Dec ~8 – Arrow Glacier upgrade block 13,773,000
- Jan 24-26 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
- Mar 28-30 – ETHDubai
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