Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core dev call. Notes from Tim Beiko. Related: ignore any incorrect info; ProgPoW is still shelved.
- “I believe that Ethereum 1 can scale at least 10x even without sharding” using Turbogeth
- Latest Turbogeth release, more RPC calls, updated to latest geth
- EVM384 fast crypto in the EVM instead of compiles exploration update
- EIP2938’s account abstraction explainer with Solidity example
EIPs/Standards
- EIP2970:
IS_STATICopcode - EIP2976: Typed Transactions over Gossip
- ERC2980: ERC20 compatible Swiss Compliant Asset Token
- ERC2981: ERC721 Royalty Standard
- EIP2982: eth2 phase 0
Eth2
- See immediately above for EIP2982, the spec for eth2 phase 0
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- Latest eth2 quick update – deposit contract/genesis dress rehearsal on Sept 29
- eth2 spec v0.12.3 – slashing and inactivity penalties reduced 67-75% for first few months of eth2 launch
- Latest Eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Mamy.
- formally verifying the blst BLS sig library that Eth2 uses
- Provable single secret leader election to obviate DoS attacks on block producer
- An imperfect look at client diversity through POAP data
- Latest Lighthouse client update, GossipSub v1.1, improving attestation inclusion, fuzzing networking
- Latest Lodestar client update, fixing networking and block production
- Teku’s client updates are its release notes
Layer2
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Stuff for developers
- Underhanded Solidity Contest is underway! Submissions due Oct 31
- web3js v1.3, built in typescript, upgraded websockets
- Truffle v5.1.45, hdwallet-provider improvements
- create-eth-app v1.5 with web3modal so you can easily use MetaMask or WalletConnect
- ethers-rs adds Ledger support
- EEA has a dev tool survey to find out areas to improve for enterprise dev tools
- q&a video for devs new to Eth, lots of dev tool talk
- Meet the Solidity team
- How diamond storage works
- How to use permit for gasless transactions
- Early work on Fe, a pythonic EVM language written in Rust
- bZx hacked; used admin key to delete attacker’s gains
Ecosystem
- This week we hit all time high for number of transactions in a day
- If gas fees went up and you don’t have enough eth to cover gas fees on your Dai transfer, try the out of eth tool
- The fork monitor adds more clients and API providers
- Matt Leising’s search for the DAO attacker in Tokyo
Enterprise
Application layer
- Uniswap released a governance token, including Merkle drops to users (even if their transaction failed). Liquidity mining included: Uniswap returns to #1 on DeFiPulse
- An interview with NFT artist Pak/Archillect, who has made 350k usd in ETH selling art
- Tim Daub: web3 is stupid right now
- ENS’s decaying price period is over, names now being released
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- Monegro: don’t burn tokens
- Fork defense strategies in DeFi
- Unikrn settles with the SEC
- LexDAO fair guide launch, part 2
Crypto/General
- Kraken gets retail banking license, initially for US only.
- Winkle: weak subjectivity checkpoints through transactions
Job Listings
- ChainSafe is hiring! Golang blockchain devs and leads. careers@chainsafe.io
- Gnosis is hiring a Marketing Manager for our core product Gnosis Protocol DEX
- 0x is hiring devs! Full-stack, back-end, front-end or Solidity
- Celer Network: hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
- Accelerate the growth of Chainlink’s ecosystem as Head of Growth
- Trail of Bits hiring elite blockchain security engineers & an R&D engineer
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Staking pools get in touch
🥩 🥩 🥩 I released my questionnaire for staking pools.
With eth2 due to launch in a matter of weeks, I’m going to recommend staking pools to those of you who want to stake but don’t want to run their own stakers (if you’re technically competent, you should very much consider running your own staker especially now that penalties and slashes have been reduced for the first few months!).
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Sep 29 – eth2 deposit contract/genesis dress rehearsal (Spadina)
- Sep 29 – ENS online workshop
- Sep30 – Oct25 – EthPlanet hackathon
- Oct 1-30 – EthOnline hackathon (application deadline Sept 23)
- Oct 2 – Gitcoin grants matching ends. Here’s my Week in Eth News grant
- Oct 20 – submission deadline for Medalla data challenge
- Oct 31 – submission deadline for Underhanded Solidity Contest
- Nov 6-7 – virtual Trufflecon
- Nov 16 – MetaMask Provider breaking changes