Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
- Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
- Devnet-9 planned for September 27, will include KZG ceremony values if ready
- Public testnet upgrade order changed: Goerli to be first as it’s deprecated, allows testing 3/6 (target/max) EIP4844 blobs, ideally before Devconnect
- Dencun testing call video. Notes from Terence
- Consensus-specs v1.4.0-beta.2: adds EIP7514 (max churn limit) and fork-choice rule proposer boost adjustment
Prague + Electra upgrade
- Terence: Electra focus should be improving consensus layer stability, inclusion list, increasing max effective balance (EIP7251) and improving fork choice
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- 🚨 Lido at 32.23% still far too close to risky 33.3% threshold
- Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
- Execution layer: Geth supermajority, could possibly cause a chain split
- Consensus layer: Prysm over 33%, a bug could mean loss of finality
- Need more geographic diversity for both stakers and nodes, particularly outside of US/Can/EU
Layer 1
- ERC4337 (account abstraction) meeting notes
- State of verifying p256 curve onchain
- Guide to adding a precompile into Revm (and Reth), example adds P256VERIFY
- MEV-Boost integrated builders dominate CEX/DEX arbitrage due to advantages from latency
For Stakers
- Using retirement funds (IRA in US) to fund solo staking
Client releases
- Execution layer:
Research
- EF Cryptographers: VDFs are dead…for now?
- Single Secret Leader Election (SSLE): addressing Whisk bootstrapping problem using the target group and XTR & CEILIDH
- Mike Neuder: ePBS in-protocol designs, out-of-protocol proposals and open questions
- Private PEPC-DVT using BLS blinded multi-signatures
Layer 2
- Pessimism by Base: monitoring system for OP Stack
- Canto and Palm plan migrations to zk rollups using Polygon Chain Development Kit (CDK)
- Optimism RetroPGF Round 3 applications are open, 30 million OP will be distributed
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs
- ERCs (application layer):
Lido is a systemic threat to ETH: interview with Danny Ryan
Lido is a systemic threat to Ethereum. You won’t want to miss this episode with Danny Ryan. (Watch on YouTube)
Danny also covers the death of VDFs, EIP7514 (max epoch churn limit) and EIP7251 (increase max effective balance).
Stuff for developers
- Holešky testnet genesis rescheduled for September 28
- Truffle & Ganache are being sunset, devs can migrate to Hardhat
- Foundry:
- Rivet (developer wallet) adds log & calldata decoding
- Tstore-template: Foundry template with custom solc binaries that support transient storage opcodes in inline assembly
- Emily: Solidity library for credible commitments
- Speed Run Ethereum updated to Scaffold-ETH-2, can use Hardhat or Foundry
- Alchemy University Learn Solidity: 11 browser based lessons
- OP Viem: viem extension for OP Stack networks
- TLSNotary (alpha release) enables privacy-preserving data provenance & portability
Security
- Balancer frontend attacked via social engineering of .fi domain registrar
- Proposed onchain representation for audits (ERC7512)
Ecosystem
- Rainbow browser extension: includes watch mode with impersonation
- Patrick McCorry: enablement of MEV and morality of extracting
- ETHChicago hackathon projects
Enterprise
- PayPal USD stablecoin available on Venmo
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 6.3 to 329.3 gwei, with 12.9 gwei average
- Negative issuance currently at 20.7 gwei
- 6k ETH net issuance this week
- ETHUSD: $1,577 – $1,666, currently $1595
- ETHBTC: currently 0.06 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- Cacti-chat (web3 chatbot) live, beta
- Anon Aadhaar: anonymously prove Aadhaar (Indian) identity
- DeFiSaver automates using Liquity to earn Maker DSR interest
- GammaSwap: onchain options of Sushi pools, live on Arbitrum. Market makers can hedge AMM LP positions
- Vampire attacking CEX: Infinex to allow traders to earn an airdrop from derivative CEX trading history
- Optimism Airdrop 3 directly distributed to users who delegated
Job Listings
- Senior Operations Security Expert wanted by EF
- EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team seek a Technical Project Coordinator
- Logos Nomos is hiring a Distributed Systems Applied Researcher
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit). Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Coinbase campaign to get the 52 million Americans owning crypto to ask Congress to pass clear & sensible legislation
- FTX sues SBF’s parents to recover alleged fraudulently transferred & misappropriated funds
General
- Virgil Griffith moved prisons, new address to write to him
- Nansen data breach via a vendor, some email addresses, password hashes and blockchain addresses exposed
- More Apple zero-days, update your devices
- Revisiting hardware acceleration for zk proofs
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Sep 28 – Holešky testnet genesis (rescheduled)
- Sep 28 – Oct 3 – Huffathon challenges & hackathon (virtual)
- Oct 5-6 – ETHMilan conference
- Oct 6-27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
- Oct 6-8 – ETHRome hackathon
- Oct 13-15 – Ethereum Kuala Lumpur conference & hackathon
- Oct 21 – Ethereum México
- Oct 22-24 – ETH Hong Kong
- Oct 27-29 – ETH London hackathon
- Oct 27-29 – ETH Miami festival & hackathon
- Oct 27-29 – ETH Vietnam
- Oct 28-30 – Paradigm CTF
- Oct 31 – Road to Devcon grants deadline (max $1k for local meetups)
- Nov 3-5 – ETHBrno
- Nov 3-5 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
- Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)
- Nov 16-19 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Istanbul
- Dec 4-5 – ETHVenice
- Dec 8-10 – ETHGlobal ETHIndia (Bangalore)
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