Eth News and Links
Eth1
- OpenEthereum release candidate for v3.1. They have backtracked and will continue to support Kovan.
- Snap sync in Geth benchmarking on Rinkeby
- Turbogeth weekly alpha release. They’re moving to a modular architecture, with the first example of using Turbogeth as a library
- Tim Beiko’s eip1559 fee market with burn update: implementation, simulations, formal analysis, community input
- More eip1559 agent based simulations under various strategies in Jupyter notebook
- Fuzzing the eip2537 BLS precompiles
EIPs/Standards
Eth2
- eth2 quick update: deposit contract live for Sept 29 dress rehearsal testnet launch. “…everyone involved is making their final preparations for [mainnet] launch🚀”
- Prysm client update. Implementing weak subjectivity, planning for forks
Layer2
- Optimism launches optimistic rollup testnet incentivized by Synthetix
- DxDAO is deploying a payment network frontend to Loopring’s zkrollup
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Stuff for developers
- How to set up Sentry and Pagerduty with Tenderly alerts for your Eth app
- NestJS Truffle box
- Create time-locked functions in Solidity with Builder
- Dealing with “stack too deep” errors
- First level of a game to learn Vyper
- Several yearn vaults affected by bug this week
Frontrunning
- A tale of Sam Sun, Scott Bigelow, Tina Zhen, SparkPool, and friends saving 10m in ETH from frontrunners. More technical details of the bug from Lien
- BlockNative releases a transaction pool explorer
- ZenGo analyzes generalized frontrunning attacks
- A closeup examination of Uniswap frontrunning bots in a large transaction
Enterprise
- Visa’s Plaid is integrating with Dharma and Teller
- HongKong central bank’s digitized international payments led by ConsenSys, whereas a prior version had used Corda.
Application layer
- DeFi passed 10 billion with Maker and Uniswap nearly tied for #1. (Though data got backfilled putting TVL over 10b on Sept 12.)
- ICL arXiv paper studying DeFi interest rates finds uncovered interest parity does not generally hold
- Vocdoni’s voting as a service
- Aave is about to pass a proposal to migrate LEND to AAVE
- State of ENS 2020
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- Proposed EU framework for cryptoasset regulation
- OCC says banks/thrifts can hold stablecoins
- SEC staff: security tokens can trade on exchanges
- For the memecoiners: Liquality’s browser extension for cross-chain ETH/BTC swaps and tBtc launches with increasing supply caps
- Fairmint releases the SAFE-like Continuous Agreement for Equity (CAFE)
General
- Kucoin hacked for at least 150m USD. Tether froze 33m USDT in response and Ocean Protocol paused their token contract to migrate it
- China state TV runs positive news about Ethereum and DeFi
- Ex-employee of Loom Network opines on how the demise occurred
- OpenBazaar to shut down if no funding found by 2021
- “websites secretly track you by drawing random junk offscreen and measuring small variations in how different browsers/computers render it”
Job Listings
- DeFi devs! Yield is hiring for Solidity and front-end – contact@yield.is
- Mainframe is hiring a Senior Front End Engineer
- Live for DeFi? mStable is looking for a Smart Contract/Protocol Developer
- Integrate new blockchains into Chainlink as an Integrations Engineer
- Trail of Bits hiring elite blockchain security engineers & app security
- 0x is hiring devs! Full-stack, back-end, front-end or Solidity
- Celer Network: hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
- Nexus Mutual: experienced Solidity dev; prefer European timezones
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
- Sep 29 – Spadina eth2 deposit contract/genesis dress rehearsal. viewing party
- Sep 29 – ENS online workshop
- Sep30 – Oct25 – EthPlanet hackathon
- Oct 2-30 – EthOnline hackathon and summits
- Oct 2 – Gitcoin grants matching ends. Here’s my Week in Eth News grant
- Oct 19-26 – EthLagos energy hackathon
- 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
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