Eth News and Links
Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
EF DevOps launch devnet with 605k validators to test BLS key changes
Withdrawal-mainnet-shadow-fork-1 finalizing
Consensus specs v1.3.0-rc.2: new Capella test cases, polynomial commitment spec updates & light client data change
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
KZG Ceremony:
23,000+ contributions after two weeks
Session sign-out issue fixed
Unique entropy generators: Proof-of-Cat & marble run
Towers-of-pau implementation in Go, survives suspending computer
EIP4844 decoupling gossip in Nimbus design notes
Proposed transaction SSZ refactoring
EOF v2 design, based on discussions of past month
Layer 1
Approaches for decentralizing block builders
Kaustinen PoS verkle testnet, replaces Condrieu testnet, includes proofs in blocks
Client releases
Consensus layer:
Execution layer:
Nethermind v1.16.1: reported ~0.5% improvement in staking rewards, RAM consumption reduced and adds low disk space notification
Layer 2
Patrick McCorry: rollup permissive vs permissioned licensing
EIPs/Standards
ERC6366: Permission token
ERC6372: Contract clock
ERC6381: Emotable extension for NFTs
EIP6384: Humanly readable offline signatures
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Stuff for developers
Foundry:
ChugSplash Foundry: deploy & manage upgradeable contracts, upgrade OpenZeppelin Transparent proxies, supports mainnet & Optimism
Deal cheat code mints ERC20 tokens in tests
EVM call stipend (2300 gas) explainer
OpenZeppelin proposal to mitigate ERC4626 inflation attacks with virtual assets & shares
Sparse-arr-lib: Solidity library for sparse arrays, work in progress
Optimizing using Yul via example rock, paper & scissors contracts
Samczsun’s signature database: exportable, add to canonical list via GitHub
Clipshot: ERC1155 token holder snapshots as CSV
Hydralisk: Python CLI for bulk wallet creation
Walk through of building bear traps for MEV bot front-runners
DamnVulnerableDefi ABI smuggling solution
Uniswap v3 math explainer
Ecosystem
1/3 of relayed blocks not censoring Tornado Cash transactions
0xPARC zk 4 week residency in Vietnam from mid-March
Enterprise
Cité Gestion (Swiss bank) tokenized its shares on Ethereum
Baseline simple reference implementation
Application layer
Aave v3 live on mainnet
RAI stablecoin:
Index Coop diversified staked ETH: index token of Rocket Pool, Lido & StakeWise staked ETH
Maker voted to deploy 100M USDC from PSM into a Yearn vault
Maple Finance adds receivables financing pool
Migratooor: move tokens from one address to another
MoonPlace: r/Place like NFTs on Arbitrum Nova using r/CryptoCurrency community tokens
Texture Punx: on-chain SVG NFTs with user selected traits, 50% of secondary sales donated to Protocol Guild [Disclosure: Andrew minted three, one was free]
Job Listings
Arx, creators of KONG Cash and HaLo tags is hiring a Solidity developer.
Status is hiring a Technical Writer for Waku Product, all other jobs here
Ethereum Foundation are hiring a Community Lead for ethereum.org
Lighthouse seeking support tech to help its stakers
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet or Layer 2. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
US SEC Commissioner Peirce: approach crypto regulation carefully but don’t wait for regulators to solve problems
Reuters: US SEC probing investment advisers on custody of clients crypto
FBI: Lazarus group behind $100M Horizon bridge theft in June 2022
Outlier Ventures: which products need a token
General/crypto
LocalCryptos (LocalEthereum) winding down
Worldcoin releases hardware engineering files for Orb iris scanner
Semaphore grants round recipient projects
Introduction to commitment schemes
ZK MOOCs: modern zk cryptography and zk proofs
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Upcoming Dates of Note
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Jan 31 – deadline for Gitcoin grants round
Jan 31 – KZG ceremony grants deadline
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Feb 24 - Mar 1 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek
Feb 27 – deadline for EF academic grants round
Mar 2-5 – ETHDenver Hackathon
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