Week in Ethereum News, Aug 23, 2020 - this issue made possible by Chainlink!
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Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest Turbogeth alpha release
Notes from latest Stateless Ethereum call
Latest core dev call. Beiko’s notes.
Increase gas price for SLOAD to 2300; CALL family, EXT* family and BALANCE to 2500
EVM384: can we do fast crypto in the EVM?
Tim Roughgarden contracted to simulate eip1559 and escalator algo
Eth2
This week, the Medalla testnet recovered from a catastrophic event and is finalizing again. Prysmatic’s catalog of events and Ben Edgington’s shorter writeup
Shout it from the rooftops: client diversity matters. If you prefer to hear that in video form, I made a short video on why the incident shows we need client diversity (and why the incident is great for eth2!)
Latest what’s new in eth2
SigmaPrime’s BeaconFuzz update on bug finding - you can help fuzz eth2 clients using the dockerized fuzzer
Lighthouse client update, nailing attestation inclusion
Lodestar client update, lessons learned from Medalla and browser ready light client
Nimbus client update, performance and stability fixes
Tutorial to using rumor for client debugging
an eth2 clock
A list of eth2 tooling
ZenGo initial results on VDF design cryptanalysis
Layer2
dYdX announces they’re planning a q4 StarkWare rollup
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Stuff for developers
Test your Solidity code with the Echida fuzzer
Sam Sun finds a xSNXa bug
Golem wasm and VM payloads alpha release for devs
Dynamic value arrays in Solidity
For new web3 devs, remember: Ethereum code is not a database
Debug and profile together with Tenderly Organizations
Ecosystem
MetaMask restricts commercial use forks with more than 10k users
How to get your old ENS deposit back and we’re now halfway through the decaying price premium for expired ENS domains
Ethereum Foundation: beyond just ecosystem grants
Enterprise
AWS: mint tokens with BurnerFactory and monitor them with BlockScout
TheBlock research report on CBDCs (central bank digital currencies)
Application layer
More than 10b USD on ethereum (now 11.3b) after 1b migrated from Tron to ETH
A primer on Synthetix futures
YieldSpace, an automated liquidity provider using time to maturity as an input
Opium’s credit default swaps using Aave credit delegation
Andre Cronje is now going to do yinsure
Arbol goes live with parametric rainfall insurance
DeFi Safety: a score based on “process quality”
POAP doing Merkle AirDrops and tool to create raffles
Multis using Unlock for monthly automatic subscription fees
Yield farming with Set
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Haseeb Qureshi: Unbundling Uniswap
Preparing your ERC20 token to list on Coinbase
Proof of personhood paper, a review of sybil-resistance
Hasu: YAM is a Nakamoto scheme
General
MyCrypto: 10 steps to avoid getting hacked in crypto
Binance on collaborating with governments to thwart ransomware ring
Elaine Shi’s Foundations of Distributed Consensus & Blockchains textbook is available for free
Brave research on using AZTEC confidential payments on a Quorum POA sidechain
Sergio Demian Lerner: Satoshi had an optimized miner he didn’t release publicly
Vitalik on philosophy of blockchain coordination and the accompanying X of n trust models in blockchains
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