Eth News and Links
Eth1
A summary of the post-EthCC Stateless Eth meetings. Renewed focus on sync, particularly getNodeData
Eth2
Latest Eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Mamy. Phase 1 prototyping coming soon
Latest phase0 spec v0.11, the target for stable multi-client testnet
Ben Edgington’s notes from networking call
Nimbus client update - interop this month, discussion around constraints of running eth2 client on mobile devices
Two phase2 ethresearch posts: Appraisal of Non-sequential Receipt Cross-shard Transactions and Atomic Cross Shard Function Calls using System Events, Live Parameter Checking, & Contract Locking
Vitalik’s Using polynomial commitments to replace state roots, though this is not likely to hit the current roadmap. More context from listening to Justin Drake and Vitalik Buterin on Zero Knowledge
Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.6.4
A storage layout for proxy contracts taking advantage of Solidity v0.6.4
EthGlobal’s survey of Eth developers
Interacting with Ethereum using a shell through Incubed ultra-light client
Templates with pre-filled contract ABIs, addresses and subgraphs for Aave, Compound, Sablier, Uniswap
Prysmatic’s service registry pattern in Go
Implementing Merkle Trees and Patricia Tries in Node.js
Pipline onchain interpreted language vid
Austin Griffith vid on wallet module for eth.build
OpenZeppelin points out that a malicious deployer can backdoor your Gnosis Safe
SmartBugs: framework for executing Solidity automated analysis tools, with an academic paper comparing tool performance
Crypto carnage, Maker liquidations
Thursday’s global selloff of risk assets led to the most negative price action day of crypto’s short history. The selloff inflated gas prices (~200 gwei) which caused trouble for Maker. The Maker oracles stopped working for an hour or two.
Maker liquidation auctions went off for nearly 0 DAI as bots bidding on those auctions got caught in high gas prices and ran out of DAI, leading several different bot maintainers to make ~8m USD in ETH by bidding just above zero in a few disparate time periods.
As a result, the Maker system surplus became a 5.7m Dai deficit (as of the time of publication). To improve incentives, Maker governance changed some parameters and to recoup the debt MKR will be auctioned onchain for lots of 50,000 Dai on the morning (UTC) of March 19th.
Community members have started a backstop to ensure the deficit is covered
Here is a writeup of the Maker liquidations with data and graphs
Just published: Maker governance proposal to change DSR to 0 and Stability Fee to 0.5%, GSM to 4 hours, and a decentralized circuitbreaker for auctions
Ecosystem
Prysmatic’s Raul Jordan: Eth2 is happening, it is shipping, and we’re going to make it a reality no matter what
DuneAnalytic’s stats for smart contract wallets
So far, 9 attendees of EthCC have tested positive for COVID-19
Enterprise
End to end transport layer security with Hyperledger Besu v1.4
Paul Brody talks Baseline Protocol on Into the Ether
How Citi and ConsenSys use Ethereum for commodities trade finance
Governance, DAOs, and standards
Livepeer’s proposed governance roadmap
SingularDTV announces snglsDAO Foundation for their media protocol press release
FakerDAO - pool your MKR to sell votes to highest bidder
Application layer
Numerai’s ErasureBay live on mainnet. A marketplace for any kind of information, where the buyer can slash the seller if they don’t like the information
DeFiSaver’s 1click transaction CDP closing using flashloans
Gnosis’ Gibraltar-regulated Sight political markets are live
Update on Augur v2. tldr: it’s close
bZx’s mea culpa post mortem of the attacks. They also paid 1inch the full bug bounty two weeks ago.
Bluestone fixed rate loans and deposits, live on Rinkeby testnet
Maker’s Dai Gaming Initiative
VirtuePoker’s final beta launches March 16th
HavenSocial, a web3 alternative to Facebook where you own your own data
Tokens/Business/Regulation
David Hoffman: Ethereum as emergent structure
USDC: programmable dollars with business accounts and APIs
Uniswap volume is now tracked on Coinmarketcap
wBTC passes Lightning Network in value locked up
Matthew Green: US congressional bill EARN IT is a direct attack on e2e encryption
General
Contribute computing cycles to fight COVID-19
Brave’s nightly release features random browser fingerprints per session
Load Value Injection attack on Intel SGX
Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves explainer from Alan Szepieniec
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
ETHNYC/SmartCon0 postponed indefinitely, EthBarcelona postponed until June, most events go virtual
Mar 16-30 - Gitcoin’s Funding the Future virtual hackathon
Mar 19 - MKR auction
Mar 23 - Gitcoin Grants CLR, round 5 starts
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-6 - NonCon (Vienna) - now virtual
Apr 13 - Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
Apr 24-26 - EthTurin - now virtual
Apr 29-30 - SoliditySummit (Berlin) - now virtual
May 8-9 - Ethereal Summit (NYC) - now virtual
June 17 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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