Week in Eth News, Aug 30, 2020, thanks to Celer for making this issue possible!
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Eth News and Links
Eth1
Geth v1.9.20 bugfix release - new blockchain database layout, Go v1.15
There was a kerfuffle about OpenEthereum this week: as announced Aug 14, the next release in a week or two is backporting features to v2.5 codebase because current release has stability issues. The new release might not require resyncing.
Turbogeth weekly alpha release, fixes memory leak and stability improvements
Fee market reform: a question of fairness?
Notes from the latest 1559/fee market reform call
Eth2
Eth1 merged into eth2: demo of an Eth1 transfer inside an eth2 client. It’s dockerized, so you can run it yourself
What hardware should I buy to stake my Eth?
Client diversity matters: Bankless guide to get started staking on the Medalla testnet
A script for easy Nimbus deployment
Attestant opensources its distributed remote keymanager
Barnabé Monnot: agent based validator modeling with new strategies and behaviors. Python notebook
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Stuff for developers
Improving Eth dev ex: faster compiling/testing, better debugging, better editors/IDEs and more
ethers-contract-hook: package to generate hooks from Ethers contract functions
A buidler plugin to easily verify on Etherscan
Using scaffold-eth to build an NFT art sales app on xdai
create-eth-app v1.4 adds IPFS deployment
A strongly typed fixed point math library to prevent the YAM bug
Identifying orchestration patterns in Solidity: simple (Uniswap), more complicated (Yield) and…Maker.
EIPs/Standards
ERC2917: Staking Reward Calculation
Ecosystem
Beware of generalized frontrunners: the transaction pool is a dark forest
EthGas.watch: an aggregator of gasprice predictions that will email you when gas prices drop
EthVM: an opensource block explorer from MyEtherWallet
Uniswap frontend now requires that you pick a token list
Enterprise
Quorum moves to ConsenSys. As part of the deal, JPMorgan invests in ConsenSys
Video demo of OpenLaw integration with Microsoft Office
Baseline Protocol v0.1, set of standard interfaces for privately using Eth mainnet as the source of truth between enterprises
Application layer
Uniswap flipped Coinbase for transaction volume and flipped Bitcoin for transaction fees
Aave #1 on DefiPulse for TVL. Aave company also got a UK license to provide payment services.
Goodghosting is live: multiple people save regularly using Aave, those who don’t miss a payment get the interest of those who miss a payment
Sushiswap: deposit your uniswap LP tokens and get SUSHI back (10% for anonymous team) then after 2 weeks it becomes a Uniswap competitor with fees accruing to Sushi holders. More than 500m locked in less than a week
Aragon has a conviction funding pilot
TokenBrice on understanding the rules of vegetable meme ponzis
Tokens/Business/Regulation
SEC slightly relaxes accredited investor standards
FTX acquires Blockfolio for $150 million
USDC v2: adds permit for gasless transactions and more multisigs for administration
Tokenized BTC (there’s now more than 52000 BTC on ETH): 1 click to turn BTC to WBTC on imToken
0x’s new request for quote system for professional market makers
Fairlaunch capital experiment in funding networks owned by their community from outset
Valuing ETH as privately owned public infrastructure
Crypto/General
Three “Obfuscation August” papers: Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions, Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Circular Security, Factoring and Pairings are not Necessary for iO: Circular-Secure LWE Suffices
Coinbase: understanding accumulators by implementing in Rust
Hermez zk rollup on their process of using multi-party ceremonies
Job Listings
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Dates of Note
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