Week in Eth News for Nov 8, 2020 - this issue made possible thanks to Matcha by 0x
🚀 Ethereum proof of stake launches December 1st
Eth News and Links
Eth1
OpenEthereum v3.1 - continues from last stable release (v2.5.13), removes all non-core things from client; includes db migration tool for v2.7
Péter Szilágyi benchmarks snap sync v fast sync
Video and notes from latest 1559 call, lots of talk about how to do more tests
Micah Zoltu: we need 1559 so normal people can use Ethereum
EIPs/standards
Proof of Stake launch
Deposit contract is live at 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa or depositcontract.eth. Chain launch on Dec 1 if we get 16384 deposits (524288 ETH) by Nov 24.
you can use the launchpad or CLI deposit tool
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Proof of stake spec v1.0.0
Vitalik: why proof of stake; more decentralized, much better security
Video of team presentations from Medalla data challenge
Lighthouse update: deposit contract launch
Prysm update: mainnet announcement and learnings from Medalla non-finalization
Layer2
Arbitrum ports Uniswap to its rollup. 2k gas per trade, available using Kovan testnet as layer1
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Stuff for developers
typechain v4
Tenderly adds proxy support
Solt: contract verification from command line (formerly solc-sjw) regardless of framework/structure
Running a keeper from Keep3r Network on Zeppelin’s Defender
Getting randomness in an NFT with Chainlink tutorial
Learning about the EVM by reading GasToken code
Security
PercentFinance bug freezes balances. Forking good code and adding to it can easily make it buggy.
Axion gets immediately hacked. CertiK says malicious code added post-audit
Sandwich attack - frontrunning and backrunning your uniswap transaction to avoid the slippage tolerance
Enterprise
AP records its American election race calls on Ethereum mainnet
Verizon to log press releases on Mad Network, an Ethereum sidechain
Application layer
1inch v2 - new algo for discovery and routing, new front end, fewer failed txs
Request Network adds recurring invoices
Voting on Ethereum? Check out Vocdoni
Regulation/business/tokens
SEC loosens some security registration exemptions
General
Dilbert’s election day cartoon was about Ethereum
ZenGo’s Two Party Distributed RSA Modulus Generation in Rust
Brave hits 20 million monthly active users
Job Listings
Argent is hiring a Senior Android Engineer (Remote, Europe only)
Celer hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
Nov 12-13 - Baseline Protocol Summit
Nov 16 - MetaMask Provider breaking changes
Nov 19 - EthBerlin 2.5: Talk Show
Nov 24 - last day to deposit to be in proof of stake genesis block
Dec 1 - Proof of stake launch (if enough deposits by Nov 24)
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