Week in Ethereum News, April 1, 2023 - sponsored by Scaffold-Eth-2 hackathon
Eth News and Links
Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
Update your nodes ready for mainnet Shapella upgrade on April 12, including both your beacon node & validator client
Consensus layer mainnet releases:
Execution layer mainnet releases:
MEV-Boost v1.5.0
Latest all core devs – execution (ACDE) call video. Summary by Tim Beiko. Notes from Tim Beiko & Christine Kim:
Final Shapella mainnet shadow fork planned for next week
Flag for EL to suggest CL override external builder to be added before Cancun
SELFDESTRUCT removal (EIP6780) added as Cancun candidate
EOF spec updated to avoid code & gas observability, too big to include in Cancun
Proposal for trust-minimized CL access from EL inside the EVM
Verkle trees readiness discussion for Prague upgrade
For Stakers
Beacon chain withdrawals technical explainer
When to broadcast BLS address change
Switch to a smaller pool after Shapella to make Ethereum more resilient
Orange Pi 5 running Geth+Lighthouse, 139 €, syncs in ~27 hours
Mac mini M1 running Geth+Nimbus, syncs in ~18 hours
Layer 2
Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta, gas pricing as EVM but lacks some precompiles, Security Council initially, AGPL v3 license
Linea (ConsenSys zkEVM) testnet now public
Conduit managed rollups using OP Stack, with block explorer, RPCs, metrics & transaction tracer
L2BEAT risk rosette: visualization of risks
EIPs/Standards
EIPs:
ERCs:
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Stuff for developers
Foundry tip: warp to present time in base test setup function for more realistic testing
Vulcan template: Foundry template using Vulcan development framework
Protect against donation attacks on ERC4626 vaults & liquidity pools
Gambit: Solidity mutation generator in Rust, integrated with Certora Prover
Curta CTF: what are buckets solution
Decipher EVM puzzles: extension of Franco’s EVM puzzles
Ethereum-indexer: in-browser indexer in TypeScript for use in games/apps, demo
P256 on EVM: demo of user onboarding, wallet creation using WebAuthn
Arbiter v0.1.0: agent based analysis tool in Rust, beta
Ethereum Attestation Service private data attestations using Merkle Trees
Security
Tincho found ENS DNSSEC vulnerability in undeployed code, any DNSSEC name could be taken over, 100k bounty recommended
DAO gas refund vulnerability, refund pots can be drained for DAOs with inexpensive tokens
Euler exploiter returning funds
Overview of sleuthing tools: Phalcon, MetaSleuth, Transaction tracer, ethtx and Tenderly
Ecosystem
Optimism’s retroactive public goods funding round 2 recipients announced, 10 million OP shared by 195 projects
Vitalik: SNARK-verify layer 1 using multiple Type 1 zkEVMs
Etherscan adds option to use local time zone for time stamps
ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum finalists
Enterprise
Ticketmaster testing NFT gated ticket sales with metal band Avenged Sevenfold
Notable at app layer
Maker voted for its constitution
DeFi Saver adds limit orders & DCA strategies
Sound Swap (music NFTs): 24 hour open editions & increasing price mints with instant selling
Job Listings
EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison
Nimbus is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer
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Regulation/business/tokens
CFTC charged Binance & CZ with law evasion & operating illegal derivatives exchange
FDIC wants former Signature Bank crypto customers to cash out by April 5
Bittrex exchange shutting US operations due to regulatory uncertainty
NFT MEV strategies: mints, arbitrage & liquidations
General/crypto
Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan: play commands at 16kHz-20kHz to attack voice assistants
Bing CMS exploit allowed take over of Office 365 accounts
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
Apr 5-8 – ETH Beijing hackathon
Apr 8 – deadline for Scaffold-Eth-2 hackathon
Apr 12 – Mainnet upgrades to Shapella
Apr 12-14 – NFT NYC
Apr 13-16 – Pragma Tokyo & ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon
Apr 14-16 – EthereumZuri.ch conference & hackathon
Apr 21-25 – EthTaipei hackathon & conference
Apr 27-30 – Istanbul ETH Privacy conference & hackathon
Apr 28 – deadline for EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 3
May 5-10 – ETHTallinn hackathon & NFT Tallinn conference
May 9-12 – EY blockchain summit
May 12-14 – ETHGlobal Lisbon
May 19-23 – EDCON Montenegro (changed from Vienna)
May 20-21 – ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
May 24-26 – Spaghett ETH (Naples) conference
May 26-28 – ETHDublin hackathon
Jun 2-4 – ETH Seoul
Jun 2-6 – ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon
Jun 9-11 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
Jun 23–25 – ETHGlobal Waterloo (changed from Toronto)
Jul 5-7 – ETHBarcelona
Jul 17-20 – EthCC (Paris)
Jul 21–23 – ETHGlobal Paris
Aug 13-16 – ETHToronto & ETHWomen
Aug 16-19 – Ethereum Argentina (Buenos Aires)
Aug 28-30 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
Aug 30 - Sep 3 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
Sep 1-3 – Ethcon Korea hackathon
Sep 10-12 – Ethereum Singapore hackathon & conference
Sep 11-13 – DappCon (Berlin)
Sep 15 – Protocol Berg (Berlin)
Sep 22–24 – ETHGlobal New York
Oct 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon
Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
November – Devconnect
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