Week in Ethereum News, April 22, 2023 - thanks to Optimism’s RetroPGF

Eth News and Links

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

• A list of what exactly might make it into Dencun besides 4844 (protodankscaling). Discussion at the next call on April 27

• Latest consensus layer devs call. Notes from Christine Kim

  • EIP4788 (expose CL state in EL) likely included in Dencun

  • 4844 devnet5 next week

  • discussion of long-lived subnets to reduce bandwidth use

• Latest 4844 implementor call

• KZG ceremony is open again for public contributions, but your Eth account needs over 128 mainnet transactions. If the waiting list declines, then the threshold will be reduced. Follow @carlbeek to find out if threshold is reduced

Layer 1

• Four options for transitioning to Verkle trees would look like

• Two slots proposer builder separation with unconditional payment

• Paprika, Nethermind’s experimental storage abstraction of Patricia tree

• Equivocation attacks in MEV-boost and ePBS

• Optimistic relays increase validator profits and are cheaper to maintain

For Stakers

• How to track the performance of your validator

• Benchmarking bandwidth consumption with Shapella (Geth and Lighthouse) finds ~20% increase

• Lighthouse v4.1 - fix excessive CPU usage

• Geth v.1.11.6

• Rocketpool Atlas upgrade live, allows staking with 8 ETH and triples Rocketpool’s capacity

• How to start running a distributed validator with Obol

Layer 2

• Client diversity coming with Optimism’s Bedrock upgrade:

  • Magi, a16z’s Optimism client in rust

  • OP-Erigon, a fork of Erigon for Optimism

EIPs/Standards

• EIPs:

  • EIP6888: EVM math checking

  • EIP6913: SETCODE instruction

  • EIP6914: Reuse withdrawn validator indices

• ERCs:

  • ERC6882: sharable interface for borrowing

  • ERC6884: Extendable Utility Tokens Derived from Origin NFTs

  • ERC6916: Automatic reset of testnet

  • ERC6912: Versioned TokenIDs for Dynamic NFTs

  • ERC6909: simplified alternative to erc1155

  • ERC6900: modular smart contracts

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Stuff for developers

• viem v0.3.x, bugfixes and ethcall batch aggregation

• wagmi’s plan for migrating to viem

• Diamond standard in Foundry

• ZeroMEV API, transaction level MEV summary data

Security

• Hundred hacked for 7.4m on Optimism, due to poorly deployed fork of compound v2

Ecosystem

• Scaffold-eth v2 hackathon winners

• ETH Tokyo winners

• Gas prices highest this week since the Merge (ie ~80 gwei during UTC day and ~35 gwei during UTC night) lead to over 100k burned since the Merge

• Devconnect announced in Istanbul for November 13-19

Enterprise

• Société Générale launches Euro stablecoin on mainnet

Notable at app layer

• Kwenta launches SmartMargin and currently has 3 different rewards programs for traders

• Use an onchain NFT as your Uniswap frontend

• Brantly Millegan’s proposal for an onchain follow protocol

• Who is delegating to you in DAOs?

• Ameen announces Hai, multi-collateral Rai fork on optimism

• Alchemix self-repaying .eth domains

• State of zk-apps in Ethereum

• What can you do with zk-ECDSA at the app layer?

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Job Listings

• Snr React Native UI Dev at Status: All jobs

• Solidity team are looking for a highly skilled Dev Advocate

• EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison

Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth.  Questions? abcoathup at-gmail

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Regulation/business/tokens

• Coinbase licensed in Bermuda to launch derivatives exchange

• Gensler repeatedly refuses to say ETH is not a security, even though in 2018 he recognized that ETH was not a security

• SEC labels Algorand an unregistered security in complaint against Bittrex.

  • In 2019, Gary Gensler caught on tape pumping Algorand

• Gary Gensler’s contradiction in the middle

• Europe votes for uniform legal framework for EU crypto markets

• Next week Alex Pertsev to be released to house arrest to prepare for June trial

General/crypto

• Poseidon and Grobner basis attacks

• Consensys reports data leak of Metamask support tickets

• Tayvano on a mysterious wallet drainer, where there is no common thread between compromised keys

• If you haven’t yet, make sure your iPhone and iOS are up to date

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Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)

• Apr 25 - May 9 – Gitcoin Program Beta Round

• 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 2-7 – 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 18-21 – ETH Montréal hackathon & conference

• 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

• Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)

• Nov 17-19 - ETHIstanbul (EthGlobal)

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