Week in Ethereum News, August 13, 2022 - sponsored by Nexus Mutual
Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
Mainnet Merge targets September 15, tentative TTD: 58750000000000000000000
TTD to be reconfirmed on next weeks core devs call, 5GB DAG size not expected to cause big drop in hash rate
Bellatrix upgrade at epoch: 144896 September 6 11:34:47am UTC
Bordel predicts mainnet Merge September 15
Client releases expected by August 22
Goerli testnet merged successfully, finalizing after some config & client issues
Somer’s Goerli testnet staking guides: Teku, Lighthouse, Nimbus & Prysm
Sepolia testnet post-merge upgrade, update your nodes before August 17
mainnet-shadow-fork-11 merges August 18
Execution layer
Erigon v2022.08.01-alpha: better management of block snapshot files, fix for small memory leak in header downloading
KZG ceremony: design and reference implementation in Python
Future of light clients: browser-based light client and Portal Network ultralight client
Proof of Stake consensus layer
Danny Ryan’s Finalized PoS update: be ready for anything for the next ~5 weeks
PoS implementers call video. Notes from Ben Edgington and Christine Kim:
Mainnet Merge TTD & Bellatrix epoch calculations, 10 days between upgrades
Planning weekly mainnet shadow forks
MEV-boost: local building should happen in parallel, circuit breaker uses rolling window to check for skipped slots
Latest What’s New in Eth2
Prysm v2.1.4: Merge fixes & improvements
Layer2
Arbitrum Nova (using AnyTrust) is open for the public; initial data availability committee includes Consensys, FTX, Google Cloud, Offchain Labs, P2P, Quicknode & Reddit
EIPs/Standards
EIP5299: Storage scaling pattern
EIP5345: Walletconnect silent-signing extension
EIP5437: interface for security contact
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Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.8.16: fix for head overflow bug in calldata tuple ABI-reencoding; more gas-efficient checked addition & subtraction
Vitalik’s idea to use stealth addresses to privately hold ERC721 NFTs
Guide to mining create2 salts for efficient contract addresses
m1guelpf’s dapp-starter: updated with light/dark theme, ConnectKit & wagmi v0.6
Blocknative Transaction Distribution Network: submit a transaction to multiple nodes
MEV bundle generator (Rust) open sourced: graph based, custom Yul multicall
Ethernaut DAO CTF hackable contract solution
Security
Yield missing function override post mortem, $206k was at risk on Arbitrum
dYdX free gas vulnerability disclosed, $25k bounty paid
OpenZeppelin Contracts ECDSA signature malleability security advisory
Curve finance DNS hijack via DNS cache poisoning, $612k stolen
Ecosystem
Merge community call video
Application layer
Reddit Community Points migrated to Arbitrum Nova
SushiSwap AMM live on Arbitrum Nova
Stratos NFT marketplace supports Arbitrum Nova
OpenSea stolen items policy requires police report to confirm theft
Gitcoin Passport: decentralized identifier aggregating web2/web3 authenticator stamps
Job Listings
Gnosis Chain looking for Head of Bridges, Head of Validators & DevRel Eng.
Ethereum Foundation seek a generalist ecosystem developer
ØVIX + GOGO Protocol: VP of Engineering
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Regulation/business/tokens
US Treasury’s OFAC sanctioned Tornado Cash & associated addresses:
Resources blocked: GitHub organization & personal accounts of contributors, USDC on Tornado Cash contracts, Infura & Alchemy RPC and eth limo domain
Coin Center response
Developer arrested in the Netherlands
Chainalysis Tornado Cash sources: 10.5% stolen funds, 17.7% sanctioned addresses
0.1 ETH sent to 400+ ENS addresses from Tornado Cash
US SEC settles with Bloom [PDF] for selling unregistered securities in ICO
Mailchimp suspending crypto-related accounts
General
Proposal for multi-dimensional resource pricing [PDF] in blockchains
Nathan Schneider: cryptoeconomics as a limitation on governance
SNARK frontend & backend overheads and future scalability
ÆPIC leak: Intel CPU architectural bug leaking uninitialized data, requires privileged access
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
Aug 19-21 – ETHMexicoCity (ETH Global)
Aug 20-22 – Paradigm CTF
Aug 23 – Devcon wave 09 + 10 tickets
Aug 27-28 – DeFi Security Summit (Stanford)
Aug 29-31 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford)
Sep 1-4 – ETHWarsaw (hackathon & conference)
Sep 2-28 – ETHOnline (ETH Global)
Sep 6 – Bellatrix upgrade (epoch: 144896)
Sep 6-9 – MCON 2 (Denver)
Sep 7-22 – Gitcoin Grants round 15
Sep 9 – Merge Community Call #7
Sep 9-11 – Ethereum SP (São Paulo)
Sep 12-14 – DappCon (Berlin)
Sep ~15 – the Merge (tentative TTD: 58750000000000000000000)
Sep 16-18 - EthBerlin
Sep 23 - ETH HCMC summit (Ho Chi Minh)
Sep 23-24 - ETHSantiago
Oct 7-16 – Devcon week (Bogotá)
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