Week in Ethereum News, Feb 1, 2021 - this issue made possible thanks to Matcha by 0x!
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Proposed revamp of stateless Eth roadmap; focus on the clients, need client specifically focused on stateless?
Alternative bounded-state-friendly address scheme with CREATE3 and epoch prefix
Reforming core devs call discussion doc
EIPs/Standards
EIP3238: delay difficulty bomb 12 months
ERC3224: human readable transaction technique standard for app devs
Eth2
Latest what’s new in eth2, includes graphic from Leo Bago’s client node count
Proposal for first upgrade of Eth’s proof of stake chain: light client support, spread processing over the epoch, fork choice hardening, increase slashing/inactivity penalties as planned. Cap validators at 524k?
Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Alex, get ready for Feb 2 workshops
Layer2
Arbitrum releases testnet with lots of apps.
A guide to optimistic rollups and to Optimism in particular
Hop cross-rollup token bridge
Cartesi with a TrueBit-style verification/fraud proof game for RISC-V Linux
Aztec and Starkware release Polaris prover license for rollup code
The road to StarkNet, a zk-rollup from StarkWare coming end of 2021 with apps written in Cairo
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Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.8.1, SMTChecker supports external calls
Solidity developer survey results. Now launches Solidity Discourse forum
PWC: changes in Solidity v0.8.x that you may have missed
Paradigm CTF starts Feb 5
OpenZeppelin’s Hardhat/Truffle upgrades plugin now supports structs and enums
Austin Griffith’s scaffold-eth challenge/tutorial: build staking app
Flash loan arb bot with Infura tutorial
hevm v0.44, accepts solidity json output built via
--standard-json
Iden3’s rapidSNARK, a fast prover written in C++ for circom and snarkjs
Security/incidents
Secureum analyzes Hermez’s audits
Ecosystem
Reddit announces partnership with EF to get Ethereum to Reddit-scale production
Devcon Bogotá is postponed, EthCC now planned for July
Enterprise
USAA and State Farm will go into production with their Quorum based solution to track and pay each other for auto claims
China’s Blockchain-based Service Network will now have Quorum available
Visa CEO says on earnings call they’re looking at supporting stablecoin on/offramps for Visa cards, hence why they’ve been hiring Eth devs
Application layer
xINCH: an auto-claim and compound wrapper for 1Inch staking
UMA: borrow USDC with your ETH for free (or at negative interest!)
Opium is offering tranched CDOs built on Compound. Senior tranche is fixed rate, junior tranche is high risk/reward
Spendless - direct your stablecoin interest to charity or save via yearn frontend
An alternative Zora frontend: zora.gallery
$essay tokenized crowdfunding for an essay where the holders get 10% of future trades
Atari creating a classic Atari games arcade in Decentraland
Mark Cuban is minting NFTs
Regulation/business/tokens
Coinbase to go public via direct listing selling shares directly, no underwritten IPO process
Fincen reopens comment period, if you want to comment on Mnuchin’s anti-crypto regulations. It ends today for reporting counterparty info, and on March 1 for the rest
Dune Analytics: the real-time quarterly report
pNetwork offers wrapped DOGE on Ethereum
General
What happens if you reuse a nonce in cryptography? Bad stuff.
How SNARKs are possible with polynomial commitments
The state of tooling for verifying constant-timeness of cryptographic implementations
What miner revolts are really possible anyway?
Google says North Korea is trying to hack security researchers
Important ASAP security updates: if you’re an iPhone user, update iOS. If you run Linux, update sudo
Job Listings
MetaMask is hiring engineers for a variety of positions. Apply here.
Cartesi, a rollups solution, is looking to hire skilled engineers
Trail of Bits is looking for a technical editor/writer & security engineer
0x looking for devs of all types and a data analyst
Reddit: Senior backend/Ethereum engineer
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
Feb 5 - Nimbus Grafana challenge submissions deadline (prizes up to $5k)
Feb 5-12 - EthDenver (virtual)
Feb 5-7 - Paradigm CTF
Feb 8 - CME launches ETH futures
Mar 5 - Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop
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