Week in Ethereum News, Feb 15, 2021 - this issue made possible by Celer!
Eth News and Links
Mainnet
Options for controlling state size growth
A pay-for-storage model for evolving tree hashed data structures
GetNodeData DHT approach to state availability
Transaction gossip network for light clients
Proof of Stake
Latest what’s new in eth2
Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and Alex, discussion of what goes in the first network upgrade, draft spec in the next couple weeks to turn off PoW
chaind v0.2, get data off your eth2 node
Adrian Sutton’s hard truths for eth stakers. Those truths didn’t seem that hard to me.
Dankrad: it’s important to go stateless
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Stuff for developers
solc-select v0.2 for easy switching between Solidity versions
Remix IDE v0.10.10
Intro to Solidity’s fuzzing approach
Coding Roulette in Solidity tutorial
Automatically verify your code with Sourcify
Find the unit test failures in your code with Tarantula, implemented in a VScode plugin
Infura TX, autobump gas prices metarelayer, is live on mainnet
Hardhat plugin to fetch the ABI for you
Setup a vending machine that accepts crypto payments with Arduino device
Security/incidents
Paradigm CTF solution writeups: Christoph Michel, Stephane, Ansgar Dietrichs
yearn clone BT got hit for 1.5m with the same attack as last week’s yearn attack
AlphaHomora 38m hack in a series of complicated transactions. If you were still confused, check out Bartek Kiepuszewski’s explanation
ArmorFi bug bounty exploit writeup, a mistaken hardcoded value
Dedaub finds another no-source code exploit, this time in an arb bot with no checks on who calls the function
Flashbots and MEV over the last month. MEV-geth has 3-4% of hashrate
Dependency confusion: successful supply chain attacks against BigTech. MetaMask’s Lavamoat tools for sandboxing your dependencies
Ecosystem
Check for claimable airdrops and POAPs
Hackathon submissions from MarketMake and EthDenver, and the winners for MarketMake and EthDenver
Coingecko adds an easy way to get tokens into MetaMask
Etherscan now shows the cost for standard types of transactions
Secureum with more case studies to teach users how to read audits
Although it’s long been clear that EIP1559 is the most popular EIP ever, there’s a #SupportEIP1559 campaign
Enterprise
“Mastercard will start supporting select cryptocurrencies directly on our network”
Amazon had job listings up for digital payments in Mexico, but after it was reported the job listings were removed
BNYMellon developing a prototype for digital asset custody and administration. Deutsche Bank getting into custody and prime brokerage
Application layer
Colony v2 soft launches DAO platform
synthetix’s $TSLA synth, and with afterhours trading on Balancer
YAM doing ustonks on UMA, 10 synthetic stocks of r/WallStreetBets’s favorites
MetaStable does a tokenized BTC basket, mBTC
Contribute to clr.fund round 4; it’s live, using MACI’s snark magic to hide who you donate to
themanymatts.lol: Matt Condon gives out NFTs to people who find the stickers he leaves around the world or who meet him and hit the chip in his hand.
Regulation/business/tokens
Mark Cuban: "ETH has an advantage over BTC as a store of value"
St Louis Fed publishes DeFi overview and review
People have been talking privately about how much MetaMask is making, Tom Schmidt tweeted it. They’re sustainable.
Simon dlr: exploring NFTs for authors, experimenting with NFTs for his novel
General
Tim Swanson: Bitcoin and other proof of work coins are an environmental nightmare
Matic rebrands as Polygon to implement Mihailo Bjelic’s EVM network vision
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
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Mar 5 - Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop
Apr 9 - May 14 - ETHGlobal’s Scaling Ethereum hackathon
May 14 - papers due for WoSCA 2021
Jul 20-22 - EthCC4 (Paris)
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