Week in Ethereum News, January 10, 2021 - this issue made possible thanks to Chainlink
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core dev call. Beiko’s notes. Ephemeral Berlin fork testnet in a few weeks
Proposal to decouple block propagation from witness propagation
Layer2
Vitalik’s guide to rollups
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Stuff for developers
solidity-bytes-utils v0.1.2, fixes tainted memory bug in the slice method
Nick Addison’s tx2uml tool to visualize transactions
Prettier Solidity plugin now supports Solidity v0.8
Solidity incremental parser using tree-sitter
A cheap erc20 token generator using ERC1156 Minimal Proxy
Solidity for noobs, group video with Austin Griffith. Set up your environment, etc
Learn some basics by forking mainnet with scaffold-eth and playing with Uniswap
How to verify your Brownie project on Etherscan
Getting eth2 data via Bitquery API
Sword: a financial derivative DSL
StarkWare’s Cairo Playground, online IDE. Includes several tutorials
Security/incidents
DefiSaver vulnerability found by Dedaub’s automated static analysis, white hat exploited for ~3.5m
Rug Pull game: insecure random number generation gets exploited
Ecosystem
Sweeposaurus: tool to move all your tokens in one transaction
Application layer
20 billion locked in DeFi, per DefiPulse. Over 23b at the moment
Shapeshift getting rid of KYC by becoming a dex aggregator
Futureswap v2 beta is live. Up to date perpetual pricing via oracle relay, usage rewarded by non-transferable governance token
Gyroscope: stablecoin design using AMMs from Klages-Mundt, Gudgeon and Perez
ethblock.art, deterministic art NFTs based on blocks with user-created styles (which are NFTs themselves)
Aragon blows up: the whole team quits over governance opacity
Regulation/business/tokens
OCC guidance allowing US banks to use stablecoins and run blockchain nodes to participate in Ethereum just like SWIFT, ACH, etc payment networks
Fincen earlier said it received 65k comments on Mnuchin’s anti-crypto regulations, but now shows 7522 comments
Tim Swanson: parasitic stablecoins
Ethereum at $1000, redux (I wrote this)
General
Ethereum’s gambit: a proof by contradiction
Linda Xie: a beginner’s guide to NFTs
Brave at 28m MAUs, almost 8m DAUs
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
Jan 12 - EthStaker call with Danny Ryan
Jan 15 - Feb 7 - ETHGlobal’s Market Make hackathon
Jan 22 - Feb 21 - EthIndia’s EtherPunk hackathon
Feb 5-12 - EthDenver (virtual)
Mar 5 - Financial Cryptography DeFi academic workshop, submissions due Jan 15
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