Week in Ethereum News, January 14, 2023 - thanks to SpeedRunEthereum.com for making this issue possible
KZG ceremony is live!
Eth News and Links
Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
Latest core devs execution call video. Notes from Ben Edgington
Discussion of using gwei and using same formats in EL/CL
Capella release candidate spec
Why is Warm Coinbase (gas repricing) being added to Shapella?
Cancun + Deneb
KZG Ceremony is live!
~57 more days in the first general contribution period (currently a long wait)
~2500 have already contributed. Only one contributor needs to be honest
Latest 4844 implementer call video. Notes from Terence
devnet4 coming up before public testnet
Layer 1
EF research AMA is a mustread from start to finish
Various topics: the need for more than just 4844, technological solutions thwart attempted censorship, what is Ethereum good for anyway?, coming to consensus on roadmap prioritization, minimizing EVM changes for zkEVM, should Ethereum ossify?, synchronous composability across zkrollups and what is the Robust Incentives Group working on?
Lido benchmarks DVT (DVT decentralizes staking pools)
Client releases
Consensus Layer
Lighthouse v3.4, high priority release. Proposer boost reorgs should incentivize performance improvements
Execution layer
Erigon v2.34, a few releases this week with debug trace improvements, multicore CPU threading and MBDX upgrade
MEV
Prestwich: the next 5 years of MEV
Crazy frontrun: frontrunner copies exploiter’s 4 previous transactions over 50+ blocks
Layer 2
EIPs/Standards
ERC6150: Hierarchical NFTs
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Stuff for developers
Hardhat and Foundry plugin v1
Foundry toolchain now caches RPC calls in CI flows
If you've deployed a contract to Mainnet, Goerli, or Sepolia before Nov 15, 2022, you can claim 10 goerli + 10 sepolia eth
Chugsplash: tool to deploy and upgrade smart contracts securely
Turborepo starter kit: NextJS, WAGMI, Ethers, Tailwind, Hardhat, Typechain
Paul Berg on solving stack too deep
Now over 225 contracts to fork and easily deploy on Cookbook.dev
Security
slither v0.9.2, 2 new detectors, integrates OpenAI’s codex to generate natspec and find bugs with GPT3
Beware of Multi-block MEV and Compound Governor
2022 in Ethereum security review
Ecosystem
DAOdrops: 250k USDC retroactive goods funding to be distributed via vote by 1) DAO voters, 2) POAP holders, 3) code deployers. Nominations open now.
Randomness on Ethereum using SNARKs and VDFs
Proof of concept to use Nym to anonymize RPC calls
PeltaShield: tool to simulate your transactions via RPC call
Enterprise
Norwegian government using Arbitrum to maintain cap tables of unlisted companies
Société Générale withdraws 7 million Dai of its 30m Dai authorization backed by home loan bonds
Application layer
Zkitter: post under your username or anon, public key written to Arbitrum for account recovery. Uses various zk tools: Interep, RLN, Semaphore
chai.money back online to accrue the DSR on your Dai (currently 1%)
Get the risk-free rate onchain? Ondo to tokenize 3 different ETFs of US treasuries/bonds and will fork Compound for its security tokens
Revamped Gitcoin Grants alpha round launches next week with open source, Eth infra and climate solutions matching pools
Ethunwrapp: retrospective of your onchain activity in 2022
Job Listings
Arx, creators of KONG Cash and HaLo tags is hiring a Solidity developer.
Status is hiring a Technical Writer for Waku Product, all other jobs here
Join a16z-backed Story Protocol as a founding smart contract developer.
Lighthouse seeking support tech to help its stakers
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet or Layer 2. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
Wyre saved and processing withdrawals normally
SEC charges Gemini and Genesis calling GeminiEarn a security
Nexo raided by Bulgarian police
Treasury dodges Emmer inquiry over Tornado sanctions
Metropolitan drops crypto.com and all other crypto clients
General/crypto
S𝛑PETs: private transactions using ECDSA or Schnorr
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
Jan 17-31 – Gitcoin grants round
Jan 31 – KZG ceremony grants deadline
Jan 31 – deadline to nominate for Optimism retroactive public goods round 2
Feb 24 – Mar 1 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek
Feb 3 – deadline to nominate for DAOdrops retroactive public goods funding
Mar 2-5 – ETHDenver Hackathon
Mar 10-29 – Scaling Ethereum (ETHGlobal) virtual
Mar 15-16 – ETHDubai
Mar 16-18 – ETH Porto
Mar 28-30 – Ethereum Rio
Apr 3-6 – Edcon Vienna
Apr 12-14 – NFT NYC
Apr 14-16 – ETHGlobal Tokyo
Apr 14-16 – ETHZurich conference
Apr 21-23 – EthTaipei hackathon
Apr 24-25 – EthTaipei conference
May 26–28 – ETHGlobal Istanbul
Jun 23–25 – ETHGlobal Toronto
Jul 17-20 – EthCC (Paris)
Jul 21–23 – ETHGlobal Paris
Sep 22–24 – ETHGlobal New York
Oct 6–25 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual