Week in Ethereum News, January 3, 2021 - this issue made possible thanks to Matcha by 0x
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Tim Roughgarden economic analysis of 1559 video
Eth2
Latest what’s new in eth2
Vitalik’s sharding and data availability sampling proposal.
Genesis block depositor POAPs now available
BitQuery’s eth2 graphQL API; there’s also web3j’s Eth2 Node API in Java
Layer2
Fuel’s optimistic rollup is live on mainnet with a CLI release for devs. UTXO ETH/token payments at 500 transactions per second
Connext cross-layer2 network going live this week in first stage of three-stage rollout over 6 months
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Stuff for developers
EthGlobal’s 2020 developer survey
Testing storage slots in upgrading to USDC v2
Paul Berg’s Multisol tool to make verification easier
Boilerplate for Eth frontends, just give it ABI JSON file
WalletConnect v1.3.2 - client bundle size cut in half, paging for iOS links
StarkWare releases Cairo toolchain to prove general computation - compiler, VM, tracer/debugger, IDE
Security/incidents
Cover Protocol hacked. Attacker found a new liquidity mining pool and exploited a logic bug to inflate COVER tokens. Main hacker kept ~$5m. GrapFinance also exploited it, sold the COVER for 4350 ETH and sent the ETH back.
One of the Parity hackers is cashing out
Andre Cronje unveiled yCredit collateralized lending which he said could be “economically exploited.” It then immediately got exploited
Ecosystem
Gastrology: estimate gas price from your own node (or via Avado run your own cloud)
EF’s Ecosystem Support December grantee roundup
Application layer
Opyn v2 is live with ETHUSDC European-style options, adds auto-exercise feature
Neolastics: simondlr’s randomly generated neoplasticism inspired digital art on a bonding curve
More than $15b in DeFi this week, currently at ~$16.5b, with Maker leading the way at $3.4b locked (no link)
Associated Press will publish US Senate runoff results to Ethereum
Regulation/business/tokens
Exchanges have all delisted XRP for US customers, except Kraken (no link)
US federal regulators appear to be pressuring exchanges to delist “privacy coins”: Bittrex, Shapeshift
Reminder: don’t forget to submit a comment about Mnuchin’s anti-crypto regulation. Deadline is Jan 4 at midnight. You can even leave a comment anonymously.
General
Vitalik: 2020 endnotes on crypto and more
Bunz, Chiesa, et al: Recursive proofs through generalized accumulation scheme
Gurkan, Jovanovic, et al: Aggregatable Distributed Key Generation
Job Listings
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
Jan 4 - Deadline to leave public comment on Mnuchin’s anti-crypto regulations
Jan 15 - Feb 7 - ETHGlobal’s Market Make hackathon
Jan 22 - Feb 21 - EthIndia’s EtherPunk hackathon
Feb 5-12 - EthDenver (virtual)
Apr 6-8 - EthCC4 (Paris)
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