Week in Ethereum News, July 26, 2020, thanks to Chainlink!
This week we celebrate 5 years of mainnet
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Geth v1.9.17. Whisper is being removed from the Geth codebase
Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes
Eth2
Danny Ryan’s eth2 update - the Medalla multi-client testnet scheduled for Aug 4
Get a POAP for each of the 5 clients you stake with on the Medalla testnet
The latest what’s new in eth2
Attacknets: bounties for taking down the testnet. Right now single-client attacknets live for Lighthouse, Prysm, and Teku. How Jonny Rhea scored the first take down
Latest eth2 call. Ben’s notes
Eth2 spec v0.12.2 - mostly mild networking changes (will be used in Medalla)
An Efficient CBC-Like Finality Gadget for 99% Fault Tolerance
Infura’s eth2 API conformance testing tool
eth1 and eth2 merger: working simulation of an eth2 client using eth1 client for block production
Crypto
Starkware releases EthSTARK hash function with fast prover
Vitalik’s fully homomorphic encryption explainer
Layer2
Celer’s Hybrid Rollup is live on Ropsten testnet. DPOS Sidechain with optimistic rollup opt-in for devs that want more security
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Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.6.12
NomicLabs/Buildler’s initiative to improve the Eth developer experience, funded by EF
Truffle v5.1.36 - debugger stacktraces with contract addresses in the printout
Using Buidler with Truffle
WalletConnect v1.1 - i18n support for Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Korean & Chinese
In-depth guide to testing Eth contracts
Designing unbounded lists in Solidity
build an ERC721 contract Factory with Webflow and DappHero video tutorial
Create-eth-app v1.3 - ethers v5, adds Maker, Kyber, Synthetix, Uniswap v2
Ecosystem
“Ethereum now settles significantly more value per day than Bitcoin”
Vitalik’s Gitcoin grants retrospective
Blocknative’s analysis of the transaction pool on March 12
Enterprise
Visa on its blockchain approach - it says they’re network agnostic but most of the post implies Ethereum
Standards
EIP2803: allow transactions from externally owned accounts to execute bytecode directly
Micah Zoltu doing lots of EIP cleanup moving into last call, final, withdrawn, etc
Application layer
yearn yield farming was the talk of the week. Here’s yearn.finance v2
1inch passed 1 billion USD in volume and Silicon Valley’s Russ Hanneman made 1inch a “3 comma club” video
Dether protocol is on mainnet: peer-to-peer cash-to-crypto on/off ramp
There is a big fight on Kleros over how an Omen market should resolve
Before Augur’s v2 launch, the updated master plan
Reality Cards is in private mainnet beta, an NFT-based prediction market with a gamification twist
Tokens/Business/Regulation
OCC says US banks can custody crypto
Only 8 buyers of Spencer Dinwiddie’s tokenized NBA contract for 10% of the total offered
Sunny Agrawal is bullish on DeFi without the trustlessness
General
MyCrypto and Binance return 10k to phishing victim
It’s always the banks: China pressuring banks to reveal pro-Hong Kong democracy accounts
More than 1000 people had “God mode” ability to hack Twitter accounts
Job Listings
Avantgarde Finance (Melon): hiring for senior solidity dev & frontend dev
Reality Cards, a new NFT-based prediction market, is seeking a frontend dev
0x is looking for all types of devs: full-stack, back-end, and front-end engineers
Celer Network: Android developer
Trail of Bits is looking for: blockchain security engineer & cryptography analyst
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Banned for no reason by Twitter for the 7th time!
Capricious big tech companies continue to make the case for web3: Twitter has currently suspended both of my legit accounts while scammer impersonators have been live for years. Regardless of whenever they eventually give me my account back, I’m re-evaluating to what extent I want to continue to use Twitter.
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
July 28 - Augur v2 launch
July 30 - EEA’s Ethereum in the Enterprise 2020 virtual conference
July 31-Aug 9 - Colorado Lottery & EthDenver Game Jam hackathon
Aug 2 - ENS grace period begins to end
Aug 9-11 - EDCON
Aug 28-29 - Chainlink’s Smart Contract Virtual Summit
Jul9 - Aug30 - EthPlanet’s Summer Camp virtual event series
Oct 2-Oct 30 - EthOnline hackathon
Nov 6-Nov 7 - virtual Trufflecon