Week in Ethereum News, July 29, 2023 - sponsored by Rysk
Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
Dencun upgrade discussions: MEV-Boost testing needed, decided against adding parent beacon block root to execution payload and when to rollout the fork choice change for confirmation rule
EIPs can be presented in ACDC calls prior to scoping Electra upgrade
Discussed EIP6914 (reuse withdrawn validator indices) updates and prototype of EIP6110 (validator deposits onchain)
Increasing CL client spec compliance
EIP4844:
Latest EIP4844 implementer call. Notes from Terence: devnet 8 features, blob transaction pool design and no incentives for MEV-Boost builders to include blobs
KZG Ceremony extended until August 23
Layer 1
Nethermind implemented stateless verification, allows participation as a stateless client
Teku planned caching changes & memory reduction
Lighthouse subnet backbone revamp & IPv6 support in recent v4.3.0 release
Consensus layer mainnet bootnodes location & IP address
JIT EVM: convert EVM to machine code, using LLVM/inkwell, in Rust, proof of concept
Research
Game-theoretic model for MEV-Boost auctions: builder strategies to win auctions
Layer 2
Public goods network (OP Stack rollup) live, aims to generate funding for public goods
Optimism law of chains proposed neutrality framework for Superchain (OP Stack) participants
EIPs/Standards
EIPs:
ERCs (application layer):
ERC7390: Vanilla options
ERC7399: Flash loans
ERC7401: Parent-governed NFT nesting
ERC7405: Portable contract accounts
ERC7406: Multi-namespace onchain registry
ERC7409: Public NFT emote repository
ERC7410: ERC20 update allowance by spender
ERC7412: On-demand offchain data retrieval
ERC7417: Token converter (convert between ERC20 & ERC223)
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Stuff for developers
OpenZeppelin Contracts Wizard adds Foundry project download
Deep dive into Solady ERC1967Factory for deploying & managing ERC1967 proxies
EIP4626 contracts (tokenized vaults) don’t all emit Transfer event on mint, deposit, burn & redeem
Halmos v0.1.0 (symbolic testing): improved performance and expanded EVM & cheatcode support
WhatsABI v0.6.0 (guesses ABI from bytecode): autoload improvements & bug fixes
CTFs:
Curta CTF sacred geometry solution
Flashbots CTF August 5-7
Security
EraLend on zkSync Era $3.4 million exploit via read-only re-entrancy
Conic Finance post mortem for ETH omnipool (read-only reentrancy) & crvUSD omnipool (sandwich) exploits
Ecosystem
ETHGlobal Paris hackathon finalists
Etherscan input data messages, view all transactions with detected messages
Notable at app layer
Rysk Finance (options AMM with uncorrelated returns for LPs) live on Arbitrum [Disclosure: Starbloom portfolio]
Worldcoin (UBI via iris scan) live on Optimism
Vitalik on biometric proof of personhood
Farcaster adds ENS usernames
A retrospective on TCR Party
Gas guzzler: Pond0x memecoin allowed anyone to transfer tokens, based on a Solady mock ERC20
Job Listings
Executive Director sought by Wyoming Stable Token Commission
EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team seek ZK circuits engineer
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
US drops campaign finance charge against SBF claiming that Bahamas didn't agree to that charge
US SEC:
Accounting firms warned about liability from crypto marketing of their non-audit services
Quantstamp settles with SEC for unregistered ICO, fined with proceeds to be returned
Couple to plead guilty for laundering $4.5B in BTC from Bitfinex 2016 hack
How newly launched tokens manipulate prices though market makers so they can dump on retail
General
Lazarus group suspected in payment processor exploits: $60M AlphaPo & $37M CoinsPaid
Apple fixes zero-day
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