Week in Ethereum News, July 5, 2020
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Nethermind v1.8.60 memory usage during sync reduced 70%
Igor Mandrigin explains the ReGenesis proposal for curbing state growth with transaction witnesses
a proposed binary trie format - no more RLP?
Eth2
Altona multiclient testnet launched almost a week ago with Lighthouse, Nimbus, Prysmatic and Teku clients and (so far) is stable. One more testnet after Altona until launch.
Step by step guide to run an Altona validator on Raspberry Pi4B 8 GB
Prysmatic client update
Weak subjectivity in eth2
Public single leader election with secret probabilistic backup
Layer2
IvanOnTech rollups explainer
Brick async payment channels implemented in Solidity (revised arxiv paper)
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Stuff for developers
Gelato automation protocol is live on mainnet, an IFTTT-like way to automate Eth contract execution
Hack on eth2+libp2p at HackFS
buidler deploy. Buidler plugin to deploy contracts to any network with same testing environment
seth now lets you step through the transaction in debugging
Debugging your transaction with Tenderly
Vyper v0.2 - breaking changes release
State machines in Solidity
Class features provided by Solidity
1inch writeup of Balancer deflationary’s token issue which BalancerLabs chose to cover for affected users
Ecosystem
Transaction fees on Ethereum in first half of 2020 (44m) exceed 2019 (34m)
the plan for Waku v2 private p2p messaging
Austin Griffith’s xmoon exchange: get your Reddit MOONs onto mainnet
Quadratic matching with MACI (anti-collusion) explainer
MetaMask v8 - better user privacy, better app onboarding, erc1193 provider api
DAOs and Standards
ERC2767: Contract Ownership Governance
Democracy Earth is now a DAO explorer, starting with Moloch v1 and proof of personhood score
TornadoCash forming a Moloch DAO with OpenLaw
Application layer
Synthetix launches binary options
0x’s Matcha dex aggregator is live with a focus on non-hardcore traders
MCDex launches 10x ETH perpetual with the funding rate coming from the automated market maker
It’s now easier to host on IPFS the latest Uniswap frontend
MakerDAO is exploring Peg Stabilization Modules, ie stablecoin to stablecoin trading
Augur v2 launches July 28
dxDao launches Omen prediction markets using Realit.IO and Kleros as oracles and available at omen.eth or omen.eth.link
Tokens/Business/Regulation
A new Flippening tracker
Common Stack’s trusted seed token
General
Swarm released Bee client v0.1 and announced a future token sale
Staking is now live on Matic Network
Skale sidechains launches with POA and no transfers
Attacking less than 85 Lightning Network channels will result in a successful attack
Harry Denley rescued a victim’s 5k from a fake TrustWallet app in the GooglePlay store by DOSing the Telegram API
Job Listings
GridPlus is hiring US remote firmware engineers.
Donut is looking for a CTO to bring DeFi to the masses. Interested?
0x is hiring full-stack, back-end, front-end engineers + 1 data scientist
Trail of Bits is looking for masters of low-level security. Apply here.
Celer Network: Android developer
Chainlink: Senior Software Engineer and Lead Test Engineer
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
July 6-Aug 6 - HackFS Filecoin/IPFS and Ethereum hackathon
July 10 - next core dev call
July 10 - eth2 research team Reddit AMA
July 20 - Fork the World MetaCartel hackathon
July 28 - Augur v2 launch
July 30 - EEA’s Ethereum in the Enterprise 2020 virtual conference
Aug 2 - ENS grace period begins to end
Oct 2-Oct 30 - EthOnline hackathon