Week in Ethereum News, June 25, 2022 - sponsored by SpeedRunEthereum
Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
Mainnet-shadow-fork-7 merged with caveats: known Besu concurrency issue and Erigon issue with shadow forks
Mainnet execution layer
Update your nodes for Gray Glacier upgrade
Latest core devs call video. Notes from Tim Beiko and Christine Kim:
Sepolia testnet merge planned for July 6
Mainnet shadow fork 8 planned for first week in July
Calls moving to Thursdays after next call
Erigon v2022.06.05-alpha: regression fixes
Geth making progress on historical state pruning
KZG ceremony call video: plan to start ceremony in November (3 month general participation + 1 month special participation), use output in clients from March
NiceNode (interface to run a client) adds multi-client support
Vitalik: possible roadmap for account abstraction using ERC4337 and adding features to protocol to make account abstraction the default
Proof of Stake consensus layer
EF seeks proposals to create technical documentation for staking operators
Nimbus v22.6.0: Ropsten & Sepolia testnet support, UX improvements & fixes
Prysm v2.1.3-rc.4: Sepolia testnet support and Panda Merge banner
Lido expands node operators, includes four client teams
EIPs/Standards
EIP5169: Client script URI for token contracts
EIP5170: Asserting authenticity of client script for token contracts
EIP5173: NFT future rewards
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Stuff for developers
Testnet shutdown timeline: Kiln after mainnet Merge, Ropsten Q4, Rinkeby Q2-Q3 2023
Sepolia testnet faucet
EthereumJS VM v5.9.3 Gray Glacier support
Foundry x Huff: compile & test Huff contracts using Foundry
NFT gas optimization by encoding metadata into the token ID
DeFi Hacks: reproduce DeFi incidents using Foundry
Damn Vulnerable DeFi (CTF) Foundry version implements all levels
Nethereum v4.6.1 (.Net library): MetaMask nuget package, Proof of Humanity integration
Security
Horizon bridge between Ethereum & Harmony $100 million exploit, 2 of 5 multisig had addresses compromised
Namecheap DNS attack for DeFi Saver, Convex Finance and Ribbon Finance; check your token approvals
Ecosystem
EF Fellowship Program cohort #2 applications open
Wallet devs call video and notes: discussions on EIP5139 RPC provider lists, interoperability testing and multi wallet support in a browser
Metamorphic contract detector
Etherscan watch list adds ERC721 & ERC1155 token transfer support
Enterprise
Shopify token gated merch via Shop app and in-store POS
eBay acquired KnownOrigin (NFT marketplace)
Application layer
Uniswap Labs acquired Genie (NFT market aggregator) to expand into NFTs
LooksRare conditional listing: list two items and automatically cancel the listing when one item sells
Bancor paused Impermanent Loss Protection due to market conditions
Timeless (yield market protocol) live on mainnet
Arbitrum Odyssey: 8 week promotion to encourage bridging and usage of selected projects using NFT rewards
Job Listings
GridPlus hiring a Go/protocol dev for the private, scalable PhononDAO
People Operations Lead at EF
Status is looking for a Senior Rust Engineer for Waku
Taiko ZKRollup: hiring senior golang & rust backend developers.
EF: generalist developer to drive strategic ecosystem initiatives
Job listings: $600 for four issues (~75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet/Arbitrum/Optimism. Pay with one click using 3cities. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
UK Treasury [PDF] removes proposed KYC requirement for self hosted wallet transfers
Erik Voorhees: benefits of being a DAO for ShapeShift
Tether launching GBPT (British Pound sterling stablecoin)
World Economic Forum: DAOs whitepaper [PDF]
General
MEGA cloud storage vulnerabilities disclosed
Decrypting a message from 1914
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
Jun 27 – Devcon speaker applications close
Jun 29 – Gray Glacier upgrade (block 15,050,000)
Jun 30 – Devcon discounted ticket applications close
Jul 1 – Data Availability Sampling proposals due
Jul 6-8 – ETHBarcelona
Jul 8 – ETH Seattle summit
Jul 8 – Staking operator documentation proposals due
Jul 17 – EF Fellowship program applications close
Jul 18 – Devcon wave 01 tickets
Jul 19-21 – EthCC 5 (Paris)
Jul 22-24 – EthCC Hackathon (Paris)
Aug 5-13 – ETH Seoul
Aug 8-10 – ETHToronto
Aug 11-13 – ETH LATAM (Buenos Aires)
Aug 19-21 – ETHMexicoCity (ETH Global)
Aug 27-28 – DeFi Security Summit (Stanford)
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Aug 29-31 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford)
Sep 1-4 – ETHWarsaw (hackathon & conference)
Sep 2-28 – ETHOnline
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Sep 12-14 – DappCon (Berlin)
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