Week in Ethereum News, June 28, 2020 - thanks to Chainlink!
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Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s notes: lots of discussion of needing more client diversity rather than more features, as well as sharing the testing load and simplification of the protocol.
Regenesis: a Cosmos-like reset proposal from Alexey Akhunov
Latest eip1559 call. Beiko’s notes.
Barnabé Monnot’s 1559 and escalator analysis
Hasu and Georgios Konstantopoulos analyze EIP2593’s escalator algo to change the fee market, in conjunction with EIP1559. EIP2593 author Dan Finlay’s response.
Eth2
Latest what’s new in eth2
Danny Ryan’s quick update - deposit contract rewritten in Solidity by Axic, formally verified by Runtime Verification. The Altona multi-client testnet starts June 29.
Early benchmarking of Eth2 clients - Lighthouse with the early lead
Latest eth2 call. Notes from Ben and William Schwab
Architecture of a geth based eth1 engine inside of eth2
Secret shared validators in Eth2
Layer2
Web3Torrent “browser based torrenting client that supports incentivized peer-to-peer filesharing” using state channels for micropayments. live on Goerli testnet
Crypto
StarkWare’s VeeDo Stark-based VDF, PoC live on mainnet
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Stuff for developers
Sourcify FAQ decentralized opensource verification with NatSpec
OpenZeppelin Contracts v3.1
Debugging verified external contracts with Truffle
Fast event log searches on your own node with Flume
(unaudited) Solidity library to use Uniswapv2 oracle with storage proofs
Comparing queue routines in C and Solidity
Shadowing Solidity storage variables in memory
Ethereum’s merkle trees javascript tutorial
How to build a decentralized auction
Samczsun finds Atomic Loans vulnerabilities, loans essentially disabled until v2
Exploring Solidity’s model checker
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Ecosystem
Book of Swarm is published on Swarm, free and open source
HOPR incentivized mixnet has incentivized testnets
Stablecoins v2: a framwork for analyzing risk of DeFi’s foundations
Unilogin: pay transaction fees with tokens or app pays for users
Enterprise
Privacy improvements in Hyperledger Besu v1.5
Unibright and Fraunhofer baselining additive manufacturing
Multisig for enterprise: Multis gets a revamp
DAOs and Standards
EIP2751: Disable SELFDESTRUCT opcode
ERC2746: Rules Engine Standard
Jameson: who is a core dev?
Golem’s governance via preset preferences proposal
Application layer
PolyMarket prediction markets live on mainnet using USDC and Gnosis (unclear what was audited?)
SportX v2.5 - noncustodial betting app on Eth adds tournaments and referrals
HAL Recipes 1 click IFTTT for Ethereum
Status v1.4 with Keycard integration and Android notifications
A nugget to illustrate how dex volume (eg, DuneAnalytics dex dashboard) is exploding: Uniswap to do more volume this month than in all of 2019
Balancer minted their token, it reached 2 billion fully diluted valuation. Today: ~500k USD drained from deflationary token pools
MakerDAO changes - KNC/ZRX collateral, 0.25% stability fee increase
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Tokenized ownership is the best coordination tool since equity
Dan Elitzer: Aquaponic yield farming
DeFiSaver: experimenting with different settings for profits (be careful!)
Yield farming tips in the Defiant
There is now over 10k btc on eth (11.1k at time of publication)
Mandated backdoors to all encryption bill introduced in US Senate
General
Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht has some things he wishes Maker did differently
Soon you can buy crypto using Paypal/Venmo
AMD/ConsenSys joint venture for “Ethereum blockchain data centers”
All the videos for a16z’s crypto startup school
Job Listings
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0x is hiring full-stack, back-end, front-end engineers + 1 data scientist
Chainlink: Product Manager for Blockchain Integrations and Lead Test Engineer
Trail of Bits is looking for masters of low-level security. Apply here.
Celer Network: Android developer
Avantgarde Finance (Melon): hiring for senior solidity dev & frontend dev
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Housekeeping
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
June 29 - Swarm first public event
July 6 - StarkWare VDF/randomness hackathon
July 3 - Gitcoin donation matching ends
July 6-Aug 6 - HackFS Filecoin/IPFS and Ethereum hackathon
July 10 - next core dev call
July 20 - Fork the World MetaCartel hackathon
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
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