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

• Sharding state with discovery and adaptive range filters

• 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

• Need free access to an archive node?

• Flash mintable asset backed tokens

• 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

• Check out this newsletter’s weekly job listings below the general section

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

• 5 contrarian takes with DegenSpartan

• Tether is migrating Tether previously on Tron into Ethereum

• 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

• Phishing campaigns aimed at DeFi apps

• 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

• Blockchains, LLC is hiring full stack, front end, & back end developers!

• Monolith is looking for an amazing Finance & Treasury Manager! Interested?

• 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