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Week in Ethereum News, June 28, 2020 - thanks to Chainlink!

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Evan Van Ness
Jun 28, 2020
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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

  • 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

Want your job listing here? $250 per line (~75 character limit including spaces), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to evan.ethereum.eth. Questions? thecryptonewspodcast at-gmail


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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Sacha Cohen
Sep 12, 2020

👍

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Vikas Kalwani
Writes Growthletter Jun 29, 2020

It's always a pleasure to have your newsletters in my inbox. Thank you, Evan!

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