Week in Ethereum News, June 4, 2022 - thanks to Starbloom Ventures for making this issue possible!
Eth News and Links
PoW switch off (the Merge)
Ropsten testnet is ready to turn off PoW forever with TTD set
Tool to predict TTD arrival
Stakers/nodes must manually override TTD in latest client release
Manual override is useful practice in case of miner hijinx on mainnet
Guides on running Ropsten nodes or specifically a Geth/LH Ropsten node
Ropsten beacon chain is live
Reminder: Ropsten to be deprecated post-Merge
Merge Community Call discussion
Latest PoS implementer call. Notes by Ben Edgington
Lighthouse/Prysm changing deposit tracking to be more robust against unlikely edge case of minute block times
Mainnet shadow fork 6 again merged successfully with some minor issues
Mainnet execution layer
Proof of Stake consensus layer
Liquid staking derivatives over 25% of stake considered harmful
Putting ETH into any liquid staking when it is over 25% of total stake is putting your ETH at risk
Lido currently at about 30%
Justin Drake: design for solo staker liquid staking derivative, but uses SGX
Latest What’s New in Eth2
Understanding Eth PoS as the next generation of consensus protocols
An explanation of proposer boost and the recent 7 block beacon chain reorg
EIPs/Standards
ERC5114: Soulbound token
ERC5115: Super composable yield token
ERC5131: ENS subdomain authentication
ERC5133: Difficulty bomb delay (Editor’s note: I’m strongly against this at the moment)
Layer2
Optimism token launched with its first airdrop
Hiccups: JSON-RPC chain reads crashed but sequencer flawless
Simple Docker setup to run your own Optimism node
ImmutableX is turning 2% fees on to be sustainable
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Stuff for developers
Foundry Solidity Scripting and Deploy
thirdweb deploy - no private key deploy flow and auto-Sourcify verifiction as well as automatic SDKs for React/Node/Python/Go
Delegatable: Solidity library to sign off-chain messages that grant non-transferrable powers to other people
MEV Explorer: mev-inspect-js frontend; supports Eth, Polygon, and Arbitrum.
Implementing zk-lotteries with Circom on top of Tornado Cash’s Nova
Security
Metamask pays $120k bug bounty for iframe clickjacking vuln
Rocketpool employee’s computer exploited for 15 ETH
Ecosystem
Skiff offers end-to-end encrypted email using your Eth wallet and ENS
A tweetstorm version of last week’s Eth roadmap explainer
Massdrop: a frontend to do a Merkle airdrop
Application layer
DeFiSaver live on Arbitrum and Optimism
Conviction voting using GTC to sort frontend display of Gitcoin grants
Proof of Integrity - a pilot program in Buenos Aires slums to ensure UBI doesn’t just go to those who don’t need it
1inch integrates Synthetix atomic exchanges for less slippage on big trades
MobyMask: using web of trust to manage phishing reports
Rune’s Endgame plan for MakerDAO: a synthetic ETH product and a first metaDAO with yield farming
Job Listings
Ethereum Foundation: generalist developer to drive strategic ecosystem inits
Sourcify: TypeScript/nodejs developer wanted
People Operations Lead at EF
Hiring Coordinator wanted by EF
Job listings: $600 for four issues (~75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet/Arbitrum/Optimism. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
Nate Chastain charged with money laundering and wire fraud in SDNY for OpenSea insider trading
Pooly: buy NFT to support PoolTogether legal defense against the Liz Warren staffer’s class action suit
Absurd lawsuit to hold all bZx founders and tokenholders liable for security bugs
~25 academics/BigTech employees wrote a technically sloppy letter to Congress against crypto
General
MS Word in Windows “Follina” unpatched zero-day vuln. Reminder: almost all loss of crypto comes from Windows users. [Disclosure: small MSFT shareholder for almost 30 years]
WSJ reports that Fidelity is hiring to support Eth custody and trading services
Coinbase rescinding offers that employees had already accepted after promising 2 weeks ago that they wouldn’t
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