Week in Ethereum News, May 9, 2021 - thanks to 1inch for making this issue possible!
Eth News and Links
Mainnet execution layer
Geth v1.10.3: new Grafana dashboard, next release likely to have snap sync as default, eth/65 now the minimum
FuzzyVM: an EVM differential fuzzing framework
A proposed design for witness gas costs after switching to Verkle trees
Notes from the London coordination call
Baikal, the latest London devnet, will launch this week
EIPs/Standards
EIP3554: difficulty bomb delay
Proof of stake consensus layer
Latest consensus layer call. Notes from Ben Edgington and Alex Stokes: Altair upgrade aggressively aimed at August
Latest what’s new in eth2 reviews last week’s “very encouraging” ephemeral multi-client testnet to turn off PoW
For (somewhat technical) stakers: track your relative performance
New Ledger Nano S firmware supports Eth staking deposits
Secret shared validators (MPC for distributed control of a staker), phase 1 testing summary: several shared validators successfully staked on Pyrmont testnet
How Eth staking incentives promote decentralization and client diversity
Layer2
StarkEx crosses $1b traded across dydx, Deversifi, and Immutable
Two standardization efforts for layer2 and sidechains: standard arbitrary message bridge and an outline for a standard interface token transfers
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Stuff for developers
Typechain v5 (TypeScript bindings for Eth code)
ETK: EVM bytecode assembler and disassembler
Full documentation of Solidity’s optimizer - the old one using opcodes and the new one on Yul
Tutorial on new upgradable UUPS (EIP1822) proxy pattern in OpenZeppelin
Building graphQL APIs on Ethereum
New transaction types, understanding Berlin’s EIP2718 Typed Transaction Envelope
tally: arbitrary-precision arithmetic library for JavaScript and EVM
Pinata now offers dedicated IPFS gateways
Some best JavaScript security practices for your Eth app
Dabit and Austin Griffith video discussion of how web2 devs can learn to build web3 apps with Ethereum
Security
Rari hacked for ~4k ETH (~$15m) across both Ethereum and BinanceSmartChain using fake tokens similar to the Pickle attack
Binance’s ValueDefi hacked twice this week for a total of ~$21m, once by reintializing a function and once by improperly calculating exponents
Insecure RNG in Meebits minting exploited for a rare Meebit. The unverified source code allowed for LarvaLabs to pause the minting.
Ecosystem
Guido Vranken finds Golang bug as part of Eth bounty program
EF Fellowship’s first cohort, an pilot program to nurture public sector adoption in emerging economies
Application layer
Uniswap v3 launches and quickly becomes #2 dex behind v2 with some of the NFT LP positions containing rare sparkles
Neat v3 LP strategy simulator tool
Synthetix’s Kwenta crosses $1b trading mark
What’s in a Commons Stack token hatch?
Gary Vaynerchuk announces Veefriends: NFT series with accompanying real world rights from mentoring to Veecon to gift boxes
Regulation/business/tokens
VanEck files for ETH ETF
The road to Eth 150k with Nikhil Shamapant
S&P releases three crypto indexes: ETH, BTC, and a combo of both
General
Cryptofees.info v2 adds ability to go back in time to specific date, a PS ratio, and extra details on each project
Coinbase committing to decentralization by closing its former San Fran HQ
Twitter adds tipping features with accompanying major privacy fails: your email address and your address
Apple ends opaque cross-app iPhone tracking. Android is worse, of course.
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Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
May 14 - papers due for WoSCA 2021
May 14 - Jun 2 - 0xHack
May 18-21 - EY Global Blockchain Summit
Jul 14 - tentative date for London hard fork (Ropsten June 9, Goerli June 16, Rinkeby June 23)
Jul 20-22 - EthCC4 (Paris)
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