Week in Ethereum News, October 18, 2020 - thanks to Chainlink for making this issue possible
Eth News and Links
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Latest geth v1.9.23, some security bugfixes and disc v5.1
Beiko’s 1559 update and Vitalik’s 1559 slides; slowly but surely
Latest core dev call. Beiko’s notes. Discussion of binaries tries, code merkleization, what goes into the next hard fork
Getting an EIP in a hard fork from Tomasz Stańczak
First draft binary trie format spec
First draft of Eth witness spec
EVM384 update: miller loop, but not final exponentation
EIPs/Standards
EIP3041: Adds
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toeth_getBlockByHash
EIP3044: Adds
baseFee
toeth_getBlockByNumber
EIP3045: Adds
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toeth_getUncleByBlockHashAndIndex
EIP3046: Adds
baseFee
toeth_getUncleByBlockNumberAndIndex
ERC3000: Optimistic enactment governance standard
Proof of Stake launch
Latest what’s new in eth2; deposit contract any day now, CLIENT DIVERSITY A MUST FOR EVERYONE WHO DOES NOT HATE MONEY
Latest proof of stake launch call after a successful Zinken testnet launch. Notes from Ben
Latest Lighthouse client update, last audits before mainnet
Prysm’s browser GUI for stakers
Layer2
Arbitrum’s optimistic rollup is live on Kovan testnet. Copy and paste your Solidity code
AZTEC’s zkrollup with 300 private transactions per second by default, live on Ropsten testnet. Mainnet ETA: 2020
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Stuff for developers
Nomic Labs gets rid of node-gyp dependencies across the Ethereum ecosystem and replaces with pure JS cryptography primitives
“Verify your contracts on Etherscan 100% of the time” with solc-sjw
Truffle v5.1.49, compatible with Node14, new package
abi-utils
vyper v0.2.7, security bugfixes
More on the nascent Fe, a pythonic language (with some elements from Rust) written in Rust and targeting Yul
Ethworks on security first process: test-driven pair programming with Buidler and Waffle
Kendrick Tan’s opinions on devtools for devs new to the space
Why OpenZeppelin Upgrades Plugins? To make running upgrades in production easier for devs
Cheaper gas upgradable proxy without using storage
Paul Berg’s off the shelf Solidity contracts library
Andre Cronje’s liquidity delegated governance boilerplate
Certora’s writeup of a corrupted storage bug in Solidity
A gotcha in forking SushiSwap if you don’t have governance
Updating contract data in Unity
Resend a transaction bumping gas price using ethersjs
A guide to erc20 permit
Nifty.ink’s tutorial on building with TheGraph
Ecosystem
Be careful of brainwallets. Bitmex hashes some fiction passages and gets insta-sweeped (with dark forest action)
Enterprise
Luxury watchmaker Breitling adds Eth NFTs for authenticity and history/repairs tracking
Application layer
Andre Cronje-mania struck again with a twist on pool2 design: with an LBI token on a bonding curve that people started market buying on Uniswap. Andre on the aftermath: I don’t build for speculators
Perez, et al paper analyzing Compound liquidations
Numerai Signals: becoming the last hedge fund
Mia and the marbles: hamster-powered marble race betting
Synthetix’s Kwenta is live
Regulation/business/tokens
CFTC Chair Tarbert: “If Bitcoin is email, a one trick pony but obviously revolutionary…Ethereum goes far beyond that, it's more like the internet.”
Financial Stability Board’s stablecoin recommendations for central banks
Paradigm’s open questions about Uniswap LP strategies
NFTs as Bowie’s “gray space in the middle” between creators and fans
web3 as read-write-own
General
Quarks: quadruple-efficient transparent SNARKs
The Tally, a newsletter on decentralized app governance
OkEx suspends withdrawals amidst rumors that founder has been arrested
part 2 of Reason’s cypherpunks video series
Job Listings
0x hiring a Matcha marketing manager and all flavors of developers
Dune Analytics: hiring 1st non-founder team members – remote ~CET time zone
Own Chainlink’s gaming strategy as VRF Product Manager
Trail of Bits hiring elite blockchain security engineers & app security
Celer hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
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Dates of Note
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Oct 29 - ETHBKK
Oct 31 - submission deadline for Underhanded Solidity Contest
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