Week in Ethereum News, October 25, 2020 - thanks to Celer for making this issue possible
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest Turbogeth weekly release
Piper’s state availability doc
Proof of Stake launch
Deposit contract at least 2 weeks away, pending audit report of blst BLS sig library
Context: Justin Drake writes the history of BLS sigs and Eth2
Layer2
StarkWare’s plans for layer2 interoperability, aiming at q1 2021
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Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.7.4 bugfix when copying empty byte arrays from memory/calldata to storage
B̶u̶i̶d̶l̶e̶r̶ is now Hardhat; much easier mainnet forking, better support for multiple solc versions in production
Tenderly’s deep integration with Hardhat, with accompanying guide
Truffle v5.1.50, now with web3js v1.2.9
Chainlink VRF now providing randomness on mainnet
Prestwich’s memview-sol: memory access with runtime typechecking in Solidity
Detecting ownership takeovers using Mythril
Trail of Bits intern on using n-grams in SlithIR and machine learning on their audit reports; data prep is hard!
How Argent upgraded to Solidity v0.6
3box’s IDX, an SDK for decentralized identities (DIDs)
Autoconnect your Unity game to MetaMask
Learning Solidity for attorneys
Austin Griffith’s eth.build course for web devs new to eth on BlockGeeks
Ecosystem
Ethereum is on pace to settle over 1 trillion USD in 2020 eth tx volume
Mamba: Cicada 3301 for web3
Vitalik’s round 7 gitcoin matching review
Some Medalla data challenge submissions:
Splunk dashboard with health score
Some whale data viz over time
Elias Simos and Sid Shekhar plethora of stats
Enterprise
Provide and Unibright merging into a “low-code, end-to-end Baseline integration suite”
Baselining the end consumer, how people use mainnet without knowing it
Villanova sending private Ethereum chain into space on a satellite
Interact with the chain using Curvegrid’s Google Sheets add-on
Application layer
Defi now has a yield curve: Yield Protocol is live with beta launch. Fixed-term, fixed-rate lending/borrowing, or add liquidity.
pooltogether v3 is live, removed admin control, randomness via VRF, rewards for deposits and referrals
Novel Air Pollution Measurement System on Ethereum
a synthetic token for impermanent loss via prediction market
DeFiSaver’s loan shifter to easily move between protocols and assets
Opolis Employment Commons unveils tokenization system for processing payroll or getting health insurance through the commons
Music streaming platform Audius on mainnet; airdrop to 10k most popular artists
Regulation/business/tokens
Federal bank regulator Brian Brooks compares banks in the age of DeFi to the post office in the age of email
Kik settles with the SEC by paying $5m and freezing their 3 trillion tokens
de la Rouviere: seasons & longevity of community tokens
web3 ownership will eat the software that’s eaten the world
General
PayPal adds ETH and BTC in the US, held by Paxos. Venmo to follow.
GridPlus’s Lattice1 hardware wallet ships pre-orders
Reason’s cypherpunk series, video 3
Build a high performance fuzzer with GPUs for 10x performance in the cloud
Job Listings
Want a new challenge? mStable seeks experienced Smart Contract/Protocol Dev
DeFi devs! Yield is hiring for Solidity and front-end – contact@yield.is
0x hiring a Matcha marketing manager and all flavors of developers
Chainlink has 30+ openings at the moment across marketing, ops, & devs
Trail of Bits hiring blockchain security engineers & cryptography analyst
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 30 - Ethereum’s Impact on the World - ETHOnline summit
Oct 31 - submission deadline for Underhanded Solidity Contest
Nov 6-7 - virtual Trufflecon
Nov 16 - MetaMask Provider breaking changes
Nov 19 - EthBerlin 2.5: Talk Show
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