Week in Ethereum News, Sept 13 2020 - this issue made possible thanks to Matcha by 0x!
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Geth v1.9.21, stabilized RAM use in fast sync, extends call tracing
OpenEthereum’s vision for Parity client: focus on Eth mainnet. As such, deprecating IPFS/Swarm as well as Kovan testnet and other non-Ethereum chains, backporting features to the v2.5 codebase
Latest Turbogeth weekly alpha release, RPC Daemon improvements and new RPC calls
Intro to Nethermind’s discovery protocol
Tim Beiko is looking to talk to heavy gas users, wallets, exchanges, miners, infra about the proposed eip1559 fee market change
EIPs/Standards
A proposed EIP process overhaul from axic
Martin Swende benchmarks cost of calling precompiles
EIP2972: Wrapped Legacy Transactions
Eth2
Latest Nimbus client update - faster sync, better db pruner
Latest Prysmatic client update - getting ready for mainnet, hardening to DoS attacks, no more eth1 node support
Somer Esat’s guide to staking with Nimbus using Ubuntu
Layer2
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Stuff for developers
Solidity is finally a first class Github citizen: automatic Solidity detection
OpenZeppelin Contracts v3.2, adds proxy contracts in Solidity v0.6
Waffle now supports the Jest testing framework
Truffle v5.1.44, debugger prints location on tx failure, node v12 works
EthOver VScode plugin for viewing source code, bytecode, disassembling
Static analyzer Slither v0.6.13, better Solidity v0.6 support, some Yul support
Py-RLP v2 (much faster due to internals in Rust)
Headlong v3.8 - ABI v2/RLP for the JVM
A walkthrough of changes in Solidity v0.7
Everything about events and logs in Eth reference guide
Using TheGraph tutorial
A guide for devs new to Ethereum using Python
Ecosystem
Data challenge for the Medalla testnet - data viz, analysis, tools. Prizes up to 15k, submissions due October 20th
Ethereum Foundation’s q2 grant recipients
MyCrypto’s guide to eth2 for casual Ethereum users
EthGas.app, a nice viz of the recent gasprice history as well as current prediction
Chainlink’s fair sequencing service research: let an oracle network order transactions to thwart MEV (miner extractable value, link to Daian, et al paper). Required computation currently unfeasible, working on improvements
Application layer
POAP as proof of unique human
Lots of likely useless forks this week, which you can see on Etherscan’s new yield farming page
LexCorpus a collection of code for registry, organization, tokens, and escrow to help form legal agreements
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Investment firm Arca calls for Gnosis to return money to tokenholders
Crypto/General
UltraPLONK: Plonk with Plookup gates
Lunar: a Toolbox for More Efficient Universal and Updatable zkSNARKs and Commit-and-Prove Extensions
Vitalik: coordination, collusion, and forks
John Adler: Nakamoto Consensus requires social coordination and subjectivity
Job Listings
OpenZeppelin: Security Researcher, Security Platform Dev & Open Source Dev
DeFi devs! Yield is hiring for Solidity and front-end - contact@yield.is
Nexus Mutual: experienced Solidity dev; prefer European timezones
0x is hiring devs! Full-stack, back-end, front-end or Solidity
Celer Network: hiring Solidity and Go devs. Email: hiring@celer.network
Pioneer Chainlink’s QA frameworks as the very first test engineer
Trail of Bits hiring elite blockchain security engineers & an R&D engineer
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Dates of Note
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Sep 14 - Gitcoin grant matching round starts
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Nov 6-7 - virtual Trufflecon
Nov 16 - MetaMask Provider breaking changes