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2023-05-04, 02:47

Eth News and Links

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

Latest all core devs – ution (ACDE) call video. Summary by Tim Beiko. Notes from Tim Beiko and Christine Kim:

Cancun upgrade to include: EIP4844 (protodankscaling), EIP6780 (SELFDESTRUCT only in same tx), EIP1153 (transient storage) & EIP6475 (SSZ optional type)

Cancun may potentially include: EIP4788 (beacon block root in EVM), EIP6493 (SSZ tx signature scheme) & EIP2537 (BLS precompile)

EOF not in Cancun, discussed making main feature of future upgrade

EIP4844 devnet 5 successfully launched

KZG Ceremony: 91,000+ contributions, contribute with an account nonce of 64

Layer 1

MEV-Boost relay vulnerability disclosed, block equivocation strategy with early getPayload calls

Rinkeby testnet Q2/Q3 shutdown proposed for June 1

Geth removing Clique & PoW support

Client releases

Consensus layer:

Nimbus v23.4.0: fixes missed proposals (low probability)

Teku v23.4.0: fix for slow block processing with multiple voluntary exits

ution layer:

Erigon v2.43.0: adds Caplin phase 1 (embedded Consensus Layer); diagnostics web app

Research

MEV-Boost & fork choice rule: impact of latency on consensus

Overview of dankscaling: proposal to use 25% of samples for reconstruction

Post quantum stealth addresses using Commutative Supersingular isogenies (CSIDH)

Confirmation rule: typically under 1 minute, weaker guarantee than finality

Layer 2

Proposal for cross layer communication using a precompile to read the Layer 1 state root

EIPs/Standards

EIPs:
EIP6953: Network upgrade activation triggers

ERCs:
ERC6927: NFT fusing protocol

ERC6932: Subion-based token

ERC6944: ERC5219 resolve mode

Stuff for developers

Foundry Forge-std v1.5.4: adds set breakpoint cheat and count overload to expectCall cheat

Forge-deploy: track deployments by name and reuse in Solidity

Solc-ast-rs: Rust bindings for Solidity AST & visitors

Slitherin: custom Slither detectors with higher sensitivity but higher false positives

Equivalence checker: compare code in Yul/assembly, Solidity or Certora Verification Language

Contract Fiesta: dataset of source code for 150k unique contracts

Safe: ERC2535 (Diamond proxy) unsuitable for smart accounts (account abstraction)

Governance proposal simulation framework: catch incorrectly linked contracts, invalid state transitions, broken dependencies and logic errors

Curta CTF Groovy Fruit Fiesta solution

All Wallet Devs call video and notes

Zokrates v0.8.7: Nova experimental support

zkLLVM & Proof Market: guide to integrating zk proofs

Security

Mysterious wallet drainer (described by Taylor last week): victims encouraged to come forward

Merlin DEX on zkSync $1.8 million stolen, devs had unlimited approval

Blur NFT marketplace canceled bids were accepted

Trust Wallet browser extension vulnerability disclosed, mnemonics could be found by brute force, $100k bounty paid

Profanity Brute-force: reconstruct a private key generated using Profanity

Eco

Staking deposit queue flipped exit queue

Notable at app layer

ENS manager app v3 and ENS Name Wrapper live

Gitcoin Passport Unique Humanity Score of 15 needed for Gitcoin Grants Beta Round matching

Stelo Explore: universal contract interface

Eric Wall’s Orb NFT: holder can ask Eric a question a week, 300% Harberger tax

Job Listings

Snr React Native UI Dev at Status: All jobs

Solidity team need a highly skilled Developer Advocate

Mimic seek a blockchain engineer

Regulation/business/tokens

Professor Gary Gensler in 2018 MIT course: “3/4 of the market is non-securities

Binance US terminated $1 billion purchase deal of Voyager assets

UK tax proposal to not treat DeFi transactions as disposals

Paul Brody: enjoy the final Crypto Winter

General/crypto

TxRank: transaction anomaly detection tool using a Large Language Model

HyperNova: recursive arguments for customizable constraint s

Zator: verified inference of a 512-layer neural network using recursive SNARKs

Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)
May 5-10 – ETHTallinn hackathon & NFT Tallinn conference
May 9 – Gitcoin Grants Beta Round ends (support Week in Eth News)
May 9-12 – EY blockchain summit
May 11-14 – Pragma Lisbon & ETHGlobal Lisbon hackathon
May 19-23 – Edcon Montenegro (changed from Vienna)
May 20-21 – ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
May 24-26 – Spaghett ETH (Naples) conference
May 26-28 – ETHDublin hackathon
Jun 2-4 – ETH Seoul
Jun 2-6 – ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon
Jun 9-11 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
Jun 23–25 – ETHGlobal Waterloo (changed from Toronto)
Jul 5-7 – ETHBarcelona
Jul 15-16 – DeFi Security Summit (Paris)
Jul 17-20 – EthCC (Paris)
Jul 21–23 – ETHGlobal Paris
Aug 13-16 – ETHToronto & ETHWomen
Aug 16-19 – Ethereum Argentina (Buenos Aires)
Aug 28-30 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
Aug 30 - Sep 3 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
Sep 1-3 – Ethcon Korea hackathon
Sep 10-12 – Ethereum Singapore hackathon & conference
Sep 11-13 – DappCon (Berlin)
Sep 15 – Protocol Berg (Berlin)
Sep 18-21 – ETH Montréal hackathon & conference
Sep 22–24 – ETHGlobal New York
Oct 5-6 – ETHMilan conference
Oct 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon
Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)
Nov 17-19 - ETHIstanbul (EthGlobal)


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