Week in Ethereum News -The Latest Ethereum News and Upcoming Events This Week
Eth News and Links
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
Dencun testing overview
Timelines for a short lived devnet 9 & upgrading public testnets to be discussed on next ACDE call
KZG Ceremony finished with 141,416 contributions, largest ceremony ever
Layer 1
Holešky testnet (Goerli replacement)
Genesis file generated, launches September 15 with 1.46M validators
ACDC agreed to change Shapella upgrade to epoch 256, validator ejection balance to 28 hETH and support compressed genesis state
Dapplion: Whisk (SSLE) expensive duty discovery can be solved using a validator’s public key
For stakers
Geth still supermajority EL client based on self-reported data from large pools & entities
Siren v1 (Lighthouse’s validator management UI): monitor node & validator health
Client releases
Consensus layer:
Nimbus v23.8.0: performance & stability improvements
Prysm v4.0.8: reduce memory usage
ution layer:
Besu v23.7.1: performance & stability improvements, updated dependencies and extended functionality of EVM tool & RPC trace modules
Reth v0.1.0-alpha.7: fixes for crawlers reaching nodes, RPC & txpool and rudimentary eth_getProof support for accounts
Research
Super-finality confirmation rule for Casper, can implement client-side/wallets using Beacon API
Proof of Validator: anonymous credential scheme for Distributed Hash Table participants
Layer 2
RISC Zero Zeth: zk block prover based on revm
Base uses 2/2 upgrade multisig (Optimism Foundation & Base)
Coinbase will contribute minimum 2.5% of Base sequencer revenue to Optimism Collective for RetroPGF & eco projects
Optimism granting up to ~118M OP tokens (2.7% of supply) over 6 years to Coinbase
EIPs/Standards
Updated EIP editor handbook (EIP5069)
ERCs (application layer):
ERC7502: Self tradable NFT
ERC7503: Zero-knowledge wormholes
ERC7504: Dynamic contracts (one-to-many proxy contracts)
Stuff for developers
Foundry:
Vulcan v0.2.0 (dev framework): adds gas estimation and deployment address calculation
Cast rpc with jwt secret allows Engine API calls to EL
Full Stack dapp workshop using ScaffoldETH-2 and The Graph
Ape Framework code coverage guide
Ape-hackathon-kit: develop contracts in Ape framework and web apps in Next.js, Tailwind, RainbowKit & wagmi
WhatsABI v0.8.0 (guesses ABI from bytecode): tested with ethers.js v5/6 & viem, bundle size reduced to 12KB
TrueBlocks v1 and EF grant report
tx2uml v1.1.23: adds options to hide parameter names/values in trace; v1.1.24 supports Base
wagmi mipd: Type utilities for ERC6963 (Multi Injected Provider Discovery)
CTFs:
Curta CTF: devtooligan’s Elohim solution
Paradigm CTF October 28-30
Cryogen: consolidate parquets into larger chunks for smaller datasets & faster queries
Security
Balancer v2 pools vulnerability disclosed, withdraw affected LPs
Eco
Danny Ryan rebuts Lido’s claim that dual governance mitigates risks to Ethereum as Lido nears 33% of stake
Hackathon projects: ETHToronto, ETHWomen and Ethereum Argentina
Etherscan search bar shortcut: press “/”
Notable at app layer
Privacy & Scaling Explorations Bandada v1: create/manage privacy-preserving groups of anons
ScopeLift: DAO voting from Layer 2 with flexible voting, proof of concept
Base apps:
Friend Tech adds photo sharing with key holders
StoryBase: fee per character collaborative writing, snippets minted as NFTs
Parody bike race: mint/steal NFTs of NYC Citi Bikes in 10 day race
Job Listings
EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team seek ZK circuits engineer
Regulation/business/tokens
Roman Semenov & Roman Storm (Tornado Cash co-founders) unjustly charged with conspiracy to launder money because they wrote open source code:
Roman Storm arrested and out on bail.
OFAC sanctioned Roman Semenov
Donate to legal defense fund. (KYC required)
web3 Builders: interview with Ameen Soleimani about the charges
Nate Chastain sentenced to 3 months jail, $50k fine + proceeds for OpenSea insider trading
Bitstamp ending Ethereum staking for US customers
USDC changes: Circle to control issuance & Coinbase taking equity stake in Circle
Proposed draconian US tax rules would require KYC for most blockchain transfers and blocking US citizens from nearly everything, comments open until October 30
General
BlockFi, FTX & Genesis bankruptcy claimants data stolen from Kroll via T-Mobile SIM swap
MACI v1 trusted setup ceremony
Arnaucube: intuition for ProtoGalaxy folding scheme
Soundness notions for Interactive Oracle Proofs (IOPs)
Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
Aug 28-30 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford University)
Aug 29 – Gitcoin Grants 18 ends (support Week in Ethereum News)
Aug 31 - Sep 3 – ETHWarsaw conference & hackathon
Sep 1-3 – Ethcon Korea hackathon
Sep 7-9 – ETHAccra hackathon
Sep 10-12 – Ethereum Singapore hackathon & conference
Sep 11-13 – DappCon (Berlin)
Sep 15 – Protocol Berg (Berlin)
Sep 15-17 – ETHChicago conference & hackathon
Sep 15 – Holešky testnet genesis
Sep 18-24 – ETHSafari (Kilifi Kenya)
Sep 21–24 – Pragma & ETHGlobal New York
Oct 5-6 – ETHMilan conference
Oct 6-8 – ETHRome hackathon
Oct 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
Oct 28-30 – Paradigm CTF
Oct 13–15 – Ethereum Kuala Lumpur conference & hackathon
Oct 21 – Ethereum México
Oct 22-24 – ETH Hong Kong
Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon
Oct 27-29 – ETH Vietnam
Oct 27-29 – ETH London hackathon
Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
Oct 31 – Road to Devcon grants application deadline
Nov 3-5 – ETH Lisbon hackathon
Nov 13-19 – Devconnect (Istanbul)
Nov 16-19 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Istanbul
Dec 4-5 – ETHVenice
Dec 8-10 – ETHGlobal ETHIndia (Bangalore)
