Ethereum News Weekly (December 31, 2022)

Summary

Layer 2 (transaction validation + cross-chain bridges) sets monthly record for Gas consumption on the mainnet.

The contract platform with the highest gas consumption in 2022 is Uniswap v3, followed by Seaport (OpenSea).

Vitalik publishes a new article: What exactly is an institution?

Important date events updates for January-October 2023 are coming soon.

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Authors: Andrew B Coathup and Evan Van Ness
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Ethereum News and Links

Shapella (Shanghai+Capella) upgrade
Unresolved issues at the EOF specification level
Reminder: EOF needs to be completed before the January deadline, otherwise it will be deleted

Cancun + D-starname upgrade
Deneb seems to be the default winner of CL’s upgrade to D-starname

Layer 1

ERC4337 Update (Account Abstraction using alt mempool) with Bundler Reference Implementation and Compatibility Test Suite
Remco: Transaction memory limit, 32MB 30 million gas

Research

James Prestwich: History of the MEV Community

Client

ution Layer
Nethermind v1.15.0: TraceStore plugin, ETH/67 support, JSON RPC fixes, synchronization, network, resilience against database corruption

Layer 2

Taiko zkEVM alpha-1 testnet
Rock 5B ARM64 Optimism node, concept validation
Layer 2 (transaction verification + cross-chain bridges) sets monthly gas consumption record on the mainnet

EIP/Standard

EIP6220: Composable NFTs with Equippable Components
EIP6224: Contract Registry Dependency Injector
EIP6228: Extreme ERC20, Meta-Transaction Token (MTT)
EIP6229: Tokenized Insurance Vault with Lock-up Period
EIP6239: Semantic Soul-Bound Tokens

Developer related

Minting Chisel: Solidity REPL
Etherscan contract verification API adds failed message
Uniswap Oracle: Flash loan proof Uniswap v3 price out of range oracle
Norswap on ERC2535 (Diamonds): Only used to bypass contract size limits
Fallback: Concept verification for creating web applications in Solidity
Huff-immutables: Immutable objects initialized in Huff constructor
VSCode Solidity Inspector v0.0.3: View contract storage layout
Understanding EVM instruction boundaries and EVM regex decompiler (Perl-compatible regular expressions)
Noble-curves: Elliptic curves in Java, zero dependencies
Wagmi (React hooks) v0.10.0: WalletConnect v2 support and useWatchPendingTransactions hook
ENS configuration file API: Access through GraphQL

Security

DeFi hacking with Foundry replication
Error database in Notion, 120+ high severity and 200+ medium severity

Eco

EF-supported team achievements in 2022: Merge and withdrawal work, EOF, EIP4844, KZG ceremony, RIG open issues, Portal Network, Remix and Solidity & Fe improvements.

The contract with the most gas calls in 2022 is Uniswap v3, followed by Seaport (OpenSea).

Less than one-third of the validators are individual stakers.

Application Layer

1inch Fusion mode: exchange based on selected time range using fee rates, MEV protection, no network fees
Mean Finance average cost entry, earning yield on Euler, running on the mainnet
Two former Solana NFT projects have migrated to Ethereum and Polygon

Position List

As a founding smart contract developer, join Story Protoco powered by a16z.
Alchemy seeks product managers to build the future of web3.
The Ethereum Foundation seeks a full-stack eco developer
Job listing: $600 in four instalments, paid in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet or layer 2. If you have any questions, you can contact @abcoathup on Gmail

Regulation/Business/Token

Fat app flippening perspective: Value growth will shift from protocols to super applications
Mango Markets attacker Avraham Eisenberg arrested and charged with price manipulation and fraud
Harry Denley: Analyzing NFT thieves
Graphics card shipments hit a 20-year low
Hacker claims to sell Twitter data of 400 million users, including emails and phone numbers
3Commas confirms user API keys leaked
SuperNova: Recursive proof of ution of multi-instruction virtual machine without paying universal circuit fees
HyperPlonk: MLE-SumCheck hardware efficiency lower than Plonk NTT
Multi-funding: Anti-collusion secondary funding mechanism
Vitalik: What exactly are institutions?

Upcoming important dates

(New/changed ones are shown in bold)
January 8 - Solidity Developer Survey Deadline
January 11 – Flashbots MEV Roast: Privacy
January 17-31 – Gitcoin Funding Round
January 31 – deadline for KZG ceremonial awards
February 24 - March 1 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek
March 2-5 – ETHDenver Hackathon
March 10-29 – Scaling Ethereum (ETHGlobal) virtual event
March 15-16 – ETHDubai

March 16-18 - ETHPorto
March 28-30 - Ethereum Rio de Janeiro
April 3-6 - Edcon Vienna
April 12-14 - New York NFT
April 14-16 - ETHGlobal Tokyo
May 26-28 - ETHGlobal Istanbul
June 23-25 - ETHGlobal Toronto
July 17-20 - EthCC (Paris)
July 21-23 - ETHGlobal Paris
September 22-24 - ETHGlobal New York
October 6-25 - ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual event