Week in Ethereum News, April 22, 2023 – thanks to Optimism’s RetroPGF

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Eth News and Links

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

Layer 1

For Stakers

Layer 2

  • Client diversity coming with Optimism’s Bedrock upgrade:

EIPs/Standards

  • EIPs:

  • ERCs:

    • ERC6882: sharable interface for borrowing

    • ERC6884: Extendable Utility Tokens Derived from Origin NFTs

    • ERC6916: Automatic reset of testnet

    • ERC6912: Versioned TokenIDs for Dynamic NFTs

    • ERC6909: simplied alternative to erc1155

    • ERC6900: modular smart contracts


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Stuff for developers

Security

  • Hundred hacked for 7.4m on Optimism, due to poorly deployed fork of compound v2

Ecosystem

Enterprise

Notable at app layer


Job Listings

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Regulation/business/tokens

General/crypto


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Week in Ethereum News, April 15, 2023 – thanks to Optimism’s RetroPGF

https://weekinethereum.substack.com/p/week-in-ethereum-news-april-15-2023

Eth News and Links

Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

Layer 1

For Stakers

Research

Layer 2

EIPs/Standards

  • EIPs:

  • ERCs:

    • ERC6864: Upgradable fungible token

    • ERC6865: Onchain EIP712 visualization


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Stuff for developers

Security

Ecosystem

Notable at app layer

  • Ondo OMMF (money market funds token): KYC & 100k USDC minimum 

  • Gandalf: tokengate Typeform, Notion, Substack, Medium, Gitbook & Google Docs, alpha

  • Metropolis podarchy explorer: visualize account relationships, permissions & multisig signers


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Week in Ethereum News, April 8, 2023 – sponsored by Mimic

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Eth News and Links

Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade

  • Reminder: update your nodes for Shapella upgrade on April 12th at 22:27:35 UTC

  • Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:

    • Mainnet shadow fork 3 finalizing with no client incompatibilities

    • Proposal to change blob transaction type from 0x5 to 0x3

    • Discussion on MEV Boost issues

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

Layer 1

For Stakers

Layer 2

EIPs/Standards

  • ERCs:

    • ERC6821: Support ENS name for web3 URL

    • ERC6823: Token mapping slot retrieval extension


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Stuff for developers

Security

Ecosystem

  • MEV Blocker: mainnet RPC, blocks front running & sandwiches, searchers can pay users to back run their transaction

Enterprise

Notable at app layer


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Week in Ethereum News, April 1, 2023 – sponsored by Scaffold-Eth-2 hackathon

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Eth News and Links

Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade

For Stakers

Layer 2

  • Polygon zkEVM mainnet beta, gas pricing as EVM but lacks some precompiles, Security Council initially, AGPL v3 license

  • Linea (ConsenSys zkEVM) testnet now public

  • Conduit managed rollups using OP Stack, with block explorer, RPCs, metrics & transaction tracer

  • L2BEAT risk rosette: visualization of risks

EIPs/Standards

  • EIPs:

    • EIP6780: SELFDESTRUCT only in same transaction

    • EIP6789: Rename gas to mana [resurrected EIP102]

    • EIP6800: Ethereum state using a unified verkle tree

  • ERCs:

    • ERC6785: ERC721 utilities extension

    • ERC6786: Registry for royalties payment for NFTs

    • ERC6787: Order book DEX with two phase withdrawal

    • ERC6806: ERC721 holding time tracking

    • ERC6808: Fungible key bound token

    • ERC6809: Non-fungible key bound token


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Stuff for developers

Security

Ecosystem

Enterprise

Notable at app layer

  • Maker voted for its constitution

  • DeFi Saver adds limit orders & DCA strategies

  • Sound Swap (music NFTs): 24 hour open editions & increasing price mints with instant selling


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Week in Ethereum News, February 18, 2023 – sponsored by SpeedRunEthereum.com

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Eth News and Links

Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade

  • Latest all core devs – execution (ACDE) call video. Notes from Tim Beiko & Christine Kim:

    • Empty block handling bug found on Zhejiang testnet, since patched by Geth, doesn’t impact Sepolia testnet upgrade timeline

    • withdrawal-devnet-7: upgraded to Shapella with 600k validators and 360k BLS changes, only stopped finalizing for 1 epoch in a harsher setup than mainnet

    • withdrawal-mainnet-shadowfork-2 to test MEV-Boost

    • 0 blob EIP4844 transactions banned for now

    • Discussions on SSZ in block header, CL minimal presets (test configs), standardizing transaction pool API and approach to deprecate SELFDESTRUCT

  • builder-specs v0.3.0: add Capella support

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

  • KZG Ceremony:

  • Latest EIP4844 implementers call video. Notes from Terence: blobs to be decoupled from blocks

  • SSZ breakout video call: discussion on Union vs normalized transaction representation, plan to prototype in next 2 weeks to decide approach to take

Layer 1

  • Visualization of MEV-boost block flow from builder to validator via relayer

  • Flashbots: design for MEV-Share, users send transactions to a matchmaker to match with searchers who pay users for using their transactions 

Client releases

  • Consensus layer:

    • Lodestar v1.4.3: Zhejiang testnet support, fix for dropping peers

    • Prysm v3.2.1: Capella upgrade for Sepolia testnet

    • Teku v23.2.0: early access to doppelganger detection and Capella upgrade for Sepolia testnet

  • Execution layer:

    • Besu v23.1.0: move to Java 17 LTS, performance improvements & Bonsai robustness

    • Geth v1.11.0: Shanghai upgrade support, added Pebble database as LevelDB replacement (requires resync), removed puppeth & mobile development libraries and deprecated personal RPC namespace; v1.11.1: patch for empty block processing in Shanghai upgrade

    • Nethermind v1.17.0: Shanghai upgrade for Sepolia testnet & performance improvements

Research

For Stakers

Layer 2

EIPs/Standards

  • ERCs:

    • ERC6498: Document signing for contracts

    • ERC6506: P2P escrowed governance incentives


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Stuff for developers

Security

Ecosystem

Enterprise

Application layer

  • NFT marketplaces:

  • Overtime (sports markets) expands to Arbitrum

  • UMA oSnap: DAOs can execute off-chain Snapshot voting using UMA’s optimistic oracle

  • RabbitHole v2 (learn to earn): users complete quests & mint tradable NFTs to claim rewards


Job Listings

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Regulation/business/tokens

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