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Eth News and Links

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

• A list of what exactly might make it into Dencun besides 4844 (protodankscaling). Discussion at the next call on April 27

• Latest consensus layer devs call. Notes from Christine Kim

  • EIP4788 (expose CL state in EL) likely included in Dencun

  • 4844 devnet5 next week

  • discussion of long-lived subnets to reduce bandwidth use

• Latest 4844 implementor call

• KZG ceremony is open again for public contributions, but your Eth account needs over 128 mainnet transactions. If the waiting list declines, then the threshold will be reduced. Follow @carlbeek to find out if threshold is reduced

Layer 1

• Four options for transitioning to Verkle trees would look like

• Two slots proposer builder separation with unconditional payment

• Paprika, Nethermind’s experimental storage abstraction of Patricia tree

• Equivocation attacks in MEV-boost and ePBS

• Optimistic relays increase validator profits and are cheaper to maintain

For Stakers

• How to track the performance of your validator

• Benchmarking bandwidth consumption with Shapella (Geth and Lighthouse) finds ~20% increase

• Lighthouse v4.1 – fix excessive CPU usage

• Geth v.1.11.6

• Rocketpool Atlas upgrade live, allows staking with 8 ETH and triples Rocketpool’s capacity

• How to start running a distributed validator with Obol

Layer 2

• Client diversity coming with Optimism’s Bedrock upgrade:

  • Magi, a16z’s Optimism client in rust

  • OP-Erigon, a fork of Erigon for Optimism

EIPs/Standards

• EIPs:

  • EIP6888: EVM math checking

  • EIP6913: SETCODE instruction

  • EIP6914: Reuse withdrawn validator indices

• 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

• viem v0.3.x, bugfixes and ethcall batch aggregation

• wagmi’s plan for migrating to viem

• Diamond standard in Foundry

• ZeroMEV API, transaction level MEV summary data

Security

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

Ecosystem

• Scaffold-eth v2 hackathon winners

• ETH Tokyo winners

• Gas prices highest this week since the Merge (ie ~80 gwei during UTC day and ~35 gwei during UTC night) lead to over 100k burned since the Merge

• Devconnect announced in Istanbul for November 13-19

Enterprise

• Société Générale launches Euro stablecoin on mainnet

Notable at app layer

• Kwenta launches SmartMargin and currently has 3 different rewards programs for traders

• Use an onchain NFT as your Uniswap frontend

• Brantly Millegan’s proposal for an onchain follow protocol

• Who is delegating to you in DAOs?

• Ameen announces Hai, multi-collateral Rai fork on optimism

• Alchemix self-repaying .eth domains

• State of zk-apps in Ethereum

• What can you do with zk-ECSDA at the app layer?

Job Listings

• Snr React Native UI Dev at Status: All jobs

• Solidity team are looking for a highly skilled Dev Advocate

• EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison

Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth.  Questions? abcoathup at-gmail

Regulation/business/tokens

• Coinbase licensed in Bermuda to launch derivatives exchange

• Gensler repeatedly refuses to say ETH is not a security, even though in 2018 he recognized that ETH was not a security

• SEC labels Algorand an unregistered security in complaint against Bittrex.

  • In 2019, Gary Gensler caught on tape pumping Algorand

• Gary Gensler’s contradiction in the middle

• Europe votes for uniform legal framework for EU crypto markets

• Next week Alex Pertsev to be released to house arrest to prepare for June trial

General/crypto

• Poseidon and Grobner basis attacks

• Consensys reports data leak of Metamask support tickets

• Tayvano on a mysterious wallet drainer, where there is no common thread between compromised keys

• If you haven’t yet, make sure your iPhone and iOS are up to date

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Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)

• Apr 25 – May 9 – Gitcoin Program Beta Round

• Apr 27-30 – Istanbul ETH Privacy conference & hackathon

• Apr 28 – deadline for EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 3

• May 5-10 – ETHTallinn hackathon & NFT Tallinn conference

• May 9-12 – EY blockchain summit

• May 12-14 – ETHGlobal Lisbon

• 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 2-7 – ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon

• Jun 9-11 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon

• Jun 23–25 – ETHGlobal Waterloo (changed from Toronto)

• Jul 5-7 – ETHBarcelona

• 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 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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Eth News and Links

Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade

• Mainnet upgraded to Shapella:

  • Staking withdrawals are being processed (view on beaconcha.in)

  • Christine Kim: withdrawal misconceptions

  • Prysm validators using MEV-Boost failed to propose blocks

  • ~100 validators with double deposits can retrieve their extra ETH

  • first transaction using new PUSH0 opcode

• Hot fixes:

  • Lighthouse v4.0.2-rc.0: fix for high CPU when missed blocks & high volume of exits

  • Prysm v4.0.2: fix for interacting with MEV-Boost

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

  • Shapella went relatively smoothly: Prysm MEV-Boost bug caused missed blocks which triggered Lighthouse high CPU, Teku investigating slow block import

  • Dencun scope to be discussed at next ACDE call

  • Discussions on EIP4788 design, starting testnets with Capella genesis state, payload IDs and Execution API addition for MEV-Boost

• Zhejiang testnet being taken down April 19

Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade

• KZG ceremony special contributions:

  • Mr. Moloch’s Ephemeral album II made & destroyed in one day

  • Random dog walk from eating dropped dog biscuits

  • Improvised theater with music

• Nimbus added Blobfish ASCII art for when Deneb activates

• Proposal to rename danksharding to dankscaling

Layer 1

• Mevboost.pics added average MEV payment per relay/builder/validator in boxplots

• Bootnode diversity discussion: client teams could run geo diverse bootnodes on bare metal

• Terence: single slot PBS using attester committee notes & open questions

For Stakers

• Staking pool execution client diversity

• Somer’s configuring withdrawal credentials guide & updated staking guides

Research

• Barnabé Monnot: protocol credibility = introspection + agency + community defense of last resort

• Sync committee slashing to deter against signing non-canonical beacon block roots

Layer 2

• Intro to MEV on Layer 2 sequencers

EIPs/Standards

• EIPs:

  • EIP6873: Preimage retention

• ERCs:

  • ERC6864: Upgradable fungible token

  • ERC6865: Onchain EIP712 visualization

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Stuff for developers

• Hardhat v2.13.1: added Shanghai support

• Foundry-devops: get most recent deployment, requires ffi

• Difftastic (diff tool) supports Solidity using tree-sitter parser

• Rolling dutch auction in Solidity: perpetual auction with composite decay

• Property-based testing using Hypothesis Python library

• Dedaub contract library (mainnet) added decompile to Yul

• Titanoboa (Vyper interpreter) cheats can be written as Python functions

• HuffBoa: example repo for using Huff contracts with titanoboa

• Alchemy Spearmint: allowlist platform, low-code

• Create T3 App (NextJS, NextAuth, Prisma, tRPC, Tailwind & TypeScript) with Sign-In With Ethereum

• Create a Council Voting Vault

• Indexed.xyz: raw blocks, transactions & event logs and decoded event logs for mainnet

Security

• iEarn $10 million exploit, yUSDT misconfigured, multiple pools drained

• SushiSwap ~$3.3 million exploit, didn’t check for a genuine Uniswap v3 pool, attempted whitehat copied by MEV bots

• Paribus ~$100k exploit on Arbitrum, reentrancy of Compound v2 fork

• Pretend hack to trick users into using fake revoke sites

Ecosystem

• Etherscan:

  • Zero-value token transfers hidden by default

  • EthValidate: verify explorer data on using data from other nodes

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

Job Listings

• EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison

Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth.  Questions? abcoathup at-gmail

Regulation/business/tokens

• Commissioner Peirce calls out Chairman Gensler’s clandestine power grab to expand the SEC’s reach and push all DeFi out of the US

• Tether blacklisted 3 million USDT from MEV bot exploiter

• NYTimes reports on debanking of the current disfavored

• Wallets should be invisible, using WebAuthn

General/crypto

• Summer of Protocols researchers

• PLONKish ZK-SNARK explainer

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Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)

• Apr 21-25 – EthTaipei hackathon & conference

• Apr 25 – May 9 – Gitcoin Program Beta Round

• Apr 27-30 – Istanbul ETH Privacy conference & hackathon

• Apr 28 – deadline for EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 3

• May 5-10 – ETHTallinn hackathon & NFT Tallinn conference

• May 9-12 – EY blockchain summit

• May 12-14 – ETHGlobal Lisbon

• 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 2-7 – 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 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual

• Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon

• Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon

• November – Devconnect

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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

• KZG ceremony special contributions started:

  • Cryptosat contributed from space via Crypto2 satellite

  • Marble machine generated 420 random values

• Latest EIP4844 implementers call video. Notes from Terence

Layer 1

• Mev-boost-relay bug: ~$20 million drained from sandwich bots, relay revealed block bodies for invalid block headers; v1.0.0-alpha3 patch to publish block before returning to proposer

  • Offending validator got slashed for equivocation

• The perils of restaking

• Ben Edgington’s Upgrading Ethereum book fork choice section; search & dark mode added

For Stakers

• Set validator withdrawal address using deposit-cli

• Solo stakers using ⌐◨-◨ graffiti go into monthly draw for ten 1 ETH prizes

• Goerli validator faucet: deposit 3.3 Sepolia ETH to test validator setups on Goerli

• Lido address change messages signed ready to broadcast after Shapella

Layer 2

• Arbitrum DAO rejected ratification vote to setup Foundation but 7.5% token allocation already sent to Foundation with 10M ARB sold for expenses & 40M ARB loaned to market maker, new proposals for Foundation budget & lockup and reduce proposal token threshold

EIPs/Standards

• ERCs:

  • ERC6821: Support ENS name for web3 URL

  • ERC6823: Token mapping slot retrieval extension

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Stuff for developers

• Remix IDE v0.32.0: run free functions, fork in GitHub actions, download UML as pdf/png and doc generation from NatSpec in markdown

• Cookbook Remix plugin: find contracts from Cookbook registry

• Precision loss vulnerabilities classified in Solidity

• ABI encoding guide using Foundry cast

• Forge-safe-log: Foundry 32 character logging that doesn’t modify the state of memory

• Fe v0.22.0: first non-alpha release

• Solhunt: Solidity static analyzer

• Sporalyzer: EVM contract size analyzer in JavaScript

• Guide to event reading in Python using multithreading

• Universal Frontend: read/write contract functions on mainnet; supports structs, arrays & tuples

• Storagoor: read storage slot for contracts on mainnet & testnets

• Curta CTF Uncertainty Principle solution

• RareSkills huff-puzzles

• Secureum RACE #16: 8 question Solidity quiz & answers

• Dissecting EVM via Geth implementation

• viem v0.2: contract instances, create/import private key & mnemonic accounts, account hoisting, automated transport ranking, ENS avatar & text retrieval, transaction & typed data utilities

• Mainnet datasets for ERC20/165/721/1155/1167 in csv

Security

• Sentiment ~$1 million exploit on Arbitrum via read-only reentrancy, funds returned minus $95k

• Enzyme Gas Station Network implementation vulnerability disclosed, $400k bounty to be paid

• Token sale project locked funds on zkSync Era using transfer function, plan to change gas metering to support transfer & allow fund recovery

• Uniswap Universal Router reentrancy vulnerability disclosed, fixed prior to deployment

• Solidity function pointer equality bug, equality to be removed in v0.9

Ecosystem

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

Enterprise

• ANZ bank piloted trading tokenized carbon credits for Australian dollar stablecoin

Notable at app layer

• Euler: recoverable funds returned from March exploit; redemption plan

• MetaMask adds warnings for known scams from OpenSea’s blocklist & Blockaid’s analysis

• OpenSea Pro (formerly Gem v2) NFT aggregator

• OpenEden TBILL vault: tokenized US Treasuries currently ~5%, requires KYC

• Flexible voting: DAOs can extend Governor to split voting or allow tokens in DeFi to vote or vote privately

Job Listings

• EF Ecosystem Support Program seek a Grant Analyst & Liaison

• Nimbus is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer

Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable to abcoathup.eth.  Questions? abcoathup at-gmail

Regulation/business/tokens

• US Treasury DeFi risk assessment

• Did Elizabeth Warren collude with short seller to destabilize the banking system?

• Foreign Affairs: the case for banning crypto

• FASB proposed crypto assets be accounted at fair value each reporting period, comments open through June 6

General/crypto

• zkTree: zk recursion tree with ZKP membership proofs

• Ideas for a Nova-based zk VM

• eSTARK: extending STARKs with arguments

• Testudo: near linear-time prover SNARK with smaller setups

• UltraGroth: Groth16-style protocol with lookups

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Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)

• Apr 8 – deadline for Scaffold-Eth-2 hackathon

• Apr 12 – Mainnet upgrades to Shapella, EthStaker viewing party

• Apr 12-14 – NFT NYC

• Apr 13-16 – Pragma Tokyo & ETHGlobal Tokyo hackathon

• Apr 14-16 – EthereumZuri.ch conference & hackathon

• Apr 21-25 – EthTaipei hackathon & conference

• Apr 25 – May 9 – Gitcoin Program Beta Round

• Apr 27-30 – Istanbul ETH Privacy conference & hackathon

• Apr 28 – deadline for EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 3

• May 5-10 – ETHTallinn hackathon & NFT Tallinn conference

• May 9-12 – EY blockchain summit

• May 12-14 – ETHGlobal Lisbon

• 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 2-7 – 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 6–27 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual

• Oct 27–29 – ETH Miami festival + hackathon

• Oct 28–30 – ETH Lisbon hackathon

• November – Devconnect

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