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Shapella (Shanghai + Capella) upgrade
- EF DevOps launch devnet with 605k validators to test BLS key changes
- Withdrawal-mainnet-shadow-fork-1 finalizing
- Consensus specs v1.3.0-rc.2: new Capella test cases, polynomial commitment spec updates & light client data change
Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
- KZG Ceremony:
- 23,000+ contributions after two weeks
- Session sign-out issue fixed
- Unique entropy generators: Proof-of-Cat & marble run
- Towers-of-pau implementation in Go, survives suspending computer
- EIP4844 decoupling gossip in Nimbus design notes
- Proposed transaction SSZ refactoring
- EOF v2 design, based on discussions of past month
Layer 1
- Approaches for decentralizing block builders
- Kaustinen PoS verkle testnet, replaces Condrieu testnet, includes proofs in blocks
Client releases
- Consensus layer:
- Execution layer:
- Nethermind v1.16.1: reported ~0.5% improvement in staking rewards, RAM consumption reduced and adds low disk space notification
Layer 2
- Patrick McCorry: rollup permissive vs permissioned licensing
EIPs/Standards
- ERC6366: Permission token
- ERC6372: Contract clock
- ERC6381: Emotable extension for NFTs
- EIP6384: Humanly readable offline signatures
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Stuff for developers
- Foundry:
- ChugSplash Foundry: deploy & manage upgradeable contracts, upgrade OpenZeppelin Transparent proxies, supports mainnet & Optimism
- Deal cheat code mints ERC20 tokens in tests
- EVM call stipend (2300 gas) explainer
- OpenZeppelin proposal to mitigate ERC4626 inflation attacks with virtual assets & shares
- Sparse-arr-lib: Solidity library for sparse arrays, work in progress
- Optimizing using Yul via example rock, paper & scissors contracts
- Samczsun’s signature database: exportable, add to canonical list via GitHub
- Clipshot: ERC1155 token holder snapshots as CSV
- Hydralisk: Python CLI for bulk wallet creation
- Walk through of building bear traps for MEV bot front-runners
- DamnVulnerableDefi ABI smuggling solution
- Uniswap v3 math explainer
Ecosystem
- 1/3 of relayed blocks not censoring Tornado Cash transactions
- 0xPARC zk 4 week residency in Vietnam from mid-March
Enterprise
- Cité Gestion (Swiss bank) tokenized its shares on Ethereum
- Baseline simple reference implementation
Application layer
- Aave v3 live on mainnet
- RAI stablecoin:
- Index Coop diversified staked ETH: index token of Rocket Pool, Lido & StakeWise staked ETH
- Maker voted to deploy 100M USDC from PSM into a Yearn vault
- Maple Finance adds receivables financing pool
- Migratooor: move tokens from one address to another
- MoonPlace: r/Place like NFTs on Arbitrum Nova using r/CryptoCurrency community tokens
- Texture Punx: on-chain SVG NFTs with user selected traits, 50% of secondary sales donated to Protocol Guild [Disclosure: Andrew minted three, one was free]
Job Listings
- Arx, creators of KONG Cash and HaLo tags is hiring a Solidity developer.
- Status is hiring a Technical Writer for Waku Product, all other jobs here
- Ethereum Foundation are hiring a Community Lead for ethereum.org
- Lighthouse seeking support tech to help its stakers
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit), payable in ETH/DAI/USDC to abcoathup.eth on mainnet or Layer 2. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- US SEC Commissioner Peirce: approach crypto regulation carefully but don’t wait for regulators to solve problems
- Reuters: US SEC probing investment advisers on custody of clients crypto
- FBI: Lazarus group behind $100M Horizon bridge theft in June 2022
- Outlier Ventures: which products need a token
General/crypto
- LocalCryptos (LocalEthereum) winding down
- Worldcoin releases hardware engineering files for Orb iris scanner
- Semaphore grants round recipient projects
- Introduction to commitment schemes
- ZK MOOCs: modern zk cryptography and zk proofs
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Upcoming Dates of Note(new/changes in bold)
- Jan 31 – deadline for Gitcoin grants round
- Jan 31 – KZG ceremony grants deadline
- Jan 31 – deadline to nominate for Optimism retroactive public goods round 2
- Feb 3 – deadline to nominate for DAOdrops retroactive public goods funding
- Feb 24 – Mar 1 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek
- Feb 27 – deadline for EF academic grants round
- Mar 2-5 – ETHDenver Hackathon
- Mar 10-29 – Scaling Ethereum (ETHGlobal) virtual
- Mar 15-16 – ETHDubai
- Mar 16-18 – ETH Porto
- Mar 28-30 – Ethereum Rio
- Apr 3-6 – Edcon Vienna
- Apr 12-14 – NFT NYC
- Apr 14-16 – ETHGlobal Tokyo
- Apr 14-16 – ETHZurich conference & hackathon
- Apr 21-23 – EthTaipei hackathon
- Apr 24-25 – EthTaipei conference
- May 5-7 – ETHMalaysia conference & hackathon
- May 20-21 – ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
- May 26–28 – ETHGlobal Istanbul
- Jun 23–25 – ETHGlobal Toronto
- Jul 5-7 – ETHBarcelona
- Jul 17-20 – EthCC (Paris)
- Jul 21–23 – ETHGlobal Paris
- Sep 22–24 – ETHGlobal New York
- Oct 6–25 – ETHOnline (ETHGlobal) virtual
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