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Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade
- Latest all core devs – consensus (ACDC) call video. Notes from Christine Kim:
- Devnet-12 launched, likely to run over holidays, Prysm expect to join in ~2 weeks
- Upgrade process discussion: upgrade documents in PM repo, meta EIPs for each upgrade and considered for inclusion (CFI) label
- Dencun interop testing call video
Prague + Electra upgrade
- Upgrade meta discussion: community input into which features (EIPs) to include
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- Lido at 32.28% increasing towards 33.3% threshold
- Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
- Execution layer: Geth ~84% supermajority, could possibly cause a chain split
- Consensus layer: Prysm 41% & Lighthouse 34%, any client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finality
- Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe
Layer 1
- Timing games are bad for Ethereum
- P2P.org (Lido founders) are delaying requests up to 1 second to increase MEV
- Pari (EF DevOps): how to create a shadow fork
- Verkle implementers call notes
- Guide to join Verkle testnet (verkle-gen-devnet-2)
For Stakers
- Dappnode MEV smoothing pool for solo stakers
- Obol (distributed validators) live, beta, clusters capped at 1 validator
- Lighthouse user experience survey
Client releases
- Consensus layer:
- Nimbus v23.11.0: Obol enhanced support, improved scoring algorithms to maximize block rewards with multiple beacon nodes, simple bootstrapping and performance improvements for 10k+ validators on a single machine
- Execution layer:
- Reth v0.1.0-alpha.12: support Canyon upgrade on OP Stack networks (not OP mainnet) and fix for pruned node operators
Research
- Barnabe: Liquefaction, semantics of liquid staking
- Chipmunk: synchronized lattice-based multi-signature scheme, plausibly secure against quantum attacks
Layer 2
- RollupCodes: opcodes, precompiles & system contracts for each rollup
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs
- ERCs (application layer):
Stuff for developers
- Testnets:
- Goerli is deprecated: client teams & EF will exit validators 3 months after upgrading to Dencun (or 1 month after mainnet Dencun upgrade if later)
- Sepolia: use for application layer testing
- Holešky: use for staking & infrastructure testing
- OP testnets migrating to OP Sepolia from OP Goerli
- OpenZeppelin Contracts wizard adds AI assistant to update code & answer questions, alpha
- Wake (previously Woke): Python based Solidity dev framework with vulnerability detectors
- EVMole: extract function selectors from bytecode, Python & JavaScript implementations
- OP Wagmi: wagmi v2 style hooks to interact with OP Stack networks
- Coinbase build onchain apps starter kit: RainbowKit, wagmi, Next.js & Tailwind CSS
- CTFs:
- Ethernaut reforged: solve & submit first 8 challenges using just Foundry
- Curta CTF adds writeups
- Crypto data advent calendar: data ecosystem project featured each day
Security
- KyberSwap plan treasury grants for affected users
- Elastic exploiter demands to take over the company
- Curve price oracle usage
Ecosystem
- ~15% of transactions via private transaction pools
- Data visualization of where all ETH sits onchain
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 14.7 to 185.0 gwei, with 34.8 gwei average
- Zero net issuance currently at 21.8 gwei
- 9.8k ETH net burn this week
- ETHUSD: $1,994 – $2,111, currently $2,084
- ETHBTC: currently 0.054 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- StakeWise v3 live on mainnet, marketplace of staking offers, node operators & stakers can mint LSD
- Paradigm distances itself from Blast (despite being lead investor twice for this founder)
- Gitcoin Grants 19 completed, $600k donated, 45k donors
- American Cancer Society Gitcoin grants round on Arbitrum
Job Listings
- Aragon: Senior smart contract developer w EIP, auditing experience
- Senior Operations Security Expert wanted by EF
- Enya Labs: Lead Security Engineer, Sr. Fullstack Dev (with Go exp), BizDev
- Nethermind: Lead Software Engineer, BizDev & CTO
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Regulation/business/tokens
- Circle denies baseless Elizabeth Warren claims on illicit financing & banking Justin Sun
- SIM Swapper sentenced to 8 years prison
General
- Vitalik: techno-optimism, d/acc (defensive/decentralization/differential acceleration)
- BSC: bsc-geth bug, bsc-erigon unable to sync
- Polygon POS proposal to increase max contract size from 24kb to 32kb
- Velodrome & Aerodrome domains were compromised in social engineering attack on provider
- Twitter 15 minute security self-audit
- BLUFFS: Bluetooth MitM attack reusing a weak session key
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Dec 4 – ETHVenice
- Dec 6-7 – Columbia CryptoEconomics workshop (New York)
- Dec 7 – Optimism’s RetroPGF 3 voting ends (support Week in Ethereum News)
- Dec 7-10 – ETHGlobal Pragma & ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Jan 15 – EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 4 deadline
- Feb 2-4 – ETH Cinco de Mayo hackathon (Cholula, Puebla)
- Feb 23-Mar 3 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek & hackathon
- Mar 13-14 – ETHLatam (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
- Mar 15-17 – ETHGlobal London
- Mar 21-24 – ETHTaipei conference & hackathon
- Apr 5-26 – ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum (virtual)
- Apr 5-7 – EthereumZuri.ch conference & hackathon
- May 3-5 – ETHGlobal Sydney
- May 21-23 – DappCon (Berlin)
- May 24-26 – ETHBerlin
- Jul 8-11 – EthCC (Brussels)
- Jul 12-14 – ETHGlobal Brussels
- Aug 23-Sep 13 – ETHGlobal ETHOnline (virtual)
- Sep 20-22 – ETHGlobal Singapore
- Oct 18-20 – ETHGlobal San Francisco
- Nov – ETHGlobal DevCon
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