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Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade (meta EIP7569)
- Latest all core devs – execution (ACDE) call video. Recap by Tim Beiko. Notes from Tim Beiko and Christine Kim:
- Devnet-12: issues being found & fixed; Prysm expect to join in 1-2 weeks
- Goerli ~300 node shadow fork planned before end of December
- Goerli upgrade to be scheduled in January to test 3/6 (target/max) blobs
- Community can propose EIPs for next upgrade, to be discussed in January
- Consensus-specs v1.4.0-beta.5: clarifies when clients can serve blocks & sidecars byRoot
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- Lido at 32.03% is far too close to 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
- Reth (node) crawler: ~19k active nodes found using UDP & inbound TCP
- Erigon 2024 roadmap: Erigon++ (evmone, SilkRPC C++ components), Caplin full archive node, Erigon v3 & Otterscan (enhanced with Erigon v3 & Beacon Chain capability via Caplin)
- Lightclients: EIP3074 (AUTH & AUTHCALL opcodes) would allow EOAs to be used within ERC4337 (Account Abstraction using alt transaction pool)
For Stakers
- Rescue Node adds support for solo stakers, fallback node for temporary access in emergencies/maintenance
Client releases
- Execution layer:
- Erigon v2.55.1: patch
- Nethermind v1.23.0: OP Stack support (Canyon upgrade not yet supported), initialize DB using snapshot and reduced memory consumption when overloaded with CL requests
- Reth v0.1.0-alpha.13: fix block commit times for full node & heavy RPC tracing users
Research
- Timing games: implications of proposers delaying block publication to increase MEV and pros & cons of possible mitigations
- CEX<>DEX arbitrage empirical analysis
Layer 2
- L2BEAT liveness dashboard adds intervals of proof submissions for zk rollups
EIPs/Standards
- ERCs (application layer):
Stuff for developers
- Solidity developer survey 2023: feedback to the Solidity team
- Shadow logs: add custom events for contracts to offchain shadow fork, access via RPC
- Foundry Go differential fuzzing template to compare Solidity & Go implementations
- Wagmi-permit: sign ERC2612/DAI permits with viem/wagmi
- Guide to web3.py typed data message signing
- EF Python team: Ethereum Python user survey
- OpenZeppelin access manager explorer for contract permissions
- Protolambda’s Grug wallet design
Security
- OpenZeppelin: contracts integrating both Multicall & ERC2771 vulnerable to address spoofing
- Thirdweb vulnerability, impacted pre-built contract deployers need to mitigate
Ecosystem
- Blocknative Ethernow transaction explorer (including live transaction pool), desktop only
- Parsec block explorer, supports mainnet & L2s, transaction heat map and custom layouts for address types
- MEV searching strategy: blind arbs on private orderflow
- EF run a node grantees: 35 recipients from 23 countries
- Optimism’s RetroPGF3 voting ended, 502 projects qualified for share of 30M OP
Enterprise
- Societe Generale issued EUR 10M green bond onchain
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 21.4 to 144.2 gwei, with 45.2 gwei average
- Zero net issuance currently at 21.8 gwei
- 17.6k ETH net burn this week
- ETHUSD: $2,086 – $2,385, currently $2,361
- ETHBTC: currently 0.053 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- Safe RecoveryHub: set multisig recoverer(s), recovery attempt can be canceled within review window
- Coinbase Wallet links: send USDC via a shareable link, returned if not claimed within 2 weeks
- Matcha cross chain swaps live on mainnet, L2s & sidechains
- Proof of P2P: soulbound NFT, zk proof of unique human with P2P account, requires Venmo
- Optimism We the Art (NFT creator contest) extended to January 8
Job Listings
- Enya Labs: Lead Security Engineer, Sr. Fullstack Dev (with Go exp), BizDev
- Senior Operations Security Expert wanted by EF
- ZK circuits engineer sought by EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team
Job listings: $600 for four issues (75 character limit). Pay using 3cities. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Regulation/business/tokens
- Russian owner of Bitzlato exchange pleaded guilty to unlicensed money transmitting [back in January US DoJ pre-announced enforcement action]
- Platypus hackers acquitted by Paris court, as deemed smart contract interaction
General
- Governments obtained push notification metadata from Apple (subpoena) & Google (court order)
- Security self audit: Telegram and Google account
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- 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
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- Mar 21-24 – ETHTaipei conference & hackathon
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- Apr 5-26 – ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum (virtual)
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- May 24-26 – ETHBerlin
- Jul 8-11 – EthCC (Brussels)
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- Nov – ETHGlobal DevCon
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