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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:
- Testnet upgrade dates: Goerli Jan 17 (epoch 231680), then assuming no issues, single client releases for Sepolia Jan 30 (epoch 132608) & Holešky Feb 7 (epoch 29696)
- Goerli shadow fork 1 analysis: 290 nodes across 4 continents with all clients except Erigon; blobs increased network usage by ~200kbps & block latency by ~300ms
- Precompile address ranges: upper half of range reserved for L2s
- Prague/Electra planning: discussed potential small upgrade then Verkle-only upgrade
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- Lido at 31.67% 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
- EIP3074 (AUTH & AUTHCALL) nonce proposal to allow revocation
- Verkle implementers call notes
- evmone v0.11.0: full Cancun support
- Blocknative transaction pool data archive, > 8TB of data, since November 2019
MEV
- PBS Foundation pilot grants: infrastructure, research, data transparency & community education
- bloXroute MEV-Boost relays rejecting blocks with OFAC transactions
- MEV-Boost community call notes
For Stakers
- L1 & L2 (Base) node on $189 ARM64 board, proof of concept
Client releases
- Consensus layer:
- Execution layer
Research
- Timing games: impact of intentional vs unintentional delays, validators needing longer signature times (e.g. DVT) won’t be able to play timing games as efficiently
Layer 2
- Arbitrum One Sequencer downtime & L1 gas pricing issue post-mortem
- L2Beat’s risk analysis exit window: available time to exit L2 before an upgrade is executed
- Gelato rollup deployment platform: choose OP Stack or Polygon CDK
- Once an OG “ETH killer”: Lisk plans migration to OP Stack rollup
- Manta Pacific stops publishing calldata to Ethereum; sidechain DA but done with minimal security
- 20% of mainnet gas is now used for L2 data
Stuff for developers
- Hardhat v2.19.3: Solidity v0.8.23 support
- Tip: Solidity v0.8.13-21 via-IR code generator can result in different but equivalent bytecode when using dependencies via symlinks, causing verification issues, fixed in v0.8.22
- CreateX: contract deployer using CREATE/2/3, factory live on mainnet & L2s
- Vyper LSP (Language Server Protocol): errors/warnings, auto-complete, code navigation & hover-over info
- Ape v0.7.0: test account key pairs same HD path as Anvil/Hardhat and upgraded to Pydantic v2
- Guide to decoding raw EVM calldata
- Curta Golf: gas optimization competition, Par NFT for valid entry, King NFT for most optimized
- Secureum
- RACE #24: 12 question Solidity quiz & answers
- RACE #0: Solidity quiz explainers [videos]
- Stealth address (ERC5564) library implemented in Zig
- Quint: specification language based on TLA
- Kumavis: LavaMoat (JavaScript supply chain security) and the Ledger supply chain attack
Security
- NFT exploits:
- NFT Trader (p2p trading) exploit via reentrancy of older contracts, some NFTs recovered
- Flooring protocol (fractionalize NFTs) exploit via external multicall
- Audit Wizard adds support to create/run Foundry tests for Proof of Concepts
Ecosystem
- EF Q3 grantees share $9M in funding
- Etherscan refresh NFT image & metadata
- Inscriptions explainer: tokens stored in low cost calldata with offchain indexers
- Hildobby: inscriptions dashboard, 90% of Goerli testnet gas this week
Enterprise
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 20.1 to 289.8 gwei, with 47.7 gwei average
- Zero net issuance currently at 21.9 gwei
- 19k ETH net burn this week
- ETHUSD: $2,131 – $2,342, currently $2,314
- ETHBTC: currently 0.053 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- Sablier Airstreams: vesting airdrops via token streams, supports up to 50k recipients
- 3cities pay pages: payment to an address or ENS using mainnet & L2s
- Protocol rewards: Mirror & Sound split fixed fees between creator, referrer & protocol
- Coordinape CoLinks (Friend Tech fork) live on Optimism, professional social network
Job Listings
- 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
- $78M raised for Fairshake super PAC in Q4 to support pro-crypto leaders in 2024 US elections
- Congress of Mexico approves decentralized justice as alternative dispute resolution mechanism
General
- Rekt: return of ape season
- Ledger replacing blind signing by June 2024 with Clear Signing (centralized registry)
- Fake Calendly site asks to connect Twitter for account takeover
- Privacy & Scaling Explorations: applied Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)
- Trail of Bits: Forbidden attack on AES-GCM in secure enclaves to extract ECDSA private key
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Jan 15 – EF’s Next Billion fellowship cohort 4 deadline
- Jan 17 – Goerli testnet Dencun upgrade epoch 231680
- Jan 30 – Sepolia testnet Dencun upgrade epoch 132608 (assuming no issues)
- Feb 2-4 – ETH Cinco de Mayo hackathon (Cholula, Puebla)
- Feb 3 – Ethereum Lima Day
- Feb 7 – Holešky testnet Dencun upgrade epoch 29696 (assuming no issues)
- Feb 23-Mar 3 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek & hackathon
- Mar 13-14 – ETHLatam (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
- Mar 15-17 – ETHGlobal London
- Mar 19-21 – ETH Canal (Panama City, Panamá) conference & hackathon
- Mar 21-24 – ETHTaipei conference & hackathon
- Mar 27-30 – ETH Bucharest conference & hackathon
- Mar 29-31 – ETH Seoul
- 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
- May 31-Jun 2 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
- 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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