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Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade (meta EIP7569)
- Mainnet upgrades to Dencun March 13, epoch 269568, update your nodes
- MEV-Boost v1.7: Dencun support
- EF mainnet Dencun upgrade announcement
- Devnet 12 will be deprecated after mainnet upgrades
- Reminder: Goerli testnet deprecated, client & EF testing teams will start exiting validators April 17 (3 months after Goerli was upgraded)
- Blobs:
- EF EIP4844 data challenge: write a blob data analysis/viz post by June 14, up to $30k in prizes
- Blob usage estimates: 4x growth before blob gas price is greater than 1 gwei
Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade (meta EIP7600)
- Future EOA &Account Abstraction breakout call video.Β Recap by Tim Beiko and notes by Dom:
- Align short term EOA improvements with an agreed account abstraction end gameΒ
- Latest all core devs β execution (ACDE) call video. Recap & notes from Christine Kim:
- Retroactive EIP proposals: EIP7610 (revert contract creation for non-empty storage) no expected issues with Verkle
- Pectra upgrade (small fork targeting late 2024)
- Continued discussion from future EOA breakout on possible improvements in Pectra
- Potential EIP discussions (but no decisions on what to include):
- EIP7623 (increase calldata cost)
- EIP5920 (PAY opcode)
- EIP7609 (transient storage pricing)
- EIP7639 (stop serving pre-merge history)
- EIP7642 (drop pre-merge fields)
- Block confirmation rule engine API & JSON RPC changes
Osaka upgrade (meta EIP7607)
- Verkle implementers call video & notes
Client Releases
- Consensus layer:
- Nimbus v24.2.2: hotfix for consensus violation issue on Deneb upgraded networks
- Execution layer:
- Geth v1.13.14: blob pool improvements & blob pool capacity reduced from 10GB to 2.5GB
- Reth v0.1.0-alpha.21: fixes live sync critical bug
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- Lido at 31.26% is far too close to 33.3% threshold
- Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
- Execution layer: Geth 72% supermajority, could cause a chain split
- Updated assumptions: unknown validators 100% Geth & unaccounted validators 80% Geth
- Kiln migrated to 50.1% Nethermind
- Coinbase migrating to 50% Nethermind & plans Erigon support
- Consensus layer: Prysm 37%, any client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finality
- Execution layer: Geth 72% supermajority, could cause a chain split
- Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe
Layer 1
- Marius Van Der Wijden: optional inclusion lists
ePBS (enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation)
- Side benefits of ePBS: improved pipelining, enhanced incentives for blob inclusion, market & mechanism flexibility and inclusion list flexibility
- Barnabe: allocate proposing rights rather than building rights
MEV
- MEV research chatbot, requires GitHub or Google login
Research
- Committee-enforced inclusion sets (COMIS) for censorship resistance
Layer 2
- Blast (optimistic rollup) live
- Based sequencing:
- Sequencing & pre confirmations call video and notes: presentations on risks & concerns
- RollCall (L2 standards) based sequencing breakout call video
- Specification for a minimal key store rollup
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs:
- ERCs (application layer):
Stuff for developers
- Remix v0.44: save deployed contracts and adds Sindri integration (compute zk proofs remotely)
- Foundry:
- Isolated mode for gas measurement
- Base64 library (Solidity):
- Vyper:
- Vyper v0.4.0b1: import system overhauled, reusable Vyper modules and experimental venom IR
- Guide to get started with Vyper modules
- BALLS: DSL/Huff-preprocessor in Rust to generate optimized assembly
- EVM from scratch: guide to create a mini EVM, work in progress
- Slither v0.10.1: Solidity v0.8.24 & top level event support, new detector: Arbitrum out of order retryable tickets and limit results with include-paths option
- Guide to using Napalm to manage custom detection modules
- OpenZeppelin Defender v2 general availability
- EIP4844 blob dev usage guide, how to send blob transactions and query blobs
- Mopro-cli: build & test Circom circuits from Rust, MVP
- MACI v1.2: supports non-quadratic voting polls and adds EAS gatekeeper
- Contribute to MACI v1.2 trusted setup ceremony by March 5
Security
- Tornado Cash deposits using IPFS gateways likely have notes exposed & deposit is at risk, warning blog post may also be a trap
- Seneca $6.4M exploit on mainnet & Arbitrum via arbitrary call, revoke any approvals, 80% of funds returned
- SoK: security vulnerabilities in SNARKs, analysis of 141 implementation vulnerabilities
Ecosystem
- Blocknative Ethernow: adds live dashboard of transactions & base fee
Enterprise
- HackMD adds Sign-in with Ethereum
Job Listings
- TechOps are looking for DevOps. Work on projects such as MakerDAO.
- ChainSafe seek a Head of Protocol Engineering
- Nethermind: Distributed Systems Dev Lead & Cryptography Researcher
- Sr. Developer Relations Manager & Technical Writer at Powerloom
- Solidity: C++ Software Engineer and Programming Language Researcher
- Devcon: Community Supporter, Production Assistant & Volunteer Coordinator
Job listings: $600 for 4 issues (75 char limit).Β Pay using 3cities.Β Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 16.5 to 305.8 gwei, with 46.2 gwei average
- Zero net issuance currently at 22.8 gweiΒ
- 17.8k ETH net burn this week
- ETHUSD: $2,908 β $3,512, currently $3,453
- ETHBTC: currently 0.055 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- Ondo global markets: tokens represent rights to securities held by broker-dealers
- Astaria Intents (intent-based lending) live on Base
- Arbitrum Arcade: 8 week promotion to try games on Arbitrum, starts March 11
Regulation/business/tokens
- Gemini plan to return Earn users assets subject to bankruptcy approval & $37M fine to NY DFS
- Fidelity All-in-One ETFs include 1-3% crypto allocation
- Optimism RetroPGF3 learnings & reflections
General
- US Whitehouse: use memory safe programming languages
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Mar 4 β EF academic grants round application deadline
- Mar 9 β ETH Salvador
- Mar 13 β mainnet Dencun upgrade epoch 269568, (watch party)
- Mar 13-14 β ETHLatam (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
- Mar 15-17 β ETHGlobal London hackathon
- Mar 18 β ZK grants round application deadline
- Mar 19-21 β ETH Canal (Panama City, PanamΓ‘) conference & hackathon
- Mar 21-24 β ETHTaipei conference & hackathon
- Mar 22-24 β ETHSamba (Rio)
- Mar 27-30 β ETH Bucharest conference & hackathon
- Mar 29-31 β ETH Seoul hackathon
- Apr 5-26 β ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum virtual hackathon
- Apr 5-7 β EthereumZuri.ch conference
- Apr 12-14 β ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
- Apr 16-18 β EY Global blockchain summit (London)
- Apr 26-28 β ETHBoston conference & hackathon
- May 3-5 β ETHGlobal Sydney hackathon
- May 21-23 β DappCon (Berlin)
- May 24-26 β ETHBerlin hackathon
- May 31-Jun 2 β ETHDublin hackathon & conference
- May 31-Jun 2 β ETHPrague conference & hackathon
- Jun 3-5 β ETH Belgrade conference & hackathon
- Jun 14 β EF EIP4844 data challenge deadline
- Jul 8-11 β EthCC (Brussels) conference
- Jul 12-14 β ETHGlobal Brussels hackathon
- Jul 26-30 β EDCON Tokyo conferenceΒ
- Aug 23-Sep 13 β ETHGlobal ETHOnline virtual hackathon
- Sep 12-14 β NapulETH (Napoli)
- Sep 20-22 β ETHGlobal Singapore hackathon
- Oct 6-8 β ETHRome
- Oct 18-20 β ETHGlobal San Francisco hackathon
- Nov 12-15 β Devcon 7 β Southeast Asia (Bangkok)
- Nov 15-17 β ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon
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