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Electra upgrade scope not finalized yet, Devcon ticket dates and Curve liquidations
All core devs
- All core devs – consensus (ACDC) #135:
- Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade:
- pectra-devnet-1: consensus layer client teams expect to be ready in 1-2 weeks and agreed to append committee bits field to end of attestation
- EIP7594 PeerDAS: building on top of Deneb upgrade for now rather than Electra, aim for peerdas-devnet-1 in 2 weeks
- Blob count increase: discussion on increase with/without PeerDAS or PeerDAS without an increase, needs analysis on devnets and proposal to uncouple blob count from execution layer
- SSZ: EIP7688 change to SSZ StableContainer: devnet planned before next ACDC to help decide whether or not to include in Pectra
- Naming F-starname upgrade discussion for upgrade after Electra
- Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade:
Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade, likely targeting Q1 2025
- Consensus-specs v1.5.0-alpha.3: specs for pectra-devnet-1
- PeerDAS breakout #1: client implementation progress, proposal to move max blobs to config & uncouple blob count from execution layer, keep activation logic same for devnet-1 and bandwidth concerns for home stakers
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
- Lido at 28.75%, still too close to 33.3% threshold
- Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
- Execution layer: Geth ~55% majority
- Consensus layer: Prysm 38%
- Any client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finality
- Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe
Layer 1
- Toni Wahrstätter: MEV-Boost users are reorged less & can better handle 6 blob blocks compared with non MEV-Boost users but they include less blobs as not incentivized
- Parithosh: proposal to use torrents for distributing pre-merge data (EIP4444 history expiry)
- Vitalik: inclusion list proposal using one-bit-per-attester
- Potuz: preconfirmation designs compatibility with proposed ePBS
Client Releases
- Consensus layer:
- Lighthouse v5.2.0: adds in-memory tree-states, optimized epoch & block processing and execution client version in graffiti
- Execution layer:
- Besu v24.6.0: Java v21 now minimum version and historic trie log data removed by default
For Stakers
- Reth + Prysm archive node on $189 NanoPC-T6 board using ~10w
- Lighthouse attestation simulator: Prometheus metrics for use with Grafana to track Beacon Node performance; suggests running in APAC impacts performance
Layer 2
- OP Stack fault proofs live on OP mainnet, now a stage 1 L2 (limited training wheels)
- RIP7212 secp256r1 precompile deployment status on L2s
- ZKsync airdrop, GitHub users need to associate an address
- Based preconfs live on devnet
EIPs/Standards
- EIPs (Ethereum improvement proposals):
- Meta EIP7723: Network upgrade inclusion stages
- RIPs (rollup improvement proposals):
- RIP7724 (clone of EIP7667 for zk rollups): Raise gas costs of hash functions
- ERCs (application layer standards):
Stuff for developers
- Foundry show-progress flag: live progress of fuzz & invariant tests
- Remix v0.50: QuickDapp plugin to create basic front end for contracts
- Quantifying code complexity: CK, Martin & Halstead metrics using Slither printers
- Guide to create a simple Solidity linter using Slang (Nomic Foundation’s compiler APIs)
- RareSkills: ERC7201 namespaced storage layout explainer
- Scaffold-ETH-Svelte: Scaffold-ETH v2 port to Svelte
- EF JavaScript team roadmap
- Data Always PBS snapshot (Python script): create MEV data snapshots
Security
- UwU (Aave v2 fork) $23M exploit via oracle manipulation
- A further $3.7M stolen after unpausing protocol
- Loopring smart wallet exploit via compromised 2FA service for wallets with only the Loopring guardian
Ecosystem
- Devcon tickets & tracks:
- Ticket raffle/auction starts June 18, discount applications open July 9 & general admission waves start July 16
- Speaker applications open July 9
- Clr.fund Southeast Asian Ethereum communities quadratic funding round
Job Listings
- ChainSafe: Head of Protocol Engineering, DevRel – Sygma and more jobs
- Alchemy – Wallet Services: Engineering Manager and Full-Stack Engineer
- Gnosis is hiring: Discord Moderator and Senior Web3 Software Dev (Wallet)
- IMC: Quant Developer for DeFi and MEV focused team
- Privacy and Scaling Explorations: ZK Circuits Engineer
- Nethermind: Preconfirmations Senior Engineer, Protocol Researcher, Site Reliability Engineer, Research Engineer – Starknet & Senior Marketing Manager
Job listings: $600 for 4 issues (75 char limit). Pay using 3cities. Questions? abcoathup at-gmail
Onchain stats
- Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 2.4 to 104.0 gwei, with 10.7 gwei average
- Zero net issuance currently at 23.5 gwei
- 9.7k ETH net issuance this week
- ETHUSD: $3,367 – $3,713, currently $3,480, all time high $4,878
- ETHBTC: currently 0.053 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
- Curve co-founder Michael Egorov liquidated, triggered by UwU exploit, causing ~$10M of bad debt which he has already repaid
- 100x (perps) live on Blast, up to 20x leverage on ETH & BTC, with Blast gold for orderbook liquidity [Starbloom portfolio]
- Uniswap Labs acquired Crypto: The Game (onchain Survivor)
Regulation/business/tokens
- SEC Chair Gensler “envision[s]” spot ETH ETFs S-1s to be approved over US summer but dodges question of whether ETH is a commodity
- Alex Pertsev attempting to be released while he appeals
General
- Privacy and Scaling Explorations trusted setup ceremonies via a browser:
- Anon Aadhaar v2
- Semaphore V4 phase 2
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Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
- Jun 21 – EF EIP4844 data challenge extended deadline
- Jun 21-23 – ETHKyiv hackathon & conference
- Jul 7 – Devcon scholars program deadline
- Jul 8-11 – EthCC (Brussels) conference
- Jul 12-14 – ETHGlobal Brussels hackathon
- Jul 29-30 – EDCON Tokyo conference
- Aug 2-4 – Ethereum Argentina conference & hackathon
- Aug 7-9 – Science of Blockchain Conference (New York)
- Aug 15-17 – Ethereum Uruguay hackathon & conference
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- Oct 4-6 – ETHRome hackathon
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- Nov 12-15 – Devcon 7 – Southeast Asia (Bangkok)
- Nov 15-17 – ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon
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