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Week in Ethereum News, April 2, 2022 - thanks to SpeedRunEthereum for making this issue possible!

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Mainnet execution layer

  • Latest core devs call video. Notes from Tim Beiko & Christine Kim:

    • shadow fork merge testing finds RAM & timeout issues 

    • difficulty bomb will need to be delayed if public testnet upgrades to PoS are not started by late April

    • Shanghai upgrade planning: append withdrawals in block headers, discussed if EIP1153 (transient storage opcodes) should be included

    • Goerli supply inflation discussion

  • Besu v22.1.3: bonsai tries (“super pruning”) no longer experimental, enables faster read & improved storage performance

  • Geth v1.10.17: prep for merge and upcoming state layout change

  • Erigon v2022.03.02: MDBX upgrade, subscribe to events via websockets

  • Erigon v2 video of plans to solve snapshot sync & granularity of history

  • Analysis of selfdestruct usage after London upgrade

  • Verkle tree explainer for app devs to understand the gas cost changes

Proof of Stake consensus layer

PoW switch off (the merge)

  • Reminder of what to expect from the merge, fees go to block proposers, withdrawals in Shanghai, 12s block times, no fee reduction, stakers need to run EL client, transition trigger is TTD and don’t need ETH to run a node

  • Details of how withdrawals spec has evolved: push-style withdrawals, managed by the consensus layer, processed by the execution layer

  • Alchemy’s Kiln testnet faucet

EIPs/Standards

Layer2

  • Optimism calldata compression: how to decompress Layer 2 transactions

  • Rollup centric future rather than cross-chain as bridges are single point of failure and introduce contagion risk for the destination chain


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Stuff for developers

Security

  • Ronin bridge $600 million exploit, 5 of 9 keys compromised, reportedly via social engineering, not discovered for 6 days; Kelvin’s explainer

  • Revest Protocol ~$2 million exploit, reentrancy on ERC1155 minting, protocol soft locked, pause on transfers saved further loss of $1 million

  • GearBox protocol vulnerability disclosed, path parsers gave different results, ~$10 million was at risk, fixed, $150k bounty paid

  • Rari Capital: Fuse pool vulnerability disclosed, cross-asset reentrancy allowed assets to be borrowed for free, pools fixed via upgrade

  • Guide to security incident war rooms: document, test, improve, repeat

Ecosystem

Enterprise

Application layer


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Regulation/business/tokens

  • Coinbase users in Canada, Singapore and Japan will need to provide recipient info when required by regulations

  • EU committees voted to extend AML requirements to crypto, includes unhosted wallets & remove EUR 1000 floor, not final legislative stage

  • US derivatives exchange CME Group adds options on Micro Ether futures

  • Arthur Hayes: $10k prediction for ETH; switches to 75% ETH/25% BTC

General


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