Week in Ethereum News, August 20, 2022 - sponsored by SpeedRunEthereum

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Eth News and Links

PoW switch off (the Merge)

• Mainnet Merge TTD: 58750000000000000000000 confirmed

• TTD estimator predicts merge around September 15

• Merge mainnet readiness checklist is complete

• mainnet-shadow-fork-11 merged successfully, nicest shadow fork so far

• Flashbots MEV-boost relay open sourced, AGPL license, alpha, OFAC compliant

• MEV redistribution [PDF] improves PoS economic security

• Proposal to remove trusted relays in MEV-boost using threshold encryption

Execution layer

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

  • MEV-boost relay discussion: transactions will be included as long as some validators don’t censor

  • Ethereum censorship resistance discussion: defense is user activated fork

  • Sepolia testnet post-merge upgrade now expected August 21

  • Kiln testnet to be shutdown September 6

  • Merge EIPs moved to last call: EIP3675 (upgrade to PoS) & EIP4399 (PREVRANDAO)

• Erigon v2022.08.02-alpha: mainnet Merge TTD & fixes

• EIP4844 (proto-danksharding) call video and notes: upcoming public devnet, fee market design, sync architecture and KZG ceremony

• KZG ceremony call video: audit started, contributing users will be included in final transcript and UI wireframes being reviewed

• Geth team first AMA on Reddit

Proof of Stake consensus layer

• Consensus layer specs v1.2.0-rc.3: Bellatrix epoch and the Merge TTD

• Client diversity improved: Prysm 35% and Lighthouse 33%

• Dappnode multiclient support: single click to change consensus layer client

• Script to download beacon chain blocks on a fork

Layer2

• Miden VM v0.2 (zk-rollup): new VM architecture

EIPs/Standards

• EIP5298: ENS as token holder

• EIP5299: Storage scaling pattern

• EIP5334: ERC721 user and expires & level extension

• EIP5450: EOF - stack validation

• EIP5453: Contract crypto endorsement

• EIP5478: Reducing the gas cost of contract creation with existing code

• EIP5484: Consensual soulbound tokens

• EIP5485: Legitimacy, jurisdiction and sovereignty

• EIP5489: NFT hyperlink extension

• EIP5496: Multi-privilege management extension for ERC721

• EIP5501: Rental & delegation NFT - ERC721 extension

• EIP5503: Refundable token

• EIP5507: Refundable NFTs

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Stuff for developers

• Foundry verification adds Sourcify support

• Chainlink’s Huff starter kit: develop Huff contracts using Foundry

• ERC721K: dynamic on-chain SVG NFTs using data streams

• Music NFT IPFS metadata: on-chain music metadata

• Lanyard: Merkle root generator for NFT allow lists

• Seaport order validator: single RPC call for opinionated safety checks

• Deploy contracts using a burner address or OpenZeppelin Defender relay client

• Contract automation solutions compared: Gelato Ops, Keep3r Network, Chainlink Keepers and Open Zeppelin Defender

• ethers.js v5.7.0: fixes and improvements

• Etherface: signature database with source links, crawls GitHub/Etherscan/4Byte

• RainbowKit adds Sign-In with Ethereum + NextAuth.js support

• Using mutants to improve static analysis: comparing Slither with Securify & SmartCheck

• Ethernaut DAO CTF switch solution

Security

• Sherlock cross-protocol reentrancy disclosed, $250k bounty paid

• Celer’s cBridge front end DNS cache poisoning

Ecosystem

• Run DeFi front end (Aave) locally on Windows, Mac and DAppNode

• Snitchy: check an RPC endpoint for US OFAC compliance

• Wallet devs call video and notes

• Yuga Labs will only recognize NFTs on Ethereum PoS

• NFT marketplace replay protection against forks

Application layer

• Dai bridge live on Arbitrum Nova

• ENS: two million names created, one million in 3.5 months

• Nimi beta v0.2: profile page, default for eth.limo, gasless updates via IPNS

• dm3: encrypted messaging for ENS users, beta

• Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) proposed token distribution to users

• Karma Discourse plugin shows DAO reputation data of users [Disclosure: Starbloom portfolio]

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Job Listings

• ØVIX + GOGO Protocol: VP of Engineering

• Gnosis Chain looking for Head of Bridges, Head of Validators & DevRel Eng.

• Ethereum Foundation seek a generalist ecosystem developer

• Remix: frontend React/Typescript dev

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Regulation/business/tokens

• Coin Center: US OFAC overstepped authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash contract addresses, potentially violates constitutional rights to due process & free speech

• TRM Labs data used by DeFi front ends to check addresses for sanctions risk

• Reasons for financial privacy; privacy should be the default

• US Fed supervised banks have to notify the Fed before engaging in crypto related activities

• US SEC sued Dragonchain for selling an alleged unregistered security

• Canadian exchanges impose $30k annual cap on token purchases in some provinces

• US FDIC sends cease & desist letters for statements about deposit insurance

General

• CryptoStats.fyi: visualize data available from Crypto Stats

• Plonky2 (Polygon Zero's zk proving system) open-sourced

• tlock: time based encryption/decryption using a drand threshold network

• Apple fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities under active attack, out-of-bounds write in the Kernel and WebKit

• Chrome fixed zero-day vulnerability, insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents

• Signal users targeted after Twilio compromised

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Upcoming Dates of Note

(new/changes in bold)

• Aug 23 – Devcon wave 09 + 10 tickets

• Aug 27-28 – DeFi Security Summit (Stanford)

• Aug 28 – Ethereum a New Era (San Francisco)

• Aug 29-31 – Science of Blockchain Conference (Stanford)

• Sep 1-4 – ETHWarsaw (hackathon & conference)

• Sep 2-28 – ETHOnline (ETH Global)

• Sep 6 – Bellatrix upgrade (epoch: 144896)

• Sep 6-9 – MCON 2 (Denver)

• Sep 7-22 – Gitcoin Grants round 15

• Sep 9 – Merge Community Call #7

• Sep 9-11 – Ethereum SP (São Paulo)

• Sep 12-14 – DappCon (Berlin)

• Sep ~15 – the Merge (TTD: 58750000000000000000000)

• Sep 16-18 - EthBerlin

• Sep 23 - ETH HCMC summit (Ho Chi Minh)

• Sep 23-24 - ETHSantiago

• Oct 7-16 – Devcon week (Bogotá)

• Oct 7-9 – ETHBogotá (ETH Global)

• Oct 7-9 – Infinite hackathon (Bogotá)

• Oct 11-14 – Devcon 6 (Bogotá)

• Nov 4-6 – ETHSanFrancisco (ETH Global)

• Nov 18-20 – Web3 Weekend (ETH Global)

• Dec 1-4 – ETHDownUnder (Sydney)

• Dec 2-4 – ETHIndia (ETH Global)

• Mar 2-5 – ETHDenver

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