Week in Ethereum News -The Latest Ethereum News and Upcoming Events This Week
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Dencun (Cancun + Deneb) upgrade (meta {17070205137176})
Latest all core devs – ution (ACDE) call video. Recap by Tim Beiko. Notes from Tim Beiko and Christine Kim:
Mainnet: Dencun upgrade date to be set on ACDC next week; assumes no issues with Holešky testnet upgrade, Goerli blob expiry & churn limit testing and Devnet 12 blob spamming
Sepolia testnet: uneventfully upgraded to Dencun, blobs are flowing
Prague upgrade: Discussions on including EOF or EIP4444 (bound historical data) and how Portal network could distribute historical data; scope to be finalized on ACDE in two weeks
Osaka upgrade: Verkle agreed as core feature; Verkle overview & current status: ~2 weeks to build Verkle tree prior to upgrade & ution 10% slower
Osaka upgrade (meta {1707020609725595})
Kaustinen testnet (Verkle) rebooted with new features & fixes
Verkle implementers call video & notes
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
🚨 Lido at 31.82% is far too close to 33.3% threshold
Client diversity (via clientdiversity.org):
ution layer: Geth 78% supermajority, could cause a chain split
Consensus layer: Prysm 39%, any client bug over 33.3% could mean loss of finality
Research starting for validators to provide client info privately
Better geographic diversity is optimal, particularly outside of North America & Europe
Research
Unconditional inclusion lists (for censorship resistance): transactions are included in a first or second slot, otherwise they are unconditionally added in order to the bottom of the second slot
Client releases
Consensus layer:
Lodestar v1.15.0: fixes for Deneb upgrade, js-libp2p updated to v1 and minor fixes for UX & performance improvements
Nimbus v24.2.0: stability improvements for Deneb
Prysm v4.2.1: older CPUs without AVX support will have failures on testnets
ution layer:
Erigon v2.57.2: fix for RpcDaemon seeing recently retired blocks
Layer 2
Arbitrum One ArbOS v11 live, adds Shanghai support (including PUSH0)
Optimism bicameral governance for upgrades, citizens house can veto [Andrew is a badgeholder]
RollCall (L2 standards) fee markets breakout call and notes; repricing EVM operations, L1 passthrough fees & potential multi-dimensional pricing
EIPs/Standards
EIPs:
EIP7605: Homogeneous validator penalty
Meta EIP7607: Hardfork Meta - Osaka
EIP7609: Decrease TLOAD/TSTORE pricing
EIP7610: Revert creation in case of non-empty storage
ERCs (application layer):
ERC7604: ERC1155 permit approvals
ERC7606: Transaction risk monitoring
ERC7611: Sovereign bridged NFTs
Stuff for developers
Remix v0.42: Solidity v0.8.24 now default and GPT help for Circom compiler errors
GasliteVest: continuous linear token vesting base contract
Soledge (Solidity): convert numbers to strings, transient storage helper & reentrancy guard
ERC4626 Vault exchange rate manipulation & mitigations
Natspec smells: identify missing or incomplete natspec
Brownie v1.20.0 (Python): no longer actively maintained
Napalm: productivity framework for custom Solidity vulnerability detectors
Farcaster Frames: mini apps in posts using an image & buttons to trigger callbacks
Frame verifier (Solidity): encode/verify MessageData structs containing Frame actions
OnchainKit FrameKit (Type): get Frame HTML, message and metadata
mesc v0.2: configure & manage RPC endpoints
Secureum RACE miota 价格
Security
ERC1271 (signature validation for contracts) replay disclosure, possible when the signed digest doesn’t include the smart account address
Abracadabra’s Magic Internet Money $6.5M exploit via rounding error
Enterprise
Karen Scarbrough is the new interim utive Director of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Job Listings
MetaMask Staking: Staff Software Engineer and Software Engineer
Sourcify seek a Type Developer
ZK circuits engineer sought by EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations team
EF seek an utive Assistant to support senior decision makers
Nethermind: Distributed Engineer, Lead Engineer, Protocol Researcher
Onchain stats
Gas fees (via ultrasound.money): 6.4 to 152.8 gwei, with 19.7 gwei average
Zero net issuance currently at 22.0 gwei
1.8k ETH net issuance this week
ETHUSD: $2,243 - $2,380, currently $2,307
ETHBTC: currently 0.053 (Flippening at ~0.16)
Notable at app layer
ENS gasless DNSSEC live, configure DNS names that support DNSSEC to work with ENS
Chipped: NFC press-on nails, create offchain friends list using Disco secured by your private key, pre-order
Superstate short duration US government securities fund (USTB), US qualified purchasers only
Horswap: Uniswap frontend without censorship or interface fees
Regulation/business/tokens
Proposal for combating illicit finance in DeFi
US SEC Commissioner Peirce gag rule dissent
US DoJ & SEC charges for HyperFund $1.9B fraud scheme
General
Vitalik: crypto + AI and turning 30
ETH recovered from Ledger Nano S (Firmware v1.2) with no seed phrase
Cloudflare November security incident, via a token & credentials from Okta compromise that hadn’t been rotated
Upcoming Dates of Note
(new/changes in bold)
Feb 7 – Holešky testnet Dencun upgrade epoch 29696 (assuming no issues)
Feb 23-Mar 3 – ETHDenver BUIDLWeek & hackathon
Mar 13-14 – SwissBorg (San Pedro Sula, Honduras)
Mar 15-17 – Pragma & ETHGlobal LondonMar 19-21 – ETH Canal (Panama City, Panamá)
Mar 21-24 – ETHTaipei conference & hackathon
Mar 22-24 – ETHSamba (Rio)
Mar 27-30 – ETH Bucharest hackathon & conference
Mar 29-31 – ETH Seoul
Apr 5-26 – ETHGlobal Scaling Ethereum (virtual)
Apr 5-7 – EthereumZuri.ch conference & hackathon
Apr 12-14 – ETHDam (Amsterdam) conference & hackathon
May 3-5 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Sydney
May 21-23 – DappCon (Berlin)
May 24-26 – ETHBerlin
May 31-Jun 2 – ETHDublin hackathon & conference
May 31-Jun 2 – ETHPrague conference & hackathon
Jun 3-5 – ETH Belgrade conference
Jul 8-11 – EthCC (Brussels)
Jul 11-14 – Pragma & ETHGlobal Brussels
Jul 26-30 – EDCON Tokyo conference
Aug 23-Sep 13 – ETHGlobal ETHOnline (virtual)
Sep 20-22 – ETHGlobal Singapore
Oct 18-20 – how to buy Aleph Zero & ETHGlobal San Francisco
Nov 12-15 – Devcon 7 - Southeast Asia (Bangkok)
Nov 15-17 – ETHGlobal Bangkok hackathon
