Week in Ethereum News August 10, 2024
Eth News and Links
All core devs
Pectra (Prague + Electra) upgrade, likely targeting Q1 2025
- consensus-specs v1.5.0-alpha.4: fixes off-by-one in MaxEB consolidation processing
- PeerDAS:
Centralization watch: threatening the value of your ETH
Layer 1
- Flashbots: TEE-Boost, proposal for validators to accept TEE proofs directly from block builders, reduce & eventually remove relays in MEV-Boost
Research
- BRAID: multi-proposers by running multiple consensus processes in parallel, early stage
Client Releases
- Consensus layer:
- Lighthouse v5.3.0: faster beacon node startup, improved block proposal reliability, improved validator client broadcast and gossipsub IDONTWANT support
- Lodestar v1.21.0: docker image changed to debian, adds execution layer client info to graffiti and performance improvements via napi-rs BLST bindings
- Teku v24.8.0: updated metrics, requires Java 21+
- Execution layer:
- Erigon v3.0.0-alpha2: adds OtterSync fast sync by downloading state via BitTorrent, improves chain tip performance and reduces disk footprint
- Reth v1.0.4: RPC fixes and resolves IO deadlock edge case during sync
Layer 2
EIPs/Standards
- ERCs (application layer):
Stuff for developers
- Solhint v5.0.3: adds imports-order rule to sort Solidity imports topologically & alphabetically
- Viem experimental adds EIP7702 (set EOA account code) support
- Rindexer (EVM indexing): adds streaming data & chatbot support
- Rainbow wallet extension impersonation mode
- Tbl: CLI to read/edit Parquet files
Security
- Ronin bridge $12M exploit via uninitialized parameter after upgrade, MEV bots front ran, funds have been returned, $500k bounty
Job Listings
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Onchain stats
- Fees (via ultrasound.money):
- Gas: 0.8 to 701.7 gwei, 10.3 gwei average; zero net issuance at 23.9 gwei
- 10k ETH net issuance this week
- ETHUSD: $2,197 – $3,004, currently $2,601, all time high $4,878
- ETHBTC: currently 0.043 (Flippening at ~0.164)
Notable at app layer
Regulation/business/tokens
General (Defcon edition)
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