DeFi Dev News 4/8-4/14 : Mode Launches 10M USD Yield Accelerator, a16z Launches zkVM Jolt, Analysis on Correlated Attestation Penalties

Grants & Accelerators

• Mode announces Mode Yield Accelerator, a $10 million fund for yield and DeFi projects on Mode ecosystem.

Research 🧑‍🔬

• Toni Wahrstätter publishes an analysis report on “Correlated Attestation Penalties” – originally proposed by Vitalik.
• Mirror published: “Zero-Knowledge Proof Vulnerability Analysis and Security Auditing”.
• Blockworks Research published "The Avalanche Ecosystem: An Analysis of Subnet Adoption".
• 0xNimrod publishes a research paper on "eoracle", an Ethereum oracle aimed at solving the oracle problem by providing a trustless and secure way for blockchains to interact with real-world data.

Tooling 🛠

Ethereum

• StErMi launches Smart Contract Inspect, a chrome extension allowing users to inspect source code of smart contract with Web IDE.
• ethPandasOps launches Tracoor, an Ethereum beacon data and execution trace explorer.

L2s

• Harpreet Singh launches Arbitrum Starter Kit, providing developers a basic foundation for building dApps on the Arbitrum network.
• Nimble Network, a decentralized AI framework, has deployed on Arbitrum One. Developers on Arbitrum can access inferences and predictions provided by AI models hosted on Nimble.

Education/Mechanism 🧑‍🏫

• chrisdior.eth shares an article for Solidity developers to write clean Solidity code with best practices and style guides.
• Jeff Security shares EVM learning resources categorized by level of expertise.
• bytes032.xyz shares a curated github repo of oracle manipulation resources.
• Marc Garreau publishes an article on how to send blob transactions in Python.
• zkSync Developers partners with WTF Academy to launch WTF zkSync course aimed at onboarding web2 developers to zkSync.
• 0xNazgul shares a curated github repo of blockchain security resources for various categories in blockchain.
• Mr Anon shares a curated github repo of resources to learn Solidity and smart contract auditing.
• QuickNode publishes a guide on how to mint NFT using Metaplex Core and the Umi JavaScript library. Metaplex Core is a new lightweight NFT standard on Solana.
• 0xCygaar shares the high-level overview of EIP-3074, an EIP just approved to go live in the next Ethereum hard fork.
• Shieldify explains the workflow of Optimistic Roll Ups.

Infrastructure 🏗

L2s

• HashKey announces the upcoming launch of HashKey Chain, which is an Ethereum L2 driven by ZK-proof technology.
• a16z Crypto releases Jolt, a zkVM aimed at accelerating and streamlining blockchain scaling operations.
• EigenLayer introduces 6 actively validated services (AVSs) launching on EigenLayer mainnet: AltLayer, Brevis, Xterio, etc.

Solana

• Anza launches Solana Testnet v1.18.11 aimed at fixing Solana congestion issue.

Avalanche

• Avalanche Durango.4 is out featuring P-chain block cleanup, MerkleDB memory optimization and interval trees bootstrapping.

Sui

• Sui Network announces Mysticeti, a Byzantine consensus protocol built for Sui aimed at enabling lower latency to support higher TPS.

Bug Bounties 🐞

• BitFlow, a decentralized exchange, launches a bug bounty program on Immunefi with bounties up to 100,000 USDC.
• Alchemix, a self repaying loans protocol, launches an audit contest on Sherlock with total rewards of 16,500 USDC.
• xKeeper, a keeper network aggregator, launches an audit contest on Sherlock with total rewards of 17,000 USDC.
• Exactly Protocol, a self-custodial lending protocol, launches an audit contest on Sherlock with total rewards of 69,000 USDC.

Product Launches 🚀

• Nomic launched stBTC on testnet. stBTC is a Bitcoin liquid staking token powered by the Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon. Nomic will implement Babylon’s Bitcoin staking solution to make Nomic dual-secured by staked NOM and BTC via Babylon.
• Layer N, a new type of layer 2 that operates as an execution layer for rollups, launched Public Testnet Phase I. At this phase Layer N allows developers and users to experiment with NordVM, an app-specific rollup optimized for asset exchanges.
• EigenLayer and its data availability layer EigenDA launched on the Ethereum mainnet, enabling new functionality for restakers, operators, AVSs, and rollups.
• Fantom announced the launch of Fantom's canonical stablecoin, USDC.e, supported by Circle and Wormhole. It will be the official, endorsed stablecoin of the Fantom ecosystem (and all future network upgrades).
• UniswapX is live on the Uniswap web app interface. UniswapX offers better prices by aggregating liquidity sources, with gas-free swaps and MEV protection.

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