DeFi Dev News 3/18-3/23 : Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade, Superchain Dev Console, TON HackerHouse

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ethPandaOps and Trail of Bits release "Attacknet"

Hackathons & Events 🧑‍💻

Research 🧑‍🔬

  • web3skeptic published "How to purchase Ethereum GAS in advance.

Tooling 🛠

Ethereum

  • growthepie.xyz launches EIP-4844 Tracker to visualize how the launch of EIP 4844 effects transaction cost.
  • Toni Wahrstätter from Ethereum Foundation launches the Ethereum Calldata Dashboard to show live data on calldata and blob usage.

L2s

  • Optimism Collective launched the Superchain Developer Console for app developers to more easily build and scale on "The Superchain".

Solana

  • Solana Labs releases the "New web3.js - Technology Preview 2" with some changes, bug fixes, and new features based on the feedback from the first Technology Preview released on November 2023.

Education/Mechanism 🧑‍🏫

  • Chainlink launches Chainlink Developer Virtual Bootcamp starting from April 1st to 12th.
  • Juan shares the logging tips for Foundry to display any token amount in exponential form.
  • sassal.eth/acc, founder of The Daily Gwei, shares his point of view on EIP-7251 (MaxEB).
  • Austin Adams, Uniswap researcher, analyzes the price improvements for swappers on L2s and why LPing on L2s may be more profitable.

Infrastructure 🏗

Ethereum

  • The Ethereum Foundation updates the long term support for Goerli which implies an April 13, 2024 sunset date for the Goerli testnet.
  • LlamaNodes V2 is live, featuring universal MEV protection, improved infrastructure (Reth) and improved Premium RPCs & APIs.
  • ethernaut-cli is out, which is an AI agent that is given access to web3 actions through hardhat tasks.

L2s

  • Arbitrum announces that Phase 2 of ArbOS Atlas is now live and the Arbitrum One gas fees have been further reduced.
  • Roberto Bayardo, protocol lead from Base, shares a thread on
    Farcaster discussing Base fees post-4844 and path forward.

L1s

  • Canto, L1 blockchain, introduces the "Cyclone Stack" which is a parallel execution EVM built for performance and flexibility.
  • Mysten Labs introduces Pilotfish, a new groundbreaking autoscaling technology built on Sui, enables single validators to employ multiple machines.

Bitcoin

Solana

Avalanche

  • Avalanche Durango 3 is out, focusing on post-Durango cleanup, push gossip refactor (Phase 2) and BLS on local networks.

Security 👾

  • ethPandasOps and Trail of Bits releases chaos engineering tool "Attacknet" on Ethereum.
  • DrGorilla.eth attributes the root cause of ParaSwap's hack to the unrestricted access for anyone to call the Uniswap v3 callback, as the sender check is only enforced for non-nested swaps.
  • ZachXBT investigates into the French dev Jolan Lacroix who recently stole $900K from the $TICKER presale on Base.
  • 0xDjango shares the bug report of Tectonic (Cronos) reentrancy to mint tokens at 100x actual rate.

Bug Bounties 🐞

  • Axis Finance, DeFi's modular auction protocol, launches audit contest on Sherlock with total rewards of 64,000 USDC.
  • Immunefi , the bug bounty platform, launches its own arbitration boost with bounties up to 30,000 USDC.
  • Euler Finance announces the largest security competition done in history with $1,250,000 in rewards up for grabs.

Product Launches 🚀

  • f(x) Protocol launched rUSD, a stablecoin backed by LRTs. Users can mint rUSD using Ether.fi eETH and deposit rUSD into stability pools to earn LRT yield, FXN incentives, ~4x EigenLayer points, and ~2x EtherFi points.
  • Nostra launched UNO, a Starknet-native stablecoin backed by USDC. Users can buy and sell UNO for 1 USDC for a 0.10% fee, lend/borrow UNO, and provide liquidity to UNO pools on Nostra for boosted points.

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