DeFi Dev News 3/18-3/23 : Stacks Nakamoto Upgrade, Superchain Dev Console, TON HackerHouse
Hackathons & Events 🧑💻
- The Open Network (TON) hosts TON HackerHouse in Hong Kong on April 4th with TonX Studio.
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
- Stacks Nakamoto upgrade is approved, with 99.98% voting YES on Community vote.
Solana
- Solana Labs releases Solana Testnet - v1.18.8.
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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