DeFi Developer News 1/29-2/2: ZK Hacker House, Transient Storage May Break SC Wallets, mesc improves RPC management
Hackathons & Workshops 🧑💻
- ZK Hacker House is happening in March in Taipei. Coinciding with ETH Taipei 2024, the Liberty Hacker House residency program will be held from March 1st - March 31st.
- Announcement | Apply Form (due Feb 21st)
- The Avalanche Frontier: Decentralized Consumer Application Hackathon is a month-long virtual event in January and February. Registration has opened from January 10, 2024, with the Submissions Due on February 19, 2024
- mev.market, co-hosted by Nethermind and Flashbot, is coming to London on March 12. mev.market is a full-day event dedicated to exploring the architecture of on-chain trading, order flow, block building, and the future of these evolving digital marketplaces.
Research 🧑🔬
- Horizon researcher Agus wrote a blog post explaining in detail how transient storage (EIP-1153, tload) is likely to break most smart contract wallets, and slow down Ethereum's AA roadmap.
- Summer of Protocols researcher published an essay on the role of information in the built environment, Addressable Space.
- Offchain Labs Stylus Lead CryptoIsCute shares her thoughts on Parallel EVMs effectiveness on throughput, fees, and compute costs and highlights how Arbitrum Stylus achieves increased transaction speeds and compute savings.
- Avalanche director Omer Demirel published an article exploring Protocol-Owned Automated Market Makers (poAMMs) powered by comprehensive bonding curve primitives (aka Primary AMMs) that help a Web3 project own its token’s full lifecycle completely.
Infrastructure 🏗
Ethereum
- The Dencun upgrade is live on the Sepolia testnet with blobs enabled.
- ENS developer Nick announces that Gasless DNSSEC is live on the Ethereum mainnet. This means DNS names can be enabled inside ENS with no on-chain transactions required.
- Lodestar releases the v1.15.0 update. This release includes some additional fixes for the Deneb(aka Dencun) hard fork, an upgrade to js-libp2p, and minor fixes for UX and performance improvements.
- The Dencun upgrade is live on Gnosis Chain Chiado testnet.
- Ethereum Foundation developer joshrudolf posted the updates from the latest Verkle Implementers Call #11. The call is for developers & researchers working to bring Verkle to the Ethereum mainnet.
- ACDE #180 happened Feb 1st. According to the call summary from Christine Kim, Devs are planning to set a mainnet date for Dencun activation next Thurs.
L2s
- The next upgrade for Polygon zkEVM, codename Etrog, will make the network a Type 2 ZK-EVM and is coming next month. The Etrog upgrade is available now for testing on Cardona, a new Sepolia-anchored testnet.
- Immutable zkEVM is now in early access mode and is available to select game studios and partners. Developers can now access a library of turnkey smart contract templates to accelerate the development process and ensure game security and integrity.
- Celestia Blobstream is coming to Starknet, enabling high-throughput L3s with Celestia underneath
- Arbitrum submitted an AIP to implement ArbOS20 - adding support for batch posting of L2 transactions as blobs to Ethereum L1 (EIP-4844) to Nitro, Arbitrum’s execution engine, via an ArbOS upgrade.
- API3 introduces OEV Network, a ZK-rollup to capture the OEV from all dApps that use API3 data feeds across all chains. OEV Network currently runs on Sepolia testnet
- Movement Labs introduces M2, the first ZK Move-EVM L2 on Ethereum, aiming to "bring parallelization and formal verification to Ethereum".
Bridging
- Layer Zero V2 is live. V2 enables Universal Messaging, Modular Security, Permissionless Execution, Unified Semantics, and V1 Compatibility.
- Article | Whitepaper | Docs | Github | Video
- Wormhole introduces Wormhole ZK. By integrating zk proofs, Wormhole aims to improve trust guarantees and composability, and have permissionless verification.
Solana
- Ex-Solana execs & engineers announces a Solana-focused developer shop Anza. Anza will roll out a new client for Solana named Agave, forked from the original Solana Labs client.
Avalanche
- Avalanche VP of Engineering Patrick O'Grady laid out details for its scaling solution Vryx as part of plans to get the Avalanche blockchain to support speeds of around 100,000 transactions per second.
- Avalanche Cortina 19 is out. This version (v1.10.19) focuses on Options Before Verification + Fix P-Chain Validator Set Race + Fix C-Chain Bloom Filter Reconstruction. This version is backward compatible with v1.10.0. It is optional but recommended.
- Avalanche developer Dhruba Basu proposes ACP-62: Disable AddValidatorTx and AddDelegatorTx.
- Edgevana is bringing node infrastructure to Avalanche, with tooling for validators of the network.
Near
- NEAR Foundation announced that the Protocol Work Group will launch testing for Phase 2 of Sharding this week.
Tooling 🛠
Ethereum
- Blocknative releases the latest updates of ethernow.xyz, including new Sharable Filters, Transactions Since Genesis, Address Labeling, and enhancements & fixes.
- Thread | Docs | Feedback Form
- Paradigm developer storm releases mesc 0.2.0. mesc is a standard for configuring and managing rpc endpoints. The new version adds a cross-language test suite that has full coverage over the mesc specification.
- SSV DAO shares the new Distributed Key Generation (DKG) tool. DKG is a different way to enable distributed node operation and a tool for building non-custodial staking services on the SSV Network.
- Nimbus v24.2.0 is a low-urgency upgrade bringing important stability improvements for Deneb-enabled networks. It's highly recommended for users who are testing their setups in the Holešky testnet, which will transition to Deneb on the 7th of February.
L2s
- OpenZepplin Contracts for CairoLang v0.8.1 is out, with improvements to docs and new guides, higher tx versions in Account, and Improved tests, etc.
- Hypr Network announces integration with Thirdweb gaming development platform. Thirdweb tooling provides all the tools that game developers need to build, deploy, and ship fast.
Solana
- Luzid developer thelorenz releases a new luzid.app SDK that allows developers to control their local Solana validator directly from their tests or applications.
Security 👾
- Abracadabra was exploited and lost 6.5M. The hacker hacker took advantage of a rounding bug in the protocol, specifically “cauldron v4” contracts which were deployed in early 2023. MIM experienced a depeg and dropped to around 0.77 (now re-pegged to 0.96).
Bug Bounties 🐞
- Superform Protocol is a suite of non-upgradable, non-custodial smart contracts that act as a central repository for yield and a router for users.
- Smart Contract: 1,000-200,000
- BAO Finance is a decentralized platform on Ethereum focusing on the creation and use of synthetic assets and markets. Bao aims to shift the power of financial data from institutions to individuals, leveraging synthetics to represent any data globally.
- Smart Contract: 1,000-20,000
- Website: 5,000
Product Launches 🚀
- Pike launches on mainnets including Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism. Pike is a cross-chain lending protocol powered by Wormhole, Circle CCTP, and Pyth.
- ZKX, a gamified perp DEX, launched on Starknet Mainnet.
- Conic Finance, an omnipool platform for Curve LPs, launches V2. V2 introduces Liquidity Allocation Modules (LAMs), Bonding (coming soon), Platform Fees, Locker Migration, Airdropped vlCNC Boost, etc.
- AIP3 announces OEV Network, a Polygon CDK-powered zk-Rollup that captures OEV from all dApps that use API3 data feeds across all chains.
- Swell Network introduces rswETH, a native restaking token that allows users to stake Swell ETH and earn Pearls, EigenLayer Points, and future restaking rewards.
- DeltaSwap, launched by GammaSwap, is an AMM that charges no swap fees to traders and uses the canonical x*y=k formula, similar to UniV2. Users can now provide liquidity to earn fees, trade with a Long, Short, or Straddle, and trade spots without paying any fees.
- Router Nitro by Router Protocol is an intent-based, modular cross-chain bridge. Router Nitro is live on nine chains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche, Polygon zkEVM, and zkSync, with more chains to be added in the coming days.
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