DeFi Developer News 2/12-16: Contribute to OSS and Get Paid, Minimal ePBS, Remix 0.43, Security Alliance
Grants & Contests💰
- OnlyDust is holding the first edition of the ODHack where open issues are up for grabs and 100K grants ($, OP & STRK) will be distributed.
- OpenZeppelin Ethernaut CTF, with 48 hours of blockchain challenges, will last from March 16 to 17. Attendees will compete for $7k cash prizes + Defender subscriptions, and a chance to earn special POAPs.
Hackathons & Events 🧑💻
- Polygon Aggregation Day virtual event is on Feb 23rd. The event will dive into the tech behind the AggLayer, and what developers can do with it.
Research 🧑🔬
- Rainbow staking is a conceptual framework allowing protocol service providers, whether “solo” or “professional”, to maximally participate in a differentiated menu of protocol services.
- Sourcify published a blog post on Finding Auxdatas in the Bytecode.
- Paradigm designed Leaderless Auctions, a new type of MEV-resistant auction, exploring the emerging intersection of auctions, consensus, and MEV.
- fradamt published Paths to Hardening PBS
- terence published Minimal ePBS - Beacon Chain Changes on Eth Research.
- Cowswap introduces an "MEV capturing AMM" called CowAMM
Infrastructure 🏗
Ethereum
- Dencun mainnet is going live 13/03/2024 13:55:35 UTC, Beacon epoch 269568, Beacon slot 8626176.
- The ACDE #181 call discussed potential EIPs for the next fork, Pectra, with some conversation about Dencun releases, shadow forks, and retroactively applied EIPs.
- Teku v24.2.0 is now available. This is a required update for the Mainnet Deneb upgrade on March 13th. Also required for Gnosis Deneb upgrade on March 11th.
- Reth alpha.18 is released. The release includes the mainnet Cancun timestamp, making it mandatory for node operators and validators to upgrade ahead of the March 13th fork.
- Echidna 2.2.2 features eight new and improved updates. Echidna is a Haskell program designed for fuzzing/property-based testing of Ethereum smart contracts.
L2s
- Polygon zkEVM Etrog upgrade is now live on mainnet. The upgrade supports four additional precompiled smart contracts—a major step towards becoming a full Type 2 ZK-EVM.
- Succinct Labs announces Succinct Processor 1 (SP1), its first generation, 100% open-source zkVM that proves arbitrary Rust programs.
L3s
- Syndicate announces Syndicate Frame Chain, an OP Stack L3 on Base with Celestia underneath unlocking high throughput and extremely low gas costs for Farcaster Frame developers. Gas on Syndicate Frame Chain is free for all developers when using the Syndicate Frame API.
Avalanche
- Luigi, VP of Ava Labs, published a thread diving into the report that Citi published on Avalanche Spruce.
- A new version of Snowpeer is now live with ACPs and BLS Support.
Wallets
- RainbowKit V2 is here with EIP-6963 support, compatibility with Wagmi v2, multiple wallet connection sessions, and many more.
Tooling 🛠
- Remix Project v0.43.0 release is live with File Explorer, Vyper Compiler Updates, and WalletConnect Updates.
- Conduit now allows anyone to deploy mainnet rollups on Conduit by selecting a framework, settlement layer, and data availability.
- Hardhat v2.20.0 is out, with support for the upcoming Cancun hardfork.
- Celenium v1.6 introduces a leaderboard for chains deployed on Celestia.
- MMASim is a MEV-boost simulation framework that uses an agent-based modeling (MESA) framework in Python to simulate strategic bidders competing to win the right to build blocks.
- Lit Protocol introduces Lit V0, Habanero Mainnet Beta. Lit Protocol is decentralized key management and a developer platform for building secure web3 applications.
Security 👾
- Samczsun launched Security Alliance, "It offers a 24/7 emergency hotline for crypto users affected by hacks, legal protection for white hat hackers, and free red team exercises for web3 developers." - Psquare daily
- Immunefi announces Safe Harbor Modules. Safe Harbor is a legal/technical framework that protocols can implement to let whitehats know it’s okay to intervene during an active blackhat exploit to save funds, and Safe Harbor Modules make it easy for projects to implement this in an easy and safe way.
- Immunefi is launching Boost, a time-bound code review by best-in-class security researchers aimed at protecting your code from vulnerabilities when you need it the most.
- Particle Trade identified a security incident with Particle's previously deprecated NFT contract.
Education 🧑🏫
- OP Labs shares the first blog in its new Fault Proof Deep-Dive Series. Written in collaboration with Coinbase’s BlockSec team, this series explores components of the OP Stack’s fault-proof system.
Bug Bounties 🐞
- Puffer Finance is a liquid restaking protocol with anti-slashing protection for validators.
- BadgerDAO's eBTC protocol lets you borrow Bitcoin with ETH.
- Boosted Rewards up to 200k Feb 19-March 14
- Segment Finance
Product Launches 🚀
- Trader Joe introduced a token based on the DN-404 standard called SHOE. The DN-404 standard, like ERC-404, combines the benefits of fungible tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
- Prisma Finance launched ULTRA, a new stablecoin issued by PrismaLRT, a new borrowing protocol developed by Prisma focused on unlocking liquidity for Liquid Restaking Tokens (LRTs).
- GenesisLRT, a liquid restaking protocol on EigenLayer, is live. Users can earn rewards, double Gems, plus EigenLayer points.
- Stakewithus, an ETH staking dApp, is live on the Ethereum mainnet. Unaggi is for multi-chain yield service while Stakewithus is for ETH staking specifically.
- Cow DAO rolled out Cow AMM, an AMM that protects liquidity providers from arbitrage bots. CoW AMM pools are optimal for every token pair that is not stable-to-stable.
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