DeFi Developer News 2/19-23: Ethereum ZK Grants Open, Distortion of MEV by Withdrawals,Execute On-chain TXes without ETH
Grants & Contests💰
- Ethereum ZK Grants Round is open. The Ethereum Foundation collaborates with Aztec, Polygon, Scroll, Taiko, and zkSync to develop Zero Knowledge public goods projects. Each co-founder of the grant round has contributed 150K USD in funds, bringing the total grant pool to 900K USD.
Hackathons & Events 🧑💻
- The Solana Scribes written content hackathon by LamportDAO is now officially open for submissions.
- The Avalanche Hackathon is set for March 9-10 in Medellín, Colombia, with $4,000 in total prizes
Research 🧑🔬
- Toni Wahrstätter published Stealth Addresses, a standardized Stealth Address protocol for Ethereum (ERC-5564), enhancing privacy with unlinkable transactions.
- Toni Wahrstätter proposed EIP-7623 to increase calldata cost to decrease the maximum block size.
- srrrse wrote "FuturesUnordered and the order of Futures".
- Nils Fleischhacker published a new paper on Extractable Witness Encryption for KZG Commitments and Efficient Laconic OT.
- stoke published mev-boost improvement proposal #0 which excludes withdrawals to fee recipients when computing a payload’s value.
- Potuz wrote about design constraints for ePBS.
- George Spasov proposed Unified Endgame Rollup Requirements.
- terence published "Why you should care about ePBS".
- Data Always reports on their research into the distortion of MEV by withdrawals.
Tooling 🛠
- Wonderland introduced hardhat-account-abstraction. Originally designed to make testnets for developers, the new plugin fully supports account abstraction allowing scripts to run on chain transactions without ETH.
- 0xduality released a minimalistic template repository for anyone interested in playing around with Teleporter.
Education 🧑🏫
- The EPF study group started on Feb 19th. The group is open and permissionless, anyone can participate.
Infrastructure 🏗
Ethereum
- The Lido testnet on Goerli will no longer be supported after February 29th, 2024. All testnet activities will shift to Holesky.
- Erigon v2.58.0 Dencun release is live. Users must upgrade to this release or later before Dencun on Gnosis Chain (11 Mar) and Ethereum mainnet (13 Mar).
- The Ethereum sequencing & preconf call #1 has concluded.
- Reth alpha.19 is released. This release includes increased execution performance over alpha.18, along with other improvements and bug fixes.
- Nimbus v24.2.1 is a medium-urgency release that includes full support for the upcoming Ethereum mainnet Deneb hard fork that will be executed on the 13th of March.
- Erigon announced the Caplin archive format. With Caplin archival mode is now possible to maintain an up-to-date history of the Beacon Chain.
- Sigma Prime published a new Lighthouse release - Diablo Verde. This release is mandatory for all Mainnet and Gnosis users. It enables the Deneb/Cancun ("Dencun") upgrade on Mainnet and Gnosis.
- terence posted notes from mev-boost community call #8 with builder specs and flashbots releases.
- Nethermind client v1.25.4 is live. This is a mandatory upgrade for all Ethereum & Gnosis node operators.
- Lodestar version v1.16.0 is live. This update is Deneb-ready and is mandatory for all users of Lodestar, including Gnosis users.
- Erigon v2.58.1 new patch release is live. This patch release fixes syncing the mainnet from scratch and also Issue #9472.
- Prysm v5.0.0 is live with official support for Deneb on the Ethereum mainnet.
- Ethereum ACDC #128 discussed Dencun Launch Preparations and developers agreed to start working on the Electra upgrade.
L2s
- Wormhole announced a collaboration with Succinct Labs on the development, cost reduction, and performance improvement of an Ethereum ZK Light Client for Wormhole.
- Linea’s Alpha v2 is live on the mainnet. This upgrade brings data compression and proof aggregation, slashing Ethereum finalization costs by up to 90%.
- Succinct Labs introduced SP1 Reth, a POC that showcases how any rollup can build a type 1 zkEVM with <2000 lines of maintainable Rust code using SP1.
- Polygon collaborated with StarkWare to introduce Circle STARK, a proving system that will be incorporated into Plonky3.
- Optimism is decommissioning OP Goerli on March 7. This is the last call to migrate to the fully supported OP Sepolia testnet for any testing and development needs
- OP Chain launched Delta Upgrade with Span Batches on Mainnet. The fixed on-chain overhead costs for chain operators to run a standard rollup OP Chain will be reduced by over 90%.
L3s
- Conduit now allows developers to deploy L3s on Base, Zora, and Mode.
- Mode Network introduced Flare L3, Mode's layer 3 network powered by Optimism and Celestia.
Security 👾
- OpenZeppelin published a blog post exploring the significance of self-contained code in preventing bugs, illustrated by an audit example from Lattice.
- OpenZeppelin announced the expansion of OpenZeppelin Contracts and Defender to Arbitrum Stylus, on top of our commitment to provide top-notch security services to builders in the ecosystem.
Bug Bounties 🐞
- BadgerDAO's eBTC Boost is Live with 200K in total rewards from Feb 19th, 8 am UTC to March 4th, 8 am UTC.
- Oasis Protocol is the first confidential EVM that empowers Web3 devs to build dApps with smart privacy features, both natively on Oasis or other EVM-based chains.
- Blockchain: 1,000-100,000
- Websites: 10,000
- Aspida is a native liquid staking network that provides security, liquidity, and optimized native rewards.
- Smart Contract: 1,000-50,000
- Websites: 1,000
- Perpetual Protocol is partnering with Sherlock for a security audit contest for its V3 code. The contest begins Feb 26th at 3 pm UTC, with 150k USDC in rewards.
- Universal Page's mission is to make digital ownership more accessible and user-friendly.
- Smart Contract: 2,000-5,000
- Puffer Finance is a decentralized native liquid restaking protocol (nLRP) built on Eigenlayer. Puffer Boost is live, a $50,000 reward pool is available for finding bugs in Puffer Finance’s codebase of about 792 nSLOC.
- Smart Contract: 1,000-200,000
- Worldcoin project bug bounty program is live. Bug rewards will be calculated using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) as a guide and will vary from $200 for low-severity findings up to $5,000 for critical ones.
Product Launches 🚀
- Across Protocol V3 is live. V3 enables new features such as a cross-chain intents settlement layer, cross-chain bridge hooks for user intents, and upgrades to the Across Bridge.
- Sushiswap launched Sushi Bonds. Sushi Bonds provides an alternative solution to traditional LPing. LPs get discounted tokens and projects get sticky liquidity.
- Prisma Finance’s PrismaLRT is live on Ethereum Mainnet. Users can mint ULTRA stablecoin using ether.fi weETH.
- Ethena, a stablecoin project, is live on the Ethereum mainnet with its Shard Campaign (points program) available. Shards will be shared for LPs buying and locking raw USDe.
- Abracadabra introduced V3 and MIMSwap. V3 now has an improved and reimagined front end that gives users access to MIM and other products. MIMSwap is a stable swap AMM, natively on Blast L2 testent.
- Tranchess launched V3, unlocking LST utility with two new use cases: Turbo Yield ETH (turYETH) and Stable Yield ETH (staYETH).
- Dymension embedded AMM is live and for each swap, a 0.3% fee is charged.
- Lyra introduces Coinbase Cloud-powered Lyra Wallet, allowing users to create a wallet with email, Google, and Apple accounts.
- MYX Finance is live on Arbitrum. MYX is a derivatives protocol with a Matching Pool Mechanism (MPM), offering performance comparable to CEX.
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