This Week's Research and Education: How Solana DePIN Networks Boost Efficiency, Reduce Latency with Parallel State Root Computation Fix
Research 🧑🔬
- Charlie Noyes and Max Resnick proposed to delay the state root computation by one block to enable parallel processing and reduce latency.
- Kairos Research published a report analyzing Aave, Maker, Lido, and ether.fi, focusing on financial insights and future earnings potential.
- Dev Bear proposes a "BURN" opcode for Ethereum's EVM to standardize and simplify token burning, benefiting Layer 2 and EVM chains.
- Georgios Konstantopoulos shares Reth performance improvements and offers free node RPC for testing.
- Fjm2u proposed the Portable Web, enabling customizable apps and data control with crypto-economic incentives.
- Yona Research highlights BitSNARK and zkBridge as groundbreaking solutions for improving Bitcoin liquidity and interoperability.
- Ben Adams proposed EIP-7776, preventing gas smuggling by excluding non-workload-related gas discounts from block gas limit calculations.
- Thomas Thiery and 5 other authors published the FOCIL CL & EL workflow to enhance Ethereum's censorship resistance by enforcing timely transaction inclusion.
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Education/Mechanism 🧑🏫
- Solana shares how Solana’s DePIN networks, Pipe and Gradient, improve content delivery with user-contributed storage and compute power.
- Nader Dabit explains EigenDA boosts transaction capacity to 15+ MB/sec with scalable, cloud-level throughput for crypto apps.
- Alessandro Decina targets 5Gbps performance with 8 threads and under 800MB memory, improving from current single-digit Mbps and 10GB+ memory spikes.
- Chainlink highlights five key risks in choosing a blockchain oracle and how it ensures secure data delivery for dApps.
- Avalanche shares "Avalanche9000 overview", highlighting its approach to building ultra-scalable, interoperable blockchains for mass adoption.
- GetBlock shares a guide on deploying a smart contract on Base using Node JS, Hardhat, Coinbase wallet, and Base Sepolia JSON-RPC.
- Matt Murray explains the role of AVS operators in Eigenlayer, using EigenDA as a detailed example.
- Daejun Park introduces Halmos v0.2.0's createCalldata(), enabling exhaustive contract testing with arbitrary transaction sequences to detect exploits.
- Charles Wang explains Solidity’s receive() handles Ether without data, and fallback() manages unmatched data or missing receive() functions.
- Four Pillars shares how Decentralized Energy Networks (DEN) could improve renewable energy efficiency using crypto.
- EigenLayer explains the mechanics of allocating and slashing Unique Stake for Operators.
- Charles Wang explains unchecked math in Solidity, allowing gas optimization but risking unintended results from unchecked overflows and underflows.
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