Web3 Builder News 7/1-7/7: Puffer Launches Based Rollup UniFi

Grants & Accelerators

• Tensor Foundation introduces $TNSR Blinks Bounty, a grants program for developers to build an additional Solana Action and Blink for the Tensor ecosystem.

Hackathons & Events 🧑‍💻

• Solana introduces Blink Build Days, a series of IRL meetups to learn the basics of blinks and Solana Actions by testing new ideas and use cases, working through in-depth guides, and learning alongside devs in your neighborhood.
• Superteam introduces The Talent Olympics with Turbin3 and Rise In. The Talent Olympics is designed to help talented developers get jobs at the best companies on Solana and earn from a $10,000 prize pool.
• AltLayer introduces Rollup Day which will be hosted on July 10th at The Hotel Brussels.

Research 🧑‍🔬

• artofkot, mcnut, sonyasunkim, and adcv_ published “Maximum Viable Security: A New Framing for Ethereum Issuance”, proposing a framework that prioritizes maximizing security over minimizing issuance, ensuring Ethereum remains secure and decentralized.
• ericsson49 published “Fork Choice compliance test suites & test generator”, creating and testing a system to ensure that different software implementations of a blockchain protocol (Fork Choice) work correctly.
• cortze and yiannisbot published “Ethereum Node Message Propagation Bandwidth Consumption”, building a tool called Hermes to track how much bandwidth is used by Ethereum nodes when they send and receive messages.
• Terence published “Fork Choice Attacks and Protections in EPBS”, exploring how attackers can manipulate the blockchain by reorganizing blocks, focusing on a new system called ePBS.
• chrmatt and murat published “Leaderless and Leader-Based Preconfirmations”, exploring two ways to handle preconfirmations in blockchain systems: one with a single leader and one with multiple providers.
• Marcello Bardus and Kacper Koziol published “Reputation-Centric Light Client Framework for Optimistic Rollups”, introducing a new system to make Optimistic Rollups faster and more secure.
• cortze and yiannisbot published “Gossipsub Message Propagation Latency”, looking at how quickly messages spread across Ethereum's peer-to-peer network using a protocol called Gossipsub.
• skilesare published “EVM in Motoko for Trustless Execution Environments”, building an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) using the Motoko programming language to run on the Internet Computer.
• mratsim published “Releasing Constantine v0.1.0, a modular cryptography stack for Ethereum”, making blockchain operations like signing and verifying transactions quicker and more secure.

Tooling 🛠

Ethereum

• Shea Ketsdever introduces rbuilder, an Ethereum block builder written in Rust focusing on performance, modularity, and contributor friendliness.
• QuickNode introduces Key-Value Store and REST API for data management, featuring scalable data management, real-time updates, API access, and streams integration.
• Balancer introduces Balancer v3 Codebase, featuring a redesigned vault, transient accounting system via EIP-1153, re-entrant pool lifecycle hooks, native support for yield-bearing tokens, and 100% boosted pools.
• alcueca shares @eth_call's introductory guide for writing the invariant tests for Wrapped Ether.

Solana

• Nitro Labs introduces Termina, the SVM Cloud platform allowing developers to deploy Solana blockspace with one click.

Avalanche

• Avalanche CLI v1.6.3 is out featuring Interchain Token Transfer, Avalanche key transfer, and Avalanche key list.

Education/Mechanism 🧑‍🏫

• Four Pillars releases Initia Research Dashboard, displaying all the components and ecosystem projects and including articles and videos about Initia.
• Charles Wang explains Ethereum checksum address, a validation to help users verify their blockchain addresses, ensuring they are valid and free from typos.
• Christine Kim gives a high-level summary of the EIP-7732 and a few takeaways about what it does.
• ddimitrov22 shares how OpenZeppelin ERC4626 implementation protects from inflation attacks.
• gkrastenov explains WAD, RAY, and RAD constant variables and DeFi protocol usage.
• Aspi shares resources to learn fuzz testing efficiently.

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Infrastructure 🏗

Ethereum

• RISC Zero and Celestia introduce Blobstream Zero, a new-generation zkVM-based Blobstream bridge to bridge Celestia's permissionless DA layer to Ethereum, Optimism, Bitcoin, Solana, etc.
• Obol releases Charon v1.0.0, the first long-term support (LTS) version of Charon, which will remain compatible with future releases and serve as a foundation for large-scale use cases and deployments of DVs.
• Geth v1.14.6 is out featuring stateless witness builder and (self-)cross validator, a 2KB hard limit for p2p handshake messages, and improved display of database statistics.

L2s

• Puffer Finance introduces Puffer UniFi, a based rollup aimed at solving the issue of liquidity fragmentation in Ethereum by implementing synchronous composability.

Avalanche

• Avalanche introduces Interchain Token Transfer (ICTT), a secure and efficient solution for developers to deploy smart contracts for transferring tokens on Avalanche.

Security 👾

• Manta Network and Blocksec introduce the Sequencer Threat Overwatch Program (STOP), aimed at enhancing security at the sequencer level in L2 solutions.
• Immunefi launched Safe Harbor, the first product implementation of SEAL’s Safe Harbor standard as an opt-in feature for all future Immunefi bug bounty programs.
• Decian published “Exploiting Under-Constrained ZK Circuits”, exploring two important ZK Circuit attack vectors and learning how to fix the vulns and prevent the attacks.
• chrisdior.eth shares 4 steps to enhance Solidity skills by reproducing attacks.

Bug Bounties 🐞

• Firedancer, an independent validator client for Solana, is launching a bug bounty program on ImmuneFi with bounties of up to $1,000,000 USDC.
• Neutron, the integrated applications network, launched a bug bounty program on ImmuneFi with bounties of up to $1,000,000 USDC.
• Bluefin, a decentralized orderbook-based exchange, launched a bug bounty program on HackenProof with bounties of up to $15,000.
• Native, a multi-chain liquidity solution, launched a bug bounty program on ImmuneFi with bounties of up to $50,000 USDC.
• Biconomy, an Account Abstraction toolkit, launched a bug bounty program on Cyfrin CodeHawks with a total reward of 30,000 USDC.

Product Launches 🚀

• Mint blockchain launches its mainnet. Mint is an L2 built using the OP Stack and powered by NFTScan Labs and Optimism.
• Aleph Zero EVM is live on the testnet, with the mainnet release scheduled in Q3. Aleph Zero is a ZK-privacy EVM L2 powered by Arbitrum Orbit on Gelato RaaS.
• Rarimo, a privacy-first ZK social protocol, launches RariMe app. Users can generate passport ZKPs and prove their age, citizenship, & humanity without revealing their identity.
• Synternet (formerly Noia), a data infrastructure L1, launches its mainnet on the Cosmos network. Users will be able to use $SYNT to access and pay for real-time data streams from various publishers across multiple blockchains.

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