Web3 Builder News: 8/5-8/11

Shea Ketsdever proposes “TEE-boost”, Vitalik released enhanced STARK proving code, Jeremy Kun shares a technical overview of FHE, Ronin Network suffers $12M exploit

Hackathons & Events 🧑‍💻

• Story Protocol introduces Story Academy’s Asia Tour, a series of in-person developer support days hosted in cities across the APAC region.
• DSCVR introduces Canvas Buildathon, a hackathon for developers to build social apps on DSCVR's Canvas to earn from a $100,000 total prize pool.
• DoraHacks and Dora Factory introduce AppchainDay Singapore at Token2049, a one-day event spotlighting teams building on the frontier of appchain development and venture capitalists, investors, and builders in the space.

Research 🧑‍🔬

• Shea Ketsdever proposes “TEE-boost”, a change to MEV-Boost that lets proposers disintermediate the relay and fetch blocks directly from builders running in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs).
• Max Resnick proposes "BRAID," a design for implementing multiple concurrent block proposers on Ethereum.
• snjax published “Efficient Data Distribution with Reed-Solomon Codes for Sharded Storage”, introducing a method to efficiently distribute and recover data across multiple nodes in a blockchain network using Reed-Solomon codes.
• peshwar9 and mohsinriaz17 published “Proof of Service Integrity (PoSI): Trustless measurement of service integrity”, proposing a Byzantine fault-tolerant protocol to ensure off-chain services are running correctly and haven't been tampered with.

Tooling 🛠

Ethereum

• Circle introduces TXT2TXN, an open-source web app prototype for interpreting and executing user intents with LLMs.
• Vitalik Buterin releases Zorch, a Python package for CUDA-optimized STARK proving using CuPy.
• NEBRA open-sourced NEBRA UPA, the universal proof aggregation engine as the NEBRA UPA mainnet launch on Ethereum approaches under MIT license.
• Viem 2.19 introduces experimental support for EIP-7702. Viem is a TypeScript Interface for Ethereum that provides low-level stateless primitives for interacting with Ethereum.
• Redtrama curated a repo with resources to learn Halmos, a symbolic testing tool for EVM smart contracts.
• logan introduces Noname Playground, a new way to write ZK apps using the Noname programming language.
• Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse v5.3.0 is out featuring performance optimizations, bug fixes, and new features.
• ClickHouse introduces CryptoHouse, a free blockchain analytics platform that offers real-time analytics, democratizing access by enabling instant query responses.

L2s

• zjj.eth soft-launched Soul Wallet v1 on Optimism, featuring social recovery via wallet and email, and web first (PWA) with passkey.

Education/Mechanism 🧑‍🏫

• Jeremy Kun shares a high-level technical overview of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
• Timofey Yaluhin explains the mechanism behind circle STARKs.
• CharlesWang explains topics and data in the Ethereum event logs.
• Flashbots shares the slides and videos at EthCC 2024.
• Syndica’s Sig Engineering team shares a deep dive into Solana's AccountsDB.
• Dimitar Tsvetanov shares a curated list of awesome Uniswap v4 hooks resources from ORA.
• zksecurity.xyz explores Leo, a high-level programming language that allows developers to focus on creating applications with strong privacy without needing to consider the intricacies of zero-knowledge proofs.

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Infrastructure 🏗

Ethereum

• Reth 1.0.4 is out, including various RPC fixes and resolves an IO deadlock edge case during sync.
• Succinct Labs launches SP1 zkVM mainnet, allowing users to quickly generate end-to-end ZK proofs and perform on-chain verification on any EVM-compatible chain.

L2s

• op-stack v1.9.0 is out featuring the activation of the Granite hardfork on the Sepolia Superchain and bug fixes of Batcher.

L1s

• Expresso Systems open-sourced HotShot, an optimistically responsive consensus protocol in Rust to scale nodes without a loss in performance, to power its sequencing layer.
• Celestia announces its first upgrade “Lemongrass” will be released in early to mid-September.
• The Rollup introduces the Chain Abstraction Market Map of 80+ projects unifying the modular ecosystem.

Solana

• Mantis, a Solana restaked L2 solution, shares a series of articles for building SVM rollups for Mantis.

Security 👾

• Ronin Network, an EVM blockchain for developers building games, suffered a $12M hack due to a vulnerability in the changes made during the upgrade of the cross-chain bridge.
• zksecurity.xyz launched a GitHub repository dedicated to reproducing ZK circuit vulnerabilities.

Bug Bounties 🐞

• Axelar Network, a programmable Web3 interoperability platform, launched an audit contest on Code4rena with a total reward of $85,000.

Product Launches 🚀

• Soul Wallet, a smart wallet for Ethereum L2s, soft launches v1 on Optimism. Soul Wallet offers social recovery, passkey signing, and compatibility with the most popular L2s.
• CoW AMM is live on Balancer, allowing users to deploy liquidity on the first MEV-capturing AMM with just a few clicks.
• Polynomial Superchain L2 is live with a 14-day initial liquidity event (ILE) available for LPs. Users with an invite code can supply USDC, sDAI, and sUSDe to earn points with increasing boosts.
• Zircuit L2, an EVM-compatible ZK rollup with "AI-enabled sequencer-level security, launches Mainnet Phase 1. Zircuit enables users to bridge funds to the ZK rollup and test out dApps in its ecosystem.
• Synthetix launches USDx, its native stablecoin on Arbitrum. This release allows Depositors (LPs) to take a 0% interest loan against their collateral and will function as margin for traders on Synthetix Perps.
• Ore, a Solana-based mining protocol, launches mining with the ORE PoW token capped at 21 million.

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