CryptoDevs News #19

October 30, 2023

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📅 Events and Conventions

Ended

• ETHOnline 2023 has ended in October 27th, 2023!

Upcoming

• Pragma Istanbul is coming at November 16th, 2023!

📚 Weekly Tech Info/Reads

What are some interesting news in this week?

• Lido has near 32% in consensus power.

• Geth (still) with a dangerous, highly dominant ~84% market shares across execution layer clients.

🌐 Weekly Ethereum updates

Anything new with Ethereum?

CL clients

• Prysm v4.1.1: Resolve critical issues that affect a small set of users.

EL clients

• Erigon v2.53.2: Fixes a recent regression with transaction pool DB growing indefinitely.

• Besu v23.10.1: Multiple improvements, --tx-pool-disable-locals deprecation, bug fixes.

• Nethermind v1.21.1: Addresses the invalid block production issue initially reported on the Gnosis chain from October 19 to 20.

Layer 2s

Fuel

• fuels-ts v0.65.0: Upgrading fuel-core to 0.20.8.

Aztec

• aztec-packages v0.12.0: Remove plookup pedersen methods from c_bind namespace.

• barretenberg v0.12.0: Remove plookup pedersen methods from c_bind namespace.

• barretenberg.js v0.12.0: Remove plookup pedersen methods from c_bind namespace.

🔧 Weekly updates on developer's tools

What’s cool with dev tools in this week?

• web3.js v4.2.1: Bug fix of ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT in ABI in web3-eth-abi, update dependencies.

• Viem:

  • v1.17.1: Added Zora Sepolia Testnet and Astar zkEVM testnet zKatana chain.

  • v1.17.2: Added multicall3 contract to astarZkatana and Manta Pacific Mainnet & Testnet.

  • v1.18.0: Added extractChain utility, ZkSync serializers, support for Celo CIP-64 transactions and ZkSync formatters.

• Hardhat v2.18.3: This release adds ignition deploy to our telemetry-reported tasks.

• Solidity v0.8.22: Added unchecked loop increments, support for importing EVM Assembly JSON, adjusted Yul optimizer to rematerialize zero literals.

• Fe v0.25.0: Use the project root as default path for fe test, completed std::buf::MemoryBuffer refactor, allow filtering tests to run via fe test --filter <some-filter, logs for successfully ran tests can be printed with the --logs parameter, adds 'functions' section to docs with information on self and Context, bug fixes.

• go-libp2p v0.32.0: Adds support for WebRTC Direct, Happy Eyeballs for TCP, host.NewStream now waits for a hole punched connection, go-libp2p now works on riscv64 architectures.

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