CryptoDevs News #20

November 6, 2023

Let’s come with us and go on a wild ride over the news in the previous week!

📅 Events and Conventions

Upcoming

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

📚 Weekly Tech Info/Reads

What are some interesting news in this week?

• Different types of L2s by Vitalik.

• Geth (still) with a dangerous, highly dominant ~85% market shares across execution layer clients.

• Lido has near 32% in consensus power.

🌐 Weekly Ethereum updates

Anything new with Ethereum?

EL clients

• Erigon:

  • v2.53.3: Fix Agra hf scheduling on Mumbai.

  • v2.53.4: Mumbai: fix fork ID for Agra.

Layer 2s

Fuel

• Sway v0.47.0: Multiple changes, check changelogs for full details.

• Fuel VM v0.40.0: Multiple changes, check changelogs for full details.

Aztec

• aztec-packages v0.13.1: Exposing PXE.getBlock, exporting createAztecNodeClient from aztec.js. Revert push cli docker image to docker hub.

• barretenberg v0.13.1: Synchronize aztec-packages versions.

• barretenberg.js v0.13.1: Synchronize aztec-packages versions.

zkSync

• era-test-node v0.1.0-alpha.10: Blocks now have parent_hash, bug fixes, bump deps.

🔧 Weekly updates on developer's tools

What’s cool with dev tools in this week?

• Hardhat v2.19.0: New feature: Configuration Variables.

• viem:

  • v1.18.3: Added WebSocket RPCs for Gnosis Chain and Chiado, added the multicall address for Chiado, added Neon Mainnet chain.

  • v1.18.4: Updated Klaytn RPC URL, added Astar chain, fixed protected action types, removed Scroll Sepolia WebSocket URLs, added Tenet chain, added Kava chain, added Core Dao chain.

  • v1.18.5: Fixed legacy EIP-155 transaction serializing.

  • v1.18.6: Fixed zkSync formatters and an issue where Celo CIP64 transactions were being recognized as EIP1559 transactions.

• ethers.js v6.8.1: Fixed typo in error description when converting values to arrays and invalid token nonpayable being included in formatted constructor. Added ENS support for Sepolia.

• web3.js v4.2.2: Added isMetaMaskProvider function to check if provider is metamask and MetaMaskProvider Interface (part of SupportedProviders), added gasPrice to Transaction1559UnsignedAPI type. Populate data for transactions in contract for metamask provider instead of input. Fixed grammar errors. Updated dependencies.

• Ape v0.6.24: Fixed issue where used the wrong network in fork tools, allow alias-based argument click overrides.

• libp2p v0.53.0: Multiple new features added.

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