CryptoDevs News # 29

February 6, 2024

I’m sorry that there has not been a CryptoDevs News post in two weeks. I have been very busy :/ So I will pack all interesting news across those weeks in today’s number.

Me working as hard as I can to deliver the latest CryptoDevs News:

📅 Events and Conventions

On-going

• Circuit Breaker is starting from February 2nd to February 21st.

Upcoming

• Pragma Denver is coming on February 28.

📚 Weekly Tech Info/Reads

What are some interesting news in this week?

• Vitalik:

  • The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications.

  • The end of my childhood.

• Geth (still) with a dangerous, highly dominant ~73% market shares across execution layer clients.

• Lido has near 32% in consensus power.

🌐 Weekly Ethereum updates

Anything new with Ethereum?

CL clients

• Lighthouse v4.6.0: Standard block V3 endpoint, execution layer payload selection input, validator broadcast, networking Improvements, standard Liveness Endpoint.

• Prysm v4.2.1: Wastedassign linter enabled, API, Testing, Logging and Validator Client Enhancements.

• Nimbus:

  • v24.2.0: Supports for /eth/v1/beacon/blinded_blocks/{block_id} Beacon API endpoint, more comprehensive report in errors.

  • v24.1.2: Full support for the upcoming Cancun-Deneb hard-fork on the networks Sepolia, Chiado (Gnosis Chain testnet) and Holešky.

• Teku v24.1.1: Required update for Sepolia, Holesky and Chiado.

• Lodestar v1.15.0: Deneb hard fork fixes, upgrade to js-libp2p, minor fixes for UX and performance improvements.

EL clients

• Geth v1.13.11: Fixes a few bugs and enables the Cancun upgrade for the Sepolia and Holesky networks.

• Nethermind v1.25.3: Sepolia Dencun, Chiado Dencun and Holesky Dencun hard forks.

• Erigon:

  • v2.57.3: Mumbai: add Napoli block.

  • v2.57.2: Fix RpcDaemon.

  • v2.57.1: Fix disk increment issue and transaction pool.

• Besu v24.1.1: A lot of additions, breaking changes and bug fixes, check out release for specific details.

• Reth v0.1.0-alpha.16: Fix read-only database transaction leak and add safety measures. Add network and trie improvements and fixes.

Layer 2s

zkSync

• zksync-era v20.5.2: Fix db: miniblocks index.

Fuel

• fuel-vm:

  • v0.45.0: Remove non_exhaustive from versionable types for security reasons.

  • v0.44.0: Add state to ECAL handler, make public types versionable, add batch changes to breakpoints, omit extra byte from types like AssetId when serialized with postcard.

• Sway:

  • v0.49.2: Fixes for auto impl of AbiEncode.

  • v0.49.1: Remove Subcurrency from examples, use filter_map instead of filter() and map(), ci changes.

  • v0.49.0: Big release, check out changelogs.

Aztec

• aztec-packages v0.21.0.

🔧 Weekly updates on developer's tools

• Hardhat v2.19.5: Notify users when a new Hardhat version is available, fixed project initialization bug, fixed a race condition of multiple Hardhat processes, prevent submitting transactions with 0 priority fee.

• Ape v0.7.6 & v0.7.7: Multiple fixes.

• Brownie:

  • v1.20.0: Add support for Python 3.12, drop support for Python 3.9.

  • v1.19.5: Support for custom / typed errors, default to EIP1559-style transactions on live networks, fixed: Readthedocs missing config file.

  • v1.19.4: viaIR optimizer support, silent transactions when calling a contract, include encoded return data in transaction trace, --no-compile flag to avoid project recompilation, support for various new EVM chains.

• Remix v0.42.0: A lot of changes, reading the full changelog is recommended.

• Solidity v0.8.24: Support for transient storage (EIP-1153), shard blob transactions (EIP-4844), & more.

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