EtherWorld Weekly — Edition 309

• World News
• Stories By EtherWorld
• Technical Explainers
• Client Updates
• Podcasts
• Upcoming Events
• Jobs

World News

• Highlights of Ethereum's All Core Devs Meeting (ACDE) #206: Holesky Testnet Incident & Postmortem, Proposed Fixes for Optimistic Sync, Custom Checkpoint Sync Proposal for Consensus Layer & Sepolia Testnet Fork
• North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5 Billion from Bybit: The FBI has accused North Korean-linked hacking groups, including the Lazarus Group, of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from the Dubai-based crypto exchange Bybit. This heist is considered the largest cryptocurrency theft to date, with stolen funds potentially supporting North Korea's nuclear and missile programs. thetimes.com
• San Francisco Crypto Operator Convicted of Fraud: Douglas Jae Woo Kim, a 32-year-old from New York, was convicted on 14 counts of wire fraud and money laundering. Operating in San Francisco from 2017 to 2020, Kim deceived investors, including friends, out of more than $7 million, using the funds for personal gambling activities. He faces up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud and international money laundering count. sfchronicle.com
• SEC Closes Investigation into Robinhood's Crypto Unit: Robinhood Markets announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has closed its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, the company's cryptocurrency unit, and will not pursue any enforcement action. This development is expected to bolster Robinhood's plans to expand its cryptocurrency trading business. wsj.com

Stories By EtherWorld

• Holesky Testnet Incident Postmortem Report: A postmortem on the Holesky incident, its root cause, impact, & lessons. Learn how misconfigurations, Pectra fork, & EIP-6110 influenced the issue.
• How Solo Stakers & FOCIL Strengthen Censorhip Resistance on Ethereum: Discover how solo stakers uphold Ethereum’s censorship resistance & how FOCIL keeps them profitable amid MEV-Boost challenges.
• Ethereum’s Open Intents Framework Is Here—But Is It Ready?: Ethereum's Open Intents Framework (OIF) unifies L2 networks with intent-based txns. This article explores its mechanics, ERC-7683, & its impact on Ethereum.
• Ethereum’s BEAM Initiative Gains Momentum with New Consensus Teams
• Ethereum Simulations​ are getting better with eth_simulateV2
• Ethereum Developers are Rethinking Transaction Signatures & Authority

Technical Explainers

• New Ethereum Proposal Could Dramatically Cut Gas Fees: Block-Level Warming lowers gas costs by keeping storage slots warm, benefiting DeFi, MEV bots & throughput while posing execution & security challenges.
• A Quick Guide on Ephemery Testnet
• A Deep Dive into Blob-Parameter-Only (BPO) Forks
• Tracing in Ethereum

Client Updates

• Execution Layer:

  • Nethermind 1.31.2
  • Geth 1.15.4
  • Erigon 2.61.2
  • Besu 25.2.1
  • Reth 1.2.0
  • EthereumJS 8.1.1

• Consensus Layer:

  • Teku 25.2.0
  • Nimbus v25.2.0
  • Prysm 5.3.0
  • Lodestar 1.27.1
  • Lighthouse 7.0.0-beta.1

Podcasts

• EPD 16: Open Source Observer with Rohit Malekar & Carl Cervone | Ethereum Cat Herders: Open Source Observer is a free analytics suite that helps funders measure the impact of open source software contributions to the health of their ecosystem.
  PEEPanEIP 143: EIP 7691 Blob throughput increase with Parithosh, Toni and Sam: EIP-7691: Blob throughput increase which Increase the number of blobs to reach a new target and max of 6 and 9 blobs per block respectively.
• PEEPanEIP 142: EIP 7706 Separate gas type for calldata with Vitalik Buterin EIP-7706: Separate gas type for calldata. Create a separate basefee and gaslimit for calldata
• PEEPanEIP 141: EIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) with Thomas and Julian: EIP-7805: Fork-choice enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) Allow a committee of validators to force-include a set of transactions in every block.
• PEEPanEIP 140: EIP-7623: Increase calldata with Toni Wahrstätter: EIP-7623 proposes adjusting the calldata cost to reduce the maximum possible block size and its variance without negatively impacting regular users. This is achieved by increasing calldata costs for transactions that predominantly post data.

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Upcoming Events

• Mar 28-30: ETH Pondy
• Apr 2-5: ETH Bucharest
• Apr 4-6: ETHGlobal Taipei
• May 9-10: ETHBratislava
• May 9-11: ETHDam (Amsterdam)

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