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DeFi Developer News 3/4-3/8: Dencun is coming Wednesday, Auction-managed AMMs, ETH Supply Map, and more

Grants & Accelerators

  • Gitcoin released its Gitcoin 2.0 Whitepaper, introducing "diverse capital allocation mechanisms", supporting more EVM chains, and exploring Gitcoin's modular tech stack.
  • Scroll announces Scroll Studio- aiming to accelerate the high quality growth of Chinese entrepreneurs in Ethereum.

Hackathons & Events 🧑‍💻

  • ETH foundation is running an EIP-4844 data challenge for anyone interested in providing important insights into blob data and transactions. Due: June 14th
  • Nethermind will host a Dencun livestream on March 13, 11pm UTC
  • Solana Renaissance Hackathon is live. Submissions due April 8.
  • SolanaFM is offering free APIs to 100 developers for the Solana Renaissance Hackathon

Research 🧑‍🔬

  • Scroll released a paper presenting a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) utilizing data parallel circuits for efficient verifiable computation.
  • barnabe from Robust Incentives Group published "Reconsidering the market structure of PBS"
  • Paradigm published "How to Raise the Gas Limit"
  • Terence writes on L1 Censorship and Inclusion list, opining that addressing censorship in relaxers and builders is more pressing.
  • Paradigm published “Everthing is a Perp”
  • Vitalik published "How to hard-fork to save most users' funds in a quantum emergency"

Tooling 🛠

Ethereum

  • philogy, a security researcher from Spearbit, released BALLS, a new DSL and Huff preprocessor written in Rust, designed to simplify the creation of gas-optimized blockchain bytecode
  • TrueBlocks introduces TrueBlocks Key Beta, an easy to use API that returns every appearance of any Ethereum address.
  • Verifier Alliance is announced by Storm from Paradigm. A joint collective of Paradigm, Sourcify, Tenderly, Blockscout and more, it aims create an open source multi chain collaborative database of contract sorucecode + ABIs
  • ApeFramework now supports Blast.

L2s

Solana

  • MagicBlock releases BOLT v0.1 - a game engine for performant and composable FOC games on Solana

Avalanche

  • Avalanche CLI now supports Teleporter & Avalanche Warp Messaging for local network subnet deploys.

Education/Mechanism 🧑‍🏫

  • Dan Robinson from Paradigm introduces Auction-Managed AMMs, coauthored with Uniswap Labs
  • 0xBeans explains how Baseline Markets works
  • Espresso Systems introduces Based Espresso: "A marketplace that supports ad-hoc shared sequencing for all L2s"
  • Jacob Creech from Solana Foundation explains how Solana devs can optimize performance by Optimizing CU request.
  • Solana updated "How to use Priority Fees on Solana"
  • OpenZeppelin releases "Top 10 Blockchain Hacking Techniques 2nd edition"(this story also in security section)

Infrastructure 🏗

Ethereum

Reminder: Dencun is coming. Upgrade your nodes!

  • Eth Wave released their v3 ETH Supply Map, a visualization of the ETH supply.
  • Nethermind releases experimental version 1.26.0-exp.3, featuring Snap Serving for improved data syncing.
  • Teku v24.3.0 is out. This is an optional update containing improvements and bug fixes.
  • Jushrudolf summarizes Verkle Implementers Call #13, highlighting client updates, successful Verkle shadowfork, testnet advancements, code packaging improvements, and discussions on EIP-2935 for stateless BLOCKHASH implementation.
  • Lodestar now has Japanese instructions.

L2s

  • Crust Network unveils EthDA, a DA network for Polygon CDK.
  • OffChain Labs announces ArbOS Atlas will deploy soon after Dencun
  • Avail introduces Nexus - a ZK-roll up for cross-roll up and Cross-ecosystem settlement.
  • inEVM is live – the first EVM with composability across Cosmos and Solana.
  • Gnosis Chain (an Ethereum side chain) reminds validators to update their nodes.

L1s

  • Tabi, a modular Cosmos gaming l1, is live on testnet.

Solana

  • Jito suspends mempool due to "negative externalities"

Avalanche

  • Aaron Buchwald from Ava Labs introduces "Subnet Orchestrated Validator Sets", a proposal to "elevate Subnets to fully sovereign networks."
  • Avalanche launches Teleporter. Teleporter is a cross chain messaging protocol allowing developers to easily call contracts on other EVM chains within the Avalanche Network.

Cosmos

  • Rollchains launches its Cosmos SDK module which allows any Cosmos L1 to post data to Celestia.

SocialFi

Security 👾

  • WooFI was hacked for 8.5M. Security researcher Nick Franklin investigates the root cause - “wrong amount calculation“ in the thread.
  • OpenZeppelin releases "Top 10 Blockchain Hacking Techniques 2nd edition"

Bug Bounties 🐞

  • Taiko rollup has a competitive 3 week audit with a prize pool of 140k USDC
  • Immunefi has a boost for Immunefi Arbitration from March 12 until 26th.

Product Launches 🚀

  • Kwenta announced the beta launch of Perps v3 on Base L2. The release includes USDC Deposits, Native Cross-Margin, Better Pricing, and Support for Base L2.
  • IVX launched the testnet version of Diem, a Berachain-based 0TDE options market. Users need to collect referral codes from IVX Discord to access Diem.
  • Astar zkEVM is live. Astar zkEVM is an Ethereum L2 using Polygon’s Zk tech and the first chain that integrates with Polygon AggLayer.
  • Polymer Testnet is live. Polymer provides IBC as a feature to the Ethereum ecosystem enabling modular security and expansion of the IBC network.
  • Pac Finance, the first hybrid lending protocol on Blast L2, is live. The team will airdrop to early adopters and Blast L2 bridges.
  • Tokemak Autopilot, a new way to LP through Autopools, is live on mainnet in its guarded launch phase. At this stage, Tokemak is the only depositor into Autopilot to test its rebalancing mechanisms.

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