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Meet the Herders is a new series where we talk to the people who make the Ethereum Cat Herders work.
Meet the Herders is a series of interviews with members of Ethereum Cat Herders (ECH).In this episode we speak to Pooja Ranjan who is the Herder-In-Chief. We discuss the history, motivations , workings of ECH & much more.
Today we're going to be talking to Octant. Octant is a decentralized governance platform that awards participation with ETH. It is a project by the Golem Foundation and Octant's mission is to streamline the funding for public goods and to ensure they receive the support that they deserve. Octant is doing this by taking a portion of their staking rewards and using that to distribute to the community, who can give it to public goods projects.
We're here with James and we're going to be learning about their app today.
What can you expect from the Merge? What are the challenges and opportunities presented to smaller client developers? What impact will new technologies like Bonsai and Snapsync have for client operators?
Learn about all this and more in this Merge special episode of PEEPanEIP.
Do blockchains help with privacy or hinder it? Why do we need transactional privacy? Roman Semenov, creator and builder at Tornado Cash joins us to discuss privacy on blockchains and how Tornado strives to improve it. We also discuss the differences between the original version of Tornado and Nova, the new version of Tornado which is rolling out now.
One of the pillars of the ideology around web3 is that of decentralization. Are we delivering on our promises to create decentralized ledgers, or are we falling into the same snares that gave us the highly centralized internet we see around us? Kristy Leigh Minehan, noted consultant and blockchain hardware specialist joins the podcast to talk about decentralization from a number of different potential centralization vectors.
What could be hard about building a crypto wallet? Taylor Monahan, founder of MyCryto (recently acquired by ConsenSys) and currently at MetaMask, joins the podcast to discuss the intricacies of wallets, the challenges in presenting something decentralized and yet user-friendly to a spectrum of users, and more.
We've all heard of DAOs, but what are they practically? How can you contribute to one if you wanted to? What different challenges do DAOs and those contributing to them face? Chase Chapman, a DAO researcher and contributor joins the podcast to talk about all things DAOs.
Running nodes on the Ethereum network (and other blockchain networks) can be hard. The client software can update frequently and be hard to work with. In addition, they need monitoring and maintenance. The data provided as specified can be difficult to work with too. Yet, nodes are necessary to connect applications with the blockchain. The difficulties and need have led to the rise of providers running nodes as a service and providing an API for app builders to use to connect their application to the blockchain. Alchemy is one such provider. Deric Chang and Omar Ceja of Alchemy join to discuss running node infrastructure at scale, and providing useful data to users.
Building apps that aggregate blockchain data opens up new paradigms in application development. Lefteris Karapetsas, a longtime contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, joins the podcast to discuss his current project, Rotki, a crypto asset accounting app. We discuss the difficulties of obtaining event data from nodes, the benefits and challenges of developing in the open, and more.
Smart Contracts can hold immense amounts of value in an ecosystem that makes them accessible to anyone. As a result, exploits in smart contracts can have catastrophic results. samczsun, a researcher at Paradigm and famous white-hat hacker, joins us to talk about finding vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Among the topics, we talk about his preferred setup for analyzing contracts, how he picks what to look at, and how he goes about looking at code once he's picked something. We also talk about anonymity in the space and his work at Paradigm and previous.
Nethermind is an execution client for EVM-compatible blockchains. Tomasz Stańczak discusses what motivated him to begin working on creating a new execution client and the specific challenges (and joys) of building and maintaining one. We also discuss some of Nethermind's specific features as a client, and future directions for both the larger Nethermind company and the client specifically.
Smart contracts have opened up new opportunities, and we are still exploring what we are able to build with them. Andre Cronje is the creator of Yearn Finance, Keep3r, and more, and joins us in this episode to talk about building innovative platforms with smart contracts, and the various pressures that can come from being a recognized builder in the space.
Gitcoin has been building tools that enable communities to build, fund and protect what matters to them.
Topics Covered:
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01:33 - Sov Introduction
05:10 - Presentation
05:11 - Gitcoin Journey
08:27 - Past 5 Years Funding by Gitcoin in Numbers
09:08 - Gitcoin 2.0 Stack
10:55 - Today's Mechanisms in Gitcoin
14:58 - OSS: Funding
16:40 - Gitcoin Today and Gitcoin Future
17:50 - Grants Programs - Demo
25:36 - Retro Funding
27:28 - Presentation End
28:07 - Grants Lab and its uses
30:08 - What is other thing if not Passport?
33:26 - Is there any room in future for this kind of projects?
37:15 - Sov thoughts on Gitcoin 2.0 for more sustainable
39:51 - Sov tip and trick to developer, who is engage on their project through Gitcoin
41:24 - Success story funded through Gitcoin
44:55 - Final Thought by Sov
47:27 - Closing Words
Follow at Twitter:
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Sov: / sovereignsignal
Pooja Ranjan: / poojaranjan19
Other resources:
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• Meet The Herders • Ecosystem Project Demo • NFT • Non-EIP PEEPanEIP • Community • PEEPanEIP
Official Website:
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Gitcoin : https://www.gitcoin.co/
Ethereum Cat Herders: https://www.ethereumcatherders.com/
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#ethereum #gitcoin #funding
Execution Layer Meeting 197 · Issue #1153 · ethereum/pm (github.com)
Consensus-layer Call 142 · Issue #1154 · ethereum/pm (github.com)
Execution Layer Meeting 196 · Issue #1143 · ethereum/pm (github.com)
Pectra Devnet is Prague-Electra Network Upgrade
Resources:
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Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zGLXgYWbV1LQ-8rTDmaiSd534Lz2EOaT/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110450674004865651218&rtpof=true&sd=true
EEST Specs: https://github.com/ethereum/execution-spec-tests/
Earlier talks on PEEPanEIP related to Pectra EIPs:
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EIP-2537: https://youtu.be/Kr0WRewb_AA
EIP-2935: https://youtu.be/QH5yuNd3B6o
EIP-6110: https://youtu.be/tRTBgCN9VgY
EIP-7002: https://youtu.be/MxvX1gNh-_4
EIP-7251: https://youtu.be/3cVhNXDTjgg
EIP-7685: https://youtu.be/3g71BGZFASE
EIP-7251: https://youtu.be/3cVhNXDTjgg
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Other Resources:
https://youtu.be/GriLSj37RdI
https://youtu.be/SfDC_qUZaos
https://youtu.be/CcL9RJBljUs
https://youtu.be/-xY1EEzcp0s
https://youtu.be/KdhHJa2SEwY
Check out upcoming EIPs in Peep an EIP series at https://github.com/ethereum-cat-herders/PM/projects/2
PEEPanEIP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F
Follow at Twitter:
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Parithosh - https://twitter.com/parithosh_j
Mario Vega - https://twitter.com/elbuenmayini
Pooja Ranjan - https://twitter.com/poojaranjan19
Topics covered:
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00:12 - Starting Words
00:29 - Intro
01:27 - Parithosh Self Introduction
02:01 - Mario Vega Introduction
03:02 - Presentation Start
03:20 - Disclaimers related to the presentation by Parithosh
04:50 - Presentation by Mario
05:40 - EVM Prague Updates
09:26 - EVM Tests - EIP-2537: BLS Precompiles
11:11 - EVM Tests - EIP-2935: Historical Block Hashes from State
13:23 - EVM Tests - EIP-6110, EIP-7002, EIP-7251, EIP-7685: Execution Layer Requests
18:01 - EVM Tests - EIP-7702: Authorization Lists
21:13 - Want to Test EIP-7702? (Slide contain useful links and QRs)
22:07 - EVM Tests - EIP-7692: EOF Version 1
24:56 - Presentation by Parithosh
25:00 - CL Prague Updates
27:46 - Assertor - EIP-7251: MaxEB
31:07 - Hermes/Xatu- EIP-7594: PeerDAS
35:36 - Kurtosis
35:50 - What is Kurtosis? and why do we care?
38:08 - What is Assertor
41:31 - What's going to happen next?
44:44 - Need of Idea for next public testnet!
45:07 - Presentation End
46:21 - Q&A
46:27 - How many active Devnet/Testnet, as on date?
47:40 - Do we see more versions of Devnet? and how many?
51:10 - Do you think, we could have kept PeerDAS separate and deploy async in each client?
53:09 - What are the specific risk and challenge to include EIPs?
58:07 - How would we evaluate a success of Pectra Devnet Testing?
01:00:27 - How long would it take, to get Pectra on the mainnet?
01:03:08 - Shout out by Mario
01:04:35 - Closing Words
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#Pectra #ethereum #crypto #PectraDevnet
Consensus-layer Call 141 · Issue #1140 · ethereum/pm (github.com)
EIP-7732: Enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation is Separates the Ethereum block in consensus and execution parts, adds a mechanism for the consensus proposer to choose the execution proposer.
Resources:
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Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-NMq36QRiCzBYK5inDiV6HQI9z2BQlGuDgUjSMwtwn4/edit#slide=id.p
EIP - https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-7732
Discussion - https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-7732-enshrined-proposer-builder-separation-epbs/19634
https://hackmd.io/@potuz/rJ9GCnT1C
https://ethresear.ch/t/a-note-on-equivocation-in-slot-auction-epbs/20331/6
https://ethresear.ch/t/the-role-of-the-p2p-market-in-epbs/20330
https://www.notion.so/efdn/ePBS-EIP-7732-tracker-9f85f7b086994bd79192bc72bae703a1
Earlier talks on Inclusion List:
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https://youtu.be/oRjG0RMnK5U
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Other Resources:
https://youtu.be/GriLSj37RdI
https://youtu.be/SfDC_qUZaos
https://youtu.be/CcL9RJBljUs
https://youtu.be/-xY1EEzcp0s
https://youtu.be/KdhHJa2SEwY
Check out upcoming EIPs in Peep an EIP series at https://github.com/ethereum-cat-herders/PM/projects/2
PEEPanEIP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cwHXAawZxqu0PKKyMzG_3BJV_xZTi1F
Follow at Twitter:
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Potuz - https://twitter.com/potuz_eth
terence - https://twitter.com/terencechain
Pooja Ranjan - https://twitter.com/poojaranjan19
Topics covered:
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00:22 - Intro
00:46 - EIP 7732 intro
01:54 - terence's introduction
02:20 - Potuz's introduction
03:25 - Presentation Start
03:27 - what is EIP 7732 by terence
04:10 - Disclaimer
05:12 - Key Changes
10:39 - Specifications Changes
11:24 - Beacon Chain Changes (Containers)
15:43 - Beacon Chain Changes (State Transition Function)
16:54 - Validator Changes (New PTC Duty)
18:43 - Validator Changes (Solo proposer)
19:36 - Validator Changes (Proposer using builders)
20:41 - P2P Changes
21:53 - Fork choice changes
24:22 - Fork choice handler changes
25:15 - Fork choice get a new head
26:32 - Miscellaneous
29:40 - Call to help
30:58 - Presentation End
31:59 - Why PBS was originally proposed, and how ePBS is similar or different from the PBS?
42:04 - One or two technical challenges or open questions that may lead to the specs change and where on we on that?
45:20 - How Ethereum Community responded to EIP 7732 so far?
49:48 - How many clients have already implemented?
51:35 - What are the challenges for 7732 to be accepted for an upgrade?
54:47 - What are the speculations on DevNet for ePBS, and how far it been implemented?
56:03 - Message to Community
56:17 - Closing Words
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#7732 #ethereum #eip #crypto
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