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Rayonism☀️, hacking the Fusion together
This week, protolambda and others released plans for Rayonisman ambitious month-long hack to create fusion devnets based on current specs with the ambitious goal of adding partitioning to these devnets as well as L2 rollup integrations.
The primary motivation is to unite development around a unified merge specification to firmly integrate all customer teams into the merge design and process so that an informed decision on the merge roadmap can be made in the coming months. That, and have a little fun 🙂
In addition to Rayonism, Merge specifications And design documents are making great progress. Many thanks to Mikhail and the many reviewers and contributors who pushed this project!
Learn more about Rayonism here and join us in the Discord R&D Eth #rayonism☀️ channel to get involved!
shit safety notice
Yesterday, Supranational published a safety notice for the shit BLS library currently used in production by all beacon chain clients.
During differential fuzzing of the blst library by Guido Vrankenhe discovered that blst can produce an incorrect result for certain input values in the inverse function. This was corrected in a shit release three weeks have passed and has been broadcast to all Beacon channel customers.
While there are currently no known practical exploits for this issue, everyone running beacon chain clients is advised to upgrade to the latest version in case an exploit is discovered. Likewise, if you use shit in your project, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible.
(Note: Teku was not running an affected version of shitbut they recently made some juicy optimizations, so might as well upgrade anyway)
You can read more about this issue in the public safety notice on the shit deposit.
Beacon Chain Security + RFP Test
Reminder! There is an exceptional Beacon Chain Security + RFP Test.
The EF is looking for any proposal strengthening the security and robustness of the Beacon Chain and the upcoming merger (migration from PoW to PoS). Live network analysis, formal verification, client load testing, new consensus vectors, to name just a few potential paths.
Be creative! Given your skills and those of your team, there is likely a valuable way to contribute to the security of this system.
Proposals must be submitted by April 20 🚀
