Intro
In my weekly report I include this section on Crypto Trends (Monday ).
I check Crypto Twitter, r/Ethereum, along with Week in Ethereum News and EthHub (if they are out on when I compile my report, otherwise I use them to check for things I missed).
Crypto Trends
ERC777 reentrancy attacks
imBTC attacks on Uniswap and LendfMe
Attack vector on Uniswap:
Post-mortems:
Reentrancy is a feature:
ERC20 + permit (light weight approve and call mechanism):
Gitcoin Grants Round 5
Gitcoin Grants Round 5 is done.
Lots of discussion around the negative voting experiment (remembering grant recipients are real people)
Collusion (though apparently not in bad faith) in health round:
Mainnet-configuration Eth2 testnet
It's time to build
Detailed News
For more detailed news of the week see:
Week in Ethereum News
Includes:
- OpenZeppelin Contracts with Brownie
- OpenZeppelin Test Environment with Ganache options
- Flash-Mintable Asset-Backed Tokens
- ERC777 exploit by OpenZeppelin
https://weekinethereumnews.com/week-in-ethereum-news-april-19-2020/