ChainCatcher message, WazirX posted on X that it plans to hold the second Townhall meeting on September 16 at 18:00 to discuss the proposed restructuring plan draft.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jiemian News, the Microsoft Build 2024 developer conference was held in Seattle, USA, in the early morning of May 22. The company announced over 50 updates.Among the most noteworthy content are:Team Copilot, transforming personal intelligent assistants into team assistantsMicrosoft Fabric, providing real-time intelligent SaaS solutionsAzure AI, bringing new cutting-edge models and multimodal capabilitiesCobalt chip, updates on self-developed AI chipsAltman's spoiler on OpenAI's new modelOpenAI CEO Altman teased OpenAI's new model at the conference, stating that new modalities and overall intelligence will be key to OpenAI's next model. He mentioned that the model will become smarter, more powerful, and safer, and that GPT-4o will be faster and cheaper. Altman stated, "Now is not the time to delay plans or wait for the next opportunity; this is a special moment, and in the coming years, many things will happen, and many great new things will begin to emerge."

ChainCatcher news, according to BNB Chain validator @48ClubIan, summarized after a conference call with BNB Chain developers:BNB Beacon Chain will exit the historical stage within six months.The election mechanism for BSC Validators will be transferred from BNB Beacon Chain to BSC.The first dual-chain hard fork will take place in April this year, activating the BSC election mechanism, and after running in parallel for a while, the election mechanism on BC will be shut down.Existing stakers of validation nodes can choose to migrate to BSC (recommended), or unstake - cross-chain - re-stake (taking an additional 7 days). If no action is taken, they will be forcibly redeemed to their wallets when the BC election mechanism is shut down.However, since the Beacon Chain will be closed, assets will ultimately become invalid and need to be transferred before the chain stops. Affected assets include BEP-2, BEP-8, and BEP-5 Atomic Swap assets. After the migration is completed, it will be much more convenient for users to stake assets to validation nodes than it is now.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official Ethereum blog post, the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 7 will be held from November 12 to 15, 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand.The article points out that Devcon 7 is being prepared to be a more inclusive and regional event. To reflect this vision, it will be referred to as "Devcon Southeast Asia," rather than mentioning the name of the host city. The Ethereum community in Southeast Asia has tremendous potential, as evidenced by its rapidly growing cryptocurrency adoption rates. Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand are leading in the global cryptocurrency adoption index, highlighting the region's key role in the global Ethereum landscape.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy Research Vice President Christine Kim stated that on July 27, Ethereum core developers gathered on Zoom for the 114th All Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) call. The ACDC call, hosted by Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan, is held bi-weekly, where developers discuss and coordinate changes to the Ethereum Consensus Layer (CL). This week, developers discussed updates on the Deneb test work and two EIPs that may be considered for inclusion in the next CL upgrade after Deneb, now referred to as Electra.Last week, developers conducted a shadow fork of the Sepolia test network and are currently updating tools in preparation for the launch of Devnet #8. Devnet #8 is expected to be launched later this week or early next week. Ethereum Foundation researcher Hsiao-Wei Wang is preparing a new version of the CL code specification for Devnet #8, which will be ready for client teams before Monday, July 31.The next update will also include two EIP upgrades, namely EIP 6914 and EIP 6110. EIP 6914 introduces a method for reusing the validator index number of validators that have fully exited the beacon chain. By ensuring that there are no large gaps in the validator index when nodes process withdrawals and scan the validator set, unnecessary computational burdens on CL nodes can be prevented. EIP 6110 changes will attach new validator deposits to EL blocks, so that the responsibility for including and validating deposits is handled by EL rather than CL. This transfer of responsibility will bring several benefits, including: reduced complexity in Ethereum client software design; improved security of validator deposits; and enhanced user experience for validators.

ChainCatcher news, the EDCON (Community ETHereum Development Conference) 2024 annual conference for Ethereum developers will be held in Japan.It is understood that EDCON is a non-profit global annual Ethereum conference organized by Linktime, De University of Ethereum, and ETHPlanet, dedicated to serving the Ethereum ecosystem and promoting interaction and communication within the global Ethereum community.Since its inception in 2017, it has gathered over 10,000 participants, more than 2,000 developers, over 300 speakers, 450+ projects, and more than 400 supporters. The online event's viewership has even surpassed 300,000+. (source link)

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation announced that the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 7 will be held in Southeast Asia in 2024. When discussing why it will not be held in 2023, the Ethereum Foundation stated that it hopes to provide more time for the emerging Ethereum community in Southeast Asia to mature and further develop. Additionally, there are more Ethereum activities and communities globally than ever before, and the foundation hopes these local community activities will provide space for further development.The article also mentioned that Southeast Asia has significant untapped and growing opportunities, similar to the opportunities seen in South America. Four countries in Southeast Asia rank in the top 20 of the global crypto adoption index, with Vietnam and the Philippines ranking first and second, respectively. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, OP Labs CEO Liam Horne tweeted that Ethereum core developers will hold a conference call on Thursday to discuss the inclusion of EIP-4844 in the consideration framework (CFI). However, "inclusion in the consideration framework" does not mean that EIP-4844 will be included in the next hard fork; the content of the Shanghai upgrade will be discussed separately.It is reported that previously, Vitalik Buterin shared the idea of Proto-danksharding on Twitter (EIP-4844), which focuses on data validation scenarios for blob-carrying transactions that cannot be executed by the EVM. Proto-danksharding will replace Danksharding, a sharding technique where only one proposer selects all transactions and data entering this or that slot, rather than selecting a separate proposer for each shard. The solution proposed by Vitalik could be a temporary variant, as it includes the implementation of some sharding techniques. At the same time, it leads to an increase in data usage, as it requires a larger block size. Vitalik proposed to automatically delete blob data every 30 days to prevent excessive demands on data and memory storage from the network. (source link)

Chain Catcher news, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko recently released an update regarding the Ethereum core developer meeting: the consensus layer is expected to include ETH withdrawals from the Beacon Chain and the potential EIP-4844; on the execution layer, several EIPs are being considered for the Shanghai upgrade. The next Ethereum core developer meeting (AllCoreDevs) will be held on October 27, focusing on the planning for the Shanghai upgrade.In addition, the Kiln testnet has recently been shut down, the Ropsten testnet will close in December 2022, and Rinkeby will continue until mid-2023, but will not be applied to any network upgrades after the London hard fork, including The Merge. Infrastructure and tool providers are now beginning to withdraw support for these networks and will need to migrate to the Goerli or Sepolia testnets. (Source link)