ChainCatcher message, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the X platform, thanking the research teams and leaders who drive innovation.He pointed out that exploring new areas is filled with risks and uncertainties, but it is this courage that drives progress. He especially thanked leaders such as Ilya, Jakub, Bob, Mark, and the "Strawberry Team" led by @MillionInt (Jerry Tworek), calling their achievements one of the most outstanding demonstrations of leadership in OpenAI's history, and looks forward to more breakthroughs in the future.

ChainCatcher news, Base co-founder Jesse Pollak disclosed that the Base research team has launched a proof of concept (POC) for the cross-L2 calling standard RIP-7755. This standard aims to achieve seamless cross-chain interoperability between different Ethereum Layer 2 networks, particularly mainstream Layer 2 networks like Optimism and Arbitrum.Base research team member Jack Chuma stated that the proof of concept for RIP-7755 is applicable to blockchains that comply with the EIP-4788 standard, and it can currently verify the state of OP Stack chains and Arbitrum.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official blog, the EcoDev research team of the Ethereum Foundation has announced the launch of five six-month research fellowship positions, which are now open for applications. This fellowship provides participants with the opportunity to deeply explore underdeveloped Ethereum application scenarios, identifying potential obstacles and driving factors that may affect their development. The Ethereum Foundation invites researchers, developers, community members, and professionals from other industries to apply by submitting background information and a one-page research proposal, looking forward to receiving innovative ideas focused on emerging Ethereum application scenarios that should: substantially and uniquely benefit from Ethereum's capabilities; focus on application scenarios that can create positive outcomes and real-world benefits; and have not yet received significant attention or in-depth exploration within the Ethereum ecosystem.The fellowship focuses on researching broader, underexplored application areas rather than specific products or pre-commercialization development. Proposals for incremental improvements in areas that have already received ample research and funding support, such as automated market makers (AMMs), lending protocols, digital art, collectible intellectual property, prediction markets, domain names, etc., will not be accepted.Fellows will receive a monthly stipend to support their work; they are required to submit progress reports each month and a final report summarizing their findings at the end of the six months. Additionally, fellows will need to present their work to the EcoDev research team and have the opportunity to share insights at public events.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Foundation core researcher Justin Drake posted on X that at 21:00 Beijing time on September 5, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) research team will hold an official AMA event on Reddit, where EF researchers will answer various questions from the community on the relevant homepage.It is reported that this is the 12th official AMA in the team's history, with the last AMA held earlier this year in January (before the Cancun upgrade).

ChainCatcher news, Vitalik Buterin refuted the statement made by Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi regarding "the research team fully accepting the idea that everything centralized as long as it can be verified": "I just attended the EF research workshop last week, and I can confirm this is incorrect. We had various discussions on minimizing centralization, including:In-depth analysis of multi-proposers to see if we can completely eliminate the builder role;Maximizing the power of inclusion lists (FOCIL);Ideas on fork choice depending on the inclusiveness of transactions;Analysis of Orbit SSF and ideas on accelerating the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which could reduce the minimum deposit size by more than 10 times before we conduct SSF;Distributed block building for PeerDAS;Networking analysis and bandwidth optimization for PeerDAS and fullDAS;Making recovery from 51% attacks more partially automated, reducing reliance on the 'social layer';Ensuring inclusion lists are fully applicable to (i) blobs and (ii) native account abstraction (e.g., EIP-7560) transactions."Previously, Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi expressed concerns on social media about the direction of Ethereum's development, with his views involving the Ethereum PeerDAS proposal, which suggests increasing the Ethereum blob size to 32 MB. Szilágyi believes that the PeerDAS upgrade will hinder home stakers (typically those with simpler computational setups) from participating in the Ethereum network, which goes against the spirit of decentralization.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, GMX paid $1 million in bug bounties to Collider's research team in 2022 to reward them for discovering vulnerabilities in the internal mechanisms of the GMX protocol.It is reported that GMX has fixed the vulnerability and recently released detailed information about it.

ChainCatcher news, the Grayscale research team recently published an article exploring the potential of the Bitcoin Ordinals NFT market, believing that Ordinals have a positive impact on the Bitcoin network in two key areas: increasing Bitcoin miner fees and potentially fostering a cultural transformation within the Bitcoin community."Ordinals are a new development that has emerged recently, but they have already accumulated over a million Ordinals in just four months, even during a bear market. Although Bitcoin is often described as a 'stagnant' blockchain, this unexpected surge in popularity may indicate a shift in the broader perception of Bitcoin.While there are reasonable concerns, we believe that in the long run, Ordinals may have a positive impact on the Bitcoin network and can attract a new wave of enthusiastic users and developers to embrace the Bitcoin community." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, asset management giant Fidelity is forming its cryptocurrency research team and is hiring a head for its cryptocurrency and token research development team.The job advertisement states, "They will research the data and technical frameworks used to evaluate tokens, as well as the relevant blockchain protocols that underpin the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency and DeFi economy." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum Foundation research team will hold a Reddit AMA on January 11 at 21:00, during which team members will answer questions from community users. (source link)