ChainCatcher news, according to Blockworks, Anza has proposed two proposals to implement a slashing mechanism in the network, primarily targeting the so-called "duplicate blocks" to penalize validators, which refers to the situation where the same block is created twice. Anza has not yet decided on the specific economic details of the penalty mechanism, but the author of SIMD suggested destroying (or functionally abolishing) the staked tokens that are penalized.Anza's Ashwin Sekar also proposed a parabolic penalty curve: if 5% of a validator's staked tokens are in violation, then 1% of their staked tokens will be destroyed; if 33% of the staked tokens are in violation, then all staked tokens will be penalized. Sekar explained in a validator discussion session that Ethereum's penalty curve is linear. Sekar also stated that the penalty proposal is still in its early stages, and such updates are not expected to be released until the summer of 2025 at the earliest.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum community's support for raising the Gas limit is gradually increasing, with the validator support ratio rising from 1% a year ago to 10%. Ethereum core developer Eric Connor and former MakerDAO smart contract lead Mariano Conti launched the "Pump The Gas" website in March, advocating for raising the Gas limit to 40 million to reduce transaction fees by 15%-33%.They are calling on stakers, client teams, and the community to jointly promote this change. In December, researcher Justin Drake configured his validator to a Gas limit of 36 million, further supporting this proposal. Emmanuel Awosika, creative director of 2077 Collective, also pointed out that the current Gas limit restricts the deployment of high-demand applications.However, some individuals have expressed concerns, arguing that raising the Gas limit could jeopardize network stability and security, with Toni Wahrstätter from the Ethereum Foundation issuing a warning about this.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the liquid staking platform Marinade Finance on Solana is discussing a governance proposal to address malicious validator nodes and democratize MEV (Maximum Extractable Value).Marinade proposes a "balanced" approach that reduces harmful MEV while fairly distributing related profits through an open market. The proposal suggests establishing a public committee to oversee delegation activities and blacklist malicious validator nodes. Additionally, it recommends reopening public trading pools to prevent MEV flow concentration in a few private trading pools and proposes funding for MEV research to enhance transparency and data accessibility.Researchers point out that the current centralization issue of MEV is worsening, particularly with sandwich attack behaviors threatening Solana's decentralization. Marinade hopes to seek community feedback through the governance proposal and ultimately vote and implement based on the opinions received.

ChainCatcher news, according to Forbes, Uniswap Labs recently announced the launch of its new blockchain Unichain, while Uniswap has long been a key driver of activity on the Ethereum mainnet. As Uniswap transitions to its own chain, validators on the Ethereum network could lose approximately $400 million to $500 million in revenue annually.But more serious than this economic loss is the threat to Ethereum's fundamental narrative as a deflationary currency. Uniswap's universal router is the largest account consuming gas fees, accounting for 14.5% of Ethereum's gas fees, equivalent to the destruction of $1.6 billion worth of Ethereum. This means that the effectiveness of the burn mechanism will weaken, further undermining Ethereum's economic position.

ChainCatcher message, Saga posted on X reminding that: "The SG-1 (@sg1_online) account key has been compromised, but no funds are affected, and the network remains secure. A new SG-1 validator node is now online, and the foundation has unstaked 16 million Saga tokens from the old SG-1. If users previously delegated to the old SG-1, please re-delegate."

ChainCatcher message, Starknet posted on X that the core infrastructure for STRK staking has been deployed to the Starknet mainnet. The Validator tools are now in use, and users holding at least 20,000 STRK tokens and running a full node can become Validators.The UI and DApp for Delegators will go live with the official release tomorrow.

ChainCatcher news, Vitalik published a long article on Warpcast titled "Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 1: The Merge," in which he emphasized the exploration of "what improvements can be made to the technical design of proof of stake, and what are the pathways to achieve this goal?"Vitalik stated that the three goals of Ethereum staking are to maximize the number of validators that can participate in staking (which directly means minimizing the minimum ETH required for staking); to minimize the time for finality; and to minimize the overhead of running a node. Ideally, he hopes to maintain economic finality while improving the status quo in two areas: completing blocks within a time slot (ideally, maintaining or even reducing the current length of 12 seconds), rather than 15 minutes; and allowing validators to stake with 1 ETH (below the 32 ETH requirement).

ChainCatcher news, the privacy public chain Namada announced that the Anoma Foundation is launching the Namada delegation program, with applications now open and a deadline of October 31, 2024. This program will be used to delegate up to 50 validator nodes. Accepted validators will receive a 6-month delegation from the Anoma Foundation to help with the network's decentralization, stability, and security.

ChainCatcher message, the Unichain white paper states that to become a validator in UVN, node operators must stake UNI tokens on the Ethereum mainnet. The staking status is tracked in Unichain's smart contract, which receives notifications of staking and withdrawal operations through a native bridge. Unichain's blocks are divided into fixed-length Epochs. At the beginning of each Epoch, the current staked balance is snapshot, and Unichain chain fees are collected and calculated for the reward value of each staked token.Participants can also stake and vote for validators, thereby increasing the staking weight of that validator. A limited number of validators with the highest staking weight will be considered the active set and will be eligible to publish proofs and receive the designated rewards for that Epoch.

ChainCatcher news, the developer of zkVM, Nexus, has launched the first test version of the Nexus network, which is an open validator network.The team stated: "This is the first distributed validator network based on zero-knowledge virtual machines that anyone can access. The network aggregates the collective power of any connected device, from large-scale GPU farms to computers or smartphones. Our goal is to unite computers around the world to form a single supercomputer capable of proving all computations on the internet, thereby unlocking a verifiable internet."

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Japanese telecom company NTT Digital has officially joined Injective as its latest validator.It is reported that NTT is one of the Fortune Global 500 companies.

ChainCatcher message, the public chain Zilliqa posted on X that the network is now back online for validators and is deploying permanent fixes for public use. The team will provide updates as they become available.Yesterday's news, Zilliqa stated on X that the network encountered issues again after several days. The team has identified the error and will resolve it as soon as possible. All funds are safe. They added that this error is not caused by the Zilliqa 2.0 upgrade.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared a summary of his fireside chat at the Home Staking Summit in Singapore on social media, discussing the real value of independent stakers (including small businesses and community stakers) to the network, and what transformations L1 can undertake to better support these stakers.Vitalik stated that independent stakers are both the "first line of defense" for the Ethereum network, providing censorship resistance, and the "last line of defense," protecting the network by preventing the final confirmation of erroneous chains at 67%. Independent stakers are typically not associated with large organizations, making them difficult to capture or coerce by regulators, thereby enhancing Ethereum's position as a trusted neutral block space.Vitalik proposed the possibility of increasing the required validator ratio (e.g., from 67% to 85%) to enhance network security. However, he also pointed out that this could bring new challenges, such as lowering the cost of attacks that prevent final confirmations. Additionally, Ethereum's network security strategy may need to be reassessed. Currently, 33% of staked ETH represents the highest attack cost for hijacking the blockchain. However, this status quo suggests that there may be an over-investment in defending against positive attacks above 33%, recommending a reallocation of resources to strengthen defenses against "above 66%" attacks.Vitalik emphasized the importance of increasing the number of independent stakers, making them a key component of the current final confirmation threshold, and explored measures that the Ethereum base layer (L1) could take to better support and encourage independent staking.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, this week, Ethereum's core developers decided to split the network's next major upgrade, Pectra, into at least two parts, with the first update expected to be released around February 2025.Currently, regardless of which tokens are transferred, Gas fees on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, and other Layer 2 networks must be paid in ETH. A proposal included in the first part of Pectra, EIP-7702, will effectively end this requirement, allowing users to pay Gas fees with other more versatile cryptocurrencies.Another improvement is EIP-7251, which will allow Ethereum stakers to earn rewards on staked amounts exceeding 32 ETH. For example, users currently staking 40 ETH cannot earn from the additional 8 ETH or gain voting rights. This will significantly reduce the bandwidth requirements for the entire Ethereum network.Additionally, two other proposals included in the initial version of Pectra, EIP-6110 and EIP-7002, will also implement fully automated and permissionless ETH staking pools for the first time. The remainder of Pectra may not arrive until 2026.

ChainCatcher news, Firedancer blockchain and protocol engineer Liam Heeger announced at Solana Breakpoint that the Solana validator client Firedancer, developed by Jump Crypto, is now live on the mainnet (non-voting mode).

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by SolanaFloor on the X platform, Jump Crypto's Solana independent validator client Firedancer has officially launched on the testnet. It is reported that Firedancer can handle up to 1 million transactions per second (TPS).

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized public network Nillion announced on X the launch of its validator program. Validators will ensure the integrity of data across the network and play a key role in maintaining security and preparing for the mainnet launch. Early validators will have the opportunity to gain recognition for their contributions, allowing them to stand out in the community.Nillion stated that as the network develops, more complex economic models will be introduced, such as token-based incentive pools, where users can add additional incentives to ensure regular data validation. Early participants will be able to benefit from these developments as their contributions will be highly valued within the network.Previous news reported that Nillion completed a $20 million funding round in 2022, with a valuation of $400 million.According to Web3 asset data platform RootData, Nillion is a decentralized public network based on a new cryptographic primitive called Nil Message Compute (NMC), which allows nodes in a decentralized network to operate in a unique, non-blockchain manner. Nillion unlocks important new utilities in Web3 by enabling use cases such as decentralized credit scoring, decentralized trusted execution environments, private NFTs, and decentralized secure storage services.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, MonkeDAO has launched an internal investigation in response to allegations that validator node earnings have been misappropriated. The allegations claim that since December of last year, approximately half of the validator node earnings (about 586 SOL, currently worth $89,200) have not been returned to the DAO's treasury. MonkeDAO's General Counsel Ariel Givner stated that the DAO is aware of the matter and is ensuring operational transparency and accountability, committing to provide a detailed explanation and address any potential issues.