Next week, the highly anticipated ethereum mainnet London upgrade will be officially activated at block 1,2965,000 (expected on August 5).
Previously, the three Ethereum testnets Ropsten, Goerli, and Rinkeby have all successfully activated the London upgrade, while the testnet Kovan will be upgraded after the Ethereum mainnet is upgraded.
The London upgrade mainly includes 5 EIPs, namely EIP-1559, EIP-3198, EIP-3529, EIP-3541 and EIP-3554. Among them, EIP-1559 and EIP-3554 have a greater impact. After EIP-1559 is activated, the calculation method of Ethereum’s GAS fee will be changed to basic fee plus tip, and the basic fee will be directly destroyed by the system, and miners will no longer receive the basic fee. This will reduce the circulation of ETH to a certain extent and increase The ecological value of Ethereum, but whether it can fundamentally solve the problems of congestion and high gas fees, it will take time to verify. EIP-3554 mainly involves delaying the time of difficulty bombs. The difficulty bombs have been delayed three times before and are currently tentatively postponed to December 1, 2021. Among other EIPs, EIP-3198 was implemented to assist EIP-1559, with the purpose of returning the basic fee of the current block. After EIP-3541 is implemented, the network will reject new smart contracts starting with 0xEF, and existing smart contracts will not be affected. EIP-3529 modified some operation codes to refund GAS.
It should be noted that node operators need to upgrade the client version they are running to achieve compatibility with the London upgrade. The following client versions support the London upgrade of the Ethereum mainnet. The client version of the testnet does not support the London upgrade of the mainnet. Client version.
In addition, the Ethereum storage project Swarm will distribute ColinList public offering and airdrop tokens around August 2nd. A total of more than 5,000 nodes have been selected as trusted nodes, and other nodes that meet the conditions can also receive 0.1 BZZ rewards. The purpose of this airdrop is not only to reward node operators who help run the testnet, but also to allow more people to interact with data on the mainnet.
In terms of supervision, Binance’s adjustment of the withdrawal limit for the first batch of old users will take effect. After users complete their identity verification, the daily withdrawal limit will be increased from 0.006 BTC to 100 BTC. Since Binance was investigated by the US Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service on May 13, Binance has been investigated or warned by regulatory agencies in six countries including Japan, the United Kingdom, and Thailand. In addition, many financial institutions have restricted their payment services and are deeply trapped in the world. Supervision whirlpool. Binance also responded to this round of regulatory turmoil, including launching an online tax declaration API and limiting the leverage of new users. CEO Changpeng Zhao also responded that he would continue to develop an international compliance team and cooperate with regulatory agencies.
In addition, Google will lift the advertising ban on cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets that meet the conditions and are certified by Google from August 3rd. However, advertisements related to initial coin offerings (ICO) and transactions still cannot be published. A Google spokesperson said that the move is to better match the existing financial crime law enforcement network supervision and requirements.
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August 6
- The art exhibition co-sponsored by NDG Digital Gallery and the crypto artist community Stratosphere DAO ends
August 7
- CoinList will provide pledge support for EGL, the protocol that determines Ethereum Gas Limit through governance
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