Etherscan Newsletter Block #10: Hello World, Eth2!

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All eyes in Ethereum (if not crypto) have been on the Eth2 Phase 0 launch, with genesis finally beginning on December 1st. The long-awaited moment was, in true decentralized fashion, commemorated with the most profound of messages, "Mr F was here"! 😆

As Eth2 begins life, we've painstakingly built BeaconScan as a block explorer for its Beacon Chain. We hope it will be as useful for you as Etherscan has been! On Etherscan itself, we've added some ease-of-life tweaks to the User Interface. Token prices and transaction date time & gas price are now more easily accessible on the website.

This month, take a quiz on Eth2 and stand to win $10 in ETH!

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Highlights

4 Takeaways from Deposits into Eth2

Within a month of its announcement, the Eth2 deposit contract garnered more than 800,000 ETH of deposits. As the community celebrates the long-awaited milestone of this Eth2 Phase 0 launch, we highlight 4 takeaways from the deposits into its contract so far:

80% of Required Deposits Came in the Final 2 days
Top 20 Addresses Make Up <50% of Deposits
OPSEC Practices by the Community
Almost $400,000 Tokens in the Deposit Contract

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More Token Prices

You can now can see token prices on both the page title and in search suggestions!

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Transaction Date Time & Gas Price

Toggle between Days Ago & Date Time and Txn Fee & Gas Price on the Address page.

Futures fees only 0.02%

AAX now offers discounted futures fees at 0.02%, the lowest in the market!

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ECOSYSTEM

Eth2: An Explanatory Thread

A thread that walks you through the history of and design decisions made for Eth2: Proof of Stake, signature schemes and elliptic curves.

twitter.com/technocrypto

Yearn x Sushi integration, Yearn's 7th in one month

Yearn is blazing a path forward for DeFi integrations, doing so with 6 other projects: Akropolis, Cover, Cream, PowerPool, Pickle and Hegic.

medium.com/iearn

Geth Client's Post Mortem of a Partial Chain Split

Exchanges and dApps suffered withdrawal and downtime issues as several nodes using an older version of the Geth client temporarily forked from the main chain. The Geth team goes over this incident in its report on Github.

gist.github.com

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Crypto Services

A social engineering hack of GoDaddy, a leading domain name registrar, affected services such as the Liquid exchange and Nicehash miner.

krebsonsecurity.com

Court Divulges Breakdown of $4.2 Billion PlusToken Ponzi

A Chinese court detailed for the first time the exact amounts seized from PlusToken, including 833,083 ETH (just shy of deposits into Eth2 contract!).