Despite Black Thursday last month, Leigh Cuen of CoinDesk points to the increase in interest around #DeFi and stablecoins.

“Generally speaking, lending and borrowing are here to stay.”
Quoted, Quantstamp CEO Richard Ma

Read the full article 👇🏽
https://www.coindesk.com/chicagos-trading-firms-look-to-defi-with-new-alliance

ETH 2.0 is the most highly anticipated launch this year. We look forward to auditing Prysmatic Lab’s ETH 2.0 Client and helping Ethereum grow to the next level. https://twitter.com/Quantstamp/status/1255307239235125248?s=20

DeFi Attacks ⚔️
Crypto against Covid 🦠
Maker Backstop Auction 🔨
DID Alliance 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Here’s what happened at Quantstamp in April:
https://quantstamp.com/blog/quantstamp-community-update-april-2020

Watch Quantstamp Senior Research Engineer Sebastian Banescu discuss how we are collaborating with the World Economic Forum to reduce corruption in the procurement process in Colombia at the Ethereal Virtual Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYnGnne8vZ8&feature=youtu.be

At #ETHDenver 2019, we created an ETH 2.0 beacon chain simulator. Read the post below to discover what we learned at the time. 📚
https://quantstamp.com/blog/presenting-quantstamps-ethdenver-beacon-chain-implementation

Recent hacks highlight the urgent need for smart contract developers to revisit best practices. Developing tests has the highest ROI for enhancing smart contract security.

Click on the post below to learn more. 🧪 🛡

https://t.co/i6IxAqNNu2?amp=1

Calling all Hackers!

It’s the final week for the Gitcoin #NYBW Hackathon and now is the time to work on quality testing for your submission.

Win the 500DAI bounty to a submission with the highest quality testing suite. #MoneyLegos #SecureDeFi

🐞 https://gitcoin.co/issue/quantstamp/NYBW2020-Gitcoin-Hackathon-Bounty/1/4377

Want to learn how to be an ETH 2.0 Validator? 🌐

Our latest article explains how to setup a Prysm ETH 2.0 Validator on Topaz Testnet 🔶

We're happy to be auditing Prysm, and hope this helps you learn more about ETH 2.0

https://quantstamp.com/blog/how-to-be-an-eth-2-0-validator-on-the-topaz-testnet

This week's Customer Spotlight goes to BuyCoins, a Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange that not only sells cryptocurrencies, but uses public blockchains to solve real world problems.

Customers also ❤️ them because of their great customer service.

https://buycoins.africa/

Here's what happened at Quantstamp in May:

Auditing ETH 2.0 🔶

Gitcoin NYBW Hackathon 🏙️

Solidity Summit 💻

Read more 👇

https://quantstamp.com/blog/quantstamp-community-update-may-2020

Are you excited about the launch of ETH 2.0 but confused about how far along we are in the development process?

We made the following post just for you. 😁

https://quantstamp.com/blog/understanding-phase-0-the-current-stage-of-eth-2-0-development

Want to be an ETH 2.0 Validator but don’t know how?

Our latest video walks you through how to setup a Prysmatic Labs ETH 2.0 Validator on Topaz Testnet 🔶

Practice setting up a validator without risking real funds, and help test ETH 2.0💠

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtNL0ZOv0k8

Onward! 🦄
Prysmatic Labs introduces the Onyx Test Network targeting v0.12.1 of the official Ethereum 2.0 specification aimed to be the final, non-trivial spec update before mainnet for phase 0.

The Onyx Testnet is multiclient ready! 💥

🔹 Full mainnet configuration
🔹 Latest ETH2 phase 0 spec v0.12.1
🔹 Multiclient ready
🔹 80+ contributors
🔹 80+ contributors
https://medium.com/prysmatic-labs/introducing-the-onyx-testnet-6dadbd95d873

Quantstamp is mentioned in CoinTelegraph today! We're proud to have partnered with the World Economic Forum to explore how blockchain technology can prevent corruption in public procurement. 🔐

https://cointelegraph.com/news/world-economic-forum-suggests-fighting-corruption-with-blockchain-tech

FYI: A security vulnerability was found today in the BancorNetwork v0.6 contract published recently on June 16, 2020.

Bancor has published a post explaining the issue, as well as important instructions for anyone who has traded on Bancor in the past 48 hours.

https://blog.bancor.network/bancors-response-to-today-s-smart-contract-vulnerability-dc888c589fe4

Is Ethereum 2.0 just a speed upgrade for Ethereum?

Will there be a new token for ETH 2.0?

Find out the answers to these questions and more 👇

https://quantstamp.com/blog/4-myths-about-ethereum-2-0

Dear decentralized node operators:

We recommend updating block_mined_polling_interval_sec to 5 in qsp-protocol-node/blob/develop/resources/config.yaml#L71

Recently we noticed some rate-limiting on requests that results in throttling for some nodes. Updating polling interval to 5 would solve the rate limiting issue, thanks!

In the latest Ethereum 2.0 dev update, Prysmatic Labs updates us on the status of the Onyx testnet and mentions the potential vulnerabilities discovered by Quantstamp.

https://medium.com/prysmatic-labs/eth-2-0-dev-update-52-onyx-testnet-launched-a87a937f292e

Concerns regarding EVM opcodes CREATE2 and SELFDESTRUCT were recently highlighted by Independent Researcher Alexey Akhunov.

To learn more about this issue, check out Quantstamp Research Engineer Alex Murashkin's presentation on the subject at the last ETHCC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR2dKdtJflY&list=PL5DjNdVrF_lsTl5zIMKi4DoJmFvnixxSV&index=4