April 12, 2019
Ethereum will be the global settlement layer for the internet
News and Links
Layer 1
Prysmatic eth2 dev update - faster processing, multi-validators per machine, much more
Akhunov: Estimation of the size of contracts
Phase one and done: eth2 as data availability engine from Casey Detrio
The Inspector: An efficient finality test for CBC Casper
Stuff for developers
websnark: fast zkSnarks generation in the browser. 50k constraint proof in under 10 seconds
ZoKrates v0.4.4 - building identity-based snarks. adds BabyJubJub
ZEXE on Plasma from Edcon hackathon
Developing Eth games with Enjin - video live demo
Easily embed a Status chat room in your website
“Drop in solution for building Ethereum dApps in React” with support for all the web3 providers
Truffle Teams, zero-configuration continuous integration for Eth code
Truffle v5.0.12
Client releases
Pantheon too - link in enterprise
Ecosystem
Opera on desktop now comes with native web3 support and Eth wallet
Parity’s Fether light client desktop wallet in beta on mainnet
What Status learned from Chaos Unicorn Day when it turned off Infura/Etherscan
Marc-André Dumas turned his full node into an archive node using a low-end PC
proof of concept for messaging using Swarm, PSS and Feeds
Quantstamp writeup of their EthDenver VDF randomness simulation
Onboarding people with Austin Griffith: Emojicoin exchange. Also Amy Jung’s writeup of her experience onboarding her friends with a Burner Wallet Party
Flash Boys. Phil Daian, et al, paper on frontrunning argues that bad dex design may even provide miners with incentive to destabilize consensus. If you find academic papers to be dense, try Phil’s tweetstorm
Enterprise
Pantheon v1.0.3 with EEA permissioning and privacy standards
Governance and Standards
Latest core devs call. Agenda to follow along.
A call for Ethereum Foundation transparency
Aragon proposes that the Ethereum Foundation put some Eth in an Aragon DAO to be spent through on-chain governance
Proposal to prohibit Aragon from spending money to work on Polkadot.
Maker stability fee vote on going to 11.5%. Maker will also revamp its board, which Nikolai does not like.
ERC1925: zkSNARK verifier registry standard
EIP1930: Allows specification of a strict amount of gas for calls
Application layer
All about Augur v2: adding Dai, invalid as a tradable outcome, use it or lose it in a fork, affiliate marketing support, and lots more. Code is ready for audit.
Augur/0x sports frontend BlitzPredict is live on Kovan testnet
Flux - p2p derivatives on startups, so that you can short the next Theranos. Markets in everything!
DaiPrice. find the best price to buy Dai
Loopring v3 using snarks for app-specific rollup scalability
Ocean Protocol’s Nile testnet
From LarvaLabs/Cryptopunks: Autoglyphs. Unlike CryptoPunks or CryptoKitties, the artwork lives on-chain. Interesting interview with Matt and John.
Omisego - public alpha release on Rinkeby, 2700 transactions per second so far.
Dharma launch with better UX to borrow/lend Eth or Dai
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Celer Network’s Mo Dong on Into the Ether
Video of EF research team press conference at Edcon
Counterfactual’s Nima Vaziri on POV Crypto
Matter’s Alex Vlasov and Alex Gluchowski on Zero Knowledge
Simon de la Rouviere on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
New ZRX model: 0x to add small fee to order takers, market makers who stake ZRX receive liquidity reward
DeFi liquidity models: p2p v MMORPG v FPS
Set Protocol planning to launch its automatic managed portfolio tokens in the next month
France allows life insurance and investment funds to own crypto
General
Joe Lubin: Why Ethereum Will Become the Global Settlement Layer
Vitalik comment on Reddit about Ethereum progress
Karl and Vitalik Edcon rap video. “This is what happens when you code a lot”
Facebook is trying to raise a billion to collateralize the Zuck coin
2019 IPFS roadmap
NEAR’s new “Whale Fishing” sharding design
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
April 15-30 - Gitcoin/Microsoft Ethereal virtual hackathon
April 16 - RunEVM (Berlin)
April 17-18 - Magicians Istanbul planning (Berlin)
Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown
Apr 29 - Oslo Blockchain Day
May 4 - ENS Permanent Registrar launches
May 9 - Fluidity Summit (NYC)
May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)
May 16 - Token Summit (NYC)
May 17-19 - ETHNewYork
May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
May 23-25 - Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)
May 27-28 - EthCon Korea (Seoul)
June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
Aug 2-4 - ETHIndia (Bangalore)
Aug 2-4 - TruffleCon (Redmond)
Aug 21-23 - Dappcon (Berlin)
Aug 23-25 - ETHBerlin
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