April 19, 2019 Week in Ethereum News

"developer momentum . . . Ethereum is the choice"

News and Links

Layer 1

• Latest Eth2 implementer call. Notes from the call.

• Proposal to boost Eth2 staking rewards which would put inflation at ~1%.

• Eth2 simulations inside Barcelona Supercomputer with open source code

• ewasm updates deck

• CBC Casper safety

Layer 2

• Livepeer: probabilistic micropayments protocol

• Counterfactual update now with CREATE2 code and public project mgmt

• Plasma Chamber dapp dev framework

• Gudgeon, et al, layer 2 overview paper

Stuff for developers

• Infura: faster Eth logs and events

• Truffle v5.0.13 - decoder improvements

• Ganache v2.0.1

• Embark 4.1.0-beta.0 

• Keep’s Random Beacon using threshold relay

• Nodesmith’s JSON RPC API access through Websocket

• Automatic security checks with Mythos and CircleCi

• Signature replay vulnerabilities in Ethereum

• FunFair on building their own native wallet

• How to link libraries into Solidity code generated by solc

• 3rd party contract interaction in Burner Wallet

• accumulators with RSA and class group interfaces in Rust

• 0x Mesh architecture doc

Clients

• Geth v1.8.27

• Péter Szilágyi on v1.9: “speed up Geth fast sync by 57%, reduce disk reads by 44% and writes by 26%”

• Fredrik Harrysson: the future is a myriad of specialized clients

Ecosystem

• What you need to do for the new ENS registrar. Also what they plan to do with domain registration fees

• Loredana: what would a file system for an Eth OS look like?

• An Ethereum governance survey

• Ethereum community was born on r/ethereum, how to keep r/ethereum viable

• 3box: your own personal hub for your data

Enterprise

• EY announces it will opensource “private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain using zk-snarks” to run on the public chain. Paul Brody: “developer momentum … makes me believe that, imperfect or not, unless they really screw up, Ethereum is the choice.” Long time ecosystem watchers will remember Brody’s pioneering IoT work back in 2015.

• EEA Token Taxonomy Initiative

• How Minespider uses blockchain to ensure an ethical supply chain

• Michael del Castillo’s reporting confirms that Ethereum/Quorum lead enterprise blockchain

Governance and Standards

• Notes from last core dev call

• List of proposed EIPs for next hard fork

• Aragon vote #2 on April 25th

• New token standard for eth2

• Last call for ERC777

• EIP1955: specify cliquey (clique v2)

• ERC1948: non-fungible data token

• ERC1949: delayed distributed mining

Application layer

• The new dYdX is in alpha on mainnet - up to 4x margin with non-tokenized positions

• Uniswap dashboard

• Whisp, a free payroll tool for Eth or Dai

• Golem’s Graphene initiative to make SGX dapp production worthy. 1st stable release in next few months

• Game of Thrones death pool

• Dai Stability Fee to 14.5%

• Dharma “ReFi with DeFi” offers 8.5% CDP refinancing

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

• ETHCapeTown Q&A with Vitalik

• Vitalik Buterin Ethereum Singapore meetup talk

• Dharma’s Brendan Forster on BlockCrunch

• Istanbul planning videos

• Autoglyph/CryptoPunk’s Matt Hall and John Watkinson on Digitally Rare

• Decentralize data call

• The Graph’s Yaniv Tal on Epicenter

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• Kleros on learnings from arbitration in TCRs to help exchange due diligence

• For the next month you can lock your Gnosis tokens to generate OWL

• Token creation platforms this week: Mintable in beta to create and manage NFTs. Meanwhile Moken NFT creation becomes gasless and free in exchange for 20% of proceeds. or OST for ERC20s

• Panvala is looking for patrons after Rinkeby testnet release

General

• Applications close April 21st to be a validator on Trustlines’ “minimum viable PoS Eth sidechain”

• Coinbase enables crypto-to-crypto trading in a bunch of countries to counter Binance.

• Intro to the PCP theorem from PegaSys’s Olivier Bégassat

• STARK math, part 5

• Buterin: on free speech

• libp2p forums

• Sergio Demian Lerner: Satoshi mined 1.1m bitcoins

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Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

• Apr 19-21 - ETHCapeTown

• Apr 25 - Aragon vote #2

• Apr 29 - Oslo Blockchain Day

• May 4 - ENS Permanent Registrar launches

• May 9 - Fluidity Summit (NYC)

• May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

• May 16 - Eth2 workshop (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 8-9 - WASM in blockchains (Berlin)

• 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

• Sep 16-17 - Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)

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