News and Links
Protocol
Danny Ryan published the Casper FFG EIP. Economic security analysis. Stakers should earn a positive return if online 50-67% of the time (presumably this assuming your offline time is uncorrelated to other stakers being offline)
Last Friday’s core dev call. Lane’s notes.
Latest Plasma implementation call
Latest Casper call
Javascript implementation of CBC Casper
Hsiao-Wei Wang: Minimal sharding protocol extension
Sharding idea threads: As-fast-as-possible shard chains with notarization, Staggered periods across shards, Cryptoeconomic aggregate signatures for the main chain, RNG exploitability analysis assuming RANDAO-based main chain, Fork-free RANDAO
Liam Horne’s quick comparison of state channels, side chains, and Plasma
Stuff for developers
Zeppelin: proxy patterns
New release for Haskell web3 library
Web3.py v4.2.0 with local private key signing
Parity tutorial on writing smart contracts in WASM for Kovan
Reversing Solidity code, part 2
Tutorial on building a social platform for ERC721
Techniques for using Unreal Engine and ERC721
React Service Worker may thwart web3 injection in Android
Paratii.js preview - put a video stream and get a playable url
How Bloom is trying to solve UX
Crux, a secure enclave for Quorum written in Go
Releases
MyCrypto desktop alpha
“Is live” on mainnet section
AirSwap is live. Clean and easy UX
Aion main net is live
Ethorse is live - parimutuel better on price of Eth
CanYa service marketplace alpha is live
Adchain is live — first token curated registry on mainnet
Ecosystem
How uPort’s identity model preserves privacy with offchain data and new accounts for each dapp
Parity is decoupling the UI from the client
Benny Giang on the different categories of blockchain integration in games
Griff Green’s latest Open Block Explorers Now! call
BatchOverflow: A few tokens I had never heard of implemented a non-standard function in the token standard and a hacker found an overflow. Bitcoin maximalists temporarily got very excited.
DNS servers got hacked, leading some MEW users to be compromised. Never click ignore on a certificate warning for MEW/MyCrypto. More on the hack.
Connext’s two way payment channel on Rinkeby
Status is starting an incubator aimed mostly at mobile friendly dapps
Governance and Standards
Parity: we have no intention to split the Ethereum chain, refuting media misinterpretations
Lane Rettig essay on Ethereum governance, forks and recovery options
Alex Van de Sande on past and future Eth recovery
EIP1015: recovery through future issurance
Martin Holst Swende on EIP210: blockhash refactoring
All about ERC948’s subscription models
Project Updates
Updated OmiseGo strategy aiming at a crypto exchange this year
Iconomi q1 financial report
Where blockchain fits into Cellarius
Video demo of Balanc3
Video demo of OpenLaw employee offer letter and Openlaw video demo of Australian real estate sale
Bloqboard, a Dharma debt relayer, is live on Kovan
Colony: bounties aren’t the future of work, but salaries with reputation
0x: compliant p2p trading through a permissioned liquidity pool
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
EthLondon talks: NexusMutual, Liquidity Network, and BlockCollider
ConsenSys Dev AMA with Christian Reitwießner
Laura Shin on the other side of the mic with Software Engineering Daily
I chat with Coinbase’s Dan Romero
3 min outtake of Vitalik Buterin’s appearance on HBO Vice
Bernhard Mueller and Maurelian talk Mythril and Solidity security
MyCrypto’s Will O’Beirne on Hashing It Out
Karl Floersch on Epicenter
Tokens
Howard Yeah: Why Ethereum could be worth $1.7 trillion
Kleros token sale overview
KyberNetwork is thinking through new uses for its token
Parametric hurricane insurance for Puerto Rico using Etherisc
Mougayar on the state of the token market
Wayne Chang: Buidl, but go talk to your token users, learn, iterate. On that note, Makoto Inoue’s review of his coworkers’ UX issues when using his dapp
General
Gavin’s slides on Substrate, the underlying stack of Polkadot. webassembly, libp2p, Rust and Javascript implementations.
Vitalik on Weyl and Posner’s new book, Radical Markets
Kraken’s position on regulation. >25% of their employees in compliance.
The #MeToo message from China that has gotten lots of media attention. (click the ‘Convert to UT8’ button)
Tyler Cowen: skeptical on blockchains but realizes the possibilities are there
Ether Capital begins trading on Toronto stock exchange
Coincenter: No, Ether isn’t a security
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
April 27-29 -- Hackital Eth hackathon in Washington, DC
May 3-5 -- Edcon in Toronto
May 7-11 -- Swarm Summit in Ljubljana
May 10 -- Fluidity Summit on finance (NYC)
May 10 -- CryptoCup opens for World Cup predictions
May 11-12 -- Ethereal (NYC)
May 15 -- Kleros sale
May 16-17 -- Token Summit (NYC)
May 17 -- Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)
May 17-19 -- Melonport hackthon in Zug
May 18-20 -- EthMemphis hackathon
May 19-20 -- Hacketh (Warsaw)
May 25 - 28th -- EthBuenosAires hackathon
June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)
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