News and Links
Layer 1
Lighthouse testnet is live
Protolambda testing in Eth2 tweetstorm
Eth2 staking pool Rocketpool dev update
Eric Conner: basics of Eth2 economics
Stuff for developers
Truffle releases: Truffle v5.0.11, Ganache v2.5.4 and Drizzle v1.4.0
EtherLime v1.1 - Solidity v0.5 support, React boilerplate, flattener, iden3 zk proof utility
web3js 1.0.0-beta.52
Understanding formal verification in K
Understanding privacy in IPFS
Parity to stop Kovan validating on April 26
Multi-file Solidity verification from Etherscan
Enigma open sources code for its upcoming release
Implementation of a Dead Man’s Switch multi-sig
Slither static analyzer v0.6.2
Mosaic: messaging for EVM sidechains using Merkle roots on Eth
ZEXE: Rust library for zk execution
Ecosystem
ZETH: Zerocash private transactions on Eth paper. Github.
Writeup of the zkDAO POC built at ETHParis - anon voting using AZTEC
Vitalik Buterin: on collusion
Enterprise
Governance and Standards
Notes from last core dev call
Brukhman: a relative valuation model for governance tokens
ERC1891: Contract-based Account Versioning
ERC1892: ERC20D rent-compatible ERC20 migration
ERC1890: Commitment to Sustainable Ecosystem Funding
EIP1901: Add OpenRPC Service Discovery To JSON-RPC Services
ERC1895: Support for an Elliptic Curve Cycle
ERC1913: Casper PEPoW Token Standard for Layer 2 Solutions
ERC1921: Extending the Decentralized Type System for Functions
Loredana Cirstea: A Vision of a System Registry for The World Computer and Decentralized Type System & Functional Programming on Ethereum in support of EIP1900
Application layer
Grid+ agrees to exclusive Singapore distribution deal
“Decentralized Github” project Pando is live on Rinkeby testnet
BloomID launches on Android
Omise Holdings - Vansa now leads OmiseGo and Donnie leads Omise
Golem v0.19.1. And a 3rd party does Golem Grid to buy compute with credit card
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani on Into the Ether
Magmo’s Tom Close on NEAR Whiteboard series
ENS AMA on r/ethereum
MyCrypto’s Harry Denley on Hashing It Out
PCMag interview transcript with Joe Lubin
Tokens / Business / Regulation
SEC finally issues a framework for how they apply Howey to digital assets. Concurrently, it issues first no action letter.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Unchained
Canadian feds are after Vanbex for fraud and tax evasion
TrustToken launches GBP token
Darma Capital: why we chose Ether as our first asset to “Optimize Long”
General
Zilliqa went live with the first transactions on a sharded blockchain
Andreessen Horowitz is going to become an RIA so it can put more money into crypto
Jutta Steiner op-ed in Forbes: web3 lets us take back control of our data
Paper on IOTA’s crypto vulnerabilities
Class groups for accumulators without trusted setups
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
April 12 - Next core devs call
April 15-30 - Gitcoin/Microsoft Ethereal virtual hackathon
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)
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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