News and Links
Protocol
First sharding implementers call. Notes and links from the call
Prysmatic’s implementation update.
Vitalik: a guide to 99% fault tolerant consensus
Rocketpool with an Ethereum 2.0 explainer
Cardano published their comparison of Ouroboros and Casper. Vitalik was not impressed.
Latest Casper standup call
Latest Plasma implementation call
Off-chain Plasma state validation with on-chain smart contract
Loom adds ETH and ERC20 support to their Plasma Cash implementation
Celer + L4 to collaborate on state channel research and standards (eg, encoding)
Etherships live on Kovan - state channels PoC for Battleship. Github
Bloom’s payment channels using Whisper live on Rinkeby
Barry Whitehat: elliptic curve cryptography inside a zksnark on ethereum
Chia open sources their BLS implementation in C++
Vitalik position paper on pricing transactions. Tangential: is GasToken good or bad?
Stuff for developers
MetaMask to stop injecting web3 on Nov 2.
Deploying and upgrading a simple dapp with ZeppelinOS tutorial by Elena Nadolinski
Howard Yeah: code analysis of FoMo3D curved bonding
SecurEth guidelines on coding to “aerospace-grade security”
how data is stored in Ethereum in levelsdb
Rattle: an EVM binary static analysis framework from TrailofBits
Surya adds c3 linearization feature to understand inheritance graphs
libsnark tutorial from Christian Lundkvist and Sam Mayo
Iuri Matias video walkthrough of Embark v3.1
Dharma launches their developer portal. well documented
AirSwap dev series, pt 2
Coinbase on scaling for traffic spikes
Runtime Verification: how formal verification of smart contracts works. Also: Everett Hildenbrandt KEVM presentation
Reference list of Ethereum Python tooling
Azure adds Parity’s PoA consensus, as well as wasm.
Crux v1.0 secure enclave for Quorum
Ecosystem
ETHBerlin is dogfooding web3 dapps - Status, Bounties Network, Blockparty, Livepeer, WindingTree, Gnosis, ENS
uPort: a proposal for user-managed data
Zymbit and Oaken’s I2C, Raspberry Pi ready blockchain security module is now available for preorder, to ship mid-Sept
A Zapier integration for Ethereum events
ENS partnership with MMX to make .luxe the first TLD with DNS and ENS support. How ENS uses the DNSSEC chain of trust for claiming your DNS via ENS. And get a bounty from Gitcoin for integrating ENS into your dapp’s architecture
Governance and Standards
ERC1167 Minimal proxy contract is now in last call
Project Updates
The future of Golem: mid-term goals and using SGX
Aragon decentralizes into two teams. The original team (Aragon One) and a Giveth DAC, both funded by the Aragon Foundation.
MetaMask August update
A walk through to registering as an artist on Ujo
Eric Berry: What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source with CodeFund/GitCoin
New Gnosis mission statement: redistribute the future
Lattice1: the evolution of Grid+ agent in order to “duplicate the convenience and security that is presently available in the banking system”
Joey Krug on making Augur fast, cheap and easy to use
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Prysmatic’s Preston Van Loon and Raul Jordan on Zero Knowledge
ENS print Q&As with Virgil Griffith, Dean Eigenmann and Becca Liebert
web3 onchain governance discussion from Polkadot, Colony, Tezos, POA Network and Cosmos
Spankchain’s Ameen Soleimani on BoostVC
Ryan Selkis talks to Patrick OShaughnessy
Dharma’s Nadav Hollander on Smartest Contract
SoftwareEngineeringDaily tackles token types with Paratii’s Felipe Pereira
Aya Miyaguchi and Albert Ni: Decentralization by Substraction at DWebSummit
All the videos from Ethereum Core Dev Conf (ECDC)
Tokens
Ether as a store of national security?
Centrifuge: User-mintable, privacy-enabled NFTs
General
Prominent Republican congressman discloses he owns ETH, BTC, and BCH. First member of US congress to disclose.
Economist: blockchains could breathe new life into prediction markets.
Starbucks, Microsoft and ICE announce Bakkt: “launch of regulated, physical Bitcoin futures contract and warehouse planned for Nov 2018”
Status and Nim partnership will let Nim hire fulltime devs
USV’s Dani Grant on the distributed computing layer of the web3 stack.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
August 10-12 - ETHIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
August 10-12 - ENS workshop and hackathon (London)
August 19 - deadline to submit Devcon4 talk/workshop/discussion
August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)
September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
September 15-16 - Kiev DappDev hackathon
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)
Nov 2 - MetaMask to stop injecting web3
Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
December - ETHSingapore hackathon
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