News and Links
Protocol
[Shasper] Psymatic’s biweekly update
[VDF] some requirements for an Ethereum 2.0 VDF
[Casper] Latest Casper standup
[Plasma] OMG’s Plasma implementation in Elixir
[State channels] Ledger channels and virtual channels
Stuff for developers
Truffle v5.0.0 released. web3js 1.0, bring your own compiler, and lots more
Augesco, a drizzle competitor
Truffle University - graduates get a job as a blockchain dev or their money back. 120 applications in the first day
Civil’s event crawler in Go
EtherVM: EVM opcodes and disassembler
2dproxy: delegatecall proxy that delegatecalls the constructor
Patrick McCorry’s battleship state channel code
NuCypher releases nuFHE (fully homomorphic encryption) library with orders of magnitude efficiency improvement
Gitcoin requests: ask for a bounty on any Github issue
Robbie Bent’s insights from security interviews
Airswap dev tutorial, part 3
Video: new features of Solidity v0.5
It’s now pip install vyper. And a video intro to Vyper
Frame’s “developer prerelease” on testnet to allow easier and lower level hardware wallet integration
Wireshark dissectors for Ethereum’s devp2p is now open source
Releases
Geth v1.8.14 with Swarm v0.3.2: A full miner rewrite (!) with instant insertion of uncles into work packages which makes safer the current larger blocks
Live on mainnet
Realit.io oracle is live - “Snopes meets Mechanical Turk on a blockchain”
Rock paper scissors on Ethereum
Ecosystem
It’s raining grants: Ethereum Foundation round 3. And ECF round 2. Plus Aragon round 2, as well as their update on rd1 grants.
uPort’s 3box - manage your public and private data using IPFS and OrbitDB
Very cool Alethio graphic: function calls on Ethereum over time
the web3 video stack
Dogethereum bridge alpha to livestream on Sept 5th
Governance and Standards
Today’s core dev call will feature discussion on mining reward reduction
ERC1341: Ethereum web tokens
EIP1150: secure delegatecall
Project Updates
Multi-collateral Dai goes live on Kovan on September 17th
Golem: verifying rendering results
Peepeth’s kickstarter is live (or use Ether). Shooter Jennings mentioned Peepeth on Joe Rogan
OmiseGo Aug update
OpenLaw using Chainlink as the oracles for their legal contracts
iExec has an interesting weekly series on dapps built on their platform
Aragon Q2 transparency report
Ujo Music: exploring Radical Markets, patronage & collecting
Livepeer’s Tributary milestone release
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Kevin Owocki on Hashing It Out
Ryan Berckmans talks his Predictions Global frontend for Augur
Matthew Di Ferrante on Zero Knowledge
Open web3 design call video
A readable version of Brendan Eich’s AMA. hints at some interesting stuff.
Joseph Lubin media this week: Hidden Forces podcast, TDAmeritrade Network, and with Rhys Lindmark
Meher Roy with Jake Brukhman
More TechCrunch Eth Zug vids: Vlad Zamfir on governance, Karl Floersch on cryptoeconomics, and exchange/dex panel
Tokens / Business
Sam Cassatt: misconceptions in the Ether(eum) market
Someone won 10000 ETH from FoMo3d by reverse engineering the bots so they didn’t respond when blocks got stuffed. tl;dr: large transactions at low-ish gas prices to fill most the blocks but then super high gas price smaller transactions to fill the block to 100%.
Contrary to BTC maxi narratives, there’s no Eth “ICO firesale”
Panvala: token experiments at the ConsenSys retreat
General
A bunch of Bitcoin ETFs got rejected by SEC. Commissioner Peirce says those were staff actions that will get reviewed
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
September 5 - Zero Knowledge Summit (Berlin)
September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)
September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
September 12 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
September 13-14 - EEA Tech Spec working group (NYC)
September 21-23 — EthAtlanta
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of 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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