December 7, 2018
News and Links
Layer 1
[Eth 1] Notes from the call on improving the current Ethereum chain
[Eth 2] The latest What's New in Eth2
[Eth 2] Notes from latest Eth2 implementers call
[Eth 2] Nimbus dev update
[Eth 2] Eric Conner’s Eth2.0 economic primer
[Eth 2] Vitalik: layer 2 computing model using optimistic state roots. Or the ELI5 version. Big if it works.
[CBC Casper] Latest Casper standup call
[CBC Casper] CBC Casper explanation by Vitalik
Layer 2
Latest state channels call
Minimum number of rounds required for plasma cash with rearrangeable transactions
Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.5.1 “improves the usability of interfaces, fixes some bugs, extends the SMT checker and provides an early preview of the Yul optimizer”
Embark 4.0.0-alpha.2
web3j v4 out of alpha and in general relelase
Rocketh test library with any web3 library and test runner
dappboard: load chain data into PostgreSQL to analyze
An IPFS for devs explainer from Piñata
a URL shortener live on Ropsten
Using the iExec SDK
How to use Quiknode to quickly start a dedicated node
0x Instant react.js component
RuntimeVerification formally verifies the beacon chain in COQ and models RanDAO
Ecosystem
ConsenSys reorg from 1.0 to 2.0 included 13% layoffs.
Alethio’s block explorer and free linked data graph
Curious Giraffe has some nice dapp analytics for Compound, Augur, ENS, etheroll, Kyber, AirSwap, and Cryptokitties.
In 2019, Gnosis will give away up to 600k USD to build on Gnosis products through its ecosystem fund
A list of Ethereum community calls from Trenton Van Epps
More on AZTEC Protocol’s confidential transactions. Plus costs would go down to 200-300k gas with eip1108
Live on mainnet
Gnosis’ slow.trade is live on mainnet for their DutchX trading
Havven launches stablecoins for EUR, JPY, AUD, KRW, and gold.
Enterprise
SignatureBank to offer commercial clients 24/7 money transfer for free using a private Ethereum chain
Governance and Standards
Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes. Fork will be around Jan 16th. Working group updates. Dropping Ropsten/PoW testnets forever?
ERC1633: Refungible token standard
ERC1638: Gift vault standard
Application layer
0x Instant. No more wrapping Eth! Also, 22 ideas to explore with 0x.
dy/dx’s Antonio Juliano tweetstorm on state of 0x
Cyrus Younessi’s overview of Uniswap Exchange
A new and slick version of Maker Tools
Status v0.9.32 with private group chats
Funfair product update
Imbrex open sources its real estate data exchange called Tegula
OpenLaw and Rhombus build onchain derivatives
Livepeer’s Streamflow upgrade proposal with probabilistic micropayments
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
AZTEC Protocol’s Zach Williamson on Smartest Contract
Video of local news report on Blockchains LLC fiber optic ring
Curation markets community call
John Lilic video interview
Intro to Scaling on Into the Ether
Numerai/Erasure’s Richard Craib AMA
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Richard Craib on redesigning Numerai. Cutting supply by half, making it more useful with Erasure, and decentalizing it.
Brian Armstrong: adoption of cryptoassets will come through VR
Video of NYT’s Sorkin interviews SEC Chairman Clayton
General
Zaki Manian’s Cosmos and Polkadot comparison
NEAR’s Alex Skidanov: Core ideas in blockchain sharding
Update on ETC<>ETH peace relay
Coinbase filed to trademark buidl, though Balaji pledges it will only be defensive.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Dec 9 - Neufund equity token offering (closes after a week)
Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends
Jan ~16 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000
Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)
Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal) next hacker application round closes December 31st
Feb 23-25 - EthAustin hackathon (EthUniversal)
Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)
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