Eth News and Links
Eth1
Nethermind v1.6.3 with Beam Sync preview on Goerli testnet
Turbo-geth uses 70% less disk space using B+- Trees as well as Bolt instead of leveldb. In production, this would reduce archive nodes to below 1tb
Semi-stateless initial sync experiment using Turbo-geth
EVM-LLVM alpha release, to allow LLVM tooling to compile to EVM
Eth2
PrysmaticLabs client update - optimizations, more user friendly, new team member
Lighthouse can run 100k validators on 12 cheap (dual core, 4gb ram) AWS instances
How LMD Ghost fork choice and Casper FFG work together to satisfy safety and liveness requirements
Balance those 2 plus timeliness detectors to satisfy asynchronous requirements
Tools to write eth2 execution environments more easily
How state providers can keep the state cheaply using custody root
Correcting the top 5 Eth2 misconceptions
Layer2
Offchain Labs’ Arbitrum rollup is live on testnet, supports Solidity compiler
OVM alpha - how Optimism will offer full EVM support in their optimistic rollups
Matic’s incentivized testnet is live
Perun’s Ethna: Channel Network with Dynamic Internal Payment Splitting
CelerNetwork releases multi-hop state channels and open sourced the state channels node, as well as launched the testnet for its guardian watchtower network
StateChannels reduces gas cost by ~75% by reducing all storage to a minimum bytes32 slot
Stuff for developers
OpenZeppelin CLI v2.7 - full Solidity v0.6 support, typechain artefacts
Guide to use Create2.sol library in OpenZeppelin Contracts 2.5
Subspace v1.3 - new methods to track blocks, gas price and blocktime
Pisa’s any.sender, a non-custodial way to abstract away your transactions via API
Blocknative’s internal transaction monitoring
Property-based Eth code testing with Brownie
A look at the Trueblocks frontend to get all the data you want out from running your own node
QueryEthereum: GraphQL API from a browser tab
SplunkConnect for Ethereum, analytics platform connects to Infura or your node
Setting up your Eth dev environment, a quick start guide from Compound
create-Eth-app: CLI tool to create Ethereum-powered React apps with one command
Dapphero video tutorial - web3 nocode
Terminal v2 - Netlify on IPFS
Ecosystem
How to scale anonymous transactions with Zeropool
ENSRegistry migration: updating your resolver and subdomains
Authereum is live on mainnet. Email and password, your account is recoverable as long as you maintain local storage or password.
Torus out of beta. Use your Google, Facebook, Reddit, Discord or Twitch accounts for your Eth account
Chrome store now shows 1+ million for MetaMask, though they actually crossed 1 million two years ago
Waku spec v3, Whisper-alternative, with some simulations for messaging scalability
Tornado.cash releases full details of recent UI vulnerability. Clicking “share URL” would store the note via API call in a bunch of 3rd party services.
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Enterprise
Conor Svensson’s brief history of enterprise Ethereum standards
Vermont regulators using Trace to track hemp production on mainnet
Ship financing platform on mainnet
Reuters reports that JPMorgan and ConsenSys are discussing the future of Quorum
Besu v1.4 - privacy multi-tenanted environment, e2e for RPC endpoints;
Governance, DAOs, TheDAOv2, and standards
MetaCartel Ventures DAO is live on mainnet
Pre-registration open for theLAO, as it is set to launch in a few weeks for up to 100 accredited investors
SignalDAO’s experiments with automating DAO voting using Telegram bots
Aragon Court is live on mainnet, arbitration for their DAOs. currently working on some moot/hypothetical cases
Kleros Governor, the DAO to govern Kleros
Nikolai says Maker’s contracts already support a function to thwart the governance attack but the UI does not expose it
DAOifying Uniswap’s pools, an idea from Sunny Aggarwal
EIP2515: Replace difficulty bomb with difficulty freeze
Application layer
Status v1 is live on mainnet. A privacy-focused wallet, chat app, and web3 browser. It’s a breaking change from the beta, so backup your pre-v1 seed phrase
Opyn is live on mainnet, tokenized options platform to speculate/insure.
Metacoin. Ameen proposes a solely-ETH collateral, onchain Uniswap oracle, and governance minimized stablecoin
Mstable: basket of stablecoins and tokenized assets to diversify counterparty risk
Nuoscan, a Nuo Network explorer
AdEx is out of beta, now live for everyone. Advertising platform with instant Dai payouts using unidirectional payment channels
Charged Particles: interest-bearing NFTs
Colony Network’s BetaColony - the experimental version of the MetaColony
bZx had an extreme arbitrage event, using flashloans to push the oracle down. bZx will use their admin key to stream the remaining collateral to iEth holders. Check out the data visualization of the transaction from bloxy.info
Tokens/Business/Regulation
de la Rouviere: Markets as medium
Value capture in DeFi: protocol sink
PE ratio for tokens
Former Eth foe Grayscale calls ETH a store of value
Balance sheet as business model in synthetic asset platforms
QCAD - a collateralized Canadian dollar token
Barça joins major football clubs in issuing Chiliz fan tokens
SKALE to launch its token on ConsenSys’ Activate platform, focused on token distribution to users
General
Dai integrated in Coinbase Commerce. We should pay for everything in Dai/stablecoins that we can.
MakerDao makes Forbes Fintech 50
Coinbase brings back margin trading for 23 US states
What is a derivation path, a MyCrypto explainer
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Feb 18-Mar 31 - Social Impact hackathon/incubator
Feb 20 - NFT.NYC
Feb 20 - Decentraland launch
Feb 28-Mar 1 - ETHLondon UK
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 6-8 - EthParis2020
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)
Apr 13 - Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
April 24-26 - EthTurin
May 8-9 - Ethereal Summit (NYC)
May 15-17 - ETHNYC
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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