News and Links
Layer 1
[eth1] Videos of Eth1 Stanford meetings
[eth2] What’s new in Eth2 this week
[eth2] Latest Eth2 implementers call. Agenda.
[eth2] Prysmatic dev update
[eth2] Nimbus testnet simulation
Layer 2
Plasma Group launches. Here’s the spec (a variant of PlasmaCash), the client, and the deployer to run your own.
Dan Robinson: A simpler exit game for Plasma Cash
FunFair’s data shows that they get 100x scaling with state channels
Connext v1 payment channel hub video walkthrough
Client releases - get ready for the fork!
Parity v2.2.8-stable and v2.3.1-beta
Ethereum on ARM: Geth and Parity clients update. Status.im, IPFS and Swarm packages. Raiden Network and Trinity client installers.
Stuff for developers
Weierstrudel: gas efficient elliptic curve scalar multiplication on Weierstrass. cheaper than the precompile!
The EVM: how does it work?
A central place to request an audit from 30 auditors
Testing potential exploits in a virtual environment
Drizzle v1.3 with tests and React Native support
Solhint v2 beta linter
Secret Rock-paper-scissors with Enigma
EVM package deployment with ZeppelinOS
Ecosystem
Görli cross-client testnet launches! Görli block explorer. Node stats.
B9labs and EthBerlin to fund 500-1000 free B9 Solidity courses.
Gitcoin is doing 25k in CLR grant matching. Or as I think of it “quadratic matching”
POANet on using xDai at ETHDenver
Hodlbank mixer based on zero knowledge. Live on Ropsten.
Enterprise
Governance and Standards
Vlad Zamfir: Against Szabo’s law, for a new crypto legal system
Responses from Gabe Shapiro and Vitalik Buterin
Core devs call. Hudson’s summary: ProgPoW to get 3rd party audit, miners can start extraData signaling, and EthCatHerders to examine community signal
ERC1726: Dividend paying token
Live on mainnet
wrapped BTC (wBTC) is now live on Ethereum
OS-level transaction signer Frame is live with a mainnet alpha
Origin Protocol’s marketplace creator to make your own decentralized marketplace in minutes
CryptoCup returns with a pick’em for European football (soccer). You can also bet against anyone guessing the outcomes correctly.
Application layer
Maker hits 2m ETH locked up to collateralize DAI. Rune confirms DGX will be one of the early forms of non-Eth collateral
Streamr launches API explorer
Peepeth is now batching together all user transactions so it’s free to use
2019 is the year of the DAO (and the coming dxDAO)
Settle’s dex.ag aggregates the best price from 0x, Idex, Kyber and Uniswap
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Compound’s Robert Leshner on Into the Ether
CNNSwiss interviews Joe Lubin at Davos
Token standards and Matt Lockyer on Zero Knowledge
IC3’s Submarine Sends explainer vid
Zilliqa founder Xinshu Dong on 51%
Stanford Blockchain Conference: Vlad. Vitalik. Georgios on PlasmaCash. Lots more but I got tired of looking up timestamps.
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Kik’s response to the SEC
Barry Whitehat: solving optimization problems using snarks , ethereum and incentives
General
Sonic: zkSNARKs from linear-size universal and updateable structured reference strings
Fidelity plans March launch for crypto custody
Bob Summerwill is the new ED for the ETC Coop
Zilliqa launched mainnet
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Feb 1 - Melon token migration begins
Feb 2 - Eth2 workshop (Stanford)
Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)
Feb 7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon ends
Feb 14 - Eth Magicians (Denver)
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)
Feb 27 - Constantinople (block 7280000)
Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
Mar 8-10 - EthUToronto
Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support
April 4-5 - Deconomy (Seoul)
April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)
Apr 24-26 - Truffle Elevate (Dublin)
May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)
May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
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