Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core devs call. Notes from Tim Beiko, discussion of EIPs 2456, 1962, 2348
EthereumJS v4.13 - bugfix release for Muir Glacier
Slockit released a stable version of their Incubed stateless ultralight client, aimed at IoT devices. 150kb to verify transactions or 500kb including EVM. incentive layer coming soon.
Eth2
Latest Eth2 implementer call. Notes from Mamy and from Ben.
Latest what’s new in Eth2
Spec version v0.10 with BLS standards
Prysmatic restarted its testnet with a newer version of the spec and mainnet config
Lodestar update on light clients and dev tooling
Exploring validator costs
Layer2
Optimistic rollup for tokens Fuel ships first public testnet
Optimistic Game Semantics for a generalized layer2 client
Loopring presents full results of their zk rollup testing
StarkEx says they can do 9000 trades per second at 75 gas per trade with offchain data, with the limiting factor being the prover, not onchain throughput.
Stuff for developers
An update on the Vyper compiler: there’s now two efforts, a new one in Rust using YUL to target both EVM & ewasm as well as the existing one in Python.
a beginner’s guide to the K framework
Vulnerability: hash collisions with multiple variable length arguments
Austin Griffith’s eth.build metatransactions
Build your own customized Burner Wallet
Abridged v2 aiming to make it easy to onboard new users of web2 networks
Ethcode v0.9 VSCode extension
Ecosystem
RicMoo: SQRLing mnemonic phrases
ethsear.ch - Ethereum specific search engine
Avado’s RYO node - nodes opt-in and let users access them via load balancer
Aztec’s BN-254 trusted setup ceremony post-mortem. Confidential transactions launching this month
Enterprise
700m USD volume on Komgo commodity trade finance platform
TraSeable seafood tracker article on the challenges points out the troubles with no private chain interoperability
Caterpillar business process management system
Q&A with Marley Gray about the EEA’s Token Taxonomy Initiative
Governance and standards
EIP1559 implementation discussion
EIP2456: Time based upgrades
Metamask’s bounty for a generalized metatransaction standard
Application layer
Flashloans within one transaction using Aave Protocol are live on mainnet
Orchid’s decentralized VPN launches
Data viz on dexes in 2019
ZRXPortal for ZRX holders to delegate their tokens to stakers
Dai Stability Fee and Dai Savings Rate go up to 6%, while Sai Stability Fee at 5%
EthHub’s new Ethereum user guides
Tokens/Business/Regulation
David Hoffman: the money game landscape
Australia experimenting with a digital Aussie dollar, with a prototype on a private Ethereum chain
3 cryptocurrency regulation themes for 2020
OpenSea’s compendium of NFT knowledge
A newsletter to keep track of the NFT space
NBA guard Spencer Dinwiddie’s tokenized contract launches January 13
Progressive decentralization: a dapp business plan
General
Andrew Keys: 20 blockchain predictions for 2020
Haseeb Qureshi’s intro to cryptocurrency class for programmers
Ben Edgington’s BLS12-381 for the rest of us
Visualizing efficient Merkle trees for zero knowledge proofs
Eli Ben-Sasson’s catalog of the Cambrian zero knowledge explosion
Bounty for breaking RSA assumptions
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Jan 20-21 - Parity’s OpenEthereum Rust client workshop (Berlin)
Jan 21 - Gitcoin grants quadratic matching ends. (my grant is here!)
Jan 31 - deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
Feb 8 - Augur v1 cutoff
Feb 14-16 - ETHDenver
Feb 28-Mar 1 - ETHLondon UK
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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