News and Links
Protocol
Ben Edgington’s slides on the path to Ethereum 2.0
TechCrunch Karl, Vitalik, and Justin scalability panel, where Justin estimated timeline at Casper in 2019, sharding in 2020.
Justin Drake’s latest sharding slides
Prymsatic’s sharding implementation update.
Also, Prysmatic’s Beacon Chain design doc, and their sync call
Four different beacon chain implementations: Go, Javascript, Rust, Python
draft of OMG Plasma’s Simple Fast Withdrawals
OmiseGo splits Plasma repos: MVP as a learning tool and a repo aimed at deployment
Wolk’s Plasma Cash implementation
Latest Casper standup
Latest core dev call. Lane’s amazing notes. ewasm testnet before Devcon. Pegasys announced that by Devcon it would release its mainnet client written in Java.
It appears that next hard fork will include 145, 1052, 1014 EIPs and aiming for before Devcon
Lane Rettig: Why you should become a core developer
Stuff for developers
Zero knowledge identity and signaling on top of Miximus, from BarryWhitehat
Ganache v1.2.1 bug fix for this week’s v1.2 - intial acct balance, acct unlocking, etc
basic syntax mode in emacs for Vyper
List of dapp upgradeability solutions
Notes from taking ConsenSys Academy’s dev course
An unaudited implementation of Nick Johnson’s Offchain Auction idea for token sales
Loom Network tutorial on using their dappchain block explorer
Quorum devs want to know what questions you have for them
SolidStamp report on security auditors
Signup to be a Connext Hub in their payment channel pilot program
Building an Eth account scraper with QuickBlocks (now open source!)
Decentralize wallet.ethereum.org using IPFS with Dappnode
Release
Geth v1.8.12 - add Swarm PoC3 plus performance and bug fixes
Live on mainnet
Augur is live. Over 100k open interest, total volume heading towards a million. Definitely some bugs being worked through which lead to Augur App v1.0.3. Very cool to see people building stuff on top like predictions.global
Ecosystem
Gitcoin put up a nice time to confirmation gas history chart. My 1 gwei transaction finally went through after 12 days, so perhaps the offending exchange has decided to stop incentivizing spamming the chain and the gas crisis is over?
Vitalik’s slides on transaction fee economics
Poor Bancor key management leads to loss of 25k ETH (~12m usd)
Parimutuel Eth betting on the World Cup final
Sergey Brin is mining Ethereum with his son
Trusted 3rd parties are security holes: hacked Hola Chrome extension logged MyEtherWallet activity
MyCrypto v1.2 release with hardware wallet support and no more private keys option on the web
Jérôme de Tychey’s Ethereum and scalability overview slides
Governance and Standards
EIP1193: Ethereum provider API
EIP1121: Add chain id to EIP55 mixed-case checksum address encoding
EIP1218: extend BLOCKHASH opcode so blocks are aware of block hashes much older than current hash. alternative to EIP210
ERC1201: 2 tier token structure for NFT ownership and rental
ERC1202: Voting standard
ERC1200: token upgradeability standard
ERC1214: another token upgradeability standard
ERC1203: multi-class token standard
ERC1207: DAuth Access Delegation standard
ERC1211: Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (COST) interface
Comparison of top-down and bottom-up composables
Matt Lockyer’s argument against onchain token standards
Ryan Zurrer argues for EIP999, or something like it
Aragon: On signaling and social pressure. Pick a group of stakeholders, make a DAO with them, hold vote.
Aragon discussion thread on Phil Daian’s Dark DAO’s post
Project Updates
Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation in Gitcoin. $150k in lifetime work done.
Rocketpool to do a beta test on their own PoA testnet
Brave passes 3.1m MAUs, 80% mobile. Mobile is a no-brainer, but as of late desktop is also nearing no-brainer territory. And they’ve left anti-blockchain Mailchimp, hurray!
Opera announces built-in web3 crypto wallet, but all their blog posts have been down for … days.
Grid+ alpha to go live soon with three groups: electricity-only, electricity with Grid+ agent, and just agent. First 2 are Texas-only, but third group is for US residents to test the agent as a hardware wallet.
Mysterium has launched on testnet for 3rd party vpn nodes. How to host a VPN node
Smart GPU miners may make lots of money transcode mining with Livepeer
Kyber Network on its goal of making tokens liquid and useful
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
All the interviews at TechCrunch Zug. Lots of good stuff there
Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani on Inchained
Patrick McCorry talks Pisa
OSCoin on Zero Knowledge
Coda talks zk-starks for scalability on Epicenter
FOAM on Hashing It Out
Conor Svensson Qcon talk on Ethereum in the enterprise
Demian Brener talks Zeppelin with Laura Shin
Trail of Bits’ Dan Guido Ethereum Security talk
Julian Zawistowski talks Golem with Adam Draper
Nick D’Andrea talks Truffle on Smartest Contract
Joe Lubin “Power of Ethereum” keynote at Rise in HK. More Joe on Blockchain and Us podcast, which I love because there’s a transcript.
Tokens
Interesting look at the token models of Asian exchanges
Melon floats token swaps and mergers with projects using their platform
Kyle Samani’s web3 stack reprises Stephan Tual’s web3 stack graphic
Big Tech will drive web3 adoption. Interesting ideas, but I bet Clay Christensen would disagree.
Could tokenized ownership for renters solve the principal-agent problem the way stock options (theoretically) incentivize employees?
Panvala is a TCR for code security from ConsenSys Diligence, with the twist of a token capacitor to reward participants at decaying rate. Sale in a few months. Interesting experiment.
Equity or equity-replicating tokens given to early adopters is a trend we’re starting to see and will likely see more of. Two I find interesting are Dapped for dapp discovery and Open Bundle for journalism from some of my old co-workers at Ticketleap. They also wrote: When protocols replace companies
Crypto Against Humanity as test case for curation markets
Simon de la Rouviere: Incentivized forking
General
Parity: what is Substrate?
Coinbase is adding Cardano, Basic Attention Token, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x
Guide to network attacks on blockchains
I enjoy scifi blockchain fiction
LedgerLive - desktop companion app for Linux, Mac and Windows
Luxarity working with ConsenSys to track physical and monetary donations, then sell the physical donations at retail, and track social impact disbursements. Also from ConsenSys asia tour: Caifeng gene data exchange with Kaleido
World Economic Forum: 4 ways blockchain will transform the mining industry through an Open Minerals and ConsenSys venture
Zcon0 wrapup and links to talks
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
July 12-18 -- IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
July 14-15 -- Ethereum Magicians governance talks in Berlin
July 19-20 -- DappCon (Berlin)
July 22-24 — Japan tourism hackathon (Tokyo)
July 24-26 -- NIFTY hackathon and NFT conference (Hong Kong)
July 25 -- Maecenas auction of Andy Warhol piece
August 10-12 -- EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
August 10-12 -- ENS workshop and hackathon (London)
August 22 -- Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
August 24-26 -- Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
September 6 -- Security unconference (Berlin)
September 7-9 -- EthBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 -- WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
Oct 5-7 -- TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 -- EthSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 22-24 -- Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- Devcon4 (Prague)
Dec 7-9 -- dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
December -- EthSingapore hackathon
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