July 13, 2019, Week in Ethereum News
Major Geth release, Celer state channel network live, tons of stuff
Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
Nimbus Eth2 client update - nearly up to frozen spec, 10-15x speedup in crosslink processing, better monitoring, nim libp2p, nim language for ewasm
Prysmatic Eth2 client update - up to date on spec, updated SSZ in Go
Latest Eth2 implementers call. Notes
Layer 2
Use Bitcoin Cash as a data availability layer until phase 1?
Celer’s state channel network went live on mainnet. See that section below.
Raiden Service registry for watchtower monitors and liquidity pathfinders
Plasma Group’s Optimistic Virtual Machine, a correct-by-construction VM for all layer 2. Also applicable to phase2 of Eth2
Client releases
Geth v1.9.0 - a massive milestone release with performance improvements and tons of new features. Lefteris’ tweetstorm summary of the changelog.
Stuff for developers
White hat samczsun found a bug in 0x code. As such 0x was down for a few hours last night, but the bug is now fixed. No one took advantage of it. Samczsun explains the signature verification vulnerability
Using automatic analysis tools with the MakerDAO governance code that had a bug a few months ago.
Runtime Verification: how formal verification could have prevented Edgeware’s Lockdrop bug
Alacrity: a DSL for simple, formally-verified code
Truffle DB: gradually introduce TruffleDB as the primary data store and slowly deprecate artifacts. Also Truffle v5.0.27.
Etherlime v2.1.5 with ZeppelinOS and Chainlink integrations
Nethereum playground now has vb.net support
Build an oracle with iExex tutorial
OpenLaw adds contract clauses as libraries to its markup language
Atra adds relational database tables to its abstract-away-blockchain platform
A dive into Open Zeppelin’s ERC777 implementation
How to build on Celer’s state channel network using their gaming SDK
Samsung releases a “blockchain SDK” for interacting with Ethereum
Ecosystem
Distributed pre-image archive in Swarm
ENS 3-6 character name reservation process is now open
Oracles: UMA publishes its Data Verification Mechanism. Joey Krug tweets his “current state of Ethereum oracles”
Enterprise
Hyperledger founder John Wolpert: Why businesses will learn to love the public Ethereum mainnet
“Uber Subsidiary Grants Ethereum Startup Access To Entire American Fleet”
Singapore Exchange launches securities token exchange
Governance and Standards
ERC2182: Reduce the Clique signer_limit
ERC2181: Increase Clique’s diff_inturn
ERC2183: Increase Clique min_wait for out of turn blocks
dxDAO now owns DutchX, and Gnosis has stepped away from dxDAO
Live on mainnet
Celer’s state channel network live on mainnet. Play Gomoku or FishJump for Dai/Eth/tokens.
Nexus Mutual’s smart contract cover is now live on mainnet, so now you can insure yourself against bugs and hacks. That means GovBlocks is also live on mainnet for co-op governance.
Application layer
Dai Stability Fee went up first to 18.5% a few days ago and then today it went up to 20.5%. Also, how to nominate tokens for multi collateral Dai
NiftySwap: a Uniswap fork for ERC1155 NFTs using Dai and metatransactions
Ocean Protocol went live on POAnet
BAT in Brave Ads now available on Android in US, Canada, UK, France and Germany. 22% clickthrough so far
Panvala’s beta is live on Rinkeby, so you can choose what slates get PAN tokens.
Loanscan q2 report on DeFi lending. It’s growing fast.
Golem v0.20 release with gwasm
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Compound’s Robert Leshner on Epicenter
Washington Post’s Jarrod Dicker talks media and web3 with Mike Kriak
Truffle’s Tim Coulter on POV Crypto
TokenCard’s Mel Gelderman on Into the Ether
Zexe's Pratyush Mishra on Zero Knowledge
Instadapp’s Sowmay Jain on Into the Ether
Tokens / Business / Regulation
FEC says federal candidates can give ERC20 loyalty tokens to their volunteers
Synthetix offers incentives to Uniswap liquidity providers
SEC approves RegA+ for YouNow’s Props Project so they can give away tokens to users. Blockstack also got approval.
SEC/FINRA staff statement on broker-dealer custody of cryptoassets
“Ethereum is quietly becoming the global platform for every asset”
General
tryethereum.today: a site for beginners to discover things to do with Eth
Shapeshift becomes a non-custodial exchange where you have to use hardware wallets
Summary of Wasm for blockchain event last month
Microsoft research: leveraging Ethereum to make machine learning models more accessible
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
July 15 - Eth2 researcher AMA
July 17 - Devcon ticket sales, wave 1
July 19 - BuildETH (San Francisco)
July 19-21 - State of Scale (Los Angeles)
July 19-21 - ConsenSys Grants hackathon (Brooklyn)
July 22-23 - Buidl 2019 (Seoul)
Aug 2-4 - ETHIndia (Bangalore)
Aug 2-4 - TruffleCon (Redmond)
Aug 21-23 - Dappcon (Berlin)
Aug 23-25 - ETHBerlin
Sep 3 - Deadline to apply for EU Horizon Prize. 1m € each to 5 "Blockchains for Social Good" projects
Sep 6-8 - EthBoston
Sep 15 - Augur v1 cutoff
Sep 15 - Ethereal Tel Aviv
Sep 15-16 - StarkWare sessions (Tel Aviv)
Oct 8-11 - DeVcon (Osaka)
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