July 19, 2018
News and Links
Protocol
Notes from the second sharding meetup
Vitalik’s IC3 sharding slides
Dan Boneh’s paper on VDFs
Latest Casper standup
Recursive proximity to justification as FFG fork choice rule
Making the RANDAO less influenceable using a random 1 bit clock
Latest Plasma implementers call
A maintained list of Plasma implementations, part of larger Learn Plasma
Videos: getting started with SWARM poc3 (4 video series)
Stuff for developers
Print interview with Truffle devs, including how they work
Migrating your Truffle project to Web3.js v1.0
Gitcoin attaches job listings to bounties, so you know if the bounty funder is hiring
A practical walkthrough of smart contract storage
Analysing the opdcode costs of storage on Ethereum
solidity-cli - caching for faster compilation, multi-threading, Typescript support
Ethereum on ARM. Armbian image for NanoPc-T4
Release
Parity v2.0 beta - major release with shift to “mission-critical use” and not end-user software, so no more GUI. Also, Parity 1.11.7-stable
Live on mainnet
imbrex (formerly RexMLS) is now live on mainnet with 2200 listings from Toll Brothers
Ecosystem
Starkware announces “big” grant from Ethereum Foundation
More on Devcon4 tickets - 2/3 are discounted or free, aimed at builders and students.
MLB Crypto Baseball - Major League Baseball is doing a crypto collectible game with Lucid Sight. Yahoo coverage. Cyrus Lohrasbpour looks at the Terms and Conditions.
Blockchain user onboarding slides
Etherscan now previews ERC721 tokens
You can pre-order Raspberry PI Ethereum modules from Oaken and Zymbit. [Disclosure: I invested in Oaken]
Gnosis Safe deploys on Rinkeby testnet. 2/4 multisig default. Koeppelman tweetstorm explanation
Governance and Standards
EIP1231: Reduce cost of calls to precompiles
ERC1228: Delegated execution
A tentative plan to decentralize Aragon’s governance
A recap of Ethereum Magicians Berlin
Project Updates
Augur is nearing $1m in open interest. First markets resolve. Medcredits created a market on whether they would release on time
Raiden at 100% to go live for testnet
A guide to Rocketpool’s beta using (deprecated) FFG v0.2
Digix gets clean audit for its gold
Two new projects under Cofound.it umbrella: Cofab to build tools for startups and D2 Capital to help projects manage their crypto assets [irregular reminder: I’m an advisor]
Earn iExec tokens in their “workerdrop” mainnet test starting July 20
The road to AdChain launching the first TCR
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Vitalik Buterin talks to Tyler Cowen. Hurray for transcripts.
Matt Condon and Jonathan Mann start NFT podcast Digitally Rare
Andrew Keys on Coin Offering
Simon de la Rouviere and Trent McConaghy talk TCRs, Curation Markets, and Artonomous
Tokens
Panvala’s opening applications for partners to buy tokens, which they’ll use to try to equal holdings between partners and users.
Who wants free Livepeer tokens? Here’s an explainer video of how you can (probably) get some. Also another very interesting token distribution experiment
General
Polkadot upgrades to POC2 in first on-chain protocol upgrade, you can now create parachains, and has libp2p in Rust. Q3 2019 mainnet launch?
The CFA Institute adds crypto and blockchain topics to the exams. Wish they’d had that when I did the exams.
MyCrypto’s “Security Guide for Dummies and Smart People Too”
de la Rouviere: Harberger taxes and blockchain experimentations
If you’ve seen the headlines for “7 questions for crypto from Vitalik,” here they are
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
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 26-28 -- Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- Devcon4 (Prague)
Dec 7-9 -- dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
December -- EthSingapore hackathon
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