July 5, 2018
News and Links
Protocol
Loom Network releases Plasma Cash code for NFTs. Github
Latest Plasma implementation call
Latest Casper standup call
VB: Quadratic costs and collective payouts as anti-centralization gadget
Latest core dev call (short because of core dev conf). Lane’s notes
Vitalik and Justin 90 min sharding update at ECDC
All the videos from Binary District state channel workshop
Reitwiessner and Koch: predictable incentive mechanism for TrueBit
Latest Ewasm decision call
Stuff for developers
Securify.ch - automated security scanning tool. blog post. academic paper.
EthereumJS monthly recap
API endpoint for getting the raw verified source codes from Etherscan
Implementation of the SHA256 precompile in Rust
ewasm “WRC20” token contract coding challenge
part 2 of Dharma’s quick tutorial on creating a loan
Oraclize releases Truffle box, remix plugin
A long list of Ethereum dev tools. Fun fact: this was originally my idea. It’s not comprehensive enough yet (so please submit!), and there’s room for people to create curated/annotated/opinionated forks of this list.
An updated list of token standards
Solidity Gas Golfing contest results. Greg Hysen’s winning code.
Release
Mist and Ethereum Wallet v0.11. Also, Marc Garreau on the future of Mist.
Ecosystem
Dappnode - decentralized server network infrastructure to host dapps
How long it currently takes to fully sync with Geth and Parity
74 new Enterprise Ethereum Alliance members including Ebay, Foxconn, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Perkins Coie.
Requirements for private Eth sidechains from Pegasys’ Peter Robinson
First wave of Devcon4 ticket sales at 8am PDT on July 9th.
Why are gas fees so high right now? Because an exchange encouraged spamming the network for listings. So scam tokens are spamming hard. New ATH on daily transaction fees. by a lot.
Proposal and discussion of improved fee markets
Live on mainnet
SONM is live on mainnet
Aventus ticketing is also live on mainnet
Liquidity Network is live on mainnet and you can try it here. Jeff Coleman tweetstorm says it is a version of Plasma Cash and thinks he sees a possible operator attack. Hopefully they verify their code imminently.
Governance and Standards
EIP1186: eth_getProof
EIP1187: Gas cost reduction for ECADD, ECMUL and ECPAIRING. similar to eip1108
ERC1190: non fungible royalty token
Lots of discussion on ERC1155 gaming NFTs
Kelsen - governance dapp with some demos live on Rinkeby
Phil Daian: On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs, followed up a day later by Vote Buying, On-Chain Governance, and Quadratic Plutocracy. The future of onchain coinvoting looks bleak.
Project Updates
0x v2 live on Kovan
MetaMask’s first monthly update
Maecenas has had a string of good press around tokenizing an Andy Warhol piece, eg this NYT report, though if you want actual auction details check EthNews
Colony hackathon winners
Nexus Mutual stress testing the claims process with Incentivai
Loom Network exceeded its 250k usd goal on Kickstarter
OmiseGO close to eWallet 1.0 release
Golem v0.16.1 release
Engima testnet v1.0 release
Maker raises the Dai ceiling to 100m
You can now use Tor in private tabs with Brave browser. Hurray!
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Georgios Konstantopoulos talks Loom Network’s Plasma on Smartest Contract
Jack du Rose and Aron Fischer talk Colony on Zero Knowledge
Henri Pikhala talks Streamr on crypto101
Balance’s Richard Burton on Inchained
Chris Dixon with Laura Shin
Fred Wang’s print interview with Vitalik.
Many ZCon interviews from Zero Knowledge
Tokens
What’s going on with Livepeer’s ongoing token merkle mining and staking
Luke Duncan: community aggregation theory
Working towards Delphi dispute resolution from Mike Goldin
Mike Maples: from the tragedy of the commons to the wealth of the commons
General
Karl Floersch has 6 more lectures out on cryptoeconomics.study
Coinbase Custody is now signing up funds
Opolis offering crypto-friendly employment & benefits services (PEO) for US employees
How to make a t to shielded z transfer in Zcash
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
July 6-7 -- TechCrunch blockchain and Ethereum events (Zug)
July 9 -- Augur scheduled to launch
July 9 -- Devcon4 tickets go on sale
July 12 -- Sharding and Casper workshop with Karl Floersch and Justin Drake (New Delhi)
July 12-18 -- IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
July 14-15 -- Ethereum Magicians governance talks in Berlin
July 19-20 -- DappCon (Berlin)
July 24-26 -- NIFTY hackathon and NFT conference (Hong Kong)
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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