July 6, 2019, Week in Ethereum News
Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
Sigma Prime’s eth2 client update - first release in about a week, disc v5 integrated, 5x faster fork choice from more efficient LMD GHOST out of IC3
Protolambda’s Eth2 graphical explanations
Layer 2
Counterfactual dev update: better wallet UI for devs, ERC20 support
Vitalik on layer2 networks that only push offchain 1 or 2 of {data, state, and computation} and the related Ethresearch post on hybrid layer2 networks
StarkDEX deep dive, part 2: contracts and statement
Stuff for developers
Quick start and deploy to testnet with latest ZeppelinOS version
SecondState’s search engine for deployed mainnet contracts
Trueblocks on its API that delivers the location of the data on your own node
Edgeware’s lockdrop contract had a bug allowing a griefing attack. How to use Slither to avoid the bug
Tutorial: creating a flexible NFT
Ecosystem
Heiswap - Eth mixer using ring sigs live on Ropsten testnet
Coindesk covers Virgil Griffith’s efforts to get a ruling that Eth is compliant with Islamic finance
Validity Labs’ demo video of HOPR, p2p messaging with incentivization layer running on testnet
Ethereum Name Service 3-6 character name reservation starts July 11
Enterprise
Chronicled launches its pharma supply chain compliance product
Governance and Standards
Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s notes by tweetstorm.
Transparent process for EIP editors
Pedro Gomes: the difference between chainID and networkID
Conviction Voting: continuous decision making as governance
EIP152: Blake2b f precompile
Live on mainnet
Betoken live on mainnet, a type of decentralized hedge fund built using Kyber, bZx, Compound and Dai
Application layer
Dai Stability Fee back up to 17.5% and under a vote to go to 18.5%
More on Oxfam, Aon, Etherisc Sri Lankan agricultural insurance. 200 rice farmers have enrolled
uPortlandia smart city demo with uPort
gwasm: anything that compiles to wasm can be distributed on Golem
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Market Protocol’s Seth Rubin on WyreTalks
Marble/HumanityDAO’s Rich McAteer on Wizard of Dapps
PegaSys’s Rob Dawson on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Binance announced that they’d switch Tether to Ethereum instead of Bitcoin/Omni. It seems like the Tether Flippening is inevitable.
Exploring Harberger tax rates in collectibles & patronage markets
LockHarvest distribution mechanism: tokens issued per day to locked Eth
General
If someone physically gets your Trezor, they can extract the private key
IACR paper: incentive attacks on PoW chains. Trustless out of band bribing reduces the cost of attacks.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
July 7 - Devcon speaker submission deadline
July 10 - end of Gitcoin’s Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon
July 11 - ENS 3-6 character name reservation process stars
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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