Ethereum News and Links

Layer 1

• Eth2 spec v0.6.2 focusing on cross-client tests

• A nearly-trivial-on-zero-inputs 32-bytes-long collision-resistant hash function

• ewasm API for Rust

Layer 2

• Celer and L4: What are state channels good for?

• Perun paper on multi-party virtual channels

Stuff for developers

• Solidity v0.5.9 - work around Yul and SMTchecker

• Truffle v5.0.20 - artifacts fix

• ZeppelinOS v2.3.0

• Trail of Bits academic paper on Slither capabilities

• Solidity implementation of elliptic curve operations on G2 for alt_bn128

• Build “decentralized thermostat” using Whisper on Elk module

• 0x launch kit redux. React UIs for relayers and NFT markets.

• 3Box profile hovers v2 - profile instead of hex using React component or HTML element

• Hedgehog Eth wallet for low financial value use cases

• Authereum key management: email/pw login with 3rd party recovery

• WeTrust: Designing user account systems in Ethereum

Ecosystem

• EY’s Nightfall private ERC20 and 721 transactions using SNARKs.

• JPMorgan’s Zether implementation for private payments

• A minimal mixer with Pedersen hashes

• ShareLock: a mixer from multi-party ECDSA

• Blockquick super light client for IoT devices

• DeadXwallet: a dead man’s switch but to recover someone has to place a bond (unaudited)

Enterprise

• Kaleido’s fullstack enterprise blockchain overview

• Using Quorum, USAA and State Farm to track and pay each other for auto accident claims

• Irish banks pilot program for regulatory credential tracking

• Swisscom TV offering chance to buy digital artwork as ERC721 NFTs from TV screen

• See EY’s Nightfall and JPMorgan’s Zether in the ecosystem section

Governance and Standards

• Gitcoin’s Istanbul fork decaying bug bounty

• Giveth’s conviction voting, similar to Maker’s stability fee voting

• The easiest way to get DxDAO voting power. At the moment about 12m usd locked up towards getting a stake in DxDAO

Live on mainnet

• Chainlink’s oracles live on mainnet

• Sablier money streaming app. Continuous payments by Paul Berg

Application layer

• Colony’s Glider release candidate is on testnet

• “How is OmiseGOing?”

• Status v0.13 now add any ERC20 token

• Launching digital guilds with OpenLaw and Aragon

• Vote to lower Dai Stability Fee from 17.5% to 16.5%

• Bamboo Relay implements 0x coordinator to prevent frontrunning

• Loopring v3 new fee model and staking system plus using zk for hundreds of transactions per second

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

• Latest TCR community call

• Uniswap’s Hayden Adams on Wyre Talks

• Dan Robinson on Epicenter

• Joey Krug on BaseLayer

• Zerion’s Evgeny Yurtaev on Into the Ether

• Maker’s Nik Kunkel on Hashing It Out

• VDF day videos

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• Aragon launching in next few months DaICO-like fundraising with bonding curve

• Sigmoidal token bonding curves

• Formula1’s NFTs went live with one selling for over 400 Eth

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

• June 5-7 - Scaling Ethereum research workshop (Toronto)

• June 8-9 - WASM in blockchains (Berlin)

• June 10-11 Blockchain for Social Impact conference (NYC) [50% off code: IMPACT]

• June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)

• July 3-5 - WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)

• July 19 - BuildETH (San Francisco)

• 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 16-17 - Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)

• Oct 8-11 - DeVcon (Osaka)

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