June 15, 2019

Too much happens in Ethereum. web2 is becoming web3

Ethereum News and Links

Layer 1

• Eth2 spec v0.7 - phase 1 now executable

• Lighthouse eth2 client update. spec update, REST API into spec, fuzzing, BLS sigs optimization, discv5 networking discovery

• Parity’s Shasper eth2 client updates to 0.7

• Latest Eth2 implementer call. Notes.

• Eth2 deposit Merkle tree

• Runtime Verification: Formal verification of Eth2 deposit contract

• Bégassat, et al, arxiv: Practical Multi-Signature Aggregation for Large Byzantine Committees

• Vitalik: Universal fee market execution environment to rule them all

Client releases

• Parity v2.5.2-beta or v2.4.7-stable

• Swarm v0.4.1. See also Swarm on Wasm

Layer 2

• Deep dive into StarkDEX, part 1

• Rollup Plasma for mass exits & complex disputes

Stuff for developers

• Gas golf the eth2 deposit contract in the next week

• ethers.js v5 beta

• Managing Eth events with Drizzle

• Truffle v5.0.22 - some debugger improvements

• Metamask auditing their dependencies

• Portis white paper on its e2e private key encryption

• How does Bloom (identity) Share Kit work?

• A tutorial in getting data off your own node

• Add Rimble UI to web3React

• Vyper GUI v0.3

• Hook BigQuery up to Ethereum using Chainlink. Interesting use case for submarine sends over an hour.

• Request Network API to create and read invoices

• Dex.ag API to embed best dex price in a widget on your site

• Handling revert exceptions in Solidity

• Shadowlands: create CLI dapps without the web

• Buguet: eth debugger

• Poke: cobra CLI tool for Eth dev

• Grid: desktop (Electron) app as a base for ecosystem clients and tools

• 3Box theads, a chat system for dapps using IPFS and OrbitDB

Ecosystem

• Devcon speaker applications are open, with ticket sales to begin in mid-July

• How the Grid+ SafeCard is a viable cold storage option

• FindEth, a tool to find lost Ether

• Deploy Gnosis Safe from a Burner Wallet. Obviously from Austin Griffith.

• MetaTransactions to scale Ethereum: yes, Gas Stations Network is awesome.

• Timeline for 3-6 character ENS domains. Tentatively: reserve in July, auction in Sept

• EtherCattle and Rivet: making Eth node infrastructure easier to manage

Enterprise

• Pantheon Essentials Certification course

• How Nightfall makes token transactions private

Governance and Standards

• r/ethtrader appears to have turned against “donuts” (Reddit’s community points) as a coinvote governance mechanism. One of several threads.

• iExec on how upgradeable contracts is governance.

• dOrg launches limited liability DAO under Vermont regulatory regime.

Live on mainnet

• Opyn live on mainnet. Noncustodial margin trading platform on top of Compound, Uniswap, & DAI.

• bZx margin trading launches with 750k in liquidity.

Application layer

• Austria’s Post Office is selling stamps with associated ERC721 collectibles

• Maker/CDP data viz from Alethio

• Instadapp and CDP Saver built similar bridges between Maker and Compound. Transact easily between the two to generate cDai or repay CDP

• Stats and graphs on defi lending in May

• A market map from Electric Capital

• TruSet and Imbrex partnering for state by state collection of residential real estate contracts

• Sablier: if time is money, why isn’t it continuous?

• Standard Bounties v2

• A thought experiment to understand prediction markets

• FOAM does proof of location over radio

• Tokenized and tradable income share agreements with OpenLaw

• Ubisoft considering putting game accessories onchain

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

• Ameen Soleimani on Into the Ether

• AllInfra’s Dave Sandor and Bill Kentrup on BKP Podcast

• Quickblocks’ Jay Rush on Daxia

• Nick Johnson on Blockhash

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• Iceland regulators approve Monerium on mainnet to provide European fiat payment services.

• Bittrex delisting 42 assets for Americans

• Wrapped Cryptokitties: make your erc721 into erc20

• DAI/USDC on dydx. You read that right: you can restore the peg or play Soros.

• de la Rouviere: Maximizing blockchain collectible cconomies

General

• An intro to zero knowledge in the context of the history of cryptography

• Enigma releases their Discovery developer testnet

• BBC covers Bounties Network’s trash cleanup in Manila

• Zilliqa enables smart contracts and thus becomes the first sharded chain with contracts.

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Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

• June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)

• June 24- July 10 - Gitcoin’s Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon

• June 25-27 - EthPlanet hackathon (Beijing)

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

• July 19 - BuildETH (San Francisco)

• July 19-21 - State of Scale (Los Angeles)

• 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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