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June 15, 2019

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June 15, 2019

Too much happens in Ethereum. web2 is becoming web3

Evan Van Ness
Jun 16, 2019
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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.


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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