Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
Prysmatic Eth2 client update - updating to v6 spec, working on Eth2 data API
Artemis Eth2 client update - up to date on v5 spec
Matt Slipper’s Eth2 test runner update
Justin Drake’s idea for simpler hash-efficient sparse tree
Raul Jordan’s Eth2 history and high level overview
Alex Beregszaszi’s history of Ewasm
Layer 2
550 transactions per second using STARKs at only ~6000 gas per trade. Starkware and 0x release StarkDEX demo running on Ropsten. To be released on mainnet “in several months.” Code.
Stuff for developers
Verisol: Microsoft open sources Solidity formal verification tool using its IR Boogie language
genSTARK: a JavaScript zk-STARK generation framework
Remix IDE v0.8 - new layout
Truffle v5.0.21
Ecosystem
Quickblocks/Trueblocks v0.5.7. full blockchain scraper to build fully decentralized block explorer, ie get trustless data off your own node
Enterprise
Blockchains to unlock $3.1 trillion in business value by 2030, per Gartner.
Paul Brody talk: what blockchain can deliver now
Quick start a private chain with Quorum and Truffle
Fnality, formerly Utility Settlement Coin, raises 50m GPB from its consortium of banks.
“Carrefour says blockchain tracking boosting sales of some products,” per Reuters
A guide to start using Pantheon, the enterprise focused Eth Java client
Governance and Standards
EIP2098: Compact 64 byte representation of Eth sig
ERC2100: Streaming token standard
ERC2095: Temporary Data Persistence
Application layer
Augur’s 4 prong strategy to defeat invalid market scams
Numerai’s Erasure Quant
Request Protocol v2 beta release
Grid+ passes 1000 in power customers
FunFair is doing an affiliate program
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Videos from Scaling Ethereum
Latest decentralized data community call with demos from Quickblocks and Play
Latest curation markets call
Scuttlebutt’s Dominic Tarr on Epicenter
Kyber Network’s Loi Luu on Into the Ether
Tokens / Business / Regulation
SEC charges Kik with for unregistered security sale. Kik’s press release response. Coincenter says it’s a question of fact, not law.
Cadence’s tokenized private notes get listed on Bloomberg terminal
cadCAD: Complex Adaptive Dynamics Computer Aided Design
Pairwise coordination subsidies. Vitalik’s quadratic funding twist to thwart collusion
de la Rouviere: Patronage as a game and an asset class
General
A walk down Ethereum and ConsenSys memory lane with Andrew Keys
Dether is adding chat to its in-person exchange app using IPFS, pinning service, and OrbitDB
LocalBitcoins ended in-person cash sales, so LocalEthereum does a no fee promo for in-person cash sales in June
According to his writing, Satoshi built Bitcoin for payments
Harz, et al, IACR paper: reduce deposits while maintaining security
Kim, Lee, Oh IACR: QAP-based Simulation-Extractable SNARK with a Single Verification
Gabizon IACR: Improved prover efficiency and SRS size in a Sonic-like system
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
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)
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 16-17 - Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
Oct 8-11 - DeVcon (Osaka)
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