March 22, 2019

Mar 23, 2019

News and Links

Layer 1

Layer 2

Counterfactual releases Playground developer alpha with demo environment and multiple demo applications. Go build with generalized state channels
Transcript of Vitalik’s rollup talk last week on getting to 270k transactions per second with rollups on phase 1 of the beacon chain

Stuff for developers

Ganache v2.0 - workspaces, contract space decoding, event decoding, etc
Embark v4.0 with Cockpit UI dashboard and robust debugger
Truffle v5.0.9 - Quorum support, debugger improvements
web3.js 1.0.0-beta.49
Ethvtx: “Ethereum-Ready & Framework-Agnostic Redux configuration” in Typescript
Issuing and verifying EIP712 challenges with Go
Universal Logins update - SDK available in a few months, new boilerplate to hack with
nestd: simplified framework for node.js apps
256 bit bloom filter in Solidity
Peter Tsankov on the Soltix automated solc tester
vyper-js: Javascript bindings for the Vyper compiler
Make sure you’ve updated any Infura legacy keys before they die on March 27. Related: new API Security section in Infura dash

Client release

Ecosystem

Enterprise

Governance and Standards

Hudson announces that in January it was decided that ProgPoW will go in a fork. Which surprised everyone. To wit, several days before Andrea Lanfranchi was complaining about the lack of a ProgPoW decision
A simple way to fund more public goods in Ethereum that makes everyone happy. Three things: 1) ProgPoW, 2) reduce mining rewards to 1.8 eth per block 3) 0.1 eth per block to fund public goods. (I wrote this)
Jon Stevens: 13 questions about ProgPoW
ERC1850: Hashed Time-Locked Principal Contract transactions
ERC1820 in last call
Dean Eigenmann proposes decaying bug bounties for EIPs

Application layer

Compound v2 - different collateral factor depending on liquidity, no WETH need, new token standards. currently under audit
Decentraland Builder: everything you need to build 3D Decentraland worlds
Dai Stability Fee going up to 7.5%
WeTrust’s Cryptounlocked: conditional donations using Augur markets
Sports betting: SportsX goes live.
Whisp: payroll app on Ethereum
A scam someone is running on Augur and how Augur is fixing it
Set Protocol releasing its “buy the dip” automatic rebalancing in April
Assessing metrics for video quality verification in Livepeer’s ecosystem
0x roadmap with STARKs. Starkware says they can do “500 trades/second, costing less than 1,000 gas per trade” and that their joint project will be on testnet in April.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Simon de la Rouviere’s This Artwork is Always on Sale using Harberger tax is live. Currently valued at 888 ETH - though you pay 5% per year, and you can just put down a partial deposit.
How Vitalik sees Eth’s strategy: “Ethereum is best suited to continue to provide value and prosper in the presence of a growing number of such chains by going for the "stable L1, no on-chain governance, focus more innovation on L2 over time" approach, ie. basically moderate bitcoin values, except that it's actually a very defensible position when you have a scalable data layer and any kind of richly-stateful VM at all at L1”

General

Ethereum and Secure Scuttlebutt interoperability report
Liquality’s atomic swaps explainer
RainbowNetwork: Dan Robinson proposal for synthetic payment channel exchange
LLVM v8. WebAssembly no longer experimental
Update to RSA Accumulator paper
Why we need “can’t be evil”: Facebook stored millions of passwords in plaintext for years

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