News and Links
Layer 1
Parity’s Eth2 testnet plans
Model 0: low-level Sybil defense measures for p2p networks
Layer 2
Kyokan’s Plasma MVP alpha on mainnet with FourthState’s root chain
Plasma Group’s Ben Jones on Near’s Whiteboard Series
Starkware’s StarkPay addresses many of the drawbacks of Lightning, and why StarkPay can’t be built on Bitcoin. No liveness requirement, low collateralization, non-custodial.
Stuff for developers
Tutorial: how to build roll-up with Circom
Solidity v0.5.5
web3.js v1.0.0-beta.48
Tutorial: Solidity + Vue.js simple auction
0age: on efficient gas storage with CREATE2
Get your Ethereum dev tools to work together using Buidler
watch-eth: a “robust” event watcher
Speeding up IPFS content discovery with Piñata
Lambdeth: functional programming EVM library
self-balancing binary search tree with order stats tree extensions
solc-select: quickly switch between Solidity versions
Analyze your Solidity with a variety of testing suites
Zastrin’s intro tutorial to using ethers.js in a dapp
Ecosystem
Gas Station Network Alliance: Zeppelin and Tabookey team up to push decentralized meta transaction relayer
Soltix: automated Solidity compiler testing framework
Enterprise
Pantheon v1.0.1
Governance and Standards
Roadmap for EVM evolution and EIP615
A summary of Vlad Zamfir’s governance arguments
Fixing Ethereum’s gas fee system with EIP-1559
Vitalik proposes a voluntary 1 gwei fee at the wallet level
EIP1837: explicit transaction fees
ERC1820: Pseudo-introspection Registry Contract
ERC1822: Universal upgradeable proxy standard.
ERC1812: verifiable claims
Application layer
Relevant beta is live - tokens for curating and upvoting, a la Reddit.
You can now get BAT for watching ads on Brave’s dev version
Civil’s newsrooms and registry goes live as well as rebranded token sale on a bonded curve
EthMail: Send/receive email to 0x[publicKey]@ethmail.cc
CDP Saver - never get liquidated. live on Kovan.
Omise Holdings strategy update
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki on Into the Ether
Maker’s Martin Lundfall on Zero Knowledge
Latest Curation Markets call
IDEO’s Dan Elitzer with Laura Shin
Starkware’s Eli Ben Sasson on Software Engineering Daily
Tokens / Business / Regulation
CFTC Chair Giancarlo speech last week. Bullish.
EthDenver winner Pactful on bonded curve crowdfunding
Jesse Walden: from co-ops to crypto networks
General
Boneh, Boyle, et al: Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Distributed Data via Fully Linear PCPs
Dan Finlay on Liquid Liberal Radicalism
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Mar 8-10 - ETHParis
Mar 8-10 - EthUToronto
Mar 15 - Next core devs call
Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support
April 4-5 - Deconomy (Seoul)
April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown
Apr 29 - Oslo Blockchain Day
May 9 - Fluidity Summit (NYC)
May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)
May 16 - Token Summit (NYC)
May 17-19 - ETHNewYork
May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
May 23-25 - Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)
June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
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