News and Links
Protocol
Latest Plasma implementation call.
Kelvin Fichter: Plasma XT. Plasma Cash but much less per-user data checking.
Xuanji Li: Plasma Cash with smaller exit procedure
Blockchain at Berkeley’s Plasma implementation
BankEx plasma on Rinkeby. github.
Latest Casper standup
Casper FFG v0.1 "First Release" to get serious about versioning
Latest Prysmatic Labs sharding implementation call
Justin Drake: a scheme for proposers to omit witnesses in stateless validator execution.
Stuff for developers
Sūrya. Gonçalo Sá’s extension of soli for exploring Solidity code
scry-one resilient log awaiter in Typescript
Parr, a query tool
Conditional scheduling with the Ethereum Alarm Clock
Embark is now part of Status and released v3.0
Solidity event debugger
FOAM’s Cliquebait. PoA testnet in a Docker container
You can now inspect smart contract variables with Truffle’s built-in Solidity debugger in v4.1.8. Plus Truffle hits 500k downloads.
Zastrin basics of Ethereum course (free!)
Yoichi releases Bamboo v0.0.03
Ecosystem
Aragon Nest announces first give grants: Gnarly optimistic UI from XLNT, Prysmatic Labs for sharding, Frame: OS-level signing provider, toolkits for planning on Aragon from Space Decentral and Giveth, and a git-like versioning system using Aragon.
EF grant winner vipnode’s roadmap
Amberdata analytics dashboards
A look into Ethereum mining pools using miner payouts
Etherscan on its values and monetization strategy
Flippening: Ethereum’s fee market is now larger than Bitcoin’s
Ron Resnick on how the EEA’s stack release makes Ethereum more attractive for enterprise than competitors with vendor lockin
An interview with Christine Moy, the new head of Quorum
Governance and Standards
the goals of EIP0 going forward
ERC1068: Loan standard
ERC1070: Standard Bounties
ERC1066: Status code proposal
ERC780 claims registry updates
simplify ENR for v4 compatibility merged into EIP778
EIP908 incentives for archive nodes update
ERC1046 to “extend ERC20 token interface to support the same metadata standard as ERC721” merged
EIP 1062: Formalize IPFS hash into ENS resolver
ERC1067: Upgradeable token approach
EIP1057: programmatic PoW
Discussion on ERC1056 lightweight identity
‘Final call’ added as draft to EIP process
Composables ERC998 Update
Dan Finlay proposes “Strange Loop,” a type of liquid democracy signaling process for governance
Project Updates
Kauri is live on Rinkeby, with knowledge base article requests for uPort, Maker, Aragon, Remix, Toshi, Dharma
Following up on their video, the Aragon Manifesto in print form.
Steph Curry has his own CryptoKitty
draft of the Civil Constitution
0x April update
OmiseGo full roadmap update
Townsquare Media to test BAT and Brave for adblock visitors
uPort’s take on data onchain in the age of GDPR
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Edcon live streams. See schedule to find a specific talk.
Linda Xie’s intro to crypto talk at an Andreessen Horowitz event
Interview of Kiev’s DappDev speakers
Blockchain UX with Jose Caballer and Chris Pallé
10 min Vitalik Buterin interview from Deconomy
Thibaut Sardan on setting up a full Parity node on Zero Knowledge
Fabian Vogelsteller with Jeffrey Tong
Tokens
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce speech on how regulators should be lifeguards at the beach, not sandbox monitors
a16z’s Scott Kupor and Sonal Chokshi: Analogies, the big picture, and considerations for regulating crypto
Fred Wilson: Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing?”
“12 Graphs That Show Just How Early The Cryptocurrency Market Is”
Bloomberg graphic on cryptoasset and non-cryptoasset correlations
General
Chris Ballinger launches MOBI to explore blockchain applications with companies comprising >70% of worldwide vehicle production, eg BMW, Ford, GM, Renault etc
Brian Armstrong publishes the decision making framework at Coinbase
Starkware raised 6m from an allstar list of investors for a zkSTARK hardware and software stack
Lots of melodrama about “WSJ FUD” when there was no public SEC hearing on May 7. Paul Vigna is a reputable reporter and only reported a “working group.” Seems to me like most of the kerfuffle was due to over-extrapolation by crypto media in search of pageviews.
Eric Schmidt talking web3 with EF and ConsenSys
Facebook’s messenger lead now leading blockchain efforts.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
May 11-12 -- Ethereal (NYC)
May 15 -- Kleros sale
May 16-17 -- Token Summit (NYC)
May 17 -- Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)
May 17-19 -- Melonport hackthon in Zug
May 18-20 -- EthMemphis hackathon
May 19-20 -- Hacketh (Warsaw)
May 25 - 27 -- EthBuenosAires hackathon
May 28 -- Zeppelin’s zepcon0 conference (Buenos Aires)
June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)
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