Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
Finality in Eth2. Put differently: why Eth2 will be much more final and secure than Eth1 or BTC - as this week’s aborted attempt by Binance to re-org BTC showed
Drake: how to create timelock puzzles targeting RSA VDF ASICs with a hardcoded modulus.
Academic paper benchmarking EVM opcode pricing
Client releases
Nethermind v0.9.9 - fast sync with mainnet in just 5 hours by not downloading transaction receipts
Stuff for developers
A Scratch3 extension to make it easy and kid-friendly to build games on Eth
Truffle v5.0.17
Buidler: task runner as coordinator for all your Eth dev tools
Nick Dodson’s 311 byte eip712 compliant multisig
Flint statically-typed programming language for safer Eth code by Schrans, et al
A graphical look at the functions in Maker’s architecture
Details on vulnerability in Maker’s voting app
Ecosystem
Ethereum Foundation, ConsenSys, Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin to try to join the Moloch grants DAO for 1000 ETH each. Meanwhile Metacartel to fork Moloch for a grants DAO to “coordinate the sharing of product insights and user data”
Soltix releases v0.1 of automated framework for testing Solidity compilers
More Burner Wallet house parties as onboarding to crypto: this time in Australia with extension Burner Apps (somewhat similar to Austin’s Emojicoin exchange)
EthDenver2018 winners resurface with Elk, a dev board to prototype blockchain connected devices, in advance of June kickstarter
Dappnode v0.2 - OpenVPN and Debian
Enterprise
Starbucks working to track its coffee bean supply chain using Quorum
EY has a code security analyzer in private beta, indicating a strong dedication to Eth mainnet
Tutorial on AZTEC zero knowledge transactions in Pantheon
Bloomberg writeup on Societe General’s 100m euro covered bond
Ajit Tripathi: Enterprise blockchain is real
US Treasury Dept is building a proof of concept for asset tracking on a private Eth chain
Governance and Standards
Akhunov: how Ethereum governance really works and why he likes working groups as a process change
Latest core devs call. Notes.
ERC1996: Put tokens ‘on hold’
EIP2003: EVMC modules for implementations of precompiled contracts
Application layer
Maker’s multi-collateral Dai 101. Also, per the bug disclosure this week, if you have MKR in the old voting contract, move it back to your wallet ASAP
Grid+’s Lattice1 hardware agent in pre-sale with GRID discount. 60+ Texans signed up for power yesterday with Grid+
AuroraDAO rebranding to IDEX, claims more alltime trades than EtherDelta
OpenLaw and 6 leading Canadian law firms automate an M&A escrow agreement
LiquidShare and PegaSys working on “European post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises”
Cent adds messaging and ETH transfers
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Joe Lubin on Chain Reaction
Digix’s Shaun Djie on Into the Ether
Edcon videos going up
Set Protocol’s Felix Feng and Inje Yeo on WyreTalks
Agoric’s Mark Miller on Epicenter
Zcash’s Sean Bowe on Zero Knowledge
Vitalik interview at Microsoft Build
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Uniswap’s Unisocks, a limited edition, dynamically-priced pair of Uniswap socks. Price already up on the bonding curve from $12 to ~$35
RealT live with a rental house in Detroit. LLC owns property and tokenizes the LLC. Rent gets paid in Dai.
HumanityDAO: a TCR for sybil-resistance
MyCrypto’s token standard explainer
ConsenSys Legal and Latham&Watkins release Automated Convertible Note on OpenLaw. Who needs the SAFT?
Look out OTC: DutchX has less slippage than exchanges for large orders
LA Democrat Rep Brad Sherman renewed his call to ban cryptocurrencies
FinCEN released guidance on how they think money transmission laws apply to various subsets of crypto. This led Vitalik to write about control as liability
SEC Commissioner Peirce speech on interpreting Howey for crypto warns that unclear guidance is pushing the industry outside of the US
CFTC ready to approve ETH futures, per Coindesk
General
Binance got hacked for 7000 BTC. Some Bitcoin core devs suggested they should roll back the chain for the entire day to give the stolen BTC to miners instead of attackers. Eventually Binance chose not to try.
ZkCapital is doing a blockchain research weekly newsletter
FloodXMR paper argues you could previously de-anonymize Monero by flooding transactions for a tiny annual sum. Unclear how much it would cost now.
Starkad and Poseidon: New Hash Functions for Zero Knowledge Proof Systems
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
May 16 - Eth2 workshop (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)
May 24-26 - Ethereum Madrid Hackathon
May 27-28 - EthCon Korea (Seoul)
June 8-9 - WASM in blockchains (Berlin)
June 10-11 Blockchain for Social Impact conference (NYC)
June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
July 3-5 - WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
July 19 - BuildETH (San Francisco)
Aug 2-4 - ETHIndia (Bangalore)
Aug 2-4 - TruffleCon (Redmond)
Aug 21-23 - Dappcon (Berlin)
Aug 23-25 - ETHBerlin
Sep 16-17 - Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
Oct 8-11 - DeVcon (Osaka)
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