News and Links
Protocol
Casper FFG v0.2 with partial slashing
Casper FFG schedule for decline of mining rewards
Latest Casper standup
Prysmatic’s sharding implementation update
Justin Drake: proof of independent execution
Xuanji Li: Plasma limbo Exits and Challenging Fraudulent Exits
Sourabh Niyogi: Plasma Cash with Sparse Merkle Trees, Bloom filters & Probabilistic Transfers
Hamdi Allam: structure for Plasma validators to earn fees even if confirm signature is unbroadcasted
Stuff for developers
RingCT PoC token live on Ropsten
Facu Spagnuolo: Ethereum (and EVM) in depth, pt 1
Yoichi’s release notes on Bamboo v0.0.03
Analyzing two honeypots
Solium 2 min demo video
Participatory random numbers through repeated hashing
Embark v3 release notes
Update on Pyramid language
Loom’s Unity SDK to make it easy to integrate with their dappchain on the backend
Groundhog: smart contract escrows for ERC948 recurring payments
eth-auth: validate control of an address by decoding signing of auth token
dot-abi-cli: framework for generating CLIs from ABI
Truffle and VueJS tutorial
Setting up a multi node Swarm network tutorial
Online Solidity decompiler
Ecosystem
Devcon4 in Prague on Oct 30th to Nov 2nd.
Gathering of the security/audit community at EthBerlin?
The new MyCrypto is out of beta with all its new features, mobile Parity signer, scheduled transactions with Chronologic, better gas slider, automatic selection of most performant node, request payments, etc
Dexy launches in bug beta. Permissionless token listing for erc20, 223 and 777 standards, centralized low latency orderbook for now. Their audit found a bug in the Solidity compiler.
Enterprise
EEA client spec v1.0 released
Amazon unveils ConsenSys’ Kaleido in AWS for private Geth/Quorum enterprise networks using various consensus protocols with option to store a block hash on mainnet
Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank deploys Quorum-based payment system for merchants using Istanbul BFT
Releases
Solidity 0.4.24: null pointer detection, multi variable declarations and storage variables for the SMT component
Parity 1.11.1 beta. Private transactions, faster warp sync, transaction queue optimizations, etc. Also, Parity’s improved security processes
Remix IDE v0.6.3 - now uses ethers.js, ux changes, etc
Governance and Standards
ERC1077: users sign messages to show intent, but allow 3rd party to execute
ERC1078: a design method to replace the usual signup/login design pattern.
Avsa’s talk at the UX unconf on the 2 ERCs above and discussion thread.
ERC1082: standard to trade tokens across blockchains via atomic swap
ERC1080: Recoverable token standard for loss or chargebacks
ERC1085: common genesis.json format
ERC1087: Net gas metering for SSTORE operations
Project Updates
UjoMusic is live on the Ethereum mainnet
Jaak on their evolution towards a universal music ownership database
Aragon Q1 dev update. Also they’ve officially split off the current team into a for profit entity, so that the foundation can also fund competitive teams
Golem’s new promo and demo videos
TrustWallet deeplinking: user hits link, downloads TrustWallet, automatically goes to dapp URL destination
How to create a product for Streamr marketplace. HPE and Nokia will be in the marketplace.
Livepeer network economics update on transcoder performance
Intel and iExec working together on offchain computing using SGX
Numerai locked up 3m tokens (~45m USD) for 10 years
Brave with big performance improvements for users with too many open tabs
0x Protocol v2 launch around July 30, with erc721 and ability to add more standards, user friendly info for signing messages, support for more signature types, etc. Also check out its report on all its relayers
ERC dex to offer market makers 0% fees plus a rebate.
Augur to deploy to mainnet on July 9. Joey Krug tweetstorm on building Augur
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Phil Daian talks rent on Zero Knowledge
CZ from Binance on Epicenter
Watch POA Network transfer 1.2m POA tokens (then ~1m USD) from its sidechain to Ethereum back to sidechain
Tomasz Drwiega talk on Parity's tech stack
Print interview with Jack DuRose from Colony
Ledger’s Thomas France on BoostVC podcast
EthLondon: Kleros, CreditMint, ArtEvo
Mimir’s Hunter Prendergast and Forrest Marshall on Hashing It Out
Videos of Ethereal talks
Videos from the web3 UX unconf in Toronto. Also interviews with participants on Zero Knowledge podcast
Laura Shin interview on the UN’s World Food Programme Ethereum-based program for refugees
Hudson Jameson talks governance with Jeff Tong
Brendan Eich on This Week in Startups
Tokens
The Brooklyn Project’s framework for consumer tokens
SEC releases HoweyCoins parody of scam
Token Utility Canvas. a framework for token design
Santiment keeps adding features to Sanbase
CME launches ETHUSD reference rates using . . . only Kraken and Bitstamp?
General
Sia’s David Vorick with a must read on why proof of work inherently leads to centralization
Vitalik points out EOS consensus protocol mistakes
FedEx’s Fred Smith says blockchain is “the next frontier” for supply chains and logistics.
Bitmain leads $107m round for Circle plus $136m for tokenized USD
New family of consensus protocols?
Coinbase suite of institutional products. They also get a Washington Post profile
CNLedger says Chinese IT Ministry ranked 28 cryptos, with ETH first.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
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)
July 14-15 -- FEM governance meetings in Berlin
September 7-9 -- EthBerlin hackathon
Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- Devcon4 (Prague)
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