Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
My phase 0 roadmap summary: individual clients already have testnets to varying degrees. Spec freeze end of June, networking this summer, longstanding cross-client testnet early Q4, auditing/testing, go live around end of q4 or q1
Layer 2
Matter doing over “100 TPS of ZK transactions on ETH mainnet” but couldn’t test higher because they crashed Digital Ocean
Separating the role of signatures in transaction validity vs slashing
Decentraland adopts Matic for fast and cheap layer2 sales of Estates
Raiden light client SDK and app, live on Rinkeby
Client releases
Stuff for developers
Pocketh: a “pocket knife for auditing smart contracts” from Zeppelin
Skale explainer on using their sidechain storage as an IPFS alternative
Sandcastle, an Eth SQL language pre-alpha available in Remix.
Slither v0.6.4
Drizzle v1.3.0
Build a simple insurance Etherisc product with role-based actors
Enjin’s Java SDK to integrate a blockchain economy into your Minecraft server
Ecosystem
POA Network is picking up the Kovan testnet and changing it to 4 second block times.
Enterprise
EEA enterprise client spec v3. Plus EEA released trusted compute spec v1.0
World Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia trade 9 figure secondary bond built on Ethereum
GE Aviation to track aircraft engine parts maintenance an use with a consortium chain built on Ethereum
Aura: a product tracking consortium chain for the luxury industry from LVMH, ConsenSys and Microsoft
Element implementation of Decentralized Identity Foundation’s Sidetree Protocol
Governance and Standards
Proposed list of EIPs for Istanbul hard fork
EIP2028: Calldata gas cost reduction
ERC2009: Compliance service
EIP2029: State Rent A - State counters contract
EIP2031: State Rent B - Net transaction counter
EIP2027: State Rent C - Net contract size accounting
EIP2026: State Rent H - Fixed Prepayment for accounts
EIP2035: Stateless Clients - Repricing SLOAD and SSTORE to pay for block proofs
ERC2015: Wallet Update Chain JSON-RPC Method (`wallet_updateChain`)
Nexus Mutual: digital cooperatives are the future
Application layer
iExec v3: secure “data renting,” particularly aimed at enterprises. Massive French utility company EDF to use it.
Sell your personal Firefox info through Streamr
The CryptoKitties folks debut a new game called CheezeWizards
Cryptocup returns for CopaAmerica - predict South America’s cup
Augur v1 cutoff on September 15th. Also interesting: Veil forked Augur, though they say they’re coming back for v2
100m USD in loans outstanding on DeFi
Maker Stability Fee lowered to 17.5%
District0x launches MemeFactory. Curation markets, TCRs. Memes.
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki on Zero Knowledge
Argent’s Itamar Lesuisse on Into the Ether
Aya Miyaguchi on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
General
Fast Fourier Transforms explainer
Flexa and Gemini announce some major retails chains to accept ETH and BTC
A cryptocurrency wallet is not a wallet! If you didn’t know this, click the link.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
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
September 15 - Augur v1 cutoff
Sep 16-17 - Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
Oct 8-11 - DeVcon (Osaka)
If you appreciate this newsletter, thank ConsenSys
This newsletter is made possible by ConsenSys.
I own Week In Ethereum. Editorial control has always been 100% me.
If you're unhappy with editorial decisions or anything that I have written in this issue, feel free to tweet at me.
It’s annoying how many link to the old URL. This is the new one: weekinethereumnews.com
Archive on the web if you’re linking to it: https://weekinethereumnews.com/may-18-2019/
Follow me on Twitter, because most of what is linked here gets tweeted first: @evan_van_ness
If you’re wondering “why didn’t my post make it into Week in Ethereum?”
Did you get forwarded this newsletter? Sign up to receive the weekly email