News and Links
Protocol
Amis: implementing Casper FFG in Geth. Mitigating spam votes with NULL_SENDER
Parity’s Casper FFG testnet
Latest Casper standup
Buterin: Two-speed Casper FFG
Prysmatic’s sharding implementation update. Their updated contribution guidelines.
Buterin: Onchain vs offchain aggregation of crosslinks
Drake/Buterin: Fixed-size deposits and rewards/penalties/quad leak
Buterin: hash ladder Lamport sigs
ethereumJS full node and light client implementation is underway
Enuma on Sprites state channels
solevm: "Partial implementation of the Ethereum runtime in Solidity (PoC)" from Andreas Olofsson
Video of the ewasm workshop at EthBuenosAires
Gustav Simonsson: “forced connections and signed routing” to counter p2p attacks. Also Marcus, Heilman, Goldberg paper on a pre-Geth v1.8 eclipse vulnerability
Stuff for developers
buidler: a new development framework from Nomic Labs
Embark v3.0.6 updates to Solidity v0.4.24
Vortex: Redux store, similar to Truffle’s Drizzle.
colonyJS library to build the future of work on Colony. They’ve also got an online hackathon starting on Tuesday
Kimono’s time-locked trustless secret sharing
Celer Network previews its state channels MVP. Video demo.
Reitwiessner: explaining unexpected reverts starting with Solidity 0.4.22
Solidity DateTime library from BokkyPooBah (not yet audited)
Brandon Arvanaghi: Pentesting Ethereum dapps
Compile Vyper so you can use Truffle testing suites
ZeppelinOS live on mainnet - upgradeable contracts and standard libraries
84 interviews with developers on what Ethereum needs to improve on, compiled by EthPrize.
Ecosystem
Take the EIP0 shared values survey put together by Jarrad Hope
Scaling EthGlobal: post-EthBuenosAires, a hackathon a month through Devcon. In order, they are Singapore, Bangalore, Berlin, San Fran
Dan Finlay: trust mapping social arrangements
Toshi announced a MetaMask-like Chrome extension
Faster crossborder NGO payments through Maker DAI, Dether and ConsenSys’ Ethereum for Impact (2 min vid)
A response by Gustav Simonsson to complaints last week from BTC maximalists about the size of an archive node passing 1TB. The original post had legit points, but made more than a few basic and fundamental mistakes common among Bitcoiners that it wasn’t worth linking to. Also check out Afri’s seminal piece distinguishing between different types of archive, full and light nodes.
Oaken Innovations and Zymbit working on secure enclaves for Eth IoT apps using Raspberry PI/Beagle Bone Board
Live on mainnet
ZeppelinOS live on mainnet
Set Protocol has launched on mainnet. Buy sets of the top10 Ethereum tokens, a stablecoin composite, or set of DEX tokens. Bundle or unbundle. Sadly due to US regulatory uncertainty, you can only buy a set from them if you’re outside the US.
Releases
Trinity v0.1.0 - first alpha for new Python client. Documentation.
Geth v1.8.10 — tiny bugfix for 1.8.9 focused on stability and Go API
Governance and Standards
ERC1115: Decentralized user authentication standard
ERC1121: Extend EIP-55 to add chain id to mixed-case checksum address encoding
ERC1123: EthPM spec, v2
Project Updates
New Aragon whitepaper version. Also, their q1 transparency
Melon Olympiad: discounted MLN tokens for using Melonport (though you have to register with BitcoinSuisse)
iExec releases cloud computing marketplace on Kovan
Updated Althea mesh network paper
How to price work on Gitcoin
OpenLaw updates its employee offer letter with tax witholding
NYTimes on Meridio (fka Pangea) tokenizing a Brooklyn apartment building
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Raul Jordan talks implementing sharding with Arnav Vohra
Aaron Wright talks smart contracts on Law.com podcast
Aragon’s Luis Cuende on Epicenter
Facu Spagnuolo and Demian Brener talk ZeppelinOS on ZeroKnowledge
Rick Dudley on Hashing It Out
Print interview with Nick Johnson
TrueBit’s Robbie Bent with Token Talks
Token Summit videos
Presentations from EthBuenosAires winners. All the submissions.
OmiseGo, Vitalik and Karl video AMA
Beginning of Karl Floersch’s Cryptoeconomics course
Lots of great web history in this Brendan Eich interview
Tokens
McKeon: the Security Token Thesis. Surprisingly convincing.
Token Curated Playlists, part 2
Obsessed with NFTs? There’s a weekly NFT newsletter.
Dapped for discovery of dapp games site has prelaunched and plans to reward equity to early contributors through a future Aragon DAO
General
ForbesJapan on Ethereum with focus on Aya, Vitalik and Jun. In Japanese, though the Chrome auto-translation is passable.
Robert Hackett profiles Amber Baldet and Patrick Mylund Nielsen for Fortune
Emin Gün Sirer: Choose-Your-Own-Security-Disclosure-Adventure. Great read.
PoW 51% attack cost for a long list of chains. But number may be incorrect as someone who tried to attack ETC found out.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
June 1 -- Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)
June 4 -- ConsenSys Academy 2018 developer program registration deadline
June 5-24 -- Colony online hackathon
June 14 -- CryptoCup deadline to enter (though price goes up June 4th). Link contains referral code
June 25 -- Etherisc token sale starts
June 28 -- BuildEth (San Francisco)
June 30 -- Solidity Gas Golfing challenge deadline
July 9 -- Augur scheduled to launch
July 12-18 -- IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
July 14-15 -- FEM governance meetings in Berlin
July 19-20 -- DappCon (Berlin)
July 27-29 -- EthSingapore hackathon
August 3-4 -- Discon (Boulder, CO)
August 10-12 -- EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
September 7-9 -- EthBerlin hackathon
Oct 5-7 -- TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 -- EthSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- Devcon4 (Prague)
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