News and Links
Layer 1
Latest Eth2.0 implementers call. This week we have two different versions: Mamy’s detailed notes, and NoteGarden is more high level
Sigma Prime Eth2 client update - BLS library standards, 25x merkle root speedup through caching
Nimbus Eth2 client update - public testnet performance improvements. Pledges to get a few things ready by Devcon: cross-client production-ready phase0 testnet as well as phase1 prototype. Plus a POC light client and polished Whisper.
Lodestar client vision: “browser compatible ETH2.0 client (and light client) “ to help dev tools transition to Eth2
Eth2 networking slides from Kevin Chia
Justin Drake on VDF ASICs: An “attacker needs to be 100x faster than our ASICs to break the randomness … [even] if 100x+ is achieved, the randomness gracefully decays to the not-too-shabby RANDAO”
Layer 2
Connext to build v2 on Counterfactual for interoperability
Counterfactual dev update.
Vector Addition State Machine interpreter compatible with generalized state channels
LiquidityNetwork v2 mobile app release
Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.5.8 “further completes ABIEncoderV2, SMTChecker and Yul and improves the optimizer.” Also Solidity v0.4.26 backports bugfixes for v4
web3.js v1.0.0-beta.54
Truffle v5.0.15 and Ganache v2.0.2-beta.0
Alpha version of Play, a simplified Remix for beginners
IEEE 754 quadruple precision (128 bit) floating point Solidity library
Fixed point math in Solidity library
solang: Solidity to wasm PoC compiler using llvm written in Rust
GodsUnchained on gas efficient mass NFT creation
How to integrate 3Box with profiles
sbt-Ethereum. deployment and development tool for Scala tools and apps. Steve Randy Waldman explains why he built it: to use Eth as a Petri dish for communities
ConsenSys Ethereum tools portal
Ecosystem
A new ethereum.org launched to be a portal to community resources and maintained through Github pull requests
ENS permanent registrar is now deployed. You have one year to migrate
Metacash: gasless (using metatransactions with CREATE2) noncustodial Dai wallet for Android, with iOS coming.
RicMoo on CREATE2 magic: offchain contract wallets which can be updated
Enterprise
Microsoft publishes Azure Ethereum dev kit
JPMorgan and Microsoft partnership for Quorum adoption
Atomic Crosschain Transactions for Ethereum Private Sidechains
Live on mainnet
CDP Saver live on mainnet. Repay and boost in one click. Auto liquidation prevention coming soon.
dYdX v2 is live on mainnet
Governance and Standards
Results for Aragon second vote. 3 AGPs rejected, though one whale deciding the results illustrates some of the perils of onchain governance
dxDao white paper. Scheduled to launch May 29.
ERC1973: mint and distribute tokens per block to dapp users
EIP1985: sane limits for EVM parameters
Application layer
Secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Singapore will issue degrees using OpenCerts
DeFiScan - check your Compound, Uniswap and Spankchain balances from one site
RAC, Goldroom and Ujo launch a music label
Status v0.12 - adds dapp curation through SNT staking
Maker Stability Fee at 19.5%
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Rick Dudley on Into the Ether
PlasmaGroup AMA and freestyle
Andrew Keys keynote at Harvard Business
Aztec’s Ric Williamson on Zero Knowledge
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Fidelity report arguing that institutional money is coming to crypto
Q&A with Caitlin Long about Wyoming’s new crypto laws
London club West Ham join PSG and Juventus in using Socios to issue fan tokens
Why Ethereum will likely emerge as the preferred platform in capital markets
General
There were rumors Facebook would launch its crypto project at F8, but it did not. WSJ had initial paywalled report. Wired reports the possible options WSJ laid out.
Stellar crashes if just two nodes fail. Both of which are run by…Stellar.
Elon Must tweets “Ethereum,” which leads to back and forth with Vitalik Buterin, with Vitalik offering his thoughts on applications best suited to Ethereum.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
May 9 - Fluidity Summit (NYC)
May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)
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 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
July 3-5 - WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
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 (East Asia)
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