News and Links
Protocol
Core devs call. Lane’s notes
[Eth 2.0] ETH2.0 implementers call (local recording, some sound issues for first ~10 mins)
[Eth 2.0] Ben Edgington’s Eth 2.0 slides for Paris talk
[Eth 2.0] This week’s What’s New in Eth 2.0
[ewasm] ewasm talks at SF meetup
[VDF] Intro to VDFs from Trail of Bits. Also Peter Robinson talk on randomness
[Plasma] Comparison of Plasma designs by Eva Beylin
[Plasma] Latest Plasma implementer call
[Plasma] Plasma Debit implementation from Georgios/Loom
[Plasma] Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 3
[Casper] Latest Casper standup call
[Vlarding] Vlad’s sharding PoC that won at EthSF was a joint project with NEAR. Vlad’s viz. The NEAR folks also published TxFlow: Towards faster cross-shard transactions by rerouting transactions bypassing the beacon chain
Stuff for developers
SpankChain got hacked with a reentrancy bug from an ERC20 call, but for less than a security audit would cost. Here’s a walkthrough of the hack. Subsequently the hacker gave the money back and received a smaller bounty, but also offered a ~free MolochDAO audit
Discovering signature verification bugs
interface for aggregating on-chain data to avoid incessant Infura calls
Maker’s code for market making and arb bots
web3x - a Typescript port of web3JS
Cent Wallet’s tradeoffs between usability and trustlessness
8x Protocol launches subscription payments on Kovan
Deploy a private chain on Kubernetes tutorial
Ronan Sandford: The case for automated origin checks, non-interactive signatures, and non-interactive decryption
shadowlands - a Python, text UI platform to use dApps in terminal without a web browser
Client releases
Geth v1.8.17 - hard fork ready
Nethermind v0.9 - a new .NET core client
Not really a release, but all about the Nimbus client
Parity v2.12 and 2.0.7 stable - hard fork ready
Live on mainnet
Origin Protocol beta live on mainnet. Buy and sell on a Craigslist-like marketplace with ETH
Giveth is live on mainnet in closed beta, using Rinkeby and a bridge. Plans to change to POA Network when their new bridge is live. They’re looking for beta testers.
Docusign releases Ethereum integration. Write and verify your contracts to the chain.
Ecosystem
Blockscout - opensource block explorer from POANetwork/EthPrize
There are some hiccups with the Ropsten hardfork, first with a lack of miners and then with a consensus error where Parity and Geth charged a different amount of gas for a transaction. This could possibly push back the Constantinople hard fork.
You can now pre-register your .eth name on .luxe
How Aragon’s grants program is evolving
All the ETHSanFrancisco submissions. List of winners and runner-ups. Kyle Samani’s favorites. And no weed, flirting or crypto prices during hackathons (don’t hold this against OP, it got a little overinterpreted)
Parity Signer v2 beta - use an old phone as a transaction signer
Some clues about what Blockchains LLC is up to in their 67000 acres in Reno
Governance and Standards
EIP1482: Define a maximum block timestamp drift
ERC1480: Access Control Standard
ERC1483: Digital Identity Aggregator
Luke Duncan’s response (why autonomy matters) and Vitalik’s response (mutability is not feasible) to Vlad’s governance posts last week.
Project Updates
Raiden getting close to Red Eyes alpha launch, will be limited to 250 ETH total, only wrapped ETH, and .075 ETH per direction in a payment channel. Latest testnet release: v0.13.0
Dappos point of sale register adds ERC20 starting with DAI
CasinoFair now live in Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, New Zealand. Up to 14 countries.
Gitcoin Q3 retrospective and Q4 goals
Meridio’s reLease dapp lets you lease and rent daily workspaces. For now, at ConsenSys, CryptoNYC and in the DC burbs.
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Holger Drewes on Ethereum’s Javascript ecosystem and Eth 2.0
Raul Jordan on Smartest Contract
Dan Zuller and Ryan Sean Adams on Venture Stories
Nucypher comes back to Hashing It Out for fully homomorphic encryption
Coinfund on Epicenter
Sarah Baker Mills talk on design and UX
Latest web3 design call
Print Q&A with Maurycy Pietrzak of Infura
Richard Craib on Enigma’s Decentralize This
John Wolpert on Masters of Blockchain
ETHSanFrancisco main stage videos, including Vitalik and Balaji
Brendan Eich talk at Founders Fund
Gavin Wood on Polkadot and sharding on Zero Knowledge
Tokens / Business
Forbes joined the Civil network, but also got some bad press about paltry fundraising, including from WSJ and CNN
Token work profiles to understand users
First Round’s case study on scaling at Coinbase
CoinbasePro lists ZRX, the first token on Coinbase
Binance says all listing fees will be transparent and donated to charity
General
Joseph Lubin will be a SXSW keynote speaker “with special guest.” Also Joe offers a quick history of Ethereum’s earliest days
Parity Substrate testnet launches.
Zaki on how to play Cosmos Game of Stakes
Cardano is having a Tezos-like fight with their Foundation
Microsoft pledges 60k patents to Open Invention Network
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):
Oct 17-21 Lebanon hackathon (Beirut)
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin). 50% off available for devs, students & researchers
Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
Oct 29 - Swarm mini-summit (Prague)
Oct 29 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)
Nov 2 - MetaMask, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3
Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon
Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon
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