October 19, 2018
News and Links
Protocol
[Eth 2.0] What’s new in Eth 2.0 weekly
[Eth 2.0] Eric Conner’s economics of staking, with Vitalik adding some numbers.
[Eth 2.0] Improvements to reduce capital costs of being a Casper validator
[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s biweekly update
[Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth2.0 implementer call
[Eth 2.0] Ben Edgington’s London talk slides, slightly different from last week’s Paris slides
[Plasma] Georgios Konstantopoulos: Towards more efficient Plasma Cash constructions
[Plasma] Log(coins)-sized proofs of inclusion and exclusion for RSA accumulators
[State channels] Last two state channel researcher calls. Call #5 and call #4
[ewasm] Alex Beregszaszi and Lane Rettig talk ewasm with Jake Brukhman
Stuff for developers
Prepare your dapp for optional web3 injection (eip1102)
Ethers.js v4.0 - rewritten in TypeScript; better ENS support, events emitter, event filters, etc
EtherLime using ether.js v4 and solc v.0.4.25; 40% code coverage on CLI and 100% on API
Buidler - first Ethereum task runner
web3x v1.1 - web3js in Typescript. Also, EVM in Typescript
Poor man’s DecodeABI in Solidity from Austin Griffith
Pixura’s GraphQL API for NFTs
Multicall - group multiple calls into a single call and aggregate results
Connext’s post-mortem on the SpankChain hack, plus Docker images of their hubs
Messaging in Raiden and why they chose Matrix. Also testnet v0.14
Mind Breed - a Brainfuck interpreter where you have to sacrifice a CryptoKitty to add an instruction
Matryx wrote its code in Yul/Julia to save on gas
Preview of Formality language featuring formal proofs from Victor Maia
Deprecation of v0.5 Aragon DAOs on Rinkeby
web3j Gradle plugin for Java, Kotlin and Android devs
Get server-side rendering benefits without building SSR logic
Zeppelin on EVM packages: re-usable, upgradeable, on-chain code. available in ZeppelinOS and AragonOS
Slither - Solidity static analysis framework from Trail of Bits
Client releases
Parity 2.0.8 stable and 2.13 beta - with Constantinople bug fix
Ecosystem
Round 4 of Ethereum Foundation grants
Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopoulos to start shipping end of Nov
Kelvin Fichter: looking at ownership in the EVM
Lessons learned squatting ENS domains
Print your NFT onto schwag
Mixeth - paper on trustless coinmixing service
Enterprise
Quorum v2.1.1
What EEA & Hyperledger collaboration means for enterprise blockchain. EEA spec 2.0 coming at Devcon
Adhara announces Santander’s Julio Faura and Deutsche Bank’s Ed Budd have joined, plus 15m in ConsenSys funding to work on international payments with central banks
Governance and Standards
Latest core devs call on Constantinople fork. Per the notes, the fork is pushed to next year
Lane Rettig’s writeup of the Ropsten testnet consensus failure for Constantinople. Interesting real world stress test, but on a testnet.
Talk of a KEVM client for consensus tests to build on the JelloPaper of the EVM in K
AGP1 - vote on Aragon’s governance process on Nov 15
ERC1497: Evidence standard
ERC1484: Digital identity aggregator
ERC1511: Manager token standard
ERC1504: Upgradeable standard
ERC1505: Token forwarding
ERC1513: Refungible ERC721 Asset with Fungible ERC20
Project Updates
RocketPool’s plans for its Eth2.0 staking pool
Celer on lessons learned at EthSF testing its Gomoku dapp running on its state channels. I tried it, very cool. Possibly too addictive, since I’m bad at it.
CryptoCup’s NFL prediction game is live
Ujo officially debuts collectible patronage badges for musicians
Brave releases new Chromium based version that is 20% faster.
iExec’s end to end SGX solution
Civil failed to reach its minimum threshold; says it will do another sale “in weeks”
A first look at the Grid+ Lattice hardware wallet
Maker & POANet launch xDai sidechain. Lots of Tether drama led to lots of stablecoin fluctuations, but Dai stayed steady.
Colony Q3 update — all the stuff they’re working on; Q4 launch planned
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Print Q&A with Brave’s Yan Zhu
Latest Open Source Block Explorers call
Around the Block, episode 3
Infura’s Michael Wuehler talk on scaling Eth to 11b requests a day
Glen Weyl on Hashing It Out
MyCrypto’s Jordan Spence on Boost podcast
Celer Network’s Mo Dong layer 2 mechanism design talk
Liquidity Network’s Arthur Gervais on Smartest Contract
New 51% podcast. Recent episodes with Rune Christenesen and Andrew Keys
Starkware’s Michael Riabzev's talk on STARKs
Numerai’s Richard Craib on Zero Knowledge
Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
John Backus: private bittorrent trackers are loosely a market. Or a protocol token?
SEC opens a “fintech hub” to communicate with their staff.
Entire remarks of CFTC Commish Quintenz arguing devs should be liable for their code. The compliance cost would be devastating and a massive dead weight loss for society.
Worker selection algos for work tokens
General
The New Yorker on the early days of Ethereum. Solid work. In the same vein, a solid history of Augur
Zexe: enabling decentralized private computation. “think of it as a fully private state channel where each transition can be checkpointed/validated on chain”
Geth is the on the top 10 list of fastest growing projects on Github
GDAX head Adam White joins Bakkt as COO
Steve Wozniak joins tokenized VC fund Equi
Fidelity Digital Assets launches ETH/BTC custody and execution for institutions
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
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 1 - Blockchains LLC launch event (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 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends
Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon
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