News and Links
Protocol
[Eth 2.0] What’s new in Eth 2.0
[Eth 2.0] More Ben Edgington: State of the beacon chain
[Eth 2.0] Overview of Ethereum 2.0 chains: committees, proposers & attesters
[Eth 2.0] Lighthouse’s fortnightly update. Also, security in the Lighthouse client
[Eth 2.0] Eth Sharding and Beyond SFBW panel
[Casper] Casper FFG incentives paper by Buterin, Reijsbergen, Piliouras
[Casper] Casper CBC lite via committees
[Plasma] Latest two Plasma implementer calls: this week and last week
[Plasma] More on Parsec’s Plasma Leap, including working dapp demos
[Plasma] Gluon Plasma for dexes
[Plasma] Plasma Bank. Project 8 dev framework for “token-incentivized, Plasma sidechains”
[Plasma] work in progress of Plasma Cashflow
[Plasma] Building a dex using snarks spec from Gnosis
[Plasma] Plasma Challenge Auctions
[Plasma] 3 opcodes to build Plasma dex
[Plasma] RSA accumulator implementation for Plasma
Spamming the bloom filter, or: should logx be higher priced?
Stuff for developers
Getting started with OpenZeppelin-eth EVM Package
An update on EthPM
Connext/Spainchain rewritten Solidity payment channel hub code
Kyokan’s prototype of Lightning on Ethereum
Step by step dice game on state channels tutorial
circom and snarkjs tutorial from Jordi Baylina
Getting started with zksnarks on ZoKrates
uPort developer libraries v1
uPort offshoot 3Box released User Profiles API v1. It’s easy to create a profile; I did.
Client (testing) releases
Ecosystem
How the Ethereum Foundation grants program makes decisions. And Aragon grants, round 3
Jeff Coleman tweet on what state channels are good for
Kelvin Fichter’s audio commentary on the last issue of Week in Ethereum.
Alethio: who uses dexes with some nice data viz
16 groups team up for wBTC - wrapped BTC on Ethereum, coming Jan 2019
Dappnode update
Etheroscope open source block explorer focused on state
Enterprise
Governance and Standards
IfDefElse: Understanding ProgPOW
Zamfir: best practices for participating in governance
ERC1530: standard contract upgrade events
ERC1512: insurance policy storage standard
Project Updates
Golem v0.18 - with Nvidia GPU rendering. They also hired Qubes’ Joanna Rutkowska
Oxfam to use Etherisc for insurance to Sri Lankan rice farmers
Mysterium quarterly update - released Mac and Windows VPN apps
localethereum announced integrations with a bunch of wallets
OpenLaw’s OpenCourt - legally enforcable blockchain arbitration
CelerNetwork’s cWallet is now in alpha, come play Gomoku on state channels with me.
Baskets of stablecoins using Set
Video demo of using Raiden
Dharma Lever - quick loans for margin trading
All about delegating to Plasmachain validators on Loom Network
Status v0.9.30 with extensions and ENS
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Eric Conner on 51 Percent
MyCrypto’s Taylor Monahan on Zero Knowledge
Niran Babalola on Hashing It Out
Austin Griffith on TokenPoints
Felix Feng on Smartest Contract
Colony’s Jack du Rose with Arthur Falls
Tokens / Business
Continuous Organizations bonding curve org funding model
Radical Markets in the arts by Simon de la Rouviere
Jon Choi: the crypto idea maze
General
Trail of Bits’ guide to post-quantum cryptography
Pay to play has been a big problem in crypto media
Quisquis: “updatable keys” with zero knowledge by Fauzi, Meiklejohn, Mercer, Orlandi
Orders open for HTC’s Exodus “blockchain phone.” Ships in Dec
Coinbase joins Circle’s reserve-backed USDC dollarcoin
Some new chapter 2 videos from Karl Floersch on cryptoeconomics.study
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):
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). Check out Josef’s Prague picks
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 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon
Feb 23-25 - EthAustin
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