News and Links
Protocol
[Eth 2.0] Ethereum 2.0 Prysm demo v0.0.0
[Eth 2.0] The Week in Eth 2.0 from Ben Edgington
[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s biweekly update
[Eth 2.0] Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse client update
[Eth 2.0] Parity’s implementation repo using Substrate
[Eth 2.0] Eth 2.0 implementer call notes from Peter Gallagher
[Casper] Latest Casper standup
[SNARKs] How Ethereum could use ZCash’s Sapling release
[Plasma] OMG Plasma Update with notes from last implementer call
[state channels] Patrick McCorry’s update on battleship using state channels
[state channels] See Connext and Celer at top of stuff for devs section
Stuff for developers
You can now run your own Connext payment channel hub
Ropsten testnet will now implement the Constantinople fork on block 4.23m in about 4 days
Starkware’s hands on tutorial for zero knowledge proofs
Universal Logins, first demo
Austin Griffith video demo of meta transactions
George Spasov: meta transactions, counterfactual instantiation and P2P networks, part 2
Mustekala: Ethereum chain data available via light client p2p network
Exw3: Eth RPC client for Elixir
Ideas and requests for EthSF hackers. And bounties you can earn at EthSF
Learnings from the EthSecurity interviews
Trail of Bits’ Eth security guidance, including office hours to learn their tools and Awesome Eth Security reference
Live on mainnet
Ecosystem
How RAC imagines Ethereum will reshape the music industry
Moloch DAO, an experiment to get projects to coordinate around funding Eth infrastructure
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger join each other’s group as associate members. Because as Bob Summerwill always says, “EEA is a standards body. Hyperledger is an umbrella for open source blockchain projects.”
Blockchain Gaming Alliance to develop best practices and standards
Governance and Standards
EIP1459: Node discovery via DNS
ERC1462: basic security token
ERC1470: smart contract weakness classification
Vlad Zamfir: Blockchain Governance 101, his call to think about how we want which of 5 governance scenarios we prefer. He followed up with his declaration to fight against 3 of the 5, though it was relatively clear after the first article.
Project Updates
Numerai announces Erasure Protocol using NMR, a “p2p, decentralized data marketplace for predictions.” Create a track record of predictions that people can buy but you can get slashed if they’re wrong.
Spankchain’s stable USDtoken BOOTY (collateralized using its native token) goes live today.
OMG community update
Streamr’s retrospective on building their data marketplace
What’s coming in Augur v2. Also topical index funds, eg Lebron James
Gnosis DutchX code is deployed and pilot is beginning. Also: GnosisX had zero possible winners submitted, so what they’re going to do now to encourage #buidl
How to know what’s going on in the Raiden network: Raiden Explorer
Air France-KLM joins WindingTree’s platform as a trial partner
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Loom’s Georgios Konstantopoulos talk on Plasma at Blockchain Game Summit
Joey Krug on Enigma’s new podcast
Joseph Lubin conversation at Next18
Streamr’s Henri Pihkala on Zero Knowledge
Ben Siegel’s blockchain in context talk
Venrock interviews Coinfund’s Jake Brukhman and Alex Bulkin
George Gilder: forget cloud computing, Ethereum is the future
Embark’s Iuri Matias on Hashing It Out
Tokens / Business
ErisX - a crypto exchange for spot and physically delivered futures from Virtu, DRW and TDAmeritrade
A UI for ERC998: cryptocomposables
USV’s Dani Grant and Nick Grossman: The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase arguing that apps drive infrastructure
General
Parity’s Substrate in a nutshell
Buterin and Weyl Radical Markets correspondence
Shapeshift fires back at WSJ article, points out basic errors
A survey of consensus algorithms from Jordan Clifford
Reddit implemented karma-weighted polls as an exclusive pilot for r/ethtrader
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (additions in bold):
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 8 - Settle virtual hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
Oct 12 - Non-fungible summit (SF)
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 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon
Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver
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