September 14, 2018
News and Links
Protocol
[Eth 2.0] Eth 2.0 implementers call
[State channels] State channel researcher call
[State channels] Off-chain issuable tokens
[Plasma] Basic Mass Exits for Plasma MVP
[Plasma] More Minimal Plasma - an easy to read version to learn Plasma
[Plasma] demo of Bankex’s coffee vending machine running on Plasma
[Plasma] Debt & Liquidity in layer 2 UX
Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes. Ropsten hard fork on Oct 9.
Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.4.25 important bugfix release
Tech details and SDK for Grid+ hardware agent
Evaluating storage: on-chain index vs sidechain index vs read-only IPFS index
Piñata Overlay to make it easier to incentivize IPFS pinning
A simple guide for writing unit tests
A walkthrough of Gemini’s regulated stablecoin code
Deconstructing Solidity, pt4: function wrappers
3box’s API to access and interact with a dapp user’s latest OrbitDB hash
iden3: new SNARK tools for an identity system from Jordi Baylina
Kauri’s full stack dapp tutorial series
Releases
Remix v0.7.2 with better testing, API, library deployment
EthereumJS August recap
Live on mainnet
FOAM’s map is live. You can stake your tokens on veracity of points of interest on their map.
Schedule transactions with Chronologic’s Etherum Alarm Clock, live on MyCrypto
Ecosystem
I've often said in jest that we'll know web3 succeeded when we stop using Slack. Status is making plans to stop using Slack
All the EthBerlin submissions. I think variance struck because I believe I judged at least half the winners
A particular EthBerlin highlight: a cross-client testnet named Görli - even if implementing a Rinkeby <> Kovan testnet turned out to be more ambitious than possible for a a few people at a hackathon. Vlad’s sharding POC was interesting too, though quite a bit different than current roadmap. Despite the clickbait title, Rachel O’Leary’s Coindesk article had some good quotes. Ethstonia ID also pretty fascinating, among many others
Gemini and Paxos got NY approval for a regulated and centralized stable USD token on Ethereum
Governance and Standards
LoomNetwork’s ERC721x for transferring game assets: wrapping ERC1178 with ERC721
Philippe Castonguay on the different multiclass token standards and gas costs
Writeup about using ERC1167 minimal proxy
ERC1400: security token standard
Delegated execution subscriptions for ERC948/1337
ERC1404: simple restricted token standard
ERC1402: Signature Composition and Verification
ERC1407: Namespacing ABI interface to allow function signature reuse in different context but same contract
EIP1380: reduced gas for call to self
Project Updates
LA Dodgers giving away 40,000 “digital bobbleheads” on their Sept 21 game
9 months of single-collateral Dai. Also an amusing explainer video of using CDPs and Dai
AirSwap to work with a broker-dealer on tokenized real estate
Etherisc planning to write hurricane insurance policies next year in Puerto Rico
Raiden v0.9 breaking release
Loom Network roadmap update for next 6 months
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Danny Ryan talks Eth 2.0 on Hashing It Out
Prysmatic’s Raul Jordan talks their Eth 2.0 Go implementation on Scaling Today
Justin Drake’s high level sharding talk from TechCrunchZug
Matthew Green on Let’s Talk ETC
Joe Lubin CNN hit
The bull case for Ethereum podcast interview of Spencer Noon and Cyrus Younessi
Mitch Kosowski & Andrew Cravenho talk about POA’s open source block explorer on Zero Knowledge
Nick Johnson print interview on ENS and where he sees documentation lacking
Video from UXUnconference in Berlin
Sam Cassatt, Amanda Gutterman and Joe Lubin at TechCrunch SF event
6 min video of Vitalik against on-chain governance
Jacob Eberhardt talking Zokrates on Zero Knowledge
Tokens / Business
Cofoundit is winding down due to crowdsale market conditions and distributing assets to token holders. That’s doing the right thing - there are more projects that should do this. I bet we will see more projects do at least partial refunds.
Indiegogo refunded everyone who bought FCFL tokens, apparently after SEC told them to
The Consumer Token Framework from The Brooklyn Project
Recap of Nifty composables ERC998 call
Intro to token bonding and curation markets
General
What’s a Sparse Merkle Tree?
Matthew Di Ferrante: Blockchains as a Public Good
Karen Scarbrough: scaling blockchains in the context of large systems
ZK-SNARGs: zero knowledge succinct non-interactive argument from Ben-Sasson, Chiesa, et al.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
September 21-23 - EthAtlanta
Sept 29 - Oct 1 - Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
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 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)
Nov 2 - MetaMask to stop injecting web3
Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon
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