News and Links
Protocol
[ewasm] Latest Ewasm call
[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s latest implementation update: proposer & attester responsibilities, RPC validator interactions and minimal beacon chain processing & fork choice. Chose Bolt for database.
[Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth 2.0 implementers call.
[Eth 2.0] Sigma Prime introduces its Lighthouse Eth 2.0 client
[State channels] Latest state channels call
[State channels] Learn State Channels, similiar to Learn Plasma
[Plasma] snapp - fully verified plasma chain using SNARKs and BarryWhiteHat’s roll_up
[Plasma] Enabling Faster Plasma Exits - NFT collateralization
[Plasma] Data Availability Solution for Plasma EVM without Confirmation
[Plasma] Quark–gluon Plasma - verified Plasma chain without confirmation signatures
[Plasma] Plasma Cash Defragmentation
[Plasma] Plasma Cash Minimal Atomic Swap
[Plasma] The current state of Plasma (before this week anyway!) by Kevin Zhang
[Plasma] Latest Plasma implementers call
A suggestion: if you want to work in this industry, publishing notes on any of these calls (Plasma, Ewasm, Eth 2.0, state channels, etc) is a great way to build knowledge and reputation.
Stuff for developers
Parameterized transaction reviews for when you want to decide which signers you want to approve different types of transactions
Deconstructing Solidity, pt 5: function bodies
Solidity capture the flag pt 4 challenge, with pt 3 writeup
Sigma Prime’s Mehdi Zerouali: ‘breaking smart contracts for fun and profit’ slides
ethjs-abi for use in BigQuery, to decode Ethereum event logs
Ethereum in Google’s BigQuery: how we built this dataset
Ameen Solemaini video code walk through of Moloch DAO
Zymbit and Oaken blockchain security module available for pre-order for $47. i2c, Raspberry Pi ready. Ships mid-October
Registration open for next ConsenSys Academy cohort. Zastrin also just released an NFT/ERC721 course
RuntimeVerification’s formal verification spec in K of ERC777
Releases
Parity v2.1.1 beta and v.2.0.6 stable. Parity 1.x end of life.
Ecosystem
Multi-Collateral Dai: the code is formally verified and ready. Check it out on Kovan.
Avsa’s Universal logins working demo: first code release
Beltran on UX for mass adoption
Wyohackathon submissions and winners. EthBerlin winners. Also Hack the North Ethereum submissions
What Eth 2.0 layer 1 scalability will look like, by the numbers
TurboGeth is in private beta, per Rachel O’Leary’s interview with Alexey Akhunov
MEWConnect iOS app is out from My Ether Wallet
Ethfinex Trustless - non-custodial trading using Bitfinex order book, settlement on-chain
Governance and Standards
EIP1418: blockchain rent proposal
ERC820 pseudo-introspection registry is in last call
ERC1412: Batch Transfers For Non-Fungible Tokens
ERC1410: partially fungle token
ERC1417: poll standard
Nick Johnson had a chat with Kristy-Leigh Minehan and switched to supporting ProgPOW. Currently, there’s a 20x increase in processing over ethash in benchmarking, though Minehan says that’s because the CPU code is currently just a copy of the GPU code
Tokensoft on its ERC1404: simple restricted token standard
Project Updates
CasinoFair will be the first live FunFair casino later this month. Available in Canada, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Thailand. Signup for free FUN
Raiden update on mainnet launch. Testnet release: v0.10.0
Streamr helping build a nationwide traffic map in Georgia
WindingTree’s summer demo release
Santiment’s daily active addresses and Github commit data is free
Grid+ is live with its first electricity customers
Dapped launches with dapp game reviews
Intro to the Golem marketplace during Brass
1.25m Loom (~110kUSD) to run a LoomNetwork PlasmaChain validator
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Two great Blockcrunch podcasts on state channels: Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani and Celer Network’s Mo Dong
Golem, Status, Raiden UX talks from their meetup at EthBerlin
Linda Xie with Laura Shin
First episode of Around the Block documentary
Zero Knowledge Summit videos
Hudson Jameson on Zero Knowledge
Tokens / Business
Polymath on using partially fungible tokens from its security token standard for gaming
Claims curated registries: reputation development
Polkadot/web3
Jack Platts: state of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkascan explorer is live
GRANDPA block finality in Polkadot
Buzzfeed published a sensationalist hit piece on Gavin Wood over a short story he wrote years ago. His response. I read the story years ago; ‘twas obviously fiction.
Cloudflare now runs an IPFS gateway. How they built it e2e
General
15 of the world’s largest banks and trading firms start Komgo to build a commodity trading platform on Ethereum.
Airbus announced an ERC721 framework for charities to take donations
Rep Emmer (R-MN) unveils blockchain-friendly bills to clarify tax with regard to forks and not require miners to register as MSBs (which would be a truly asinine requirement)
NY AG claimed that Coinbase was doing its own trading. Actually, 20% of Coinbase exchange volume comes from Coinbase’s retail. It doesn’t even have an OTC desk.
Putting a Syrian airstrike early warning system on Ethereum for data transparency
SEC Commissioner Peirce speech on being CryptoMom
Blockchain futurism from John Wolpert: sidechains for fun and profit
David Chaum says he has built a better Bitcoin
A Bitcoin bug would have allowed inflation. It was discovered by a Bitcoin Cash developer
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, 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
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver
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