News and Links
Protocol
Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes.
[Eth 2.0] Latest Eth2.0 implementers call
[Eth 2.0] Minimal VDF randomness beacon
[Eth 2.0] Shasper viz v0.4
[Casper] A simplified look at Casper
[State channels] State channels researcher call
[Plasma] Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 2
[Plasma] Erasure coding (Reed-Solomon) for data availability
[TurboGeth] TurboGeth: public but unsupported beta, Alexey working on tests
[Light clients] Al-Bassam, Sonnino, and Buterin: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities. VB’s paragraph summary.
Stuff for developers
ZK Labs Community Audits Initiative for non-ICO projects
Securify is now open source, as well as the publicly available tool on the web.
Embark v3.2 - ENS support on all chains, templates, webpack, latest Vyper, latest Swarm, etc
Truffle v5.0.0 beta1 - debugger breakpoints, unique mnemonics, init/unbox into a directory with contents, etc
ecommerce React + web3 + Truffle
Bokky’s Solidity flattener to verify your source code
ENSBuilder for testing contracts with ENS
Pipeline visual IDE video: Solidity and Javascript composite
Ropsten forks at 4.2M blocks, on Oct 9 (no link)
a C#, .NET Core EVM. Also, .NET Core Nethermind Eth client
Uport/3box Ethereum profiles API
George Spasov: meta transactions, counterfactual instantiation and P2P networks. Similar: gasless transactions
Deconstructing Solidity code, pt 6: Swarm hash
MetaMask: EIP712 is coming: what you should do
Web3E: Ethereum for Arduino framework embedded devices
Eth on ARM. NanoPC-T4 image with official Armbian support. stability improvements and clients upgrade.
Releases
Geth v1.8.16 - bugfix maintenance release
Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.16 - sync and performance improvements
Live on mainnet
0x protocol v2 - more token standards support, better matching, bulk cancellations.
Compound launches, borrow to short or earn interest by lending your ETH, REP, BAT, ZRX
CasinoFair is live on mainnet - first provably fair casino. 80k FUN “slightly singed” so far
Ecosystem
Lane Rettig: 12 reasons I’m bullish about Ethereum today. Vitalik then added 6 more reasons
Want to participate in Gnosis futarchy experiments?
Details on POA Network’s Honey Badger BFT consensus algo based on Miller, et al’s 2016 paper
Cartesi - off-chain computation verification, a la Truebit
Now Circle has a stable USD ERC20 token
Austria is selling 1.15 billion euros of government bonds, notarizing them on Ethereum.
Metamask now supports Ledger hardware wallets
Governance and Standards
Polkadot: why on-chain governance
ERC1450: SEC-compatible security token
ERC1444: method for converting machine code to human-readable text
ERC1453: tokenized debt standard
ERC1438: dApp Components (avatar) & Universal Wallet
ERC1357: address metadata JSON schema
Project Updates
Augur v2 plans: DAI, use it or lose it for REP, oracle price auction system, quicker disputes, etc
Origin Protocol live on Rinkeby and Ropsten testnets
Opera Labs browser pairs web3 on desktop with transaction signing on your Android
Legal agreements by API from OpenLaw
SwarmCity has an interesting way to update on roadmap progress
Status v0.9.28 - wallet bugfix - backup your wallet before upgrading
Uport release with new private identity architecture
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Conversation between Chris Dixon and Fred Wilson
Maker’s Rune Christensen with Laura Shin
Austin Griffith talks meta transactions on Smartest Contract
EthIS videos. Sound, not great.
web3design community call
Stephen King talks Imprex with Nasdaq
Tomasz Drwięga talks transaction pool on Zero Knowledge
Arjun Bhuptani on Smartest Contract
Phil Daian at Usenix: towards principled bug bounties and exploit resistant smart sontracts. Also: Johannes Krupp Usenix talk
Tokens / Business
Iconomi is ending the utility of their tokens and making them securities
Socios has announced that Paris St Germain and Juventus will sell fan tokens. Interestingly, Socios apparently has its own token, but I’ve never heard of it and it’s not on coinmarketcap or idex either.
AdChain learnings from the first TCR. Inaugural TCR community call
A quick Placeholder study on market reactions to BTC and ETH forks
Lubin: tokenized networks are a natural progression of value and money
General
Cosmos Game of Stakes is open for registration, with 300k Atoms to winners
Two big Fortune profiles: Coinbase and Brian Armstrong and a16z’s Katie Haun
Alex Tabarrok: “The mechanism for producing public goods in Buterin, Hitzig, and Weyl’s, Liberal Radicalism is quite amazing and a quantum leap in public-goods mechanism-design”
If you read the “Eth and ZCash to merge!!!1!z!!” crypto clickbait stories, here’s the source Twitter thread.
But….ZCash may be open to using Casper
JP Morgan announces 75 banks sign up for Quorum’s Interbank Info Network
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
Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver
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