News and Links
Protocol
[Eth2.0] shasper implementer call notes. Also some good VDF evaluator discussion on r/ethereum
[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic dev update
[Eth 2.0] Who is building what in Ethereum 2.0?
[sharding] Batched cross-shard transaction fee payment
[Casper] Latest Casper standup call
[Casper] Parallelizing Lamport’s 99% fault tolerant consensus
[State channels] Unavailability griefing with Pisa explainer
[State channels] Forward Timelocked Contracts
[Plasma] Plasma chains with enforced consistency between multiple parent chains
[wasm] Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly
[wasm] Raul Jordan: WebAssembly and the future of blockchain
[starks] Cheap hash functions for zkSNARK merkle-tree proofs, which can be calculated on-chain
[starks] Roll up: scale Eth with starks from Barry WhiteHat
Stuff for developers
Toward frictionless upgradeability from Zeppelin’s Fran Giordano
Contract upgrade anti-patterns from Trail of Bits
Trail of Bits explains its binary static analysis tool, Rattle
Superblocks releases its new IDE
DateTime library v1.00 from Bokky
Another web3swift with ENS support
Loredana’s latest video demo of Pipeline visual IDE
Tutorial on writing private transactions with Parity’s Secret Store
Boilerplate for Truffle5 + Solium + Zeppelin + Coveralls
Code for Delegated Execution Subscriptions [EIP1337/EIP948]
Strengthening the weakest link in smart contract security - “onlyOwner”
Exploring the Ethereum chain with Quickblocks. and part 2
Releases
Live on mainnet
Connext’s first payment channel hub (Spankchain) is live on mainnet
Spankchain also began the process of releasing its stablecoin BOOTY, which is heavily collateralized by its native token. You stake SPANK to get BOOTY. (links should be safe for work)
Zinc launches ERC725 identities on mainnet
Bounties Network explorer is live (and get your BRLN coin at ETHBerlin)
0x v2 deployed to mainnet
Dether is live, so you can trade ETH locally in 120 countries
DDA goes live with 1 week long & short tokens available on ETH/USD (5X multiplier) and BTC/USD (1X multiplier
BZx margin trading protocol launches on mainnet, Bamboo Relay should have margin trading live on Monday
Ecosystem
.xyz names are now supported by ENS on mainnet
Alethio’s visualization of opcodes over blocktime
Rinkeby consensus failure port-mortem
Dogethereum bridge is live with Doge mainnet and Rinkeby
Sina Habibian: identity and reputation in web3
Enterprise
Scaling for enterprise: explaining the IBFT algorithm
Governance and Standards
ERC809/1201: Tokenizing Non-fungible Access
Dean Eigenmann: Blockchains are not companies
Last call for ERC1167 minimal proxy contract
ERC1376: service friendly token
ERC1384: equity agreement standard
Project Updates
FunFair to launch this month after it got a Curaçao gambling license
Aragon Core as decentralized OS
Digix’s two votes: rewards pool 4.2%, 97% voted to give them 20m USD, 34% participation
Maecenas raised 1.7m for 31.5% of an Andy Warhol painting
omiseGO ewallet update
Maker monthly update
Golem’s call for potential use cases
Dmunity has a beta release of their Reddit-like app on Ethereum
An early Brave 1.0 beta release. Current Brave stats: >4m mau
Peepeth cancelled the Kickstarter and is doing a crypto-only fundraiser
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Phillip Angele talks Livepeer at Berlin meetup
Arthur Falls returns with an interview of Zilliqa’s Amrit Kumar and Xinshu Dong
Kleros on Epicenter
Bernhard Müller on Hashing It Out
Nadav Hollander with Laura Shin
Gnosis CTO Stefan George on Inchained
Tokens / Business
TechCrunch published a sloppy anti-ETH op-ed this week (no link). Check out Ameen Soleimani’s response and Vitalik Buterin’s.
A false report may have tumbled cryptoasset prices this week, but Nathaniel Popper says Goldman is still moving forward with cryptoasset futures/forwards.
Brayton Williams on using and investing in dapps
ERC998 and the future of blockchain game assets
Introducing the equilibrium bonding market
Dynamic token bonding curves
General
A comparison of interoperability protocols, Polkadot, Cosmos, Wanchain, Icon and Aion
Gavin Wood: why we need web3
Cosmos August update
Zilliqa’s thinking on dev and user challenges of sharded chains
Grin testnet <> Ropsten testnet atomic swap
Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS
Liberal Radicalism: Formal Rules for a Society Neutral Among Communities by Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl
Shapeshift is moving to an account-based approached
Coursera and ConsenSys intro to blockchains course
With issuance reduction to 2 ETH per block, Bitcoin and Ethereum now have similar inflation rates
Always good for a laugh: Ethereum obituaries
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
Sept 10 - Devcon4 final wave of tickets go on sale at 4pm PDT
September 12 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
September 13-14 - EEA Tech Spec working group (NYC)
September 21-23 - EthAtlanta
Sept 29 - Oct 1 - Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland - ROGUETIM discount code this weekend only
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
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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