Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core devs call on ProgPoW and EIP1962/curve precompiles. Notes. ProgPoW appears to be dead.
A ProgPoW exploit from Kikx. Kristy’s explanation
Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.35, Beam Sync with better pivots, -goerli flag, ENRs
DHT solution to solve data retrieval problem in stateless Ethereum
Eth2
Latest what’s new in Eth2
Prysmatic client update - big RAM reduction, first slashing success, updated to latest spec
Lighthouse client update - 70% faster block processing, 110 blocks/sec sync, big RAM reduction
Combining Ghost and Casper paper proving safety and liveness under various assumptions
Layer2
iden3’s zk-rollup is live on Goerli testnet, ongoing work to reduce the proof generation bottleneck
Stuff for developers
any.sender tutorial - tx relayer that ensures block inclusion by a certain time
Kollateral flash loan pool aggregator, available through JS or Solidity (though unaudited!)
Why ENS had to migrate due to samczsun’s bughunting
Easy multi-contract analysis with Mythril
BSol: benchmarking Solidity computation and gas usage
Truffle v5.1.16 - better debugger/decoder with Solc v0.6.3
Argent’s method for easy wallet access, one click transactions, available as npm package
web3connect is now web3modal, still focused on being a web3 solution for all wallets
Ecosystem
Semaphore: a generic privacy layer using snarks, audited and ready for devs to build on
Questions DeFi users should ask their DeFi apps
Linda Xie’s list of oracles per DeFi project
EthCC videos are already online.
Enterprise
EY, Microsoft and ConsenSys announce the Baseline Protocol, using mainnet as a message bus for enterprise that is private using snarks
Paul Brody’s Baseline Protocol explainer, based around the enterprise volume procurement prototype
“Morningstar Rates First Ethereum Security In $40 Million Fatburger Deal,” with the deal structurer aiming at doing 500m USD in projects this year on mainnet
Governance, DAOs, and standards
An update on EIP1559 - predictable transaction fees and intrinsically tying ETH to the protocol
OracleDAO - a MolochDAO style booster of Augur/REP
0x governance update, progressing toward full decentralization
Application layer
PieDAO, a DeFi asset allocation DAO, where governance tokens vote for allocations with fees accruing to the token
Providing insurance on Opyn to earn premiums from your ETH
Building liquidity into token distribution, highlighting the flexibility of Balancer
Hegic Protocol, on-chain options trading protocol
Golem Hive, PoC of a virtual network of Docker containers on Golem
Unstoppable Domains adds a Chromium-based browser running a local IPFS node
Sell music tracks with Unlock + IPFS + ENS
Instadapp’s DeFi accounts to abstract things away for DeFi users
Tokens/Business/Regulation
India’s Supreme Court reverses crypto banking ban
pTokens launch on mainnet, starting with pBTC
General
Guido Vranken releases his fuzzing engine
Lego Factory: why I’m stewarding the 1 million Eth devs movement
Two Eth2 staking user surveys from Aqeel/Lighthouse and CodeFi
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Mar 14 - Augur v1 cutoff
Mar 16-30 - Gitcoin’s Funding the Future virtual hackathon
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-6 - NonCon (Vienna)
Apr 13 - Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
Apr 24-26 - EthTurin
Apr 29-30 - SoliditySummit (Berlin)
May 7 - SmartCon0 (NYC)
May 8-9 - Ethereal Summit (NYC)
May 15-17 - ETHNYC
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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