Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core devs call. Notes. Discussion of the curve used in eth2 (EIP2537), EVM subroutines (EIP2315), and reducing gas to call precompiles (EIP2046)
Alex Stokes explains how eth2 benefits from EIP2537
OpenEthereum has an initial alpha release
Updated tech tree on Stateless Ethereum - what’s needed for improved sync, witnesses, EVM changes, and binary trees
Eth2
Ben Edgington’s latest what’s new in eth2
Danny Ryan’s quick eth2 update
Bug bounty for the first phase of eth2 is live. Run ‘pip install eth2spec’
A Casper FFG explainer with proofs of its guaranty of liveness and safety
Latest Prysmatic client update - restarting the testnet to run latest spec, RFP for security audits
Latest Lighthouse client update - 3x sync speedup, catching a spec bug, prepping for multi-client testnet
Layer2
What is Zeropool? A privacy-first optimistic rollup that functions like a mixer. Next step: rewrite in Rust
Burner Wallet on Fuel’s rollup. Check it out on burner.fuel.sh
Dharma is doing a rollup chain with interstate, using the spec published on ethresearch
Stuff for developers
Analyzing try/catch in Solidity v0.6
Calculating exponents in Solidity
How to use call value and not transfer
Best practices when using an oracle by Tellor
Implementing a classifieds ERC721 market tutorial
Constructing a FootballManager-type simulation for tennis
Using MythX with Embark
A user comparison of running and benchmarking MythX, Slither, and Security
Samczsun finds an Aragon bug
Easily support hardware wallets with Blocknative’s onboard.js
Fortmatic’s magic.link for web2 logins without a password (input email -> click link in email -> logged in, even if clicked from different browser/device)
RicMoo’s Rooted: deploy a contract and be able to arbitrarily update it. Screens of Austin Griffith playing with it on eth.build
Ecosystem
Ethereum.org is now available on IPFS at ethereum.eth on Metamask, Status, Opera, or Brave. You may have to type in https://ethereum.eth
Chart of Ethereum.org non-English traffic
Devcon archive - a permanent site for devcon footage
xDai is now a dPOS chain. Related: Apple killing local storage frustrates Burner Wallet
Enterprise
EEA Mainnet Working Group’s first public call video
FundsDLT private chain for investment funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management and Luxembourg Stock Exchange
Hitachi to partner with ConsenSys for enterprise adoption in Japan
Governance, DAOs, and standards
ERC2579: Merkle Tree Generalized Index
ERC2571: Royalty token standard
EIP2584: Trie format transition with overlay trees
EIP2583: Penalty for account trie misses
Application layer
Clay Golem: Task API on mainnet to deploy your own dockerized app
Augur v2 details: v2 scheduled for June, v1 cutoff now May 15
Could prediction markets have prevented the Corona virus pandemic?
Aave interest rate swaps with Opium Network
Status’s web3 browser
RealT has sold 1m USD of tokenized Detroit real estate
Brave launches a swag store on Origin Protocol
Coingecko’s DeFi book is free this month
Graph of DeFi Score vs interest rate
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Fat Brands bonds live on mainnet show how Ethereum will eat Wall Street's settlement layer
USDC grows 50% in a month
General
Bitmain extends E3 ASIC through October with firmware update
Ligero’s IACR paper: Lightweight Scalable RSA Modulus Generation with a Dishonest Majority
Bilinear accumulators as merkle tree alternative, a particular type of polynomial commitments
Open VDF, an architecture of the current hardware design
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Apr 3-6 - NonCon - now virtual
Apr 7 - Gitcoin Grants CLR, round 5 ends (shameless plug: my grant)
Apr 13 - Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
Apr 21-23 - EY Global Blockchain Virtual Summit
Apr 24-26 - EthTurin - now virtual
Apr 29-30 - SoliditySummit (Berlin) - now virtual
May 8-9 - Ethereal Summit (NYC) - now virtual
May 22-31 - Ethereum Madrid public health virtual hackathon
June 17 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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