Eth News and Links

Eth1

• Stateless clients as the future of eth1 to solve state size and sync issues, and stateless clients also smooths the transition to eth2

• Geth v1.9.8 - better trie cacher cuts RAM use by 1gb and the codebase switches to Go modules

• Latest core dev call. Notes. Difficulty bomb likely delayed with another hard fork at 9.2m block height, which is ~Jan 6
  

Eth2

• Lighthouse client update - first public testnet next week

• Carl Beekhuizen’s primer on understanding eth2 staking

• Understanding the effective balance for validators

• A weak subjectivity in eth2 explainer

• bitfly/etherchain publishes source code for eth2 block explorer

• Least Authority’s audit of Ethereum’s discv5 node discovery protocol

• Protolambda’s comprehensive look at proposals on the train-and-hotel problem (atomic cross shard communication)

Layer2

• Bosch switches to Perun’s state channels

• Matic launches its public incentivized testnet

• Raiden release candidate for Alderaan

• censorship attack on layer2 fraud proofs

• censorship-resistant layer2 fraud proofs via weak subjectivity

Stuff for developers

• web3playground play with any deployed code and web3js 1.x.x, automatically instantiated and typed

• ethers.js - update to v4.0.40 or v5.0.0-beta.162 because of possible timing attack

• Monitoring an address with web3js

• Loredana had 3 feature preview videos of Pipeline, a visual IDE available on remix

• Austin Griffith’s latest build.eth on byzantine general and consensus

• Documentation generator for Solidity

• A beginner’s guide to MythX security suite

• Formal verification of ERC20 implementations with VeriSol
  
  

Ecosystem

• Iden3’s “under the hood” of the zk identity system used in its DeversiFi devcon game

• Billy Rennekamp’s spreadsheet comparing ~40 features of Eth wallets

• Christian Reitwiessner’s call to close the trust gap in signing transactions

Enterprise

• Fidelity is rewarding employees with an ERC1404 token
  

Governance and standards

• ERC2400: Transaction receipt URI

• A dissolution mechanism for DigixDAO? It’s surprising more projects with crazy amounts of ETH haven’t felt more pressure to give some back.

Application layer

• VirtuePoker launches open beta with a bunch of prizes for playing, from now until end of Feb

• Aragon Network DAO and Court are live on mainnet, kicking off the process of fully vesting power to ANT holders

• Tellor’s onchain oracle using tokens and proof of work

• Set Social Trading. Imitate the moves of your favorite trader, live in early 2020.

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• Virgil Griffith arrested for violating American sanctions on North Korea. EF statement on Virgil’s “personal matter,” ie, he obviously wasn’t representing the Foundation. How to send Virgil a letter.

• Swiss Federal Council “wants to create the best possible framework conditions so that Switzerland can establish itself and evolve as a leading, innovative and sustainable location” for crypto by removing legal and regulatory barriers.

• German banks may now sell and store crypto, and existing exchanges must get licenses

• imToken’s imBTC. BTC held on Bitcoin’s chain and issued on Ethereum, with plans to use a DAO for better future decentralization
  

General

• improving cryptanalysis of the Legendre PRF

• Upbit hacked for 342,000 ETH

• Ethereum’s networks effects in an open financial world

• DeFi is the new honey badger. The amount of ETH locked in DeFi keeps going up, doesn’t care.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

• Dec 2 - deadline to get (and not forfeit!) your tokenized ethtrader Reddit karma

• Dec 2-16 - Gitcoin Global Communities virtual hackathon

• Dec ~7 - Istanbul network upgrade

• Jan 1 - Augur v1 cutoff

• Jan ~6 - Hard fork to fix the difficulty bomb

• Jan 13 - Metamask breaking change: inpage provider fully compatible with EIPs 1102 & 1193

• Jan 31 - deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups

• Feb 14-16 - ETHDenver

• Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)

• Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos

• Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)

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