Eth News and Links
Layer 1
Reminder: update your nodes for Muir Glacier upgrade
A proposal to make eth1 the first shard of eth2, post-phase1 and pre-phase2. Would require 1) stateless clients and 2) increase in gas prices for opcodes that call contracts
Trinity v0.1alpha34, ready for Muir Glacier
Stuff for developers
Tutorial on using Open Zeppelin's Solidity Hot Loader
Enigma's first networked testnet, with Eth mixer contracts on Eth testnet
Build a distributed appstore with React and 3Box SDK and Plugins
Ecosystem
Tornado.cash mixer added cDAI, cUSDC, USDC, and USDT, plus ETH100 and USDT100k now available
John Wolpert, Haseeb Qureshi and I talked about about 2019 in retrospective and the year ahead in Ethereum
Ben Edgington: building in the open is Ethereum's superpower
Application layer
Zippie gets 20,000 users in Kenya in under a week for their cell phone minutes platform
rDai is now rDai and rSai
KeeperDAO: a liquidity pool for frontrunning
Pepo: crypto TikTok using a Gnosis Safe. Apparently this launched at Devcon, I missed it until now. Here's my referral link, or without.
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Post-drama, the vote failed to add a time-delay (governance security module) to MakerDAO
Gabe Shapiro's regulatory philosophy for tokenized networks
General
Google had an anti-crypto Christmas week. First it banned copious crypto YouTubers, before mostly unbanning. Then it banned MetaMask from the appstore.
Eric Wall says proof of stake is less wasteful
Vitalik: what is necessary in a minimum layer1 chain
Cheon's attack and its effect on the security of trusted setups
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Jan 1 - Augur v1 cutoff
Jan 1-30 - EthIndia online hackathon
Jan ~2 - Muir Glacier upgrade to delay difficulty increase
Jan 6-20 - Gitcoin take back the web online hackathon
Jan 6-21 - Gitcoin grants quadratic matching
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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