Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes
EIP1962 generalized elliptic curve and pairing engine implementation in Go
Nethermind v1.6.1 - better tip of the chain tracking and reorg handling, JSON RPC bugfixes
Parity v2.7.2 and the next steps for Parity client maintenance under GPL3 (though reportedly most participants preferred a more permissive license)
Slockit’s Incubed ultralight client server setup wizard
Eth2
Danny Ryan’s quick eth2 update - it’s optimization time
Jim McDonald: defining eth2 network metrics
A look at Rocketpool’s GUI
Nimbus’ first mobile testnet on Android. Plus part 2 of building Nimbus on Android.
Eth2 research team ask me anything on Reddit
Layer2
Matic explains advantages and limitations of Plasma and rollups
Stuff for developers
Kendrick Tan’s practical guide to building zk dapps
Kimi Wu’s hands on your first zk dapp
OpenZeppelin contracts v2.5 - with CREATE2, enumerableset and big NFT gas savings
Remix v0.9.3 - you can now test the functionality of receive & fallback functions
ABDK adds a number converter to its online toolkit
Alethio adds API endpoints for Rinkeby, Kovan and Ropsten testnets, as well as webhooks
MythX, Quantstamp, Runtime Verification, Sooho, SmartDec and ConsenSys Diligence starting Ethereum Trust Alliance, a security rating system for deployed Eth code
Time travel queries using a subgraph from The Graph
Brownie now supports Vyper
Microsoft’s Azure Eth development kit is now generally available
A write up of the bug that Sam Sun found in three of Kyber’s bridge reserves
EthVigil’s interactive tutorials for devs new to Ethereum concepts
3Box Comments and Chatbox plugins now have emojis, likes, and votes
Ecosystem
Why ENS uses Ethereum and not a new basechain. (Also: ENS’ registry migration is complete)
How Whisper-fork Waku does DNS based discovery
ConsenSys lays off 14% as part of strategic transformation
Matt Leising says he knows who the DAO hacker is
SHPLONK, an explainer of last week’s paper from Boneh, Drake, Fisch, and Gabizon
Enterprise
ConsenSys acquires Heritage Financial Systems, a municipal bond broker-dealer, to tokenize them on Codefi
Governance and standards
Two articles on DigixDAO dissolution: as an example of DAOs working (though just 58 addresses voted out of 11,000+) and Coinfund looks at the Digix voting power
Live on mainnet
Colony is in public beta live on mainnet
First 10,000 zkDai is on Aztec
Mattereum’s asset passports are live on mainnet
District0x’s District Registry is live on mainnet, a TCR for its community
Coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang is memorialized on mainnet
AirSwap Delegates is live on mainnet. Configure automated trading rules, onchain limit orders, liquidity integration with Kyber, and ability to add new tokens
Application layer
DeFi hit $1 billion USD equivalent locked up
Data viz on Maker’s Sai to Dai migration success
Etherisc’s flight insurance app returns on Rinkeby testnet using Chainlink
Idle Finance v2 (an autobalancer similar to Staked’s RAY)
Collateral Swap - swap between Maker collateral (eg, ETH<>BAT) with Aave + Uniswap
List of DeFiZaps - one click to do a bunch of DeFi actions
Gelato, a no code bot to automate your Ethereum tasks. Tutorial
Gauntlet’s analysis of why Uniswap is a good oracle
Credentify, an API to issue standard European education credentials stacked into ECTS
Circles’s universal basic income is live on Kovan testnet
Maple Loans undercollateralized loans through communities with the option to slice up the risk CDO-style
Zero Collateral loans with cDai, live on mainnet (but unaudited alpha software)
Dharma’s dtokens - wrappers around Compound tokens, a la rDai, but for services to take profits. In this case, 10% of interest to Dharma
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Hester Peirce speech proposing an SEC safe harbor for tokens
Viewing GDPR from a blockchain lens
6 central banks to talk digital currency in April
Ethereum needs more entrepreneurs and product people just as much as more devs
General
Dispelling Bitcoin maximalist myths about Ethereum
Accelerating powers-of-tau ceremonies with optimistic pipelining
How does cryptocurrency have value, part 2 of Maker’s intro series
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Feb 8 - Augur v1 cutoff
Feb 14-16 - ETHDenver
Feb 18-Mar 31 - Social Impact hackathon/incubator
Feb 20 - NFT.NYC
Feb 20 - Decentraland launch
blockchain social impact hackathon
Feb 28-Mar 1 - ETHLondon UK
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 6-8 - EthParis2020
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)
Apr 13 - Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
April 24-26 - EthTurin
May 8-9 - Ethereal Summit (NYC)
May 15-17 - ETHNYC
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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