Week in Ethereum News, Jan 26, 2020
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Latest core devs call. Tim’s notes: lots of ungas talk
Geth v1.9.10 - light client checkpoint oracle, higher propagated transaction cap, bug fixes
Multiaddr, ENR and enodes: network addresses explainer
Eth2
Latest what’s new in eth2
Hsiao-Wei: Attestation aggregation in Eth2
Attestant: understanding the validator lifecycle
Runtime Verification formally verified the eth2 deposit contract
Layer2
Fuel’s testnet is in open beta, fraud proofs under 1m gas. Using colored coins (!)
How Loopring aims to make its zk rollup transactions composable on layer1
Jordi Baylina’s Iden3 zk rollup slides
Stuff for developers
Better Solidity debugging: console.log and stack traces
ABDK’s online tools: key of an address, calculate address pre-deploy, RLP encoder/decoder, encode/decode raw signed/unsigned transactions
Securify v2, free security scanner
Auditing your code with Web3j and its EVM
Sam Sun caught a vulnerability in Curve, which was solved by moving front end to a fixed version.
What are Burner Wallet Plugins? Customizing your popup event/economy
How to run your own xDai chain with arbitrary message bridge
web3connect v1beta.26 - a single web3 provider for all wallets
Using CREATE2 explainer
Smart contracts on Austin Griffith’s eth.build
AirScript v0.6 and genSTARK v0.7 AirScript compiles to AirAssembly, which genSTARK uses to create a STARK
Ecosystem
Year in Ethereum 2019 by Josh Stark and I
Scalability estimates for Waku (Status’s Whisper alternative)
Enterprise
Key factors in choosing between Clique, Raft, and IBFT for private chains
Commodity giants consortium (Cargill, ADM, Glencore, Bunge, Dreyfus) chooses Quorum, Orchestrate and Kaleido for their tech stack
Governance and standards
EIP2315: JUMPSUB and RETSUB for simple EVM subroutines
EIP2489: deprecate GAS opcode
EIP2488: deprecate CALLCODE opcode
ERC2477: NFT metadata integrity
What to expect when summoning a MolochDAO
SignalDAO, a signalling DAO for Metacartel/MolochDAO using a Telegram bot doing web3 calls via Abridged SDK
Application layer
Set Social Trading is live on mainnet. Automatically copy what your favorite trader is doing.
a URL shortener using ENS + the lightweight director access protocol referenced above in dev tools
How people are using Pepo, crypto’s TikTok
Ethernal: a text-based MUD. die and you lose your items!
There’s now over 100 million Dai
Rocket: get a loan against your NFTs, live on Ropsten testnet
Rho: a spec for a float to fixed automated market maker swap protocol
Synthetix: the state of Synthetix and 2020 roadmap adding ETH as collateral
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Davos was this week, so WEF issued a framework for Central Bank digital currencies in the age of blockchain
An onchain NFT for accredited investors
POAP event NFTs as a sybil-resistant identity layer
Tokenized real estate: purchase to settlement in 15 minutes with RealT
General
How not to critique Ethereum: a guide for Bitcoiners
A curated list of blockchain research papers
Benchmarking Brave vs Chrome/Firefox/Opera for speed and battery use
Chris Dixon: blockchains are computers that make commitments
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Jan 31 - deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
Feb 8 - Augur v1 cutoff
Feb 14-16 - ETHDenver
Feb 20 - Decentraland launch
Feb 28-Mar 1 - ETHLondon UK
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)
April 24-26 - EthTurin
May 8-9 - Ethereal Summit (NYC)
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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