Eth News and Links
Eth1
Muir Glacier successfully hardforked on Jan 2nd.
Nethermind v1.4.2 - proper config file for Muir Glacier
Update Parity clients to v2.6.8beta and v2.5.13stable. An attacker found that Parity was only validating block header and so was crashing Parity nodes by sending valid header with invalid body
An overview of stateless Ethereum
Protocol changes necessary for 4MB witness size: binary tree, 3 gas per byte for calling contracts, gas costs go up for SLOAD to 2000. EXTCODESIZE, BALANCE, and *CALL go up to 2400
Data on witness size using binary tries
Eth2
Simpler Eth2 meta execution environment
SigmaPrime’s update on Beacon Fuzz, their Eth2 client differential fuzzer
Jim McDonald’s Eth2 expectations for 2020
Stuff for developers
Compiling Formality to the EVM. Run formally verified functional programs on the EVM
IPLD tutorial in Go
Running machine learning models in ewasm
Nethereum v3.5
What’s new in Microsoft’s Ethereum VSCode extension update
Ecosystem
Best practices to stay anonymous using Tornado.cash and other mixers and the Tornado UI is now available via IPFS and ENS https://tornadocash.eth.link
Credible neutrality as Vitalik’s design principle, written for the recently launched Nakamoto.com
Enterprise
UN Secretary General says his institution must embrace blockchain
UN pilot to track cashmere supply chain
Governance
How the “year of the DAO” became the “year of the MolochDAO”
Maker Foundation transfers trademarks and software IP to the Dai Foundation
Vocdoni architecting for private, transmission-agnostic, open to quadratic voting/futarchy/etc
Application layer
Missed this until now: BULVRD app, trying to compete with Waze
Undercollateralized loans live on Ropsten testnet
Lock, vest, or schedule payouts with Lock Protocol
Lower your counterparty risk in trading Counterstrike: Go skins: Sugarskins
Provide Uniswap liquidity while maintaining ETH exposure (understand the risks before you do it)
UEFA tokenizing 20,000 VIP tickets for Euro2020 with AlphaWallet
General
Financial Times: DeFi promises high interest and no middlemen
Linda Xie’s beginner’s guide to DeFi
Nikolai donated 3200 MKR to Carnegie Mellon for game theory research in decentralized applications
A look back at 2019’s major blockchain security incidents. Meanwhile the latest “giving away Eth scam” tactic is hacking a verified Youtuber and changing the account name to impersonate someone in crypto
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
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
Feb 28-Mar 1 - ETHLondon
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
Mar 29-Apr4 - EthLagos
Apr 3-7 - Edcon (Vienna)
May 15 - EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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