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Week in Ethereum News - June 22, 2019

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Week in Ethereum News - June 22, 2019

Metlife live on mainnet, Cloudflare gateway

Evan Van Ness
Jun 23, 2019
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Ethereum News and Links

Layer 1

  • What’s New in Eth2. Since it is the first issue in awhile, it’s a good summary of where Eth2 is at.

  • Nimbus Eth2 client dev update - up to date on spec. Nimbus and SigmaPrime’s Lighthouse clients are talking to each other.

  • Eth2 client interoperability plan

  • Near-instant transaction confirmation via staggered shard block production

  • CBC Casper: efficient LMD GHOST

Layer 2

  • Phonon Network: scalable, private payment system using Grid+’s SafeCards. Alex and Karl also discuss Phonon on Into the Ether

  • Connext to release single-node v2.0 on Counterfactual in July, followed by multihop in Q3

  • An overview of channels, Plasma and rollups layer2 scaling

  • Latest Plasma implementers call

Stuff for developers

  • EthereumJS VM v4-beta a rewrite in TypeScript

  • Gas exactimation in Ganache

  • Tutorial: implement an oracle in Solidity

  • The Alethio API. Amberdata compares its API to its competitors

  • Loredana’s demo of a file System with on-chain semantic search on dType, Ethereum

  • Host your app with IPFS+ENS and access it via EthDNS

  • 8Pay for infinitely recurring subscriptions

  • BurnerWallet Factory - make your own in a few minutes

  • Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway

Ecosystem

  • EF-supported teams: development update. Extensive updates from each EF team.

  • Eth.wiki

  • Argent unveils Hopper, “a zero-knowledge-based trustless mixer” to deposit 1 eth and withdraw to different address

  • Better UX for noobs: gas spectrum transactions (sign multiple transactions with a spectrum of gas prices)

  • Shiftly - a bit like old-school Shapeshift using dexes

Enterprise

  • Ethereum Foundation joins Hyperledger and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

  • Gartner: 7 mistakes to avoid in enterprise blockchain

  • Quorum v2.2.4

  • See also below: MetLife live on Eth mainnet

Governance and Standards

  • Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s live tweetstorm notes going through proposed EIPs. Accepted for Istanbul: EIP2024 blake2b precompile and EIP1702 generalized account versioning

  • EIP2124: Zero RTT chain compatibility check

  • EIP2123: State-based Hard Fork Signaling

  • ERC2126: Signature Type Recognition

  • Final: EIP1155 Multi token standard

  • Last call: EIP685 chainID for JSON-RPC and EIP1344 chainID opcode

Live on mainnet

  • Insurance giant MetLife is live on mainnet with a pilot program “to help loved ones quickly determine if the deceased was protected with a policy and automatically file a claim”

  • Ethsites, a censorship-resistant “registry of websites stored on the Ethereum blockchain” available through a Javascript snippet

  • Treum (formerly Viant) live on mainnet tracking and tracing commercial organic hemp

Application layer

  • Augur v2 to integrate bZx for margin trading

  • First 3rd party casino from RaketheRake goes live on FunFair

  • Pay as you use in Golem, necessary in gWasm

  • Etherisc and Oxfam going live with insurance product for Sri Lankan farmers. Oxfam with ConsenSys and Sempo also trials Dai for aid in Vanatu

  • Dharma now offers customizable loans to pick your own terms.

  • Dai Stability Fee up for a vote on going to 17.5%

  • William Shatner isn’t just involved with Mattereum, he’s founding a company to use Mattereum to track memorabilia provenance from creation

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

  • Austin Griffith on Hashing It Out and Wizard of Dapps

  • Grid+’s Alex Miller and Karl Kreder on Into the Ether

  • Darma’s Andrew Keys and James Slazas on ChainReaction

  • Augur’s Alex Chapman on NEAR’s Whiteboard series

  • Maker’s Mariano Conti on POV Crypto

  • Uniswap’s Hayden Adams on Epicenter

Tokens / Business / Regulation

  • Sensitivity analysis of Status sticker markets

  • Two year retrospective on CryptoPunks. Last month the busiest since Jan 2018.

  • YouNow/Props is going to do a Reg A+ “offering” in order to give away Props. I wonder how many millions they had to spend in order to convince the SEC to let them give away tokens.

  • ACTUS and Polymath integration to offer nearly 100% of all financial instruments on Polymath

  • FATF international body wants countries to mandate sharing requirements for crypto exchanges

General

  • Messaging app Line is near approval for a crypto exchange in Japan

  • Learning cryptography: finite fields from Loopring

  • Facebook’s Libra got announced this week. Protolambda compares Libra and says what they got wrong vis a vis Eth1 and Eth2


Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

  • June 24- July 10 - Gitcoin’s Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon

  • June 25-27 - EthPlanet hackathon (Beijing)

  • July 3-5 - WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)

  • July 19 - BuildETH (San Francisco)

  • July 19-21 - State of Scale (Los Angeles)

  • July 22-23 - Buidl 2019 (Seoul)

  • Aug 2-4 - ETHIndia (Bangalore)

  • Aug 2-4 - TruffleCon (Redmond)

  • Aug 21-23 - Dappcon (Berlin)

  • Aug 23-25 - ETHBerlin

  • Sep 3 - Deadline to apply for EU Horizon Prize. 1m € each to 5 "Blockchains for Social Good" projects

  • Sep 6-8 - EthBoston

  • Sep 15 - Augur v1 cutoff

  • Sep 15 - Ethereal Tel Aviv

  • Sep 15-16 - StarkWare sessions (Tel Aviv)

  • Oct 8-11 - DeVcon (Osaka)


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