Week in Ethereum News - June 22, 2019

Metlife live on mainnet, Cloudflare gateway

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

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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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