Week in Ethereum News, June 7, 2020 - thanks to Celer!
Eth News and Links
Eth1
Compilation of the history of account abstraction work
YOLO testnet is live - an ephemeral testnet to try to break EIPs for the upcoming hardfork
Eth2
Danny Ryan: the state of Eth2
Latest Prysmatic client update. Syncing to spec, adding eth1 clients, relaunch testnet plans
Teku: an Eth2 client for enterprise
More eth2 validator agent based simulations in CadCAD
Layer2
Deversifi went live on mainnet using StarkEx’s engine and offchain data (kept by a consortia) for 18000 transactions per second
Offchain data with zk proofs is now being called Validium
What is the difference between zk rollup (data onchain) and Deversifi’s Validium (data offchain)?
An attack illustrating Validium trust assumptions
StarkWare demo of onboarding 1.3m Reddit accounts onto Eth using Validium
OMG goes live with their More Viable Plasma implementation (running POA for now); Bitfinex integrated USDT on OMG
Loopring Pay is live. Free, instant Eth/token transfers on Loopring’s zk rollup
This newsletter is made possible by Celer!
Celer is a coherent layer-2 scaling platform on Ethereum powered by Generalized State Channel Network and Hybrid Rollup technology. Real money games built using Celer's gaming-focused SDK just reached top #15 ranking in App Store. You can easily set up and join Celer's growing layer-2 State Channel Network to support Ethereum's layer-2 scalability. Follow us on twitter, blog, discord and telegram.
Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.6.9 adds SMT-checking to solc-js, allows
calldata
for all variables and provides a mechanism to specify an import directory.Testing the effects of a call in Waffle
Buidler v1.3.6 adds Solidity v0.6.x
Sourcify decentralized automated contract verifying service
Covalent’s DeFi SDK for historical data
VS Code extension to write DeFi applications in NodeJS
How Aragon minimized gas costs for Aragon Court
Loredana’s Taylor lisp-like language is on four testnets
Austin Griffith’s tutorial on buidling a simple decentralized exchange
Tornado Cash integrates Chainlink gas price oracles for TOR users
Trail of Bits found 20 bugs fuzzing the Solidity compiler
Ecosystem
ETHGlobal’s HackMoney finalists and all sponsor prize winners
1inch releases Chi, an optimized gastoken
Enterprise
Newly updated client specs for Enterprise Ethereum from the EEA
Federal Reserve Chairman says AMERIBOR (built on a private Eth chain) meets the benchmarks for a reference rate, though “it may not be a natural fit”
DAOs and Standards
Democracy Mars: a DAO to fund Mars-related projects
ERC2696: JavaScript ‘request’ method RPC transport
ERC2700: JavaScript Provider Event Emitter
Application layer
Maker adds TUSD and USDC-B (a second set of collateralization parameters for USDC aimed at emergency situations)
Satellite - sign data with your Eth address, with data distribution on IPFS and BitTorrent
Simplified pricing for Nexus Mutual
View keys for Tornado Cash to show origin of funds
Tokens/Business/Regulation
Kaiko launches historical tick-by-tick order book data for Coinbase, Bitfinex, and Bitstamp
General
MyCrypto’s mnemonic phrase explainer
Bobbinthreadbare’s STARK-based VM has more instructions
Multi-scalar multiplication ZK study club video
Haseeb Qureshi’s latest installment of his intro to crypto class
Brave hits 15 million monthly active users and 5m daily
Housekeeping
Follow me on Twitter @evan_van_ness to get the annotated edition of this newsletter on Monday or Tuesday. Plus I tweet most of what makes it into the newsletter.
Did you get forwarded this newsletter? Sign up to receive it weekly
Permalink: https://weekinethereumnews.com/week-in-ethereum-news-june-7-2020/
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new/changes in bold):
June 15 - Gitcoin CLR matching grants begins
June 16 - deadline to apply for Gitcoin’s Kernel incubator
Oct 2-Oct 30 - EthOnline hackathon