Eth News and Links
Eth1
Parity v.2.5.10stable and v2.6.5beta. Ready for Istanbul, with some warp sync fixes in the beta release
Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.30, Istanbul-ready py-evm
Aleth v1.7, Istanbul ready
Latest core devs call. Notes from call
Eth2
Prysmatic client update. testnet relaunch, up to spec v0.9.1
How data availability affects light client design
Devcon video on developer experience in eth2
Layer2
BLS rollup on Skale
Stuff for developers
Solidity v0.5.13. Istanbul-EVM compatible, more SMT, list overload candidates, export layout of storage variables, WIP ewasm-binary output
Truffle v5.1. ENS support, new data decoder, in-test debugging and better syntax highlighting while debugging
web3.js v1.2.4 better Typescript type defs, out of gas bugfix
Vyper v0.1.beta14
How to protect your contracts from re-entrancy after Istanbul
How Lucidity dramatically reduced their Infura call volume by caching its reads
Aragon’s tips for winning the struggle against contract size in the EVM
Terminal’s dapp monitoring platform
Gonçalo Sá on Solidity features in v0.5.13 and coming in v0.6
Slick interface to buy Chainlink API data feeds
Ecosystem
Grants: ConsenSys wave 2, EF Taiwan focused, MetaCartel cohort 1
Eric Conner’s user guide to ENS domains
ethereum.org update: adding the Studio web IDE, re-org’ing the format and Gitcoin bounties
Meson, a mixnet at the networking layer
More Devcon5 videos are slowly trickling in
Enterprise
Subscribing to events at scale by sending them to Kafka or Kinesis
updated uPort roadmap, mostly aimed at enterprise
Governance and standards
ERC2362: Pull oracle interface
Lessons learned from establishing Hyperledger Besu’s maintenance process
DisCOs: the p2p community’s alternative to DAOs
Autark’s “Open Enteprise” for Aragon is on mainnet. an “end-to-end suite of tools for management of open organizations”
Application layer
Brave v1. If you haven’t switched yet, I no longer even have the “slow new tab” problem. Referral link (though my KYC is stuck and I can’t get my BAT!) I also enjoyed Brian Bondy’s Brave founding story. The best part is how they almost couldn’t connect by DM.
You can sell your browser data through Swash browser extension and earn Streamr’s DATA token
Tokenizing open offers with OpenLaw
Comparing insurance-like solutions in DeFi
A taxonomy for LAOs (DAOs with a legal entity)
It’s multi-collateral Dai (MCD) launch day. One of the main reasons to switch is the benefits of Dai Savings Rate. MCD also means revamped Oasis dex
Tokens / Business / Regulation
Convexity protocol: ERC20 option tokens
Chainlink on embedding smart contracts into a legal fabric
General
De-anonymization attacks from remote side channels. Applicable to Monero and ZCash
Breaking Mimblewimble privacy for $60 a week, “and I don’t believe there’s a way to fix it.”
Mudit Gupta’s post on problems with mixers
Protests in Iran led to them shutting off the internet
You have 12 days to register an Eth address to get tokenized r/ethtrader donuts
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
Nov 18 - Multi-collateral Dai launches
Dec 2-16 - Gitcoin Global Communities virtual hackathon
Dec 6 - Istanbul network upgrade
Jan 1 - Augur v1 cutoff
Jan 31 - deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
Feb 9-15 - EthLagos
Feb 14-16 - ETHDenver
Mar 3-5 - EthCC (Paris)
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