Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- [eth1] Videos of Eth1 Stanford meetings
- [eth2] Beacon Chain phase 0 spec release
- [eth2] What’s new in Eth2 this week
- [eth2] Latest Eth2 implementers call. Agenda.
- [eth2] Prysmatic dev update
- [eth2] Nimbus testnet simulation
- [eth2] Schematic of the Beacon chain spec
Layer 2
- Plasma Group launches. Here’s the spec (a variant of PlasmaCash), the client, and the deployer to run your own.
- Dan Robinson: A simpler exit game for Plasma Cash
- FunFair’s data shows that they get 100x scaling with state channels
- Counterfactual dev update
- Connext v1 payment channel hub video walkthrough
Client releases – get ready for the fork!
- Geth v1.8.22
- Parity v2.2.8-stable and v2.3.1-beta
- Pantheon 0.9.1
- Ethereum on ARM: Geth and Parity clients update. Status.im, IPFS and Swarm packages. Raiden Network and Trinity client installers.
Stuff for developers
- Weierstrudel: gas efficient elliptic curve scalar multiplication on Weierstrass. cheaper than the precompile!
- Optimizing Merkle tree multi-queries
- The EVM: how does it work?
- A central place to request an audit from 30 auditors
- MythrilClassic v0.20
- Testing potential exploits in a virtual environment
- The journey from Truffle4 to Truffle5
- Drizzle v1.3 with tests and React Native support
- Solhint v2 beta linter
- Secret Rock-paper-scissors with Enigma
- EVM package deployment with ZeppelinOS
- Formal verification for noobs: K
Ecosystem
- Görli cross-client testnet launches! Görli block explorer. Node stats.
- B9labs and EthBerlin to fund 500-1000 free B9 Solidity courses.
- Gitcoin is doing 25k in CLR grant matching. Or as I think of it “quadratic matching”
- POANet on using xDai at ETHDenver
- Hodlbank mixer based on zero knowledge. Live on Ropsten.
Enterprise
Governance and Standards
- Vlad Zamfir: Against Szabo’s law, for a new crypto legal system
- Responses from Gabe Shapiro and Vitalik Buterin
- Core devs call. Hudson’s summary: ProgPoW to get 3rd party audit, miners can start extraData signaling, and EthCatHerders to examine community signal
- ERC1726: Dividend paying token
Live on mainnet
- wrapped BTC (wBTC) is now live on Ethereum
- OS-level transaction signer Frame is live with a mainnet alpha
- Origin Protocol’s marketplace creator to make your own decentralized marketplace in minutes
- CryptoCup returns with a pick’em for European football (soccer). You can also bet against anyone guessing the outcomes correctly.
Application layer
- Maker hits 2m ETH locked up to collateralize DAI. Rune confirms DGX will be one of the early forms of non-Eth collateral
- Streamr launches API explorer
- “how we are building a museum in Decentraland”
- Peepeth is now batching together all user transactions so it’s free to use
- Aragon releases a desktop app
- 2019 is the year of the DAO (and the coming dxDAO)
- Settle’s dex.ag aggregates the best price from 0x, Idex, Kyber and Uniswap
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Compound’s Robert Leshner on Into the Ether
- CNNSwiss interviews Joe Lubin at Davos
- Token standards and Matt Lockyer on Zero Knowledge
- IC3’s Submarine Sends explainer vid
- Zilliqa founder Xinshu Dong on 51%
- Aracon videos
- Stanford Blockchain Conference: Vlad. Vitalik. Georgios on PlasmaCash. Lots more but I got tired of looking up timestamps.
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Kik’s response to the SEC
- Aragon DAOs and OpenLaw contracts for ecommerce?
- Barry Whitehat: solving optimization problems using snarks , ethereum and incentives
General
- Sonic: zkSNARKs from linear-size universal and updateable structured reference strings
- Fidelity plans March launch for crypto custody
- Bob Summerwill is the new ED for the ETC Coop
- Zilliqa launched mainnet
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Feb 1 – Melon token migration begins
- Feb 2 – Eth2 workshop (Stanford)
- Feb 7-8 – Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)
- Feb 7 – 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon ends
- Feb 14 – Eth Magicians (Denver)
- Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)
- Feb 27 – Constantinople (block 7280000)
- Mar 4 – Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
- Mar 5-7 – EthCC (Paris)
- Mar 8-10 – ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
- Mar 8-10 – EthUToronto
- Mar 22 – Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
- Mar 27 – Infura end of legacy key support
- April 4-5 – Deconomy (Seoul)
- April 8-14 – Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
- Apr 19-21 – ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)
- Apr 24-26 – Truffle Elevate (Dublin)
- May 10-11 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 17 – Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
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