News and Links
Layer 1
- Sigma Prime state transition function benchmarks on its eth2 Lighthouse client
- Bitwise XOR custody scheme
- Weak subjectivity under the exit queue model
- Maxwell Foley: Eth2 VDF FAQ, part 1
- Justin Drake is optimistic about launching the Beacon Chain in q4
Layer 2
- Counterfactual releases Playground developer alpha with demo environment and multiple demo applications. Go build with generalized state channels
- Transcript of Vitalik’s rollup talk last week on getting to 270k transactions per second with rollups on phase 1 of the beacon chain
Stuff for developers
- Ganache v2.0 – workspaces, contract space decoding, event decoding, etc
- Embark v4.0 with Cockpit UI dashboard and robust debugger
- Truffle v5.0.9 – Quorum support, debugger improvements
- web3.js 1.0.0-beta.49
- Ethvtx: “Ethereum-Ready & Framework-Agnostic Redux configuration” in Typescript
- Issuing and verifying EIP712 challenges with Go
- Universal Logins update – SDK available in a few months, new boilerplate to hack with
- nestd: simplified framework for node.js apps
- 256 bit bloom filter in Solidity
- Peter Tsankov on the Soltix automated solc tester
- vyper-js: Javascript bindings for the Vyper compiler
- Make sure you’ve updated any Infura legacy keys before they die on March 27. Related: new API Security section in Infura dash
Client release
- Nethermind v0.9.6
Ecosystem
- Mist is officially shutting down
- How to host a Burner Wallet event
- MolochDAO UI (ie, ‘the website’) is live
- Argent: key management solution is coming. They’re already live on iOS
Enterprise
- “JPM Coin Is the Wildest Big Bank Idea in Many Years”
- BlockApps doing projects with the former Monsanto
Governance and Standards
- Hudson announces that in January it was decided that ProgPoW will go in a fork. Which surprised everyone. To wit, several days before Andrea Lanfranchi was complaining about the lack of a ProgPoW decision
- A simple way to fund more public goods in Ethereum that makes everyone happy. Three things: 1) ProgPoW, 2) reduce mining rewards to 1.8 eth per block 3) 0.1 eth per block to fund public goods. (I wrote this)
- Jon Stevens: 13 questions about ProgPoW
- ERC1850: Hashed Time-Locked Principal Contract transactions
- ERC1820 in last call
- Dean Eigenmann proposes decaying bug bounties for EIPs
Application layer
- Compound v2 – different collateral factor depending on liquidity, no WETH need, new token standards. currently under audit
- Decentraland Builder: everything you need to build 3D Decentraland worlds
- Dai Stability Fee going up to 7.5%
- WeTrust’s Cryptounlocked: conditional donations using Augur markets
- Sports betting: SportsX goes live.
- Whisp: payroll app on Ethereum
- A scam someone is running on Augur and how Augur is fixing it
- Set Protocol releasing its “buy the dip” automatic rebalancing in April
- Assessing metrics for video quality verification in Livepeer’s ecosystem
- 0x roadmap with STARKs. Starkware says they can do “500 trades/second, costing less than 1,000 gas per trade” and that their joint project will be on testnet in April.
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Maker’s David Utrobin on Near’s Whiteboard Series
- Vitalik Buterin video on Unchained live
- Moloch’s Ameen Soleimani on Unchained
- Vitalik Buterin on Into the Ether
- Joe Lubin at SXSW
- Patrick McCorry on Hashing It Out
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Simon de la Rouviere’s This Artwork is Always on Sale using Harberger tax is live. Currently valued at 888 ETH – though you pay 5% per year, and you can just put down a partial deposit.
- How Vitalik sees Eth’s strategy: “Ethereum is best suited to continue to provide value and prosper in the presence of a growing number of such chains by going for the “stable L1, no on-chain governance, focus more innovation on L2 over time” approach, ie. basically moderate bitcoin values, except that it’s actually a very defensible position when you have a scalable data layer and any kind of richly-stateful VM at all at L1”
General
- Ethereum and Secure Scuttlebutt interoperability report
- Liquality’s atomic swaps explainer
- RainbowNetwork: Dan Robinson proposal for synthetic payment channel exchange
- LLVM v8. WebAssembly no longer experimental
- Update to RSA Accumulator paper
- Why we need “can’t be evil”: Facebook stored millions of passwords in plaintext for years
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- 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
- Apr 29 – Oslo Blockchain Day
- May 9 – Fluidity Summit (NYC)
- May 10-11 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 16 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17-19 – ETHNewYork
- May 17 – Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
- May 23-25 – Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
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