Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Prysmatic releases its Eth2 testnet
- Finality in Eth2. Put differently: why Eth2 will be much more final and secure than Eth1 or BTC – as this week’s aborted attempt by Binance to re-org BTC showed
- An Eth2 randomness explainer – RanDAO and VDFs
- Drake: how to create timelock puzzles targeting RSA VDF ASICs with a hardcoded modulus.
- Gas market ideas for eth2, phase 2
- Academic paper benchmarking EVM opcode pricing
Client releases
- Nethermind v0.9.9 – fast sync with mainnet in just 5 hours by not downloading transaction receipts
Stuff for developers
- A Scratch3 extension to make it easy and kid-friendly to build games on Eth
- Truffle v5.0.17
- Buidler: task runner as coordinator for all your Eth dev tools
- What’s new in web3py v5 beta
- Fix your Solidity and Truffle versioning issues with NPX
- Nick Dodson’s 311 byte eip712 compliant multisig
- Flint statically-typed programming language for safer Eth code by Schrans, et al
- Gas optimization in Solidity, pt 1: variables
- A graphical look at the functions in Maker’s architecture
- Details on vulnerability in Maker’s voting app
- Detecting reentrancy issues using fuzzing
Ecosystem
- Ethereum Foundation, ConsenSys, Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin to try to join the Moloch grants DAO for 1000 ETH each. Meanwhile Metacartel to fork Moloch for a grants DAO to “coordinate the sharing of product insights and user data”
- Soltix releases v0.1 of automated framework for testing Solidity compilers
- More Burner Wallet house parties as onboarding to crypto: this time in Australia with extension Burner Apps (somewhat similar to Austin’s Emojicoin exchange)
- EthDenver2018 winners resurface with Elk, a dev board to prototype blockchain connected devices, in advance of June kickstarter
- Dappnode v0.2 – OpenVPN and Debian
Enterprise
- Starbucks working to track its coffee bean supply chain using Quorum
- EY has a code security analyzer in private beta, indicating a strong dedication to Eth mainnet
- Tutorial on AZTEC zero knowledge transactions in Pantheon
- Bloomberg writeup on Societe General’s 100m euro covered bond
- Ajit Tripathi: Enterprise blockchain is real
- US Treasury Dept is building a proof of concept for asset tracking on a private Eth chain
Governance and Standards
- Akhunov: how Ethereum governance really works and why he likes working groups as a process change
- Latest core devs call. Notes.
- ERC1996: Put tokens ‘on hold’
- EIP2003: EVMC modules for implementations of precompiled contracts
- ERC777 is finalized. An ERC777 explainer.
Application layer
- Maker’s multi-collateral Dai 101. Also, per the bug disclosure this week, if you have MKR in the old voting contract, move it back to your wallet ASAP
- Grid+’s Lattice1 hardware agent in pre-sale with GRID discount. 60+ Texans signed up for power yesterday with Grid+
- AuroraDAO rebranding to IDEX, claims more alltime trades than EtherDelta
- OpenLaw and 6 leading Canadian law firms automate an M&A escrow agreement
- Brave at 2m DAUs
- LiquidShare and PegaSys working on “European post-trade settlement infrastructure for shares in small and medium sized enterprises”
- Deterministic art using block data
- Cent adds messaging and ETH transfers
- William Shatner authenticates a collectible using Mattereum
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Joe Lubin on Chain Reaction
- Digix’s Shaun Djie on Into the Ether
- Edcon videos going up
- Set Protocol’s Felix Feng and Inje Yeo on WyreTalks
- Agoric’s Mark Miller on Epicenter
- Zcash’s Sean Bowe on Zero Knowledge
- Vitalik interview at Microsoft Build
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Uniswap’s Unisocks, a limited edition, dynamically-priced pair of Uniswap socks. Price already up on the bonding curve from $12 to ~$35
- RealT live with a rental house in Detroit. LLC owns property and tokenizes the LLC. Rent gets paid in Dai.
- HumanityDAO: a TCR for sybil-resistance
- MyCrypto’s token standard explainer
- ConsenSys Legal and Latham&Watkins release Automated Convertible Note on OpenLaw. Who needs the SAFT?
- Look out OTC: DutchX has less slippage than exchanges for large orders
- LA Democrat Rep Brad Sherman renewed his call to ban cryptocurrencies
- FinCEN released guidance on how they think money transmission laws apply to various subsets of crypto. This led Vitalik to write about control as liability
- SEC Commissioner Peirce speech on interpreting Howey for crypto warns that unclear guidance is pushing the industry outside of the US
- CFTC ready to approve ETH futures, per Coindesk
General
- Binance got hacked for 7000 BTC. Some Bitcoin core devs suggested they should roll back the chain for the entire day to give the stolen BTC to miners instead of attackers. Eventually Binance chose not to try.
- ZkCapital is doing a blockchain research weekly newsletter
- FloodXMR paper argues you could previously de-anonymize Monero by flooding transactions for a tiny annual sum. Unclear how much it would cost now.
- Starkad and Poseidon: New Hash Functions for Zero Knowledge Proof Systems
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- May 16 – Eth2 workshop (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)
- May 24-26 – Ethereum Madrid Hackathon
- May 27-28 – EthCon Korea (Seoul)
- June 8-9 – WASM in blockchains (Berlin)
- June 10-11 Blockchain for Social Impact conference (NYC)
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- July 3-5 – WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
- July 19 – BuildETH (San Francisco)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2-4 – TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21-23 – Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23-25 – ETHBerlin
- Sep 16-17 – Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8-11 – DeVcon (Osaka)
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