Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Using Eth2 as an Eth1 finality gadget
- Everything you need to know about Eth2 through phase 2
- My phase 0 roadmap summary: individual clients already have testnets to varying degrees. Spec freeze end of June, networking this summer, longstanding cross-client testnet early Q4, auditing/testing, go live around end of q4 or q1
- Exploration of discouragement attacks
Layer 2
- Matter doing over “100 TPS of ZK transactions on ETH mainnet” but couldn’t test higher because they crashed Digital Ocean
- Separating the role of signatures in transaction validity vs slashing
- Mainnet sneak peak of Celer Network at EthNY
- Decentraland adopts Matic for fast and cheap layer2 sales of Estates
- Raiden light client SDK and app, live on Rinkeby
Client releases
Stuff for developers
- Solidity Hot Reloading using Zepkit
- Pocketh: a “pocket knife for auditing smart contracts” from Zeppelin
- Skale explainer on using their sidechain storage as an IPFS alternative
- An sbt-ethereum tutorial
- Sandcastle, an Eth SQL language pre-alpha available in Remix.
- Slither v0.6.4
- Drizzle v1.3.0
- Build a simple insurance Etherisc product with role-based actors
- Enjin’s Java SDK to integrate a blockchain economy into your Minecraft server
Ecosystem
- Swarm v0.4.0 released
- POA Network is picking up the Kovan testnet and changing it to 4 second block times.
Enterprise
- EEA enterprise client spec v3. Plus EEA released trusted compute spec v1.0
- World Bank and Commonwealth Bank of Australia trade 9 figure secondary bond built on Ethereum
- GE Aviation to track aircraft engine parts maintenance an use with a consortium chain built on Ethereum
- Aura: a product tracking consortium chain for the luxury industry from LVMH, ConsenSys and Microsoft
- Element implementation of Decentralized Identity Foundation’s Sidetree Protocol
Governance and Standards
- Proposed list of EIPs for Istanbul hard fork
- EIP2028: Calldata gas cost reduction
- ERC2009: Compliance service
- EIP2029: State Rent A – State counters contract
- EIP2031: State Rent B – Net transaction counter
- EIP2027: State Rent C – Net contract size accounting
- EIP2026: State Rent H – Fixed Prepayment for accounts
- EIP2035: Stateless Clients – Repricing SLOAD and SSTORE to pay for block proofs
- ERC2015: Wallet Update Chain JSON-RPC Method (`wallet_updateChain`)
- Nexus Mutual: digital cooperatives are the future
Application layer
- iExec v3: secure “data renting,” particularly aimed at enterprises. Massive French utility company EDF to use it.
- Sell your personal Firefox info through Streamr
- The CryptoKitties folks debut a new game called CheezeWizards
- Cryptocup returns for CopaAmerica – predict South America’s cup
- Augur v1 cutoff on September 15th. Also interesting: Veil forked Augur, though they say they’re coming back for v2
- 100m USD in loans outstanding on DeFi
- Maker Stability Fee lowered to 17.5%
- District0x launches MemeFactory. Curation markets, TCRs. Memes.
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Ethereal videos
- Fluidity Summit vidos
- Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki on Zero Knowledge
- Argent’s Itamar Lesuisse on Into the Ether
- Aya Miyaguchi on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Katie Haun: what’s going on in the fight between Kik and the SEC
- Farewell words from outgoing CFTC Chair Giancarlo
General
- Fast Fourier Transforms explainer
- Flexa and Gemini announce some major retails chains to accept ETH and BTC
- Stellar crashed for 2 hours and no one noticed
- A cryptocurrency wallet is not a wallet! If you didn’t know this, click the link.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- 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
- September 15 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Sep 16-17 – Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8-11 – DeVcon (Osaka)
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