Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
- Vitalik published shard fork choice POC, “a fork choice rule-based mechanism for how sharding can be bolted on top of the current ethereum main chain, with a specialized random beacon and shard block times of <10 seconds” (source with lots more)
- Prysmatic Labs: sharding update
- More VB: Cross-links between main chain and shards
- Latest Casper standup
- Justin Drake: Plasma chain for offchain gas payments
- VB: Optimistic cheap multi-exit for Plasma
- Kelvin Fichter: Reliable exits of “limbo exits”
- Swarm POC3 released ahead of their summit in Ljubljana next week
Stuff for developers
- State machine testing with Echidna
- documentation for Chanterelle, FOAM’s Truffle competitor in Purescript
- Proof of concept for a trustless ethereum mixer using zksnarks
- Writing a dominance assurance contract
- Set up a light geth node for 35 bucks
- Detecting batchOverflow (and similar flaws) using Mythril. Or you can watch Bernhard’s conference talk
Releases
- Geth v1.8.7 – fix for archive nodes exceeding 1 tebibyte
- web3j v3.4.0 with dynamic gas support
“is live on mainnet” section
- p2p video streaming platform Livepeer’s alpha release live on mainnet. See also Reddit thread.
- Dharma live on mainnet, though in closed beta for bug bounty
- KnownOrigin ERC721 marketplace live on mainnet
- Reversible ETH with Silverwire live on mainnet, with a 5 gwei gas subsidy. Similar to Tabby from BlockCat
Ecosystem
- Next cohort of Ethereum Foundation grants
- 18 Ideas for 0x Relayers in 2018
- b0x margin trading is live on Ropsten. Their contrast with dY/dX and Lendroid
- Practical Plasma game examples from Loom
- PoA sidechain bridge launches May 10th for tokens
- Truebit April research update
- ConsenSys Academy is developing a Coursera class
- Open Source Money will BUIDL the Open Source Ecosystem
- Infura: 15,000 registered devs, over 6 billion daily API requests, moving 1.6 petabytes monthly
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance releases architecture stack
Governance and Standards
- Hudson Jameson and Nick Johnson talk current Ethereum governance process. Or check Dan Finlay’s flowchart of EIP process. Also summaries of the EIP0 breakout sessions.
- Aragon’s road to decentralization: minimum viable foundation
- Discussion on ERC948 about a subscription standard
- EIP1052: proposal for new EXTCODEHASH opcode
- EIP1051: Arithmetic overflow detection for the EVM
- ERC1056: Lightweight identity
Project Updates
- Jaak launches music rights database pilot with Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell, BMG and Global Music Rights
- Brave growth stats: now over 2.2M monthly active users, 75% mobile (where it’s a must use). If you don’t use Brave yet, here’s my referral code.
- How to Launch a Newsroom on Civil
- Q&A on the Cellarius universe
- Kyber Network to rebrand and also “facilitate ICOs”
- localethereum adds 22 payment methods worldwide
- Spankchain review of 1 month of beta
- The Kauri stack
- RightMesh video demo (2 mins)
- A deep dive into Golem architecture
- Hoard building an NFT exchange on OmiseGo. The FreeMyVunk idea lives.
- An update to the OmiseGo roadmap
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Zaki Manian on Hashing It Out
- Linda Xie and Avichal Garg on YC podcast
- Zero Knowledge podcast does intro to zk proofs. So meta.
- Text interview with Christian Reitwießner
- A video walkthrough of Status Incubate
- Podcast with Max Stein from Balanc3
- Podcast with Nick Johnson on governance
- Brian Fabian Crain on the other side of the mic with Software Engineering Daily
Tokens
- Two reputation-like take on TCRs: layered TCRs and graded TCRs
- Matt Lockyer on use cases for ERC998 composable NFTs
- Livepeer’s “MerkleMine” token distribution method
- Cofound.it’s Actionable Research, a product-market fit tool. Also their Q1 report
- FOAM white paper
- Wendy Xiao Schadeck: how to efficiently distribute tokens
General
- Russia wants to become a leading geographic hub for blockchains, and Paul Vigna reports that perhaps American regulators want to help them. SEC and CFTC folks are meeting May 7 to discuss their approach to this space.
- Joe Lubin: Ether is not a security and regulators understand that
- Cosmos is “85% of the way to launch.”
- Brave WSJ op-ed: The Internet’s ‘Original Sin’ Endangers More Than Privacy
- GoldmanSachs to trade Bitcoin futures
- Is Coinbase creating a centralized or decentralized financial system?
- Next episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley is named “Initial Coin Offering.” Maybe the only surprise is that it is this season and not last.
- Sergey Brin’s 2017 letter: “boom in computing … stemming from … the GPU-friendly proof-of-work algorithms found in some of today’s leading cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum.”
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
- May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto (livestream)
- May 7-11 – Swarm Summit in Ljubljana
- May 10 – Fluidity Summit on finance (NYC)
- May 10 – CryptoCup opens for World Cup predictions
- May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 15 – Kleros sale
- May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17 – Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)
- May 17-19 – Melonport hackthon in Zug
- May 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathon
- May 19-20 – Hacketh (Warsaw)
- May 25 – 28th – EthBuenosAires hackathon
- June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)
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