Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Protocol

• [Shasper] Psymatic’s biweekly update
  
• [VDF] some requirements for an Ethereum 2.0 VDF
  
• [Casper] Latest Casper standup
  
• [Plasma] OMG’s Plasma implementation in Elixir
  
• [State channels] Ledger channels and virtual channels
  

Stuff for developers

• Truffle v5.0.0 released. web3js 1.0, bring your own compiler, and lots more
  
• Augesco, a drizzle competitor
  
• Truffle University – graduates get a job as a blockchain dev or their money back. 120 applications in the first day
  
• Engineering at Parity. and Q&A with CTO Fred Harrysson
  
• Ocaml bindings to Geth
  
• Civil’s event crawler in Go
  
• Eth development with Go
  
• EtherVM: EVM opcodes and disassembler
  
• 2dproxy: delegatecall proxy that delegatecalls the constructor
  
• Patrick McCorry’s battleship state channel code
  
• NuCypher releases nuFHE (fully homomorphic encryption) library with orders of magnitude efficiency improvement
  
• Gitcoin requests: ask for a bounty on any Github issue
  
• Robbie Bent’s insights from security interviews
  
• Airswap dev tutorial, part 3
  
• Video: new features of Solidity v0.5
  
• It’s now pip install vyper. And a video intro to Vyper
  
• Frame’s “developer prerelease” on testnet to allow easier and lower level hardware wallet integration
  
• Wireshark dissectors for Ethereum’s devp2p is now open source
  

Releases

• Geth v1.8.14 with Swarm v0.3.2: A full miner rewrite (!) with instant insertion of uncles into work packages which makes safer the current larger blocks

Live on mainnet

• Realit.io oracle is live – “Snopes meets Mechanical Turk on a blockchain”
  
• Rock paper scissors on Ethereum
  

Ecosystem

• It’s raining grants: Ethereum Foundation round 3. And ECF round 2. Plus Aragon round 2, as well as their update on rd1 grants.
  
• uPort’s 3box – manage your public and private data using IPFS and OrbitDB
  
• Very cool Alethio graphic: function calls on Ethereum over time
  
• the web3 finance stack graphic
  
• the web3 video stack
  
• Dogethereum bridge alpha to livestream on Sept 5th
  

Governance and Standards

• Today’s core dev call will feature discussion on mining reward reduction
  
• Afri on ProgPoW
  
• ERC948 architecture choices for subscriptions
  
• ERC1341: Ethereum web tokens
  
• EIP1150: secure delegatecall
  

Project Updates

• Multi-collateral Dai goes live on Kovan on September 17th
  
• Golem: verifying rendering results
  
• Peepeth’s kickstarter is live (or use Ether). Shooter Jennings mentioned Peepeth on Joe Rogan
  
• OmiseGo Aug update
  
• OpenLaw using Chainlink as the oracles for their legal contracts
  
• iExec has an interesting weekly series on dapps built on their platform
  
• Aragon Q2 transparency report
  
• Ujo Music: exploring Radical Markets, patronage & collecting
  
• Livepeer’s Tributary milestone release
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Kevin Owocki on Hashing It Out
  
• Ryan Zurrer on Epicenter
  
• Ryan Berckmans talks his Predictions Global frontend for Augur
  
• Matthew Di Ferrante on Zero Knowledge
  
• Open web3 design call video
  
• A readable version of Brendan Eich’s AMA. hints at some interesting stuff.
  
• Joseph Lubin media this week: Hidden Forces podcast, TDAmeritrade Network, and with Rhys Lindmark
  
• Meher Roy with Jake Brukhman
  
• More TechCrunch Eth Zug vids: Vlad Zamfir on governance, Karl Floersch on cryptoeconomics, and exchange/dex panel
  

Tokens / Business

• Sam Cassatt: misconceptions in the Ether(eum) market
  
• Gnosis: Ethereum is blooming and we are doubling down on it
  
• Someone won 10000 ETH from FoMo3d by reverse engineering the bots so they didn’t respond when blocks got stuffed. tl;dr: large transactions at low-ish gas prices to fill most the blocks but then super high gas price smaller transactions to fill the block to 100%.
  
• Contrary to BTC maxi narratives, there’s no Eth “ICO firesale”
  
• Panvala: token experiments at the ConsenSys retreat
  
• TCRs: value prop and challenges
  

General

• A bunch of Bitcoin ETFs got rejected by SEC. Commissioner Peirce says those were staff actions that will get reviewed
  
• web3Foundation’s call for grants
  
• 19 year old arrested for sim swapping to steal crypto
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

• August 24-26 – Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
  
• September 5 – Zero Knowledge Summit(Berlin)
  
• September 6 – Security unconference (Berlin)
  
• September 7-9 – ETHBerlin hackathon
  
• September 7-9 – WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
  
• September 8 – Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
  
• September 12 – Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
  
• September 13-14 – EEA Tech Specworking group (NYC)
  
• September 21-23 — EthAtlanta
  
• Oct 5-7 – TruffleCon in Portland
  
• Oct 5-7 – ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
  
• Oct 11 – Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
  
• Oct 22-24 – Web3Summit (Berlin)
  
• Oct 24-25 – Winding Tree hackathon(Prague)
  
• Oct 26-28 – Status hackathon (Prague)
  
• Oct 28-30 – Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
  
• Oct 29 – Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
  
• Oct 30 – Nov 2 – Devcon4 (Prague)
  
• Nov 2 – MetaMask to stop injecting web3
  
• Dec 7-9 – dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
  
• December – ETHSingapore hackathon
  

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