Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Protocol

• Core devs call. Lane’s notes
  
• [Eth 2.0] ETH2.0 implementers call (local recording, some sound issues for first ~10 mins)
  
• [Eth 2.0] Ben Edgington’s Eth 2.0 slides for Paris talk
  
• [Eth 2.0] This week’s What’s New in Eth 2.0
  
• [ewasm] ewasm talks at SF meetup
  
• [VDF] Intro to VDFs from Trail of Bits. Also Peter Robinson talk on randomness
  
• [Plasma] Comparison of Plasma designs by Eva Beylin
  
• [Plasma] Latest Plasma implementer call
  
• [Plasma] Plasma Debit implementation from Georgios/Loom
  
• [Plasma] RSA Accumulators for Plasma Cash history reduction
  
• [Plasma] Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 3
  
• [Casper] Latest Casper standup call
  
• [Misc] Account abstraction radically simplified
  
• [Misc] Optimizing sparse Merkle trees
  
• [Casper CBC] Vlad’s sharding PoC that won at EthSF was a joint project with Alex from NEAR. Vlad’s viz. Separately, the NEAR folks also published TxFlow: Towards faster cross-shard transactions by rerouting transactions bypassing the beacon chain
  

Stuff for developers

• SpankChain got hacked with a reentrancy bug from an ERC20 call, but for less than a security audit would cost. Here’s a walkthrough of the hack. Subsequently the hacker gave the money back and received a smaller bounty, but also offered a ~free MolochDAO audit
  
• EthSecurity resources
  
• Discovering signature verification bugs
  
• interface for aggregating on-chain data to avoid incessant Infura calls
  
• Maker’s code for market making and arb bots
  
• web3x – a Typescript port of web3JS
  
• Cent Wallet’s tradeoffs between usability and trustlessness
  
• 8x Protocol launches subscription payments on Kovan
  
• Deploy a private chain on Kubernetes tutorial
  
• Ronan Sandford: The case for automated origin checks, non-interactive signatures, and non-interactive decryption
  
• shadowlands – a Python, text UI platform to use dApps in terminal without a web browser
  

Client releases

• Geth v1.8.17 – hard fork ready
  
• Nethermind v0.9 – a new .NET core client
  
• Not really a release, but all about the Nimbus client
  
• Parity v2.12 and 2.0.7 stable – hard fork ready
  

Live on mainnet

• Origin Protocol beta live on mainnet. Buy and sell on a Craigslist-like marketplace with ETH
  
• Giveth is live on mainnet in closed beta, using Rinkeby and a bridge. Plans to change to POA Network when their new bridge is live. They’re looking for beta testers.
  
• Docusign releases Ethereum integration. Write and verify your contracts to the chain.
  

Ecosystem

• Blockscout – opensource block explorer from POANetwork/EthPrize
  
• There are some hiccups with the Ropsten hardfork, first with a lack of miners and then with a consensus error where Parity and Geth charged a different amount of gas for a transaction. This could possibly push back the Constantinople hard fork.
  
• You can now pre-register your .eth name on .luxe
  
• How Aragon’s grants program is evolving
  
• All the ETHSanFrancisco submissions. List of winners and runner-ups. Kyle Samani’s favorites. And no weed, flirting or crypto prices during hackathons (don’t hold this against OP, it got a little overinterpreted)
  
• Parity Signer v2 beta – use an old phone as a transaction signer
  
• Some clues about what Blockchains LLC is up to in their 67000 acres in Reno
  

Governance and Standards

• EIP1482: Define a maximum block timestamp drift
  
• ERC1480: Access Control Standard
  
• ERC1483: Digital Identity Aggregator
  
• ERC1155 gas benchmarking
  
• Luke Duncan’s response (why autonomy matters) and Vitalik’s response (mutability is not feasible) to Vlad’s governance posts last week.
  

Project Updates

• Raiden getting close to Red Eyes alpha launch, will be limited to 250 ETH total, only wrapped ETH, and .075 ETH per direction in a payment channel. Latest testnet release: v0.13.0
  
• Dappos point of sale register adds ERC20 starting with DAI
  
• CasinoFair now live in Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, New Zealand. Up to 14 countries.
  
• Video demo of Golem Unlimited
  
• Gitcoin Q3 retrospective and Q4 goals
  
• Meridio’s reLease dapp lets you lease and rent daily workspaces. For now, at ConsenSys, CryptoNYC and in the DC burbs.
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Holger Drewes on Ethereum’s Javascript ecosystem and Eth 2.0
  
• Raul Jordan on Smartest Contract
  
• Dan Zuller and Ryan Sean Adams on Venture Stories
  
• Nucypher comes back to Hashing It Out for fully homomorphic encryption
  
• Coinfund on Epicenter
  
• Sarah Baker Mills talk on design and UX
  
• Latest web3 design call
  
• Print Q&A with Maurycy Pietrzak of Infura
  
• Richard Craib on Enigma’s Decentralize This
  
• John Wolpert on Masters of Blockchain
  
• ETHSanFrancisco main stage videos, including Vitalik and Balaji
  
• Brendan Eich talk at Founders Fund
  
• Gavin Wood on Polkadot and sharding on Zero Knowledge
  

Tokens / Business

• Forbes joined the Civil network, but also got some bad press about paltry fundraising, including from WSJ and CNN
  
• Token work profiles to understand users
  
• First Round’s case study on scaling at Coinbase
  
• CoinbasePro lists ZRX, the first token on Coinbase
  
• Binance says all listing fees will be transparent and donated to charity
  

General

• Joseph Lubin will be a SXSW keynote speaker “with special guest.” Also Joe offers a quick history of Ethereum’s earliest days
  
• Parity Substrate testnet launches.
  
• Polkadot “hello world” tutorials, part 1 and part 2
  
• Zaki on how to play Cosmos Game of Stakes
  
• Cardano is having a Tezos-like fight with their Foundation
  
• Microsoft pledges 60k patents to Open Invention Network
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):

• Oct 17-21 Lebanon hackathon (Beirut)
  
• Oct 22-24 – Web3Summit (Berlin). 50% off available for devs, students & researchers
  
• Oct 24-25 – Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
  
• Oct 26-28 – Status hackathon (Prague)
  
• Oct 29 – Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
  
• Oct 29 – Swarm mini-summit (Prague)
  
• Oct 29 – Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
  
• Oct 30 – Nov 2 – Devcon4 (Prague)
  
• Nov 2 – MetaMask, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3
  
• Nov 3-4 – Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
  
• Dec 7-9 – ETHSingapore hackathon
  
• Jan 29-30 – AraCon (Berlin)
  
• Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver hackathon
  

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