Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Protocol

• [Eth 2.0] What’s new in Eth 2.0 weekly
  
• [Eth 2.0] Eric Conner’s economics of staking, with Vitalik adding some numbers.
  
• [Eth 2.0] Improvements to reduce capital costs of being a Casper validator
  
• [Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s biweekly update
  
• [Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth2.0 implementer call
  
• [Eth 2.0] Ben Edgington’s London talk slides, slightly different from last week’s Paris slides
• [Plasma] Georgios Konstantopoulos: Towards more efficient Plasma Cash constructions
  
• [Plasma] Log(coins)-sized proofs of inclusion and exclusion for RSA accumulators
  
• [State channels] Last two state channel researcher calls. Call #5 and call #4
  
• [ewasm] Alex Beregszaszi and Lane Rettig talk ewasm with Jake Brukhman
  

Stuff for developers

• Prepare your dapp for optional web3 injection (eip1102)
  
• Ethers.js v4.0 – rewritten in TypeScript; better ENS support, events emitter, event filters, etc
  
• EtherLime using ether.js v4 and solc v.0.4.25; 40% code coverage on CLI and 100% on API
  
• Buidler – first Ethereum task runner
  
• Truffle on Azure
  
• web3x v1.1 – web3js in Typescript. Also, EVM in Typescript
  
• Poor man’s DecodeABI in Solidity from Austin Griffith
  
• Pixura’s GraphQL API for NFTs
  
• Multicall – group multiple calls into a single call and aggregate results
  
• Connext’s post-mortem on the SpankChain hack, plus Docker images of their hubs
  
• Messaging in Raiden and why they chose Matrix. Also testnet v0.14
  
• Mind Breed – a Brainfuck interpreter where you have to sacrifice a CryptoKitty to add an instruction
  
• Matryx wrote its code in Yul/Julia to save on gas
  
• Preview of Formality language featuring formal proofs from Victor Maia
  
• Deprecation of v0.5 Aragon DAOs on Rinkeby
  
• web3j Gradle plugin for Java, Kotlin and Android devs
  
• Get server-side rendering benefits without building SSR logic
  
• Zeppelin on EVM packages: re-usable, upgradeable, on-chain code. available in ZeppelinOS and AragonOS
  
• Slither – Solidity static analysis framework from Trail of Bits
  

Client releases

• Parity 2.0.8 stable and 2.13 beta– with Constantinople bug fix

Ecosystem

• Round 4 of Ethereum Foundation grants
  
• Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopoulos to start shipping end of Nov
  
• Kelvin Fichter: looking at ownership in the EVM
  
• Lessons learned squatting ENS domains
  
• Print your NFT onto schwag
  
• Mixeth – paper on trustless coinmixing service
  

Enterprise

• Quorum v2.1.1
  
• What EEA & Hyperledger collaboration means for enterprise blockchain. EEA spec 2.0 coming at Devcon
  
• Adhara announces Santander’s Julio Faura and Deutsche Bank’s Ed Budd have joined, plus 15m in ConsenSys funding to work on international payments with central banks
  

Governance and Standards

• Latest core devs call on Constantinople fork. Per the notes, the fork is pushed to next year
  
• Lane Rettig’s writeup of the Ropsten testnet consensus failure for Constantinople. Interesting real world stress test, but on a testnet.
  
• Talk of a KEVM client for consensus tests to build on the JelloPaper of the EVM in K
  
• AGP1 – vote on Aragon’s governance process on Nov 15
  
• ERC1497: Evidence standard
  
• ERC1484: Digital identity aggregator
  
• ERC1511: Manager token standard
  
• ERC1504: Upgradeable standard
  
• ERC1505: Token forwarding
  
• ERC1513: Refungible ERC721 Asset with Fungible ERC20
  

Project Updates

• RocketPool’s plans for its Eth2.0 staking pool
  
• Celer on lessons learned at EthSF testing its Gomoku dapp running on its state channels. I tried it, very cool. Possibly too addictive, since I’m bad at it.
  
• CryptoCup’s NFL prediction game is live
  
• MyCrypto v1.4
  
• Ujo officially debuts collectible patronage badges for musicians
  
• Brave releases new Chromium based version that is 20% faster.
  
• iExec’s end to end SGX solution
  
• Civil failed to reach its minimum threshold; says it will do another sale “in weeks”
  
• A first look at the Grid+ Lattice hardware wallet
  
• Maker & POANet launch xDai sidechain. Lots of Tether drama led to lots of stablecoin fluctuations, but Dai stayed steady.
  
• Peepeth is now free
  
• Colony Q3 update – all the stuff they’re working on; Q4 launch planned
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Print Q&A with Brave’s Yan Zhu
  
• Latest Open Source Block Explorers call
  
• Around the Block, episode 3
  
• Infura’s Michael Wuehler talk on scaling Eth to 11b requests a day
  
• Glen Weyl on Hashing It Out
  
• MyCrypto’s Jordan Spence on Boost podcast
  
• Celer Network’s Mo Dong layer 2 mechanism design talk
  
• Liquidity Network’s Arthur Gervais on Smartest Contract
  
• New 51% podcast. Recent episodes with Rune Christenesen and Andrew Keys
  
• Numerai’s Richard Craib on Zero Knowledge
  
• Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki on Epicenter
  
• Starkware’s Michael Riabzev’s talk on STARKs
  

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• John Backus: private bittorrent trackers are loosely a market.  Or a protocol token?
• SEC opens a “fintech hub” to communicate with their staff.
  
• Entire remarks of CFTC Commish Quintenz arguing devs should be liable for their code. The compliance cost would be devastating and a massive dead weight loss for society.
  
• Worker selection algos for work tokens
  

General

• The New Yorker on the early days of Ethereum. Solid work. In the same vein, a solid history of Augur
  
• Zexe: enabling decentralized private computation. “think of it as a fully private state channel where each transition can be checkpointed/validated on chain”
  
• Geth is the on the top 10 list of fastest growing projects on Github
  
• GDAX head Adam White joins Bakkt as COO
  
• Steve Wozniak joins tokenized VC fund Equi
• Fidelity Digital Assets launches ETH/BTC custody and execution for institutions
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):

• Oct 22-24 – Web3Summit (Berlin)
  
• 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 1 – Blockchains LLC launch event (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 10 – Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends
  
• Jan 29-30 – AraCon (Berlin)
  
• Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver hackathon
  

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