Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Muir Glacier successfully hardforked on Jan 2nd.
- Nethermind v1.4.2 – proper config file for Muir Glacier
- Update Parity clients to v2.6.8beta and v2.5.13stable. An attacker found that Parity was only validating block header and so was crashing Parity nodes by sending valid header with invalid body
- An overview of stateless Ethereum
- Protocol changes necessary for 4MB witness size: binary tree, 3 gas per byte for calling contracts, gas costs go up for SLOAD to 2000. EXTCODESIZE, BALANCE, and *CALL go up to 2400
- Data on witness size using binary tries
Eth2
- Simpler Eth2 meta execution environment
- SigmaPrime’s update on Beacon Fuzz, their Eth2 client differential fuzzer
- Jim McDonald’s Eth2 expectations for 2020
Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.6.1 and v0.5.16 – Yul optimizer bugfix
- Compiling Formality to the EVM. Run formally verified functional programs on the EVM
- IPLD tutorial in Go
- Running machine learning models in ewasm
- Nethereum v3.5
- What’s new in Microsoft’s Ethereum VSCode extension update
Ecosystem
- Best practices to stay anonymous using Tornado.cash and other mixers and the Tornado UI is now available via IPFS and ENS https://tornadocash.eth.link
- Credible neutrality as Vitalik’s design principle, written for the recently launched Nakamoto.com
Enterprise
- UN Secretary General says his institution must embrace blockchain
- UN pilot to track cashmere supply chain
Governance
- How the “year of the DAO” became the “year of the MolochDAO”
- Maker Foundation transfers trademarks and software IP to the Dai Foundation
- Vocdoni architecting for private, transmission-agnostic, open to quadratic voting/futarchy/etc
Application layer
- Missed this until now: BULVRD app, trying to compete with Waze
- Undercollateralized loans live on Ropsten testnet
- Lock, vest, or schedule payouts with Lock Protocol
- Lower your counterparty risk in trading Counterstrike: Go skins: Sugarskins
- Uniswap average daily volume up 6000% in 2019
- Provide Uniswap liquidity while maintaining ETH exposure (understand the risks before you do it)
- UEFA tokenizing 20,000 VIP tickets for Euro2020 with AlphaWallet
General
- Financial Times: DeFi promises high interest and no middlemen
- Linda Xie’s beginner’s guide to DeFi
- Nikolai donated 3200 MKR to Carnegie Mellon for game theory research in decentralized applications
- A look back at 2019’s major blockchain security incidents. Meanwhile the latest “giving away Eth scam” tactic is hacking a verified Youtuber and changing the account name to impersonate someone in crypto
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Jan 6-20 – Gitcoin take back the web online hackathon
- Jan 6-21 – Gitcoin grants quadratic matching
- Jan 31 – deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
- Feb 28-Mar 1 – ETHLondon
- Mar 3-5 – EthCC (Paris)
- Mar 29-Apr4 – EthLagos
- Apr 3-7 – Edcon (Vienna)
- May 15 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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