Eth News and Links
Layer 1
- Latest Eth2 implementer call. Notes from the call.
- Proposal to boost Eth2 staking rewards which would put inflation at ~1%.
- Eth2 simulations inside Barcelona Supercomputer with open source code
- ewasm updates deck
- CBC Casper safety
Layer 2
- Livepeer: probabilistic micropayments protocol
- Counterfactual update now with CREATE2 code and public project mgmt
- Plasma Chamber dapp dev framework
- Gudgeon, et al, layer 2 overview paper
Stuff for developers
- Infura: faster Eth logs and events
- Truffle v5.0.13 – decoder improvements
- Ganache v2.0.1
- Embark 4.1.0-beta.0
- Keep’s Random Beacon using threshold relay
- Nodesmith’s JSON RPC API access through Websocket
- Automatic security checks with Mythos and CircleCi
- Signature replay vulnerabilities in Ethereum
- FunFair on building their own native wallet
- How to link libraries into Solidity code generated by solc
- 3rd party contract interaction in Burner Wallet
- accumulators with RSA and class group interfaces in Rust
- 0x Mesh architecture doc
Clients
- Geth v1.8.27
- Péter Szilágyi on v1.9: “speed up Geth fast sync by 57%, reduce disk reads by 44% and writes by 26%”
- Fredrik Harrysson: the future is a myriad of specialized clients
Ecosystem
- What you need to do for the new ENS registrar. Also what they plan to do with domain registration fees
- Loredana: what would a file system for an Eth OS look like?
- An Ethereum governance survey
- Ethereum community was born on r/ethereum, how to keep r/ethereum viable
- 3box: your own personal hub for your data
Enterprise
- EY announces it will opensource “private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain using zk-snarks” to run on the public chain. Paul Brody: “developer momentum … makes me believe that, imperfect or not, unless they really screw up, Ethereum is the choice.” Long time ecosystem watchers will remember Brody’s pioneering IoT work back in 2015.
- EEA Token Taxonomy Initiative
- How Minespider uses blockchain to ensure an ethical supply chain
- Michael del Castillo’s reporting confirms that Ethereum/Quorum lead enterprise blockchain
Governance and Standards
- Notes from last core dev call
- List of proposed EIPs for next hard fork
- Aragon vote #2 on April 25th
- New token standard for eth2
- Last call for ERC777
- EIP1955: specify cliquey (clique v2)
- ERC1948: non-fungible data token
- ERC1949: delayed distributed mining
Application layer
- The new dYdX is in alpha on mainnet – up to 4x margin with non-tokenized positions
- Uniswap dashboard
- Whisp, a free payroll tool for Eth or Dai
- Golem’s Graphene initiative to make SGX dapp production worthy. 1st stable release in next few months
- Game of Thrones death pool
- Dai Stability Fee to 14.5%
- Dharma “ReFi with DeFi” offers 8.5% CDP refinancing
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- ETHCapeTown Q&A with Vitalik
- Vitalik Buterin Ethereum Singapore meetup talk
- Dharma’s Brendan Forster on BlockCrunch
- Istanbul planning videos
- Autoglyph/CryptoPunk’s Matt Hall and John Watkinson on Digitally Rare
- Decentralize data call
- The Graph’s Yaniv Tal on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Kleros on learnings from arbitration in TCRs to help exchange due diligence
- For the next month you can lock your Gnosis tokens to generate OWL
- Token creation platforms this week: Mintable in beta to create and manage NFTs. Meanwhile Moken NFT creation becomes gasless and free in exchange for 20% of proceeds. or OST for ERC20s
- Panvala is looking for patrons after Rinkeby testnet release
General
- Applications close April 21st to be a validator on Trustlines’ “minimum viable PoS Eth sidechain”
- Coinbase enables crypto-to-crypto trading in a bunch of countries to counter Binance.
- Intro to the PCP theorem from PegaSys’s Olivier Bégassat
- STARK math, part 5
- Buterin: on free speech
- libp2p forums
- Sergio Demian Lerner: Satoshi mined 1.1m bitcoins
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Apr 19-21 – ETHCapeTown
- Apr 25 – Aragon vote #2
- Apr 29 – Oslo Blockchain Day
- May 4 – ENS Permanent Registrar launches
- May 9 – Fluidity Summit (NYC)
- May 10-11 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 16 – Eth2 workshop (NYC)
- May 16 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17-19 – ETHNewYork
- May 17 – Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
- May 23-25 – Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)
- May 27-28 – EthCon Korea (Seoul)
- June 8-9 – WASM in blockchains (Berlin)
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2-4 – TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21-23 – Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23-25 – ETHBerlin
- Sep 16-17 – Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
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