Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Lighthouse testnet is live
- Protolambda testing in Eth2 tweetstorm
- Eth2 staking pool Rocketpool dev update
- Eric Conner: basics of Eth2 economics
Stuff for developers
- Truffle releases: Truffle v5.0.11, Ganache v2.5.4 and Drizzle v1.4.0
- EtherLime v1.1 – Solidity v0.5 support, React boilerplate, flattener, iden3 zk proof utility
- web3js 1.0.0-beta.52
- Expo/React Native + web3js boilerplate
- Understanding formal verification in K
- K Framework in WebAssembly talk
- Understanding privacy in IPFS
- Parity to stop Kovan validating on April 26
- Multi-file Solidity verification from Etherscan
- Enigma open sources code for its upcoming release
- Implementation of a Dead Man’s Switch multi-sig
- Removing or increasing the contract size limit
- Slither static analyzer v0.6.2
- Mosaic: messaging for EVM sidechains using Merkle roots on Eth
- ZEXE: Rust library for zk execution
Ecosystem
- ZETH: Zerocash private transactions on Eth paper. Github.
- Writeup of the zkDAO POC built at ETHParis – anon voting using AZTEC
- Frame transaction signer mainnet alpha
- Vitalik Buterin: on collusion
Enterprise
Governance and Standards
- Notes from last core dev call
- Brukhman: a relative valuation model for governance tokens
- ERC1891: Contract-based Account Versioning
- ERC1892: ERC20D rent-compatible ERC20 migration
- ERC1890: Commitment to Sustainable Ecosystem Funding
- EIP1901: Add OpenRPC Service Discovery To JSON-RPC Services
- ERC1895: Support for an Elliptic Curve Cycle
- ERC1913: Casper PEPoW Token Standard for Layer 2 Solutions
- ERC1921: Extending the Decentralized Type System for Functions
- Loredana Cirstea: A Vision of a System Registry for The World Computer and Decentralized Type System & Functional Programming on Ethereum in support of EIP1900
Application layer
- Grid+ agrees to exclusive Singapore distribution
- “Decentralized Github” project Pando is live on Rinkeby testnet
- BloomID launches on Android
- Omise Holdings – Vansa now leads OmiseGo and Donnie leads Omise
- Golem v0.19.1. And a 3rd party does Golem Grid to buy compute with credit card
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani on Into the Ether
- Magmo’s Tom Close on NEAR Whiteboard series
- ENS AMA on r/ethereum
- MyCrypto’s Harry Denley on Hashing It Out
- PCMag interview transcript with Joe Lubin
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- SEC finally issues a framework for how they apply Howey to digital assets. Concurrently, it issues first no action letter.
- SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on Unchained
- Canadian feds are after Vanbex for fraud and tax evasion
- TrustToken launches GBP token
- Darma Capital: why we chose Ether as our first asset to “Optimize Long”
General
- Zilliqa went live with the first transactions on a sharded blockchain
- Andreessen Horowitz is going to become an RIA so it can put more money into crypto
- why web3 isn’t here yet
- Wired: Is Big Tech merging with Big Brother?
- Jutta Steiner op-ed in Forbes: web3 lets us take back control of our data
- Paper on IOTA’s crypto vulnerabilities
- Class groups for accumulators without trusted setups
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- April 8-14 – Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
- April 12 – Next core devs call
- April 15-30 – Gitcoin/Microsoft Ethereal virtual hackathon
- April 17-18 – Magicians Istanbul planning (Berlin)
- Apr 19-21 – ETHCapetown
- Apr 29 – Oslo Blockchain Day
- May 4 – ENS Permanent Registrar launches
- May 9 – Fluidity Summit (NYC)
- May 10-11 – Ethereal (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)
- 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
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