Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Prysmatic Eth2 client update – updating to v6 spec, working on Eth2 data API
- Artemis Eth2 client update – up to date on v5 spec
- Matt Slipper’s Eth2 test runner update
- A plan to natively integrate Eth1 into Eth2
- Justin Drake’s idea for simpler hash-efficient sparse tree
- Raul Jordan’s Eth2 history and high level overview
- Alex Beregszaszi’s history of Ewasm
Layer 2
- 550 transactions per second using STARKs at only ~6000 gas per trade. Starkware and 0x release StarkDEX demo running on Ropsten. To be released on mainnet “in several months.” Code.
- Plasma EVM with Continuous Rebase
Stuff for developers
- Verisol: Microsoft open sources Solidity formal verification tool using its IR Boogie language
- genSTARK: a JavaScript zk-STARK generation framework
- Remix IDE v0.8 – new layout
- An open node for Augur markets
- Building upgradeable smart contracts
- Truffle v5.0.21
- OpenZeppelin v2.3
- Getting the most out of CREATE2
Ecosystem
- Quickblocks/Trueblocks v0.5.7. full blockchain scraper to build fully decentralized block explorer, ie get trustless data off your own node
- Tripathi: Eth tokens as Wall Street backoffice replacement
Enterprise
- Blockchains to unlock $3.1 trillion in business value by 2030, per Gartner.
- Paul Brody talk: what blockchain can deliver now
- Epirus block explorer for Quorum, Ethereum and Azure
- Quick start a private chain with Quorum and Truffle
- Fnality, formerly Utility Settlement Coin, raises 50m GPB from its consortium of banks.
- “Carrefour says blockchain tracking boosting sales of some products,” per Reuters
- A guide to start using Pantheon, the enterprise focused Eth Java client
Governance and Standards
- EIP2098: Compact 64 byte representation of Eth sig
- ERC2100: Streaming token standard
- ERC2095: Temporary Data Persistence
Application layer
- Augur’s 4 prong strategy to defeat invalid market scams
- Numerai’s Erasure Quant
- OpenLaw: creating and transferring tokenized art donations
- Request Protocol v2 beta release
- Grid+ passes 1000 in power customers
- FunFair is doing an affiliate program
- Dai Stability Fee lowered to 16.5%
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Videos from Scaling Ethereum
- Latest decentralized data community call with demos from Quickblocks and Play
- Latest curation markets call
- Scuttlebutt’s Dominic Tarr on Epicenter
- Kyber Network’s Loi Luu on Into the Ether
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- SEC charges Kik with for unregistered security sale. Kik’s press release response. Coincenter says it’s a question of fact, not law.
- Blockchains LLC acquires Slockit
- Scenario analysis of SNT for ENS usernames
- Cadence’s tokenized private notes get listed on Bloomberg terminal
- cadCAD: Complex Adaptive Dynamics Computer Aided Design
- Pairwise coordination subsidies. Vitalik’s quadratic funding twist to thwart collusion
- de la Rouviere: Patronage as a game and an asset class
General
- A walk down Ethereum and ConsenSys memory lane with Andrew Keys
- Dether is adding chat to its in-person exchange app using IPFS, pinning service, and OrbitDB
- LocalBitcoins ended in-person cash sales, so LocalEthereum does a no fee promo for in-person cash sales in June
- What to do when sim swapping happens to you
- According to his writing, Satoshi built Bitcoin for payments
- Harz, et al, IACR paper: reduce deposits while maintaining security
- Kim, Lee, Oh IACR: QAP-based Simulation-Extractable SNARK with a Single Verification
- Gabizon IACR: Improved prover efficiency and SRS size in a Sonic-like system
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- June 10-11 Blockchain for Social Impact conference (NYC) [50% off code: IMPACT]
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- July 3-5 – WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
- July 19 – BuildETH (San Francisco)
- July 22-23 – Buidl 2019 (Seoul)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2-4 – TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21-23 – Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23-25 – ETHBerlin
- Sep 3 – Deadline to apply for EU Horizon Prize. 1m € each to 5 “Blockchains for Social Good” projects
- Sep 6-8 – EthBoston
- Sep 15 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Sep 15 – Ethereal Tel Aviv
- Sep 16-17 – Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8-11 – DeVcon (Osaka)
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