Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Eth2.0 implementers call. Notes.
- Lighthouse eth2 client update – Disc v5 in rust libp2p, SSZ updates, RESTful API instead of JSONRPC
- Prysmatic Labs eth2 client update – updating to current spec
- Eth2 Javascript client Lodestar will focus on light client support in the browser. Yeeth and Lodestar to work on eth2 components in AssemblyScript
- Lots of phase2 execution work coming out of eth2 meetings in New York. To wit:
- Vitalik’s Eth2, phase2, proposal2
- Eth Execution Environment proposal
- Current idea on eth1->eth2 migration: take the Eth1 state root and port into Eth2 execution environment
- Ewasm Scout, eth2 phase2 execution prototyping engine
- Drake: Blind VDF and timelock outputs
Client releases
Layer 2
- Plasma implementer call. Notes.
- PlasmaLeapDao streaming payment and royalty distribution demo on their Plasma chain at Cannes Film Festival
- Mosendo as a consumer-friendly Venmo-esque frontend for Connext’s state channels.
- Gas Station Network as potential state channel watchtower
- Celer’s state channels deployed onto Matic’s Plasma MVP chain. More on Matic Plasma.
Stuff for developers
- Vyper v0.1.0-beta.10
- Truffle v5.0.19
- Etherlime v2.0
- Right-To-Left-Override as Solidity attack vector. A detection tool added to Slither
- Provable fair ransom to profit from otherwise non-exploitable vulnerabilities
- Visual Eth IDE Pipeline is on Remix-alpha
- Intro to AZTEC for developers
- Loredana’s PoC for her universal filesystem, dType
- Process Ethereum data with Pubsub and Dataflow
- Vitalik’s design for a minimal mixer
Ecosystem
- Ethereum Foundation Q2 update and how it will spend $30m this year
- We should standardize a p2p network for offchain messages
- MetaMask user metrics. 265k MAUs in April.
- ETHNewYork submissions
- Where we are with Eth2 testnets explainer
Enterprise
Governance and Standards
- Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s notes in tweetstorm form
- Updated proposed list of possible EIPs for Instanbul upgrade fork
- EIP2045: Fractional gas costs for EVM opcodes
- EIP2046: Reduced gas cost for static calls made to precompiles
- ProgPoW audit has been delayed, so it is unlikely to make it into the Istanbul hard fork
- Futarchy appellate Aragon courts using staked ANT
Live on mainnet
- Compound v2 live on mainnet
- Nexus Mutual live on mainnet, a digital cooperative to offer smart contract cover to insure against bugs
Application layer
- Set did the first rebalances on its automated rebalancing portfolio
- Guide to DxDAO launch on May 29.
- Veil’s explanation for why it forked Augur and created AugurLite. They want 2020 US presidential campaign markets now instead of waiting for v2
- Comparison of Maker, dydx, Compound, and Dharma decentralized lending
- Defi users over time data viz from Alethio
- Multi-collateral Dai testnet release v0.26. Also, the Stability Fee is back up for a vote to lower to 17.5% (last week I incorrectly assumed the vote would pass. It did not and appears it may fail again this week)
- VirtuePoker is in private beta with a bunch of promotions
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Barry Whitehat on privacy at Taipei Eth meetup
- Token Summit videos
- Ren’s Loong Wang on Hashing It Out
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Circle on why SEC Framework is making Poloniex delist a bunch of assets for the US
- Fred Wilson: US regulatory uncertainty keeps crypto projects out of the US
- Building the Commons Stack (“infrastructure for collaboration”) from Giveth and BlockScience
- Felix Feng on Ethereum’s moat
General
- Setty IACR paper: Efficient SNARKs without trusted setup
- Awesome zero knowledge proofs
- Mustafa Al-Bassam’s LazyLedger: data availability blockchain with sub-linear full block validation
- BBC reports that Facebook’s stablecoin will be called Globalcoin, and may attempt to peg to a basket of fiat currencies.
- Lots of cell phone sim card porting attacks in the last week. If you give an online service your cell number, your account is insecure
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- May 27-28 – EthCon Korea (Seoul)
- May 29 – DxDAO launches
- June 5-7 – Scaling Ethereum research workshop (Toronto)
- June 8-9 – WASM in blockchains (Berlin)
- June 10-11 Blockchain for Social Impact conference (NYC)
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- July 3-5 – WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
- July 19 – BuildETH (San Francisco)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2-4 – TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21-23 – Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23-25 – ETHBerlin
- September 15 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Sep 16-17 – Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8-11 – DeVcon (Osaka)
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