Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core devs call. Notes. Lots of EIP1559 (fee market change) discussion now that it has been implemented. Decided to go forward with EIP2384 for Muir Glacier, anyone can propose changes afterwards. Also lots of talk about 1962 precompile calls.
- Update your clients for the Muir Glacier fork in early January. Geth, Nethermind, Besu all are ready. Parity, Aleth are coming.
- Piper Merriam on the 4 steps to an eth1 stateless client network
- Background on eth1 very long-term sustainability problems and options
Eth2
- Lighthouse public testnet, v0.1, the “first with a mainnet configuration”
- phase 0 spec v0.9.3
- Notes from the last light client call
- Undertanding eth2 staking deposits
- Aditya Asgaonkar explores cross shard communication
- Editorial note: ignore any fake news about launch date changing.
Layer2
- Celer light client SDK, runs in the browser
Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.5.14, defaults to Istanbul, SMT/ewasm updates
- Remix IDE v0.9.2
- Ethcode v0.8, now supports Vyper. available in VScode
- Deep dive into eip1167 minimal proxy contract
- 0age: the more minimal proxy
- Automated deploy to ENS and IPFS
- Steve Marx: destroying the indestructible registry
- Blocknative’s onboard.js to easily support many wallets
- Runtime Verification: K vs Coq as language verification frameworks
Ecosystem
- Can Ethereum rollups beat Visa’s 2000 transactions per second? Iden3’s analysis of post-Istanbul Ethereum throughput limits with rollup.
- How Infura manages nodes with VIPnode
- Parity’s update on grant progress: 75% of grant paid based on milestones
- Networking: Waku spec v0.2 and Whiteblock’s no tag back gossiping
Enterprise
- Nike files a patent application for tokenized shoes on Ethereum and breeding them, a la Cryptokitties
- BancoSantander repurchased and cancelled the bond mainnet, of September 10th, 2019 issuance date. “This unequivocally proves that a debt security can be managed through its full lifecycle on a blockchain”
- “Seize the day: public blockchain is on the horizon” Forrester/EY enterprise survey says 75% will use public chains (read: Ethereum) in the future
- Paul Brody op-ed: If you build a blockchain, will anyone come? “Public blockchains like Ethereum offer a better choice for enterprise users”
- Quorum plugin for Remix
- Hyperledger Besu v1.3.7 – critical fix for mainnet users, muir glacier compatible
Governance and standards
- Extending MolochDAO’s features: TheLAO, Moloch and MetaCartel to standardize for venture-style investments and accommodation of security token standard
- Maker’s governance security module puts a 24 hour delay on all governance decisions. This was in response to Micah Zoltu’s “how to turn 20m into 340m in 15 seconds.” The 0 delay was explicitly a tradeoff as MCD launched to ensure that Maker could respond nimbly to any problems.
- Vocdoni: an app for anonymous, onchain voting
Application layer
- Sablier is live on mainnet, continuous streaming money
- Synthetix inflation changed to exponential decay in the inflation rate with a 2.5% terminal rate
- Set Protocol integrates Compound’s cTokens so sets earn interest
- RealT’s first property sells out
- Undercollateralized lending as next DeFi trend?
- Kong.cash releases their whitepaper. As seen at Devcon, Kong is physical crypto cash
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- SEC charges fraudulent ICO
- Saga goes live on mainnet with an algorithmic version of the IMF’s SDR
- ING is planning to get into crypto custody
- ConsenSys Activate’s standards for token launches
General
- Speeding up verification of groth16 batches
- Simple explanation of circuits and zero knowledge proofs
- A comprehensive primer on recursive SNARKs
- “design a circuit construction protocol (such as used in TOR) that is 1) non-interactive, 2) immediate forward-secret, and 3) requires only O(n) message exchanges”
- Filecoin launches testnet
- Using reinforcement learning to model selfish mining incentives
- Will quantum supremacy affect blockchain?
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Jan 1 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Jan 1-30 – EthIndia online hackathon
- Jan 6-20 – Gitcoin take back the web online hackathon
- Jan ~4 – Muir Glacier upgrade to delay difficulty increase
- Jan 31 – deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
- Mar 3-5 – EthCC (Paris)
- Mar 29-Apr4 – EthLagos
- Apr 3-7 – Edcon (Vienna)
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