Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Parity v.2.5.10stable and v2.6.5beta. Ready for Istanbul, with some warp sync fixes in the beta release
- Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.30, Istanbul-ready py-evm
- Aleth v1.7, Istanbul ready
- Latest core devs call. Notes from call
Eth2
- Prysmatic client update. testnet relaunch, up to spec v0.9.1
- How data availability affects light client design
- Devcon video on developer experience in eth2
Layer2
- BLS rollup on Skale
Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.5.13. Istanbul-EVM compatible, more SMT, list overload candidates, export layout of storage variables, WIP ewasm-binary output
- Truffle v5.1. ENS support, new data decoder, in-test debugging and better syntax highlighting while debugging
- web3.js v1.2.4 better Typescript type defs, out of gas bugfix
- Vyper v0.1.beta14
- How to protect your contracts from re-entrancy after Istanbul
- How Lucidity dramatically reduced their Infura call volume by caching its reads
- Aragon’s tips for winning the struggle against contract size in the EVM
- Terminal’s dapp monitoring platform
- The architecture of Dharma’s smart wallets
- Gonçalo Sá on Solidity features in v0.5.13 and coming in v0.6
- Slick interface to buy Chainlink API data feeds
Ecosystem
- Grants: ConsenSys wave 2, EF Taiwan focused, MetaCartel cohort 1
- Eric Conner’s user guide to ENS domains
- ethereum.org update: adding the Studio web IDE, re-org’ing the format and Gitcoin bounties
- Meson, a mixnet at the networking layer
- More Devcon5 videos are slowly trickling in
Enterprise
- Subscribing to events at scale by sending them to Kafka or Kinesis
- updated uPort roadmap, mostly aimed at enterprise
Governance and standards
- ERC2362: Pull oracle interface
- Lessons learned from establishing Hyperledger Besu’s maintenance process
- DisCOs: the p2p community’s alternative to DAOs
- Autark’s “Open Enteprise” for Aragon is on mainnet. an “end-to-end suite of tools for management of open organizations”
Application layer
- Brave v1. If you haven’t switched yet, I no longer even have the “slow new tab” problem. Referral link (though my KYC is stuck and I can’t get my BAT!) I also enjoyed Brian Bondy’s Brave founding story. The best part is how they almost couldn’t connect by DM.
- You can sell your browser data through Swash browser extension and earn Streamr’s DATA token
- Tokenizing open offers with OpenLaw
- 0x v3 passed and goes live Nov 25
- Comparing insurance-like solutions in DeFi
- A taxonomy for LAOs (DAOs with a legal entity)
- It’s multi-collateral Dai (MCD) launch day. One of the main reasons to switch is the benefits of Dai Savings Rate. MCD also means revamped Oasis dex
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Convexity protocol: ERC20 option tokens
- Chainlink on embedding smart contracts into a legal fabric
General
- De-anonymization attacks from remote side channels. Applicable to Monero and ZCash
- Breaking Mimblewimble privacy for $60 a week, “and I don’t believe there’s a way to fix it.”
- Mudit Gupta’s post on problems with mixers
- Protests in Iran led to them shutting off the internet
- You have 12 days to register an Eth address to get tokenized r/ethtrader donuts
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Nov 18 – Multi-collateral Dai launches
- Dec 2-16 – Gitcoin Global Communities virtual hackathon
- Dec 6 – Istanbul network upgrade
- Jan 1 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Jan 31 – deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
- Feb 9-15 – EthLagos
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
- Mar 3-5 – EthCC (Paris)
- Apr 3-7 – Edcon (Vienna)
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