News and Links
Protocol
- Casper FFG spec and implementation guide – block reward reduced to .6 ETH for miners in hybrid PoW/PoS. Checkpoints every 50 blocks
- Prysmatic Labs’ first sharding update
- in sharding, “many proposers will just be dApp developers paying transaction fees on behalf of their users”
Stuff for developers
- Drizzle v1.1 — now with MetaMask
- CryptoZombies Lesson 6
- Capture the Ether — hack Solidity code challenges
- Tutorial: Building a fully decentralized user profile app with Ethereum/IPFS
- Ethup — keep all your testnets in sync
- Clearmatics releases code for a fungible asset as ERC223 token
- Chanterelle — Truffle in PureScript
- Loom is now letting some external users try its SDK for dappchains(reminder: scalability, but users must trust the dappchain operator)
- Nick Johnson debuts the Corner Case — an hour answering Solidity questions and debugging
- SpankChain open sources in-browser Ethereum wallet with payment channels
- Ethcalate — bidirectional payment channels deployed onchain using a JS client to call the contract.
EIP/ERC/governance
- EIP960: cap Ether supply at ~120m, 2x what was sold in summer 2014. (Released on April 1st to see if people took it as real or as a joke).
- Phil Daian says anti-ASIC forks are counter-productive
Release
- Status v0.9.16 — with whisper v6 and drastic bandwidth reduction
Ecosystem
- EtherGlade — “Add Metamask and Ledger support to your website in less than 5 minutes”
- You can now listen to the Plasma paper
- Tutorial on setting up an Aragon DAO
- RecDAO — prediction market for r/EthTrader submissions. Interesting experiment; live on Rinkeby.
- A recap of the Ethereum Community Fund event in Tokyo
Project Updates
- 0x March dev update
- RocketPool March update
- If you’re in Texas, you could be a Grid+ beta tester.
- Jaak: how the music industry could benefit from data tech convergence
- An updated Enigma roadmap
- Dether for shops on main net
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Corey Petty and Collin Cusce talk to Nick Johnson on their new Hashing It Out podcast
- Olaf and Ryan from Polychain with Laura Shin
- FOAM’s Ryan John King on Epicenter
- Print interview with Hugh Karp about how Ethereum solves problems in mutual insurance
- Vitalik Buterin talk on tradeoffs in blockchains at Deconomy
- Software Engineering Daily with Hudson Jameson and Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki
- Video of the Ethereum Community Fund kickoff event in Tokyo
Tokens
- FOAM: Token Curated Registries for Geographic Points of Interest
- SEC arrests Centra founders. This was the project about which Nathaniel Popper wrote How Floyd Mayweather helped 2 young guys get rich
- Ripple tried to pay crazy amounts to Coinbase and Gemini to list XRP
- SEC Chairman says tokens can start as securities and later become non-security utility tokens.
- “OMG token balances will be replicated onto a Tendermint chain that gets connected to Cosmos”
- A framework for thinking about airdrops
General
- Comparing Ethereum to Hyperledger Fabric and R3 Corda
- Vitalik’s livetweeting of some Bitcoin panels at Deconomy.
- Video: Vitalik calls Craig Wright out for fraud, but Joseph Poon had the real mic drop moment
- Zeppelin’s security audit of the US dollar
- Trusted IOT Alliance launches a testnet
- Amber Baldet is leaving JPMorgan to start her own thing
- An artist’s dictionary to blockchain
- “Tech thinks it has a fix for the problems it created: blockchain” from NYTimes’ Nathaniel Popper
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
- April 9 – Blockchain for Social Impact incubator begins
- April 11 – European Blockchain Summit in Slovenia
- April 16 – DappDev in Kiev
- April 24 – Oslo Blockchain Day in Norway. 20% off with discount code EVAN
- April 25 – Virtue Poker sale
- April 27-29 – Hackital Eth hackathon in Washington, DC
- May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
- May 10 – Fluidity Summit on finance (NYC)
- May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 15 – Kleros sale
- May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17-19 – Melonport hackthon in Zug
- May 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathon
- May 25 – 28th – EthBuenosAires hackathon
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