Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core devs call. Notes. Discussion of the curve used in eth2 (EIP2537), EVM subroutines (EIP2315), and reducing gas to call precompiles (EIP2046)
- Alex Stokes explains how eth2 benefits from EIP2537
- OpenEthereum has an initial alpha release
- Updated tech tree on Stateless Ethereum – what’s needed for improved sync, witnesses, EVM changes, and binary trees
Eth2
- Ben Edgington’s latest what’s new in eth2
- Danny Ryan’s quick eth2 update
- Bug bounty for the first phase of eth2 is live. Run ‘pip install eth2spec’
- A Casper FFG explainer with proofs of its guaranty of liveness and safety
- Latest Prysmatic client update – restarting the testnet to run latest spec, RFP for security audits
- Latest Lighthouse client update – 3x sync speedup, catching a spec bug, prepping for multi-client testnet
- A report on eth2 staking UX
- Staking calculator update
Layer2
- What is Zeropool? A privacy-first optimistic rollup that functions like a mixer. Next step: rewrite in Rust
- Burner Wallet on Fuel’s rollup. Check it out on burner.fuel.sh
- Dharma is doing a rollup chain with interstate, using the spec published on ethresearch
Stuff for developers
- Analyzing try/catch in Solidity v0.6
- Calculating exponents in Solidity
- Decoding the memory of an Eth contract
- How to use call value and not transfer
- Best practices when using an oracle by Tellor
- Implementing a classifieds ERC721 market tutorial
- Constructing a FootballManager-type simulation for tennis
- An iExec quick start guide
- Using static lookahead analysis to guide fuzzers in MythX
- Using MythX with Embark
- A user comparison of running and benchmarking MythX, Slither, and Security
- Samczsun finds an Aragon bug
- Easily support hardware wallets with Blocknative’s onboard.js
- Fortmatic’s magic.link for web2 logins without a password (input email -> click link in email -> logged in, even if clicked from different browser/device)
- RicMoo’s Rooted: deploy a contract and be able to arbitrarily update it. Screens of Austin Griffith playing with it on eth.build
Ecosystem
- Ethereum.org is now available on IPFS at ethereum.eth on Metamask, Status, Opera, or Brave. You may have to type in https://ethereum.eth
- Chart of Ethereum.org non-English traffic
- Ethereum Foundation 2019 grant list
- Devcon archive – a permanent site for devcon footage
- xDai is now a dPOS chain. Related: Apple killing local storage frustrates Burner Wallet
Enterprise
- EEA Mainnet Working Group’s first public call video
- One pager on Baseline Protocol
- FundsDLT private chain for investment funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management and Luxembourg Stock Exchange
- Hitachi to partner with ConsenSys for enterprise adoption in Japan
Governance, DAOs, and standards
- MakerDAO planning for imminent complete decentralization
- The design philosophy of KyberDAO
- ERC2579: Merkle Tree Generalized Index
- ERC2571: Royalty token standard
- EIP2584: Trie format transition with overlay trees
- EIP2583: Penalty for account trie misses
Application layer
- Balancer is live on mainnet
- Clay Golem: Task API on mainnet to deploy your own dockerized app
- Augur v2 details: v2 scheduled for June, v1 cutoff now May 15
- Could prediction markets have prevented the Corona virus pandemic?
- Aave interest rate swaps with Opium Network
- Status’s web3 browser
- RealT has sold 1m USD of tokenized Detroit real estate
- Brave launches a swag store on Origin Protocol
- Coingecko’s DeFi book is free this month
- Graph of DeFi Score vs interest rate
- Livepeer’s opportunity in a socially distanced world
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- Fat Brands bonds live on mainnet show how Ethereum will eat Wall Street’s settlement layer
- USDC grows 50% in a month
General
- Bitmain extends E3 ASIC through October with firmware update
- Binance acquires CoinMarketCap
- Ligero’s IACR paper: Lightweight Scalable RSA Modulus Generation with a Dishonest Majority
- Demystifying Supersonic Snarks
- Bilinear accumulators as merkle tree alternative, a particular type of polynomial commitments
- Simple guide to multiexponentiations
- Open VDF, an architecture of the current hardware design
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Apr 3-6 – NonCon – now virtual
- Apr 7 – Gitcoin Grants CLR, round 5 ends (shameless plug: my grant)
- Apr 13 – Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
- Apr 21-23 – EY Global Blockchain Virtual Summit
- Apr 24-26 – EthTurin – now virtual
- Apr 29-30 – SoliditySummit (Berlin) – now virtual
- May 8-9 – Ethereal Summit (NYC) – now virtual
- May 22-31 – Ethereum Madrid public health virtual hackathon
- June 17 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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