Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Nethermind v1.6.3 with Beam Sync preview on Goerli testnet
- Turbo-geth uses 70% less disk space using B+- Trees as well as Bolt instead of leveldb. In production, this would reduce archive nodes to below 1tb
- Semi-stateless initial sync experiment using Turbo-geth
- EVM-LLVM alpha release, to allow LLVM tooling to compile to EVM
- Tricking frontrunners into being transaction relayers
Eth2
- PrysmaticLabs client update – optimizations, more user friendly, new team member
- Lighthouse can run 100k validators on 12 cheap (dual core, 4gb ram) AWS instances
- How LMD Ghost fork choice and Casper FFG work together to satisfy safety and liveness requirements
- Balance those 2 plus timeliness detectors to satisfy asynchronous requirements
- Tools to write eth2 execution environments more easily
- How state providers can keep the state cheaply using custody root
- Time attacks and security models
- Correcting the top 5 Eth2 misconceptions
Layer2
- Offchain Labs’ Arbitrum rollup is live on testnet, supports Solidity compiler
- OVM alpha – how Optimism will offer full EVM support in their optimistic rollups
- Matic’s incentivized testnet is live
- Perun’s Ethna: Channel Network with Dynamic Internal Payment Splitting
- CelerNetwork releases multi-hop state channels and open sourced the state channels node, as well as launched the testnet for its guardian watchtower network
- StateChannels reduces gas cost by ~75% by reducing all storage to a minimum bytes32 slot
Stuff for developers
- OpenZeppelin CLI v2.7 – full Solidity v0.6 support, typechain artefacts
- Guide to use Create2.sol library in OpenZeppelin Contracts 2.5
- Subspace v1.3 – new methods to track blocks, gas price and blocktime
- Pisa’s any.sender, a non-custodial way to abstract away your transactions via API
- Blocknative’s internal transaction monitoring
- Property-based Eth code testing with Brownie
- Compiling Formality to Javascript
- A look at the Trueblocks frontend to get all the data you want out from running your own node
- QueryEthereum: GraphQL API from a browser tab
- SplunkConnect for Ethereum, analytics platform connects to Infura or your node
- Setting up your Eth dev environment, a quick start guide from Compound
- create-Eth-app: CLI tool to create Ethereum-powered React apps with one command
- Dapphero video tutorial – web3 nocode
- Terminal v2 – Netlify on IPFS
- 3Box Confidential Threads API
Ecosystem
- How to scale anonymous transactions with Zeropool
- ENSRegistry migration: updating your resolver and subdomains
- Authereum is live on mainnet. Email and password, your account is recoverable as long as you maintain local storage or password.
- Torus out of beta. Use your Google, Facebook, Reddit, Discord or Twitch accounts for your Eth account
- Chrome store now shows 1+ million for MetaMask, though they actually crossed 1 million two years ago
- Waku spec v3, Whisper-alternative, with some simulations for messaging scalability
- Tornado.cash releases full details of recent UI vulnerability. Clicking “share URL” would store the note via API call in a bunch of 3rd party services.
- Annotated versions of Week in Ethereum News appear the day after publication on evanvanness.com
Enterprise
- Conor Svensson’s brief history of enterprise Ethereum standards
- Vermont regulators using Trace to track hemp production on mainnet
- Ship financing platform on mainnet
- Reuters reports that JPMorgan and ConsenSys are discussing the future of Quorum
- Besu v1.4 – privacy multi-tenanted environment, e2e for RPC endpoints;
Governance, DAOs, TheDAOv2, and standards
- MetaCartel Ventures DAO is live on mainnet
- Pre-registration open for theLAO, as it is set to launch in a few weeks for up to 100 accredited investors
- SignalDAO’s experiments with automating DAO voting using Telegram bots
- Aragon Court is live on mainnet, arbitration for their DAOs. currently working on some moot/hypothetical cases
- Kleros Governor, the DAO to govern Kleros
- Nikolai says Maker’s contracts already support a function to thwart the governance attack but the UI does not expose it
- DAOifying Uniswap’s pools, an idea from Sunny Aggarwal
- EIP2515: Replace difficulty bomb with difficulty freeze
Application layer
- Status v1 is live on mainnet. A privacy-focused wallet, chat app, and web3 browser. It’s a breaking change from the beta, so backup your pre-v1 seed phrase
- Opyn is live on mainnet, tokenized options platform to speculate/insure.
- Metacoin. Ameen proposes a solely-ETH collateral, onchain Uniswap oracle, and governance minimized stablecoin
- Mstable: basket of stablecoins and tokenized assets to diversify counterparty risk
- Nuoscan, a Nuo Network explorer
- AdEx is out of beta, now live for everyone. Advertising platform with instant Dai payouts using unidirectional payment channels
- 1 million dollars in virtual real estate sales this week
- Charged Particles: interest-bearing NFTs
- Colony Network’s BetaColony – the experimental version of the MetaColony
- How PoolTogether selects winners
- bZx had an extreme arbitrage event, using flashloans to push the oracle down. bZx will use their admin key to stream the remaining collateral to iEth holders. Check out the data visualization of the transaction from bloxy.info
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- de la Rouviere: Markets as medium
- The top25 tokens by market cap are all on Ethereum
- Value capture in DeFi: protocol sink
- PE ratio for tokens
- Former Eth foe Grayscale calls ETH a store of value
- Balance sheet as business model in synthetic asset platforms
- QCAD – a collateralized Canadian dollar token
- The rise of the cryptodollar
- Barça joins major football clubs in issuing Chiliz fan tokens
- SKALE to launch its token on ConsenSys’ Activate platform, focused on token distribution to users
General
- Kate commitments from the Lagrange basis without FFTs
- A visual intro to Sparse Merkle Trees
- Dai integrated in Coinbase Commerce. We should pay for everything in Dai/stablecoins that we can.
- MakerDao makes Forbes Fintech 50
- Coinbase brings back margin trading for 23 US states
- What is a derivation path, a MyCrypto explainer
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Feb 18-Mar 31 – Social Impact hackathon/incubator
- Feb 20 – NFT.NYC
- Feb 20 – Decentraland launch
- Feb 28-Mar 1 – ETHLondon UK
- Mar 3-5 – EthCC (Paris)
- Mar 6-8 – EthParis2020
- Mar 29-Apr4 – EthLagos
- Apr 3-7 – Edcon (Vienna)
- Apr 13 – Deadline to apply for 50k euro for blockchain startups in Europe
- April 24-26 – EthTurin
- May 8-9 – Ethereal Summit (NYC)
- May 15-17 – ETHNYC
- May 15 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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