Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
- Li Xuanji presentation of generalized state channels at EthDenver
- Video from Jon Choi’s Casper cryptoeconomics talk
- web3 Foundation: investigating short-term scalability solutions through PoA bridgechains. Also about Witnet’s sidechains and bridge.
- Latest Casper standup
- Matt Condon: scaling solutions and tradeoffs
Stuff for developers
- Drizzle: reactive Ethereum data for front-ends from Truffle
- dharma.js – JavaScript Library for Dharma Protocol
- Remix desktop app
- Espresso – Solidity test framework
- What Colony has learned about securing local storage. tl;dr it’s early days
- Storage Allocation Exploits in Solidity
- Analysis of Mythril and Oyente
- Two different analyses: 1) Dissecting the honeypot from last week and 2) exposing Ethereum honeypots. Plus a safe demonstration of the honeypot using Truffle
- Overflow – tooling platform from MyCrypto team
- ERC892: Permission standard
- Nikolic, et al: Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale
Bugfix releases
Ecosystem
- Ethereum Community Fund. $100m from Cosmos, OmiseGo, Golem, Maker, Global Brain, and Raiden to support ecosystem infrastructure.
- First part of bounty paid for the foundation of the Dogethereum bridge
- Colorado Coin – the EthDenver mealtracker has now become an ERC20 token
- de la Rouviere: TCRs to protect the commons
- kvhnuke’s reincarnation of MyEtherWallet
- The Stable Fund from L4/Maker. $45 million to support the Maker ecosystem, starting with their ’request for startups’ page.
Project Announcements
- Cellarius: Genesis Thought. Here’s the trailer or read the vision
- EthDenver submissions
- XLNT – Matt Condon’s cryptocollectibles work
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Archive of video streams from EthDenver
- Taylor Monahan on Unconfirmed. Olaf on Laura’s first episode.
- Jackson Palmer interviews FOAM’s Ryan John King
- Put your CryptoKitties on your Firefly DIY hardware wallet
- Epicenter: 0x and Multicoin Capital
- Conrad Barski interviewed on blockchains in healthcare
Tokens
- CFTC issues a warning about pump and dumps. You can also blow the whistle on them and get a reward.
- Vitalik’s signaling theory model of cryptocurrency issuance and value
- Swiss Finma issues “ICO Guidelines” delineating 3 types: payment, utliity, and asset.
- Alex Felix: Fundamentals of Discount Tokens
General
- Chris Dixon: why decentralization matters
- The Inside Story of the CryptoKitties Congestion Crisis
- World Food Programme saving millions in bank fees by using Ethereum
Dates of note
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- Mar 8-10 – Ethereum Community Conference in Paris
- May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
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