Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core devs call. Beiko’s notes
- EIP1962 generalized elliptic curve and pairing engine implementation in Go
- Nethermind v1.6.1 – better tip of the chain tracking and reorg handling, JSON RPC bugfixes
- Parity v2.7.2 and the next steps for Parity client maintenance under GPL3 (though reportedly most participants preferred a more permissive license)
- Slockit’s Incubed ultralight client server setup wizard
Eth2
- Danny Ryan’s quick eth2 update – it’s optimization time
- What’s New in Eth2
- Latest eth2 call. Notes from Mamy and Ben.
- Jim McDonald: defining eth2 network metrics
- A look at Rocketpool’s GUI
- Nimbus’ first mobile testnet on Android. Plus part 2 of building Nimbus on Android.
- Eth2 research team ask me anything on Reddit
Layer2
- Batch Deposits for [op/zk] rollup / mixers / MACI
- Matic explains advantages and limitations of Plasma and rollups
Stuff for developers
- Kendrick Tan’s practical guide to building zk dapps
- Kimi Wu’s hands on your first zk dapp
- OpenZeppelin contracts v2.5 – with CREATE2, enumerableset and big NFT gas savings
- Remix v0.9.3 – you can now test the functionality of receive & fallback functions
- ABDK adds a number converter to its online toolkit
- ethers.js and Google’s Bigquery
- Alethio adds API endpoints for Rinkeby, Kovan and Ropsten testnets, as well as webhooks
- MythX, Quantstamp, Runtime Verification, Sooho, SmartDec and ConsenSys Diligence starting Ethereum Trust Alliance, a security rating system for deployed Eth code
- Time travel queries using a subgraph from The Graph
- Brownie now supports Vyper
- Microsoft’s Azure Eth development kit is now generally available
- A write up of the bug that Sam Sun found in three of Kyber’s bridge reserves
- EthVigil’s interactive tutorials for devs new to Ethereum concepts
- 3Box Comments and Chatbox plugins now have emojis, likes, and votes
Ecosystem
- Why ENS uses Ethereum and not a new basechain. (Also: ENS’ registry migration is complete)
- How Whisper-fork Waku does DNS based discovery
- ConsenSys lays off 14% as part of strategic transformation
- Matt Leising says he knows who the DAO hacker is
- SHPLONK, an explainer of last week’s paper from Boneh, Drake, Fisch, and Gabizon
Enterprise
- ConsenSys acquires Heritage Financial Systems, a municipal bond broker-dealer, to tokenize them on Codefi
Governance and standards
- Two articles on DigixDAO dissolution: as an example of DAOs working (though just 58 addresses voted out of 11,000+) and Coinfund looks at the Digix voting power
- Why ragequit is game changing
Live on mainnet
- Colony is in public beta live on mainnet
- First 10,000 zkDai is on Aztec
- Mattereum’s asset passports are live on mainnet
- District0x’s District Registry is live on mainnet, a TCR for its community
- Coronavirus whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang is memorialized on mainnet
- AirSwap Delegates is live on mainnet. Configure automated trading rules, onchain limit orders, liquidity integration with Kyber, and ability to add new tokens
Application layer
- DeFi hit $1 billion USD equivalent locked up
- Maker Dai Stability Fee 8%; DSR 7.5%
- Data viz on Maker’s Sai to Dai migration success
- A spreadsheet of admin keys in DeFi
- Etherisc’s flight insurance app returns on Rinkeby testnet using Chainlink
- Idle Finance v2 (an autobalancer similar to Staked’s RAY)
- Collateral Swap – swap between Maker collateral (eg, ETH<>BAT) with Aave + Uniswap
- List of DeFiZaps – one click to do a bunch of DeFi actions
- Gelato, a no code bot to automate your Ethereum tasks. Tutorial
- Gauntlet’s analysis of why Uniswap is a good oracle
- Credentify, an API to issue standard European education credentials stacked into ECTS
- Circles’s universal basic income is live on Kovan testnet
- Maple Loans undercollateralized loans through communities with the option to slice up the risk CDO-style
- Zero Collateral loans with cDai, live on mainnet (but unaudited alpha software)
- Dharma’s dtokens – wrappers around Compound tokens, a la rDai, but for services to take profits. In this case, 10% of interest to Dharma
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- Hester Peirce speech proposing an SEC safe harbor for tokens
- Op-ed: America falling behind the world in blockchain
- Viewing GDPR from a blockchain lens
- 6 central banks to talk digital currency in April
- Ethereum needs more entrepreneurs and product people just as much as more devs
- Are stablecoins parasites on ETH?
- Why ETH will sustain a monetary premium
General
- Dispelling Bitcoin maximalist myths about Ethereum
- a visual introduction to Merkle trees
- Accelerating powers-of-tau ceremonies with optimistic pipelining
- How does cryptocurrency have value, part 2 of Maker’s intro series
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Feb 8 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
- Feb 18-Mar 31 – Social Impact hackathon/incubator
- Feb 20 – NFT.NYC
- Feb 20 – Decentraland launch
- blockchain social impact hackathon
- 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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