Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core devs call. Notes from Tim Beiko, discussion of EIPs 2456, 1962, 2348
- EthereumJS v4.13 – bugfix release for Muir Glacier
- Slockit released a stable version of their Incubed stateless ultralight client, aimed at IoT devices. 150kb to verify transactions or 500kb including EVM. incentive layer coming soon.
Eth2
- Latest Eth2 implementer call. Notes from Mamy and from Ben.
- Latest what’s new in Eth2
- Spec version v0.10 with BLS standards
- Prysmatic restarted its testnet with a newer version of the spec and mainnet config
- Lodestar update on light clients and dev tooling
- 3 options for state providers
- Eth2 for Dummies
- Exploring validator costs
Layer2
- Optimistic rollup for tokens Fuel ships first public testnet
- Optimistic Game Semantics for a generalized layer2 client
- Loopring presents full results of their zk rollup testing
- StarkEx says they can do 9000 trades per second at 75 gas per trade with offchain data, with the limiting factor being the prover, not onchain throughput.
Stuff for developers
- An update on the Vyper compiler: there’s now two efforts, a new one in Rust using YUL to target both EVM & ewasm as well as the existing one in Python.
- A look at vulnerabilities of deployed code over time
- a beginner’s guide to the K framework
- Vulnerability: hash collisions with multiple variable length arguments
- Verifying wasm transactions (and part2)
- Austin Griffith’s eth.build metatransactions
- Build your own customized Burner Wallet
- Abridged v2 aiming to make it easy to onboard new users of web2 networks
- Ethcode v0.9 VSCode extension
- Embark v5
Ecosystem
- RicMoo: SQRLing mnemonic phrases
- ethsear.ch – Ethereum specific search engine
- Avado’s RYO node – nodes opt-in and let users access them via load balancer
- 30 days of Eth ecosystem shipping
- Aztec’s BN-254 trusted setup ceremony post-mortem. Confidential transactions launching this month
Enterprise
- 700m USD volume on Komgo commodity trade finance platform
- TraSeable seafood tracker article on the challenges points out the troubles with no private chain interoperability
- Caterpillar business process management system
- Q&A with Marley Gray about the EEA’s Token Taxonomy Initiative
Governance and standards
- EIP1559 implementation discussion
- EIP2456: Time based upgrades
- Metamask’s bounty for a generalized metatransaction standard
Application layer
- Flashloans within one transaction using Aave Protocol are live on mainnet
- Orchid’s decentralized VPN launches
- Data viz on dexes in 2019
- ZRXPortal for ZRX holders to delegate their tokens to stakers
- Dai Stability Fee and Dai Savings Rate go up to 6%, while Sai Stability Fee at 5%
- EthHub’s new Ethereum user guides
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- David Hoffman: the money game landscape
- Australia experimenting with a digital Aussie dollar, with a prototype on a private Ethereum chain
- 3 cryptocurrency regulation themes for 2020
- OpenSea’s compendium of NFT knowledge
- A newsletter to keep track of the NFT space
- Initial Sardine Coin Offering
- NBA guard Spencer Dinwiddie’s tokenized contract launches January 13
- Progressive decentralization: a dapp business plan
General
- Andrew Keys: 20 blockchain predictions for 2020
- Haseeb Qureshi’s intro to cryptocurrency class for programmers
- Ben Edgington’s BLS12-381 for the rest of us
- Visualizing efficient Merkle trees for zero knowledge proofs
- Eli Ben-Sasson’s catalog of the Cambrian zero knowledge explosion
- Bounty for breaking RSA assumptions
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Jan 20-21 – Parity’s OpenEthereum Rust client workshop (Berlin)
- Jan 21 – Gitcoin grants quadratic matching ends. (my grant is here!)
- Jan 31 – deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
- Feb 8 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
- Feb 28-Mar 1 – ETHLondon UK
- Mar 3-5 – EthCC (Paris)
- Mar 29-Apr4 – EthLagos
- Apr 3-7 – Edcon (Vienna)
- May 15 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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