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Constantinople postponed

• The day before the scheduled Constantinople upgrade fork, ChainSecurity found that EIP1283 potentially allowed deployed contracts to be vulnerable to a re-entrancy attack. There was no bug in the EIP per se, but it broke an implied invariant for a small but then-indeterminate amount of deployed code. Hence, out of an abundance of caution but with limited time for the community to come to consensus, Constantinople was successfully postponed.
  
• A full post-action report by Trail of Bits, ChainSecurity, and Eveem. They proffer a different alternative to 1283 – refund difference of intended cost of writes. Magicians thread on 1283 alternatives and thread on invariants.
  
• New ConstantiNOPE client releases by which the fork was avoided (update if you haven’t): Geth, Parity (stable) and beta, Trinity, Nethermind, Pantheon, Ethereum on ARM
  
• Constantinople is set for block 7280000, around Feb 27. EIP1283 is not included.
  

Layer 1

• [eth1] Ethereum State Rent Proof of Concept
  
• [eth2] Ben Edgington: exploring Eth2.0 design goals
  
• [eth2]  James Prestwich: An engineer’s guide to eth2. See also Vitalik’s annotations.
  
• [eth2] Latest Eth2.0 implementers call. agenda to follow along
  
• [eth2] What’s New in Eth2
  
• [eth2] Prysmatic dev update
  
• [eth2] Lighthouse dev update
  
• [eth2] Lodestar dev update
  
• [eth2] Dean Eigenmann and Eric Tu are implementing the Beacon Chain in Swift
  
• [eth2.x] What CBCifying the beacon chain would look like
  
• [eth2.x] Bitwise LMD GHOST: an efficient CBC Casper fork choice rule
  
• Swarm v0.3.9
  

Layer 2

• OmiseGo Plasma update
  
• Encumberments as a common mechanism in sharding and L2
  
• Plasma snapp-1-bit
  
• Aragon’s Voting Relay Protocol for optimistic vote counting
  
• Connext dev update
  
• Loredana Cirstea on building CryptoBotWars on Raiden
  

Stuff for developers

• 0x dev tools suite: compiler, tracer, code coverage measurer, and gas profiler
  
• Trail of Bits’ Slither v0.5.0 static analyzer
  
• Panvala’s first token grant applications
  
• A flow chart analyzing the potential EIP1283 attack
  
• Using the Truebit file system
  
• Rust bindings for the Solidity compiler
  
• Python REST api for JSON-RPC Infura calls
  
• On efficient Eth addresses to eek out gas savings
  
• Automatic authentication signatures for web3
  
• Mintable’s SDK to generate ERC-721s
  
• Piñata on IPFS economics. And an SDK for pinning on IPFS with Piñata
  
• Web3 yeet wraps most common web3js operations for one line use
  
• draft of code for ENS permanent registrar
  

Live on mainnet

• Augur interface Veil launches on mainnet
  
• STK payment channels live on mainnet
  
• Urbit Address Space live on mainnet. You may find the Urbit Primer useful
  

Ecosystem

• The Year in Ethereum 2018. #longreads
  
• Andrew Keys’ 2019 predictions
  
• New ENS manager
  
• Parity Fether v0.2 beta light-client based wallet
  
• Austin Griffith: onboarding new users with Burner Wallet point of sale
  
• New Etherscan beta site
  

Enterprise

• Quorum v2.2.1 and Tessera v0.8
  
• Oaken Innovations’ toll road transactions pilot
  

Governance and Standards

• Latest core devs call. Agenda to follow along.
  
• List of Aragon proposals up for a vote on the 24th.
  
• 2019: the year of the DAO?
  
• Kristy-Leigh Minehan on ProgPoW tradeoffs between Nvidia and AMD
  
• ERC1710: URL format for web3 browsers
  
• ERC1700: non-exhaustible token
  
• ERC1702: generalized account versioningscheme
  
• ERC1707: version byte prefix for account versioning
  

Application layer

• 0x roadmap: ZEIPs. Also a new look 0xTracker.
  
• Understanding the risk/reward of providing Uniswap liquidity
  
• Ari Juels on Chainlink and TownCrier
  
• Brave’s opt-in ads paying 70% to user are live in their dev release. I tried it – slightly unexpected, but I like it.
  
• Monetha’s decentralized reputation framework
  
• Ryan Yi on Augur’s dispute resolution mechanism and US Congressional elections
  
• Gnosis to prime the liquidity pump for DutchX with some DAI/ETH orders
  
• Althea beta release “to dynamically route, buy, and sell bandwidth” with Eth
  
• Maker to completely rebuild Oasis and will remove OasisDex and Oasis.direct frontends on Jan31
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Multiparty Computations episode of Zero Knowledge
  
• Andrew Keys talks ConsenSys 2.0 on Decentralize This
  
• Decentralized Data Now call. Formerly open source block explorers
  
• Andy Bromberg on the Smartest Contract
• Settle’s Scott Lewis on Into the Ether
  

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• Status app store curation mechanism
  
• Brooklyn Project: the state of regulation in 2019
  
• Continuous Organizations 1.0
  
• de la Rouviere: Moloch DAO and collapsing the firm
  

General

• Implementing secp256k1 on Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) to create cross-platform Ethereum-Scuttlebutt applications
  
• Ex-BitTorrent employee Simon Morris on lessons for crypto from BitTorrent (link to part 1 of 4)
  
• CBInsights: how blockchain could disrupt insurance
  
• Shapeshift on 2018 law enforcement requests
  
• Profile of DuckDuckGo and founder Gabe Weinberg
  
• Gitcoin planning on experimenting with Liberal Radicalism with its grants
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

• Jan 23 – Infura Project ID prioritization
  
• Jan 24 – List of things for Aragon vote, including on funding original AragonOne team
  
• Jan 25 – Graph Day (San Francisco)
  
• Jan 29-30 – AraCon (Berlin)
  
• Jan 30 – Feb 1 – Stanford Blockchain Conference
  
• Jan 31 – GörliCon (Berlin)
  
• Jan 31 – Maker to remove OasisDEX and Oasis.direct frontends
  
• Feb 7-8 – Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)
  
• Feb 7 – 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon ends
  
• Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)
  
• Feb 27 – Constantinople (block 7280000)
  
• Mar 4 – Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
  
• Mar 5-7 – EthCC (Paris)
  
• Mar 8-10 – ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
  
• Mar 8-10 – EthUToronto
  
• Mar 22 – Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
  
• Mar 27 – Infura end of legacy key support
  
• April 8-14 – Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
  
• Apr 19-21 – ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)
  
• May 10-11 – Ethereal (NYC)
  
• May 17 – Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
  

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