Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Notes from the latest eth1 research call. How to get to binary tries.
- Guillaume Ballet argues for WASM precompiles for better eth1 to prepare for eth2
- StarkWare mainnet tests find that a much bigger block size does not affect uncle rate and argues that a further decrease in gas for transaction data would be warranted
- Guide to running Geth/Parity node or eth2 Prysm/Lighthouse testnet on Raspberry Pi4
- Nethermind v1.4.8
Eth2
- The incentives for good behavior and whistleblowing in Eth2 staking
- Danny Ryan’s quick Eth2 update – updated docs explaining the spec currently under audit
- Options for eth1 to eth2 bridges and phase1 fee market
- Simulation environment for eth2 economics
- Ryuya Nakamura proposes the subjective finality gadget
- Lighthouse client update – 40x speedup in fork choice, 4x database speedup, faster BLS
- Prysmatic client update – testnet with mainnet config
- A guide to staking on Prysmatic’s testnet
- How to build the Nimbus client on Android
- Evaluating Eth2 staking pool options
Layer2
- Plasma Group -> Optimism, raises round from Paradigm/ideo for optimistic rollups
- Auctioning transaction ordering rights to re-align miner incentives
- A writeup of Interstate Network’s optimistic rollup
Stuff for developers
- Truffle v5.1.9, now Istanbul compatible.
- Truffle’s experimental console.log
- New features in Embark v5
- SolUI: generate IPFS UIs for your Solidity code. akin to oneclickdapp.com
- BokkyPooBah’s Red-Black binary search tree library and DateTime library updated to Solidity v0.6
- Overhauled OpenZeppelin docs
- Exploring commit/reveal schemes
- Using the MythX plugin with Remix
- Training materials for Slither, Echidna, and Manticore from Trail of Bits
- Soon you’ll need to pay for EthGasStation’s API
- As of Feb 15, you’ll need a key for Etherscan’s API
Ecosystem
- Gavin Andresen loves Tornado.Cash and published some thoughts on making a wallet on top of Tornado Cash
- MarketingDAO is open for proposals
- Almonit.eth.link launches, a search engine for ENS + IPFS dweb
- Build token pop-up economies with the BurnerFactory
Enterprise
- EEA testnet launch running Whiteblock’s Genesis testing platform
- Plugin APIs in Hyperledger Besu
- Privacy and blockchains primer aimed at enterprise
- A massive list of corporations building on Ethereum
- Sacramento Kings using Treum supply chain tracking to authenticate player equipment
Governance and standards
- EIP2464: eth/65 transaction annoucements and retrievals
- ERC2462: interface standard for EVM networks
- ERC2470: Singleton Factory
- bZxDAO: proposed 3 branch structure to decentralize bZx
Application layer
- Livepeer upgrades to Streamflow release – GPU miners can transcode video with negligible loss of hashpower so video transcoding gets cheaper
- Molecule is live on mainnet with a bonding curve for a clinical trial for Psilocybin microdoses
- Liquidators: the secret whales helping DeFi function. Good walkthrough of DeFi network keepers.
- Curve: a uniswap-like exchange for stablecoins, currently USDC<>DAI
- New Golem release has Concent on mainnet, new usage marketplace, and Task API on testnet
- Gitcoin as social network
- rTrees. Plant trees with your rDai
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- The case for a trillion dollar ETH market cap
- Continuous Securities Offering handbook
- The SEC does not like IEOs
- Former CFTC Chair Giancarlo and Accenture to push for a blockchain USD
- Tokenizing yourself (selling your time/service via token) was all the rage this week, kicked off by Peter Pan. Here’s a guide to tokenizing yourself
- Avastars: generative digital art from NFTs
General
- Chris Dixon: Inside-out vs outside-in tech adoption
- baby snark: Andrew Miller’s tutorial on implementation and soundness proof of a simple SNARK
- Blake3 hash function
- Justin Drake explains polynomial commitments
- New bounty (3000 USD) for improving cryptanalysis on the Legendre PR
- Mona El Isa’s a day in the life for asset management in 2030. We need more web3 science fiction
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 26 – deadline for MarketingDAO proposals
- Jan 31 – deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
- Feb 8 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
- Feb 20 – Decentraland launch
- Feb 28-Mar 1 – ETHLondon UK
- Mar 3-5 – EthCC (Paris)
- Mar 29-Apr4 – EthLagos
- Apr 3-7 – Edcon (Vienna)
- April 24-26 – EthTurin
- May 15 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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