Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Latest core devs call. Tim’s notes: lots of ungas talk
- Geth v1.9.10 – light client checkpoint oracle, higher propagated transaction cap, bug fixes
- Multiaddr, ENR and enodes: network addresses explainer
Eth2
- Latest what’s new in eth2
- Latest Eth2 call. Notes from Mamy and Ben
- Hsiao-Wei: Attestation aggregation in Eth2
- Attestant: understanding the validator lifecycle
- Runtime Verification formally verified the eth2 deposit contract
- eth2stats
Layer2
- Fuel’s testnet is in open beta, fraud proofs under 1m gas. Using colored coins (!)
- Miner challenges Arbitrum is dealing with
- How Loopring aims to make its zk rollup transactions composable on layer1
- Jordi Baylina’s Iden3 zk rollup slides
Stuff for developers
- Better Solidity debugging: console.log and stack traces
- ABDK’s online tools: key of an address, calculate address pre-deploy, RLP encoder/decoder, encode/decode raw signed/unsigned transactions
- Securify v2, free security scanner
- Auditing your code with Web3j and its EVM
- Sam Sun caught a vulnerability in Curve, which was solved by moving front end to a fixed version.
- What are Burner Wallet Plugins? Customizing your popup event/economy
- How to run your own xDai chain with arbitrary message bridge
- web3connect v1beta.26 – a single web3 provider for all wallets
- What does Truffle and WalletConnect mean?
- a lightweight directory access protocol
- Using CREATE2 explainer
- Smart contracts on Austin Griffith’s eth.build
- AirScript v0.6 and genSTARK v0.7 AirScript compiles to AirAssembly, which genSTARK uses to create a STARK
Ecosystem
- Year in Ethereum 2019 by Josh Stark and I
- Scalability estimates for Waku (Status’s Whisper alternative)
- A style guide for ethereum.org
Enterprise
- Key factors in choosing between Clique, Raft, and IBFT for private chains
- Commodity giants consortium (Cargill, ADM, Glencore, Bunge, Dreyfus) chooses Quorum, Orchestrate and Kaleido for their tech stack
Governance and standards
- EIP2315: JUMPSUB and RETSUB for simple EVM subroutines
- EIP2489: deprecate GAS opcode
- EIP2488: deprecate CALLCODE opcode
- ERC2477: NFT metadata integrity
- The DigixDAO voted for dissolution. TheLAO wants a DigixLAO
- Social choice theory and voting on multiple outcomes
- What to expect when summoning a MolochDAO
- SignalDAO, a signalling DAO for Metacartel/MolochDAO using a Telegram bot doing web3 calls via Abridged SDK
Application layer
- Set Social Trading is live on mainnet. Automatically copy what your favorite trader is doing.
- a URL shortener using ENS + the lightweight director access protocol referenced above in dev tools
- How people are using Pepo, crypto’s TikTok
- Ethernal: a text-based MUD. die and you lose your items!
- There’s now over 100 million Dai
- Rocket: get a loan against your NFTs, live on Ropsten testnet
- Rho: a spec for a float to fixed automated market maker swap protocol
- Synthetix: the state of Synthetix and 2020 roadmap adding ETH as collateral
Tokens/Business/Regulation
- Davos was this week, so WEF issued a framework for Central Bank digital currencies in the age of blockchain
- An onchain NFT for accredited investors
- POAP event NFTs as a sybil-resistant identity layer
- Tokenized real estate: purchase to settlement in 15 minutes with RealT
General
- How not to critique Ethereum: a guide for Bitcoiners
- A curated list of blockchain research papers
- Benchmarking Brave vs Chrome/Firefox/Opera for speed and battery use
- Chris Dixon: blockchains are computers that make commitments
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- 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 8-9 – Ethereal Summit (NYC)
- May 15 – EthBarcelona R&D workshop
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