News and Links
Protocol
- Notes from the second sharding meetup
- Vitalik’s IC3 sharding slides
- VDF-based RNG with linear lookahead
- Dan Boneh’s paper on VDFs
- Latest Casper standup
- Recursive proximity to justification as FFG fork choice rule
- Making the RANDAO less influenceable using a random 1 bit clock
- Latest Plasma implementers call
- A maintained list of Plasma implementations, part of larger Learn Plasma
- Batch auctions with uniform clearing price on plasma
- Videos: getting started with SWARM poc3 (4 video series)
Stuff for developers
- Remix IDE v0.6.4
- Print interview with Truffle devs, including how they work
- Migrating your Truffle project to Web3.js v1.0
- Gitcoin attaches job listings to bounties, so you know if the bounty funder is hiring
- A practical walkthrough of smart contract storage
- Analysing the opdcode costs of storage on Ethereum
- solidity-cli – caching for faster compilation, multi-threading, Typescript support
- Ethereum on ARM. Armbian image for NanoPc-T4
Release
- Parity v2.0 beta – major release with shift to “mission-critical use” and not end-user software, so no more GUI. Also, Parity 1.11.7-stable
Live on mainnet
- imbrex (formerly RexMLS) is now live on mainnet with 2200 listings from Toll Brothers
Ecosystem
- Starkware announces “big” grant from Ethereum Foundation
- More on Devcon4 tickets – 2/3 are discounted or free, aimed at builders and students.
- MLB Crypto Baseball – Major League Baseball is doing a crypto collectible game with Lucid Sight. Yahoo coverage. Cyrus Lohrasbpour looks at the Terms and Conditions.
- Blockchain user onboarding slides
- Etherscan now previews ERC721 tokens
- You can pre-order Raspberry PI Ethereum modules from Oaken and Zymbit. [Disclosure: I invested in Oaken]
- Gnosis Safe deploys on Rinkeby testnet. 2/4 multisig default. Koeppelman tweetstorm explanation
Governance and Standards
- EIP1231: Reduce cost of calls to precompiles
- ERC1228: Delegated execution
- A tentative plan to decentralize Aragon’s governance
- A recap of Ethereum Magicians Berlin
Project Updates
- Augur is nearing $1m in open interest. First markets resolve. Medcredits created a market on whether they would release on time
- the new 0x Portal
- Raiden at 100% to go live for testnet
- A guide to Rocketpool’s beta using (deprecated) FFG v0.2
- Digix gets clean audit for its gold
- Two new projects under Cofound.it umbrella: Cofab to build tools for startups and D2 Capital to help projects manage their crypto assets [irregular reminder: I’m an advisor]
- Earn iExec tokens in their “workerdrop” mainnet test starting July 20
- The road to AdChain launching the first TCR
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Vitalik Buterin talks to Tyler Cowen. Hurray for transcripts.
- Matt Condon and Jonathan Mann start NFT podcast Digitally Rare
- Andrew Keys on Coin Offering
- Simon de la Rouviere and Trent McConaghy talk TCRs, Curation Markets, and Artonomous
Tokens
- Collateralizing rural loans with NFTs
- Panvala’s opening applications for partners to buy tokens, which they’ll use to try to equal holdings between partners and users.
- Who wants free Livepeer tokens? Here’s an explainer video of how you can (probably) get some. Also another very interesting token distribution experiment
General
- Polkadot upgrades to POC2 in first on-chain protocol upgrade, you can now create parachains, and has libp2p in Rust. Q3 2019 mainnet launch?
- The CFA Institute adds crypto and blockchain topics to the exams. Wish they’d had that when I did the exams.
- MyCrypto’s “Security Guide for Dummies and Smart People Too”
- de la Rouviere: Harberger taxes and blockchain experimentations
- If you’ve seen the headlines for “7 questions for crypto from Vitalik,” here they are
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
- July 19-20 – DappCon (Berlin)
- July 22-24 — Japan tourism hackathon (Tokyo)
- July 24-26 – NIFTY hackathon and NFT conference (Hong Kong)
- July 25 – Maecenas auction of Andy Warhol piece
- August 10-12 – EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
- August 10-12 – ENS workshop and hackathon (London)
- August 22 – Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
- August 24-26 – Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
- September 6 – Security unconference (Berlin)
- September 7-9 – EthBerlin hackathon
- September 7-9 – WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
- Oct 5-7 – TruffleCon in Portland
- Oct 5-7 – EthSanFrancisco hackathon
- Oct 22-24 – Web3Summit (Berlin)
- Oct 26-28 – Status hackathon (Prague)
- Oct 30 – Nov 2 – Devcon4 (Prague)
- Dec 7-9 – dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
- December – EthSingapore hackathon
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