Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Sigma Prime’s eth2 client update – first release in about a week, disc v5 integrated, 5x faster fork choice from more efficient LMD GHOST out of IC3
- Protolambda’s Eth2 graphical explanations
Layer 2
- Counterfactual dev update: better wallet UI for devs, ERC20 support
- Vitalik on layer2 networks that only push offchain 1 or 2 of {data, state, and computation} and the related Ethresearch post on hybrid layer2 networks
- StarkDEX deep dive, part 2: contracts and statement
- How Loopring 3.0 uses SNARKs
Stuff for developers
- Intro to Solidity linting and formatting
- The case against using inheritance in Solidity
- Quick start and deploy to testnet with latest ZeppelinOS version
- Go lessons from writing SSZ library for eth2
- SecondState’s search engine for deployed mainnet contracts
- StarkWare: batching proofs for dapps into a single proof
- Trueblocks on its API that delivers the location of the data on your own node
- Edgeware’s lockdrop contract had a bug allowing a griefing attack. How to use Slither to avoid the bug
- Tutorial: creating a flexible NFT
Ecosystem
- Heiswap – Eth mixer using ring sigs live on Ropsten testnet
- Coindesk covers Virgil Griffith’s efforts to get a ruling that Eth is compliant with Islamic finance
- Validity Labs’ demo video of HOPR, p2p messaging with incentivization layer running on testnet
- Ethereum Name Service 3-6 character name reservation starts July 11
Enterprise
- Supply chain on Ethereum case studies
- Chronicled launches its pharma supply chain compliance product
- Pantheon v1.1.4
Governance and Standards
- Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s notes by tweetstorm.
- Istanbul hard fork wiki
- Transparent process for EIP editors
- Pedro Gomes: the difference between chainID and networkID
- Conviction Voting: continuous decision making as governance
- EIP152: Blake2b f precompile
Live on mainnet
- Betoken live on mainnet, a type of decentralized hedge fund built using Kyber, bZx, Compound and Dai
Application layer
- Dai Stability Fee back up to 17.5% and under a vote to go to 18.5%
- More on Oxfam, Aon, Etherisc Sri Lankan agricultural insurance. 200 rice farmers have enrolled
- uPortlandia smart city demo with uPort
- gwasm: anything that compiles to wasm can be distributed on Golem
- What devs are building on Augur
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Market Protocol’s Seth Rubin on WyreTalks
- Marble/HumanityDAO’s Rich McAteer on Wizard of Dapps
- PegaSys’s Rob Dawson on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Binance announced that they’d switch Tether to Ethereum instead of Bitcoin/Omni. It seems like the Tether Flippening is inevitable.
- Exploring Harberger tax rates in collectibles & patronage markets
- LockHarvest distribution mechanism: tokens issued per day to locked Eth
General
- If someone physically gets your Trezor, they can extract the private key
- IACR paper: incentive attacks on PoW chains. Trustless out of band bribing reduces the cost of attacks.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- July 7 – Devcon speaker submission deadline
- July 10 – end of Gitcoin’s Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon
- July 11 – ENS 3-6 character name reservation process stars
- July 19 – BuildETH (San Francisco)
- July 19-21 – State of Scale (Los Angeles)
- July 19-21 – ConsenSys Grants hackathon (Brooklyn)
- July 22-23 – Buidl 2019 (Seoul)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2-4 – TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21-23 – Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23-25 – ETHBerlin
- Sep 3 – Deadline to apply for EU Horizon Prize. 1m € each to 5 “Blockchains for Social Good” projects
- Sep 6-8 – EthBoston
- Sep 15 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Sep 15 – Ethereal Tel Aviv
- Sep 15-16- StarkWare sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8-11 – DeVcon (Osaka)
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