June 21, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Stuff for developers

Zkstark mixer Miximus is live on Rinkeby
There’s been a decent chunk of the network used recently by airdrops, so Jeff Coleman reminds projects that they can save lots of money by using Richard Moore’s Merkle Air Drops
MetaMask will no longer reload pages on network change
Exploring Eth storage cost with FOAM’s dev tools
7 challenges in Dharma’s JS fiddle
A rough ERC721 implementation in Vyper from Maurelian
IPFS Pubsub React boilerplate
UI for the simplest multisig wallet
Cava: core libraries for blockchain dev in Java and Kotlin
Embark v3.1 - better testing, lightweight wallet functionality, a transaction logger, profiler, clever imports, ENS support
Truffle v4.1.12
Comprehensive list of Solidity attack vectors and how to avoid them

Ecosystem

Status unveiled Nimbus, an Eth client in Nim for resource constrained devices. More from Status: building custom mailservers and bootnodes, which they needed to get around Russian anti-Telegram IP blocking
Parity: why we believe in WASM, though Brendan Eich has some skepticism
MyCrypto v1.1 with address book
Nick Johnson’s state of ENS slides
CryptoPrimitive Academy – free series of dapp dev seminars starting next Monday
A Whisper explainer
AirSwap: decentralized exchanges are the web3 app stores
VIPNode update
Verifying identify in Venezuela using Zeppelin’s Transaction Permission Layer
All uPort protocols and libraries
Latest Open Block Explorers call

Live on mainnet

SpankChain’s public beta went live on mainnet
Dharma relayer Bloqboard is live on mainnet
iEx.ec deployed their marketplace and hub contracts on mainnet in a soft launch. Public working pools in September

Governance and Standards

I was wrong last week. ERC721 is now officially finalized with a relatively last minute breaking change
EIP1153: transient storage opcodes. FEM discussion.
ERC1129: standardized dapp announcements
ERC1154: Oracle interface
ERC1155: mint ERC20 and ERC721 tokens in same contract
ERC1167: Minimal proxy contract
ERC1152: Access control with NFTs
ERC1172: wallet and shop standard for tokens
ERC1165: registry for human-readable contract descriptions
Some discussion on ERC792 arbitration standard
Dean Eigenmann’s meditations on what we can learn from the EOS governance anti-pattern.
How Nexus Mutual is thinking about DAO governance
Kent Barton’s 5 takeaways from the recent Ethereum values survey

Project Updates

Loom Network’s Zombie Battleground NFT card game is on Kickstarter and has already raised $210k out of 250k in less than a week
The 6 companies tokenizing their equity with Neufund
An AMA with Althea Mesh
Iconomi Q2 dev update
FunFair to launch their own casino to dogfood their product
AXA’s “Fizzy” flight delay insurance now open to French and Italians and publishes its code which notarizes your transaction.
You can now use your Gnosis tokens to generate OWL
Optionality token options trading platform live on Kovan
Grid+ imminent regulatory approval to sell electricity at retail
Kleros will provide decentralized arbitration for seasteading
NYTimes writeup of ex-Denver Post folks joining Civil
Userfeeds is shutting down current company but CTO is raising money to focus on being a product instead of platform
Colony live on Rinkeby testnet for devs in their hackathon. Also, the Colony stack
Maker DAO’s Foundation Proposal – the first vote on Aug 22

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Tokens

Inflation funding in practice in Livepeer. Paratii also looking to incent curation through inflation
Curation markets with infinite staking
Artonomous – Simon de la Rouviere experiment to sell daily art on curved bond
Mapping the NFT landscape
Foam’s TCRs for points of interest on maps
Gatekeepers : TCRs and work tokens for access control
Vitalik’s slides on mechanism design challenges

General

Ethereum Foundation helps underwrite for Stanford’s new Center for Blockchain Research
How do you get your kids to do chores? You IoT the heck out of your house with chore tracking and then pay your kids in crypto on completion.
Lots of Ethereum in lastest Thiel Fellows
Docusign will let you store a document hash on Ethereum
EY and Microsoft launch content permissions and royalties management using Quorum that will be used first for XBox game publishers.
Tether releases independent report of fiat matching Tether supply
Be wary of MetaMask phishing attempts from Cloudflare security holes

Upcoming dates of note:

June 24 — Colony online hackathon finishes
June 25 — Etherisc token sale starts
June 28 — BuildEth (San Francisco)
June 30 — Solidity Gas Golfing challenge deadline
June 30-July1 — Off the chain state channel workshop (Berlin)
July 6-7 — TechCrunch blockchain and Ethereum events (Zug)
July 9 — Augur scheduled to launch
July 12 — Sharding and Casper workshop with Karl Floersch and Justin Drake (New Delhi)
July 12-18 — IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
July 14-15 — FEM governance meetings in Berlin
July 19-20 — DappCon (Berlin)
July 24-26 — NIFTY hackathon and NFT conference (Hong Kong)
August 3-4 — Discon (Boulder, CO)
August 10-12 — EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
August 22 — Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
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 30 – Nov 2 — Devcon4 (Prague)
December — EthSingapore hackathon

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