Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- What’s New in Eth2. Since it is the first issue in awhile, it’s a good summary of where Eth2 is at.
- Nimbus Eth2 client dev update – up to date on spec. Nimbus and SigmaPrime’s Lighthouse clients are talking to each other.
- Eth2 client interoperability plan
- Near-instant transaction confirmation via staggered shard block production
- CBC Casper: efficient LMD GHOST
Layer 2
- Phonon Network: scalable, private payment system using Grid+’s SafeCards. Alex and Karl also discuss Phonon on Into the Ether
- Connext to release single-node v2.0 on Counterfactual in July, followed by multihop in Q3
- An overview of channels, Plasma and rollups layer2 scaling
- Latest Plasma implementers call
Stuff for developers
- EthereumJS VM v4-beta a rewrite in TypeScript
- Gas exactimation in Ganache
- Tutorial: implement an oracle in Solidity
- The Alethio API. Amberdata compares its API to its competitors
- Loredana’s demo of a file System with on-chain semantic search on dType, Ethereum
- Host your app with IPFS+ENS and access it via EthDNS
- 8Pay for infinitely recurring subscriptions
- BurnerWallet Factory – make your own in a few minutes
- Cloudflare’s Ethereum Gateway
Ecosystem
- EF-supported teams: development update. Extensive updates from each EF team.
- Eth.wiki
- Argent unveils Hopper, “a zero-knowledge-based trustless mixer” to deposit 1 eth and withdraw to different address
- Better UX for noobs: gas spectrum transactions (sign multiple transactions with a spectrum of gas prices)
- Shiftly – a bit like old-school Shapeshift using dexes
Enterprise
- Ethereum Foundation joins Hyperledger and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- Gartner: 7 mistakes to avoid in enterprise blockchain
- Quorum v2.2.4
- See also below: MetLife live on Eth mainnet
Governance and Standards
- Latest core devs call. Tim Beiko’s live tweetstorm notes going through proposed EIPs. Accepted for Istanbul: EIP2024 blake2b precompile and EIP1702 generalized account versioning
- EIP2124: Zero RTT chain compatibility check
- EIP2123: State-based Hard Fork Signaling
- ERC2126: Signature Type Recognition
- Final: EIP1155 Multi token standard
- Last call: EIP685 chainID for JSON-RPC and EIP1344 chainID opcode
Live on mainnet
- Insurance giant MetLife is live on mainnet with a pilot program “to help loved ones quickly determine if the deceased was protected with a policy and automatically file a claim”
- Ethsites, a censorship-resistant “registry of websites stored on the Ethereum blockchain” available through a Javascript snippet
- Treum (formerly Viant) live on mainnet tracking and tracing commercial organic hemp
Application layer
- Augur v2 to integrate bZx for margin trading
- First 3rd party casino from RaketheRake goes live on FunFair
- Pay as you use in Golem, necessary in gWasm
- Etherisc and Oxfam going live with insurance product for Sri Lankan farmers. Oxfam with ConsenSys and Sempo also trials Dai for aid in Vanatu
- Dharma now offers customizable loans to pick your own terms.
- Dai Stability Fee up for a vote on going to 17.5%
- William Shatner isn’t just involved with Mattereum, he’s founding a company to use Mattereum to track memorabilia provenance from creation
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Austin Griffith on Hashing It Out and Wizard of Dapps
- Grid+’s Alex Miller and Karl Kreder on Into the Ether
- Darma’s Andrew Keys and James Slazas on ChainReaction
- Augur’s Alex Chapman on NEAR’s Whiteboard series
- Maker’s Mariano Conti on POV Crypto
- Uniswap’s Hayden Adams on Epicenter
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Sensitivity analysis of Status sticker markets
- Two year retrospective on CryptoPunks. Last month the busiest since Jan 2018.
- YouNow/Props is going to do a Reg A+ “offering” in order to give away Props. I wonder how many millions they had to spend in order to convince the SEC to let them give away tokens.
- ACTUS and Polymath integration to offer nearly 100% of all financial instruments on Polymath
- FATF international body wants countries to mandate sharing requirements for crypto exchanges
General
- Messaging app Line is near approval for a crypto exchange in Japan
- Learning cryptography: finite fields from Loopring
- Facebook’s Libra got announced this week. Protolambda compares Libra and says what they got wrong vis a vis Eth1 and Eth2
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- June 24- July 10 – Gitcoin’s Beyond Blockchain virtual hackathon
- June 25-27 – EthPlanet hackathon (Beijing)
- July 3-5 – WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
- July 19 – BuildETH (San Francisco)
- July 19-21 – State of Scale (Los Angeles)
- 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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