Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Protocol

• Latest Casper standup call
  
• Buterin: Hash-based VDFs, MIMC and STARKs and Verifiable delay functions and attacks
  
• More Buterin: griefing factor analysis model
  
• Prysmatic’s latest sharding implementation update
  
• Esteban Ordano: Plasmabits. Ethresear.ch writeup of EVM on Plasma chain
  
• Alexey Akhunov: recent data on turbo-geth performance
  
• Mist Browser beta and Ethereum Wallet v0.11.0 release candidate
  

Stuff for developers

• Velma: real time Solidity debugger with VS Code integration
  
• SolidStamp – on-chain registry of code audits
  
• “A definition of purity in the Ethereum EVM with strategies for detecting purity on-chain”
  
• Zero knowledge taxation on Ethereum from QED-it
  
• What we learned contributing to OpenZeppelin
  
• Tutorial on using Puppeth to create a PoA testnet on AWS
  
• Writing WebAssembly by hand
  
• ethereum-abi-ui: generate UI form fields from ABI
  
• Bloom releases developer documentation
  
• uPort overhauls its developer documentation
  
• Simple NodeJS Eth explorer
  
• Solidity, Truffle, NodeJS starter in a Docker image
  
• Metamask passport client – verify token holdings for access
  
• Your first Dharma loan dapp in 5 minutes tutorial
  
• Etherlime: dev framework using ethers.js
  
• web3.Swift v0.3 – native ABI parsing
  
• IBFT explainer for enterprise devs
  

Ecosystem

• Ethereum Name Service: New team, new logo, new roadmap, new workshop/hackathon
  
• Analyzing decentralized exchange activity from Alethio. Cool data viz.
  
• Bankex’s charity water vending machine using NFC
  
• UX challenges in Ethereum – wrapup of post-Edcon UX unconf
  
• Two Ethereum messaging implementations: Melon mail updated and Eth-mail live on Ropsten
  

Live on mainnet

• Status beta is live on mainnet
  
• DAOStack’s Alchemy frontend is deployed to mainnet
  

Governance and Standards

• Enjin blog post on ERC 1155. Gaming NFTs so you can swap many tokens with less gas
  
• ERC1178: Multi-class token standard similar to ERC1155
  
• A different take on NFT composables from Cryptokitties
  

Project Updates

• Livepeer: a path to scaling video transcoding — mining GPUs can transcode video in parallel with only marginal increase in electricity
  
• Updates on the Digix Gold Marketplace
  
• Nice summary of recent Golem AMA
  
• Grid+ gets regulatory approval in Texas to sell electricity
  
• Maker is revamping Oasis dex
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Vlad Zamfir and Vitalik Buterin talk scalability on Hidden Forces
  
• Logan Brutsche talks his new Crypto Primitives Academy on Hashing It Out
  
• London meetup talks: OpenLaw, Incentivai, Ambrosus
  
• Joe Lubin video (and transcript!) on some of the theses that drive ConsenSys
  
• Vanessa Grellet talks social impact on Blockchain Bridge
  
• Paratii’s Felipe Santa Ana The Bitcoin Podcast
  
• Jutta Steiner on fixing the internet with Economist radio
  

Tokens

• Eric Budish NBER working paper: The economic limits of Bitcoin and blockchain. The “model suggests that Bitcoin would be majority attacked if it became sufficiently economically important”
  
• Objective vs subjective TCRs
  
• Incentive alignment in TCRs
  
• Mimicables as token primitive
  
• Token Foundry’s standards for consumer tokens
  
• Vitalik’s estimate of Bitcoin and Ether demand elasticity using historical events
  

General

• EthNews owner Blockchains, LLC pulls back the curtain just a little bit at its massive Northern Nevada industrial park
  
• Sacramento Kings NBA franchise to mine Ether for charity
  
• Brian Armstrong launches GiveCrypto with a 1m donation
  
• a16z announces 300m crypto venture fund
  
• Fortune Q&A with Olaf Carlson-Wee on getting to 1 billion AUM
  
• Facebook lifts its blanket ban on crypto ads
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

• 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 – Ethereum Magicians governance talks 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 10-12 – ENS workshop and hackathon (London)
  
• 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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