News and Links
Protocol
- Core devs call. Lane’s notes.
- Latest Casper standup
- Fichter: Simple Fast Plasma Withdrawals
- Two implementations I didn’t have time to read but seemed interesting: 1) Lucidity’s yellow paper for Plasma chain for programmatic ads and 2) Levj’s Plasma Gluon which says it is on testnet
- PlasmaBits: Esteban Ordano’s proposal aimed more at generalized state
- Pysmatic’s sharding implementation call
- Buterin: A proposal for structuring committees, cross-links, etc
- Drake: Registrations, shard count and shuffling
- Charging rent for testnet storage discussion
Stuff for developers
- gnarly optimistic UI library is in alpha.
- Drizzle v1.2
- Connext v0.3 – virtual channels live on Rinkeby
- OpenZeppelin v1.10 release
- Solidity graphical debugger, somewhat similar to Mythril
- Mocha reporter for Truffle. Not new, but Andy Tudhope says most devs don’t know it exists in the Ethprize developer interviews
- Turning smart contracts into gastoken factories
- EthereumJS May recap
- Options for fixing the missing return value bug affecting ~100 tokens
- Loom releases SDK for dappchains for Cocos gaming platform (supposedly one of the largest in Asia?)
- Gas golfing fun: converting quicksort in Java to Solidity
- Malicious backdoors in Ethereum proxies
Ecosystem
- Josh Stark: making sense of web3
- Loom: Ethereum Will Be the Backbone of the New Internet
- Zeppelin: Introducing the Transaction Permission Layer
- A primer on light clients
- EthBerlin is aiming for 500-700 hackers
- 6 principles for UX dapp design
- Raw responses from the EIP0 values survey
Live on mainnet
- Aragon launches its survey app on mainnet
- Status latest release enables mainnet as a test option. After writing that, they had a hotfix release.
Client Release
- Parity 1.11.3 (beta) or 1.10.6 (stable). Upgrade ASAP because of an issue with unsigned transactions when EIP86 disabled
Governance and Standards
- ERC1132: Extending ERC20 with token locking capability
- Dicussion on ERC1081 bounties standard
- Discussion on ERC1098 cross-client encrypt/decrypt
- ERC1138: URI Format for Calling Functions
- ERC1133: Nesting token standard
Project Updates
- A profile of Althea’s NW Oregon meshnet in operation. Also, Althea governance model: subnet DAOs with TCRs for subnet discovery.
- Margin trading protocol dYdX launches on Kovan testnet
- Golem beta v0.16: requesters can set minimums for provider machines. Non-backward compatible.
- Creating easy onboarding for Raiden with Plasma payment hubs
- New 2 minute Streamr promo vid
- Funfair update on their closed beta
- TheGraph decentralized query protocol: use GraphQL to build Eth/IPFS dapps
- Fig acquires Ownage to publish blockchain games
- Very interesting future of online video stack Twitter thread from Paratii
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Amrit Kumar and Ilya Sergey talk Zilliqa’s formally verified Scilla language on Epicenter
- Colony’s Alex Rea on Smartest Contract
- EthBuenosAires episode of Zero Knowledge
- Gavin Wood’s recent talk on Substrate and Energy Web Foundation
- More talks and short interviews from EthBuenosAires
- DAOstack on Epicenter
- Christian Reitwiessner on Smartest Contract
- Nadav Hollander talks Dharma Protocol on Token Talks
- Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon on Software Engineering Daily
Tokens
- NYT: “In the World of Cryptocurrency, Even Good Projects Can Go Bad.” This was not particularly close to being a “good project” and I barely remember it. But good on NYT for calling them out on exaggerating the amount raised. That’s normally the case unless you can verify on-chain the amount raised.
- Interesting ideas for extensible and composable NFTs
- Copyright in a time of Cryptokitty abundance
- Enigma proposes encrypted secret voting for TCRs
- EthBuenosAires winner Crypto against Humanity will be an interesting experiment of TCRs and bonding curves
General
- South African Reserve Bank demos Quorum with IBFT consensus that can process all daily SA payments in 2 hours with privacy
- NYT on SIG’s crypto desk. Interesting bit: they built their own custody
- Coinbase: we’re going to do a regulated security token exchange; acquires broker-dealer, ATS and RIA licenses
- Sequoia’s Matt Huang to start crypto fund with Fred Ehrsam
- Binance announces $1 billion fund
- Guide to joining the Cosmos testnet
- Zooko’s notes from a call with Jihan Wu
- 5 ways the Catholic church should use blockchain
- Lots of NYT this week: “When Crypto Meets Conceptual Art, Things Get Weird”
- SEC names Valerie Szczepanik its crypto czar. She comes from enforcement, but she’s also known for understanding the tech
- IMF: Monetary policy in the digital age. They’re taking this seriously.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
- June 14 — CryptoCup deadline to enter. Link contains referral code, price goes up June 11
- 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 12-18 — IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
- July 14-15 — FEM governance meetings in Berlin
- July 19-20 — DappCon (Berlin)
- August 3-4 — Discon (Boulder, CO)
- August 10-12 — EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
- 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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