Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
- First open source working implementation of generalized state channels from Spankchain. Jez San in the comments on FunFair’s work on the same.
- Plasma Implementers Call #3
- Core dev call last Friday. Notes from the call.
- Latest Casper standup
- Griff’s scaling now talks: 1) David Knott from OmiseGo about Plasma. 2) Loredana Cirstea about microRaiden
- VB: Merge blocks and synchronous cross-shard state execution
- More VB: The whole notion of forkful vs fork-free protocols is meaningless
- Alex Miller: Bridges, Plasma and UTXO tokens
- There’s now a second FFG testnet implementation in Harmony that should make it possible to connect now.
- Beige paper: a readable rewrite of the yellow paper
Stuff for developers
- Truffle debuts portable Solidity debugger
- the gas profiler from the 0x team that won at EthDenver
- How-To: web3 + 0x.js + 0xConnect in react-native
- ERC897: DelegrateProxy
- ERC900: Simple staking interface
- GasBack – the pattern of getting refunded gas for freeing up space in the EVM
- Eth-Watch: push notifications every time an address sends/receives a transaction
- Using Azure Functions to Call an Ethereum Smart Contract
- deploy libsnark to Ethereum
Ecosystem
- MetaMask releases its new UI
- EEA adds 83 new members.
- Taylor Monahan: The future of Ethereum doesn’t have wallets
- Canaries to protect against quantum computing
- What happens when a bonded token owns an NFT? Re-fungible tokens
- Data analysis on trace data from QuickBlocks
- What you missed at EthDenver. Also: Nick Neuman on their winning project KeySplit. Plus Cthylla geocaching app
- The 47 ConsenSys projects
Project Updates
- Melon is live on the mainnet with 500 MLN up as bug bounty
- Truebit’s Doge-Ethereum art project
- Status v0.9.14 release notes
- Raiden v0.3
- GnosisX – $100k in awards per category to build on Gnosis
- The AirSwap partner network to trade 24 tokens on March 15
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Jarrad Hope talks Status with the Bitcoin Podcast
- Tons of speakers at the Bangkok meetup
- Joe Lubin CNBC hit
- I talk to Kenny Rowe about RChain and his transition from Maker
- Meher Roy gets interviewed instead of doing the interview
- Business Insider Q&A with Coinbase’s Dan Romero
- Rune Christensen talks Maker with Kevin Rose
Tokens
- Registration is now open for Etherisc’s DIP token sale
- Want to help improve NY’s Bitlicense?
- On MV=PQ circularity in cryptoasset valuation
- The quantity theory of money for tokens
- Ryan Selkis is exploring a token for Messari
- TrueBit: A token based roadmap
General
- NYT: “Subpoenas Signal S.E.C. Crackdown on Initial Coin Offerings.” (First reported by WSJ, but already behind paywall.) “one of the broader regulatory sweeps [Nick Morgan] had seen”
- Circle buys Poloniex. Nathaniel Popper has a slide from a Circle presentation explaining that they believe they have SEC signoff to become a broker without any threat of enforcement for pre-merger actions.
- Roger Ver predicts the Flippening in 2018
- I find it odd that Stratfor is now publishing “Where Digital Assets Meet the Real World”
- Economist: Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrepreneurs
Dates of note
Upcoming dates:
- Mar 8-10 – Ethereum Community Conference in Paris
- May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
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