Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
- Sharding research compendium
- Sharding phase 1 spec
- Cross-shard contract yanking
- Panels on sharding in Taipei to cap a 3 day sharding workshop
- Jon Choi writes up results from the workshop: Cross-shard Communication & Developer Experience
- A simple way to compute rent fees?
- VB: “realistically with a laptop you’ll be able to keep up to date fully with something like 1-10 shards”
- Phil Daian: Incentivizing a Robust P2P Network/Relay Layer
- Notes from the web3 Foundation and Giveth ScalingNow conference to accompany the videos
- Alex Miller: Plasma and the Internet of Money
Stuff for developers
- List of EVM opcodes, including proposals, from Trail of Bits
- Reversing Ethereum smart contracts
- Upgradable ERC20 pattern
- NuCypher unveils threshold proxy re-encryption for scalable e2e encrypted data sharing
- The phenomenon of Ethereum honey pots
- HackerOne report on Coinbase bug – throw a transaction from a contract and revert prior transactions
- Remix IDE updates
- Ethereum programming 101 video by Joseph Chow
- How to change your web app to a dapp tutorial
- Gitcoin now has an ETH faucet to help bring devs into web3
Release
- Mist and wallet v0.10.0 – light client now default sync mode
- Parity v1.10 – support for WASM on Kovan (!), the wallet UI now disabled by default
Ecosystem
- Interview with Vitalik Buterin where he talks through some of the early Ethereum history. The interview clearly happened at least a few months ago.
- More on how Parity is helping the World Food Programme feed refugees
- Taylor Monahan’s “Decentralized Future is People” MIT Bitcoin Expo talk
Project Updates
- Numerai is airdropping Numeraire tokens to Kaggle accounts. I signed up and got mine! Finally got some value out of all those hours on Kaggle.
- Cellarius’ CellCon0
- Decentraland Market to buy and sell LAND
- Toshi revamps its dapp browser
- Imogen Heap on her work with Mycelia
New Projects
- Key Mesh – an Ethereum address book with private chat. Running on Rinkeby.
- EthernalGo – play Go onchain. Reddit thread.
- CryptoCup – World Cup predictions. But I don’t have an octopus?
- Tabby – an escrow middleman to avoid sending to wrong address. From Blockcat
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- I talk decentralized insurance with Stephan Karpischek from Etherisc
- Software Engineering Daily with Jarrad and Oskar from Status
- Andy Milenius talk on Circles universal basic income
- Mark Beylin talks bounties on Pressurecast
- Epicenter episodes with Bob Summerwill and Peter Van Valkenburgh
- Truffle’s Tim Coulter on Changelog
Tokens
- Pangea is tokenizing a 5 unit apartment building in Brooklyn.
- Reality TV star Kevin O’Leary claims a $400m NYC hotel will do an on-chain securities offering in “the next 3 weeks” that is “SEC approved.” My guess is that if it happens it’s not on Ethereum.
- The state enforcers fighting crypto fraud. In Texas, enforcers can go undercover.
- CryptoKitties raised $12m VC round.
- Lots of tokens trading lower than value of the ETH they hold
- Virtue Poker announces token sale. No US, no discounts or bonuses, access to the alpha but tokens locked until the site is live.
General
- Ledger discusses its updated firmware in response to Saleem Rashid’s “breaking the ledger security model” post. Or check Matthew Green’s tl;dr tweetstorm.
- Microsoft announces that Niavura settled Principal Protected Notes on the Etherem main net
- ConsenSys to do pilot project with World Identity Network to fight human trafficking
- Time says “Russia” helped the Venezuelan dictatorship with its Petro scam to evade sanctions
- A Vitalik Buterin interview on why he donated a few million to SENS to fight aging.
- Bloomberg: Google is working on blockchain tech
- Long section on blockchains in the Joint Economic Report starting at p201
Dates of note
Upcoming dates of note:
- March 24 – ERC721 conference in Dallas
- March 27 – Pathfounder: Cryptoeconomics in London. 15% off with discount code EVAN.
- April 3-4 – Deconomy in Seoul
- April 17 – DappDev in Kiev
- April 24 – Oslo Blockchain Day
- April 25 – Virtue Poker sale
- May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
- May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathon
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