Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Latest What’s New in Eth2. “I would never have imagined just nine months ago . . . that in such a brief time so much would be accomplished.”
- Nimbus eth2 testnet is running!
- Prysmatic Labs is “on the brink of our public testnet release.” Lighthouse also says they will have a testnet any day now.
- Latest Eth2 implementers call. Agenda to follow along.
- Eth2 will use SHA256
- The actor model and inter-shard communication. Related: Dan Finlay on Ethereum object capabilities
- Sergio Lerner proposes Unitries for eth1 and/or eth2
- Akhunov: data from the Ethereum stateless prototype
- EVM stats by opcode time from Martin Swende. relevant to eip1884
Layer 2
- Plasma Group: understanding the generalized plasma architecture
- Dai on Plasma Leap
- Another simple exit game implementation for Plasma cashflow construction
- POANetwork -> POSDAO with HoneyBadgerBFT?
- Penalties and conserved quantities in state channels
Stuff for developers
- The experimental ABIEncoderv2 had a bug, so make sure to update to Solidity v0.5.7
- Truffle v5.0.10
- Testing time dependent Solidity code with Truffle and Ganache
- Overview of ConsenSys Diligence’s security tools
- A simple GUI for compiling and interacting with your Vyper code
- Infura Websocket API upgrade
- Cava – Java/JVM libraries to aid web3 devs – accepted into Apache Incubator Project as Apache Tuweni
- Fluence devnet launches to use a “decentralized SQL database app” using Ethereum and Swarm
- 3Box decentralized comments API
Client release
- Parity v2.4.3-beta and v2.3.8-stable
- Pantheon v1.0.2
- EthereumJS VM v3
- EthArmbian and EthRaspian custom Linux images update. Includes Swarm, IPFS, Raiden, and Status. The Status node will be useful on April 1st when Status is going to turn off Infura for a day.
Ecosystem
- Virgil Griffith: Ethereum is game-changing technology, literally. Ethereum changes many of the assumptions of game theory
- 0x Mesh: p2p order sharing network, planned for end of q2. Remco: “extending libp2p with WebRTC support and compilation to WebAssembly. You will be able to run a full node in a browser”
- Polaris oracle using the median of the last 15 Uniswap prices, with some incentives to help maintain the price checkpoints.
Live on mainnet
- UMA put a synthetic index of US large cap equity on mainnet. Get exposure to US equity from anywhere in the world
Enterprise
- “Perutnina Ptuj, the largest poultry producer in Southeastern Europe, just launched” provenance app using OriginTrail
- Louis Vuitton to launch in a few months a private chain using Quorum for authenticating luxury goods
Governance and Standards
- Latest core devs call. Agenda to follow along, or use Tim Beiko’s contemporaneous tweets of the call
- A result of the call: motion to require an audit for ProgPoW
- ProgPoW audit: goals & expectations
- Jean Cyr’s “technical take on ProgPoW’s weakest link”
- Martin Swende on why he supports ProgPoW. Some ProgPoW benchmarking
- ProgPoW from an IC Design Engineer’s perspective which echoes Alexey Akhunov’s perspective that ProgPoW will not be very ASIC resistant. IfDefElse response. Also check out all of IfDefElse’s responses.
- Linzhi: Open Chip Design for 1% cost/power increase.
- EIP1872: Network upgrade timeframes
- ERC1882: Decentralized type system for EVM
- EIP1884: reprice opcodes
Application layer
- bZx Fulcrum tokenized margin lending and trading using Kyber price feed. Live in early April.
- Polaris oracle using the median of the last 15 Uniswap prices, with some incentives to help maintain the price checkpoints.
- Healthereum’s beta launched “to curb doctor’s appointments no-shows with redeemable incentives”
- Update on the DutchX DAI/ETH auctions
- Giveth is aiming to “create continuous streams of funding through the creation of economies around causes, by building a system of token bonding curves feeding cause-focused DAOs” on Giveth
- Aragon Court v1. Related: the Kleros TCR appeal system
- FunFair goes live with the first licensed blockchain casino game, themed on Alice Cooper’s School’s Out
- Ching Dai point of sale system in open beta
- MLB Champions (fka MLB Crypto) 2019 draft is live
- UjoMusic streaming payments using Connext’s Dai payment channels
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Counterfactual’s Liam Horne on Hashing It Out
- Maker’s Rune Christensen on Into the Ether and Zero Knowledge
- All EthParis videos
- Kobe van Reppelen started an Ethtrader profiles series with Jeremiah Nichol, Vitalik Buterin and Ameen Soleimani
- All AraCon videos
- All Zero Knowledge Summit videos
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Worklock from NuCypher. Lockup your ETH for NuCypher tokens, if you do work, then you get your ETH back. Otherwise, the ETH gets burned.
- ConsenSys is working with Satis Group on security token offerings (pdf link)
- Gitcoin is adding a 10% bounty platform fee.
General
- Samsung Galaxy S10 apparently has a crypto wallet only in Germany, Korea and American versions.
- Trustology launches TrustVault Personal Accounts Ether custody for UK individuals in advance of offering it to financial institutions.
- Despite crypto media reports, Omise flatly denies that it has been acquired
- Starkware’s STARK math, part 4
- Rachel O’Leary reports from Kurdish Syria on crypto possibilities there
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- April 4-5 – Deconomy (Seoul)
- April 8-14 – Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
- April 15-30 – Gitcoin/Microsoft Ethereal virtual hackathon
- April 17-18 – Magicians Istanbul planning (Berlin)
- Apr 19-21 – ETHCapetown
- Apr 29 – Oslo Blockchain Day
- May 4 – ENS Permanent Registrar launches
- May 9 – Fluidity Summit (NYC)
- May 10-11 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 16 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17-19 – ETHNewYork
- May 17 – Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
- May 23-25 – Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
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