News and Links
Protocol
- Latest Plasma implementation call
- Latest core dev call. Call notes.
- Latest Casper standup
- Latest Prysmatic Labs sharding implementation call
- Taipei sharding workshop recap
- Wrapup of current scaling solutions from web3/Giveth ScalingNow conf
- VB: layer 2 solutions to reduce latency and curb front running
- KF: POS Plasma Cash with Sharded Validation so that Plasma Cash is useful for more than just exchanges.
- Li Xuanji: State channels and Plasma Cash
- Mustafa Al-Bassam: Data availability proof-friendly state tree transitions
- VB: Improving the UX of rent with a sleeping+waking mechanism (and napping from Dan Robinson). “Rent + sleeping/waking is essentially a moderate position between status quo and statelessness.“
Stuff for developers
- Trail of Bits 8 Ethereum security tools
- Machinomy’s walkthrough of generalised state channels
- GnosisX competition to build using their SDK
- Use EthDNS to host a DNS domain
- First WASM contract deployed on Kovan
- Part 3 of Jaak’s intro to web3 developing includes Swarm
- Richard Moore: when you might want to use intentionally replayable transactions
- bytecode generator from EVM assembly on Haskell DSL
- Comparing contract storage and upgrading in Augur and Colony
- Latest OpenZeppelin release includes ERC721 implementation
- Karen Scarbrough walks you through that ERC721 implementation
EIP/ERC
- ERC945: web3 QR Code Scanning API
- ERC948: recurring subscription model
- EIP958: modify block mining to be ASIC resistant
- Nick Johnson: A proposed update to the process for EIP drafts
- The EIP repository
Release
- ethereum.rb v2.2
- ethereumjs-devp2p v2.5.0 – w/ LES/2 light client protocol
- AragonCore v0.5 – on Rinkeby
Ecosystem
- The Address Handle System, an alternative to ENS?
- A step by step walkthrough of Truebit
- EthPledge: onchain matching for charity donations
- VB: Against coin votes as governance and VB’s counter to Larimer’s response.
- Transaction Permission Layer from Zeppelin: KYC/AML/accreditation layer for exchange
- Sarah Mills: How to design for trust in trustless tech
- Beltran Berrocal: UX framework for dapp development
Project Updates
- DGX tokens (1 gram of gold) for sale April 8 except to US, China, Japan. KYC open now
- Updated FunFair roadmap – close to going live. Also Q&A with Jez
- GitCoin Q1 update
- RequestNetwork is live on the mainnet
- SpankChain’s camsite beta is going live this week
- OasisDirect – instant exchange of ETH for MKR or DAI
- Exchange ERC20 instantly using 0x. 1 click purchase using their widget
- How bounties translated MetaMask
- Brave desktop browser switching from their Electron fork to Chromium UI
- RightMesh demos microRaiden payment channels between two mesh networks
- Basic Attention Token is the first Ethereum token approved for the iOS store
- Dharma Plex – open source tool to create and fund p2p lending agreements
New Projects
- Trustwallet – eth and tokens wallet, available on iOS and Android
- Kauri – decentralized tech support network. Ethereum definitely needs better documentation.
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- 5 min Jutta Steiner video interview on what she wants from decentralization
- Stefan George talks Gnosis Dutch exchange at EthLondon
- Tony Sakich resurfaces with Dee on the Bitcoin Podcast
- Jackson Palmer on the Ethereum roadmap
- Zooko with Laura Shin
- Taylor Monahan on CryptoTokenTalk
- Open source block explorer Giveth video conference
- Zero Knowledge with Karl Floersch and Phil Daian
- This short and awesome Aragon video on why they’re building Aragon
- Lately Software Engineering Daily is all Ethereum: Christian Reitweissner, Streamr, DAO/Slock.it with Christoph Jentzch, Ethan Buchman,
Tokens
- Jacob Eliosoff: Ethereum is a better store of value than Bitcoin
- ConsenSys comments on the CFTC virtual currency proposal, particularly around what constitutes delivery
- A generalized Metcalfe’s Law model to predict Bitcoin price
- Transcript of the Etherisc AMA
- Simon de la Rouviere – Arcade Bazaar: Continuous, Multi-Party, Tokenized Funding Without Central Issuance
- Userfeeds to be the social layer for NFTs.
General
- Coinbase to next add ERC20 tokens support. First with CoinbaseCustody then other products.
- Dunning_Krugerrands with an updated vision of the future running on Ethereum
- OmiseGo and Vitalik Buterin are donating $1m USD in OMG tokens to refugees through GiveDirectly
- Congrats to the Ethereum Community Fund’s first grantees – XLNT (Gnarly/NFTs), Prysmatic Labs (sharding), Reality Check (decentralized oracles), EthPrize, and Swingby (crosschain protocol to issue BTC tokens on Ethereum)
- Zilliqa releases public testnet
- Economist talks trade finance on blockchains
- How Micah Dameron’s journey led to the Beige Paper (accessible Yellow Paper)
- Reuters: Wall St is finding it hard to put blockchains into production
- Reuters: JPMorgan to spin off Quorum for greater adoption?
Dates of note
Upcoming dates of note:
- April 3-4 – Deconomy in Seoul
- April 9 – Blockchain for Social Impact incubator begins
- April 11 – European Blockchain Summit in Slovenia
- April 17 – DappDev in Kiev
- April 24 – Oslo Blockchain Day in Norway. 20% off with discount code EVAN
- April 25 – Virtue Poker sale
- April 27-29 – Hackital Eth hackathon in Washington, DC
- May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
- May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 15 – Kleros sale
- May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathon
- May 25 – 28th – EthBuenosAires hackathon
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