Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Parity’s Eth2 testnet plans
- Model 0: low-level Sybil defense measures for p2p networks
Layer 2
- Kyokan’s Plasma MVP alpha on mainnet with FourthState’s root chain
- Plasma Group’s Ben Jones on Near’s Whiteboard Series
- Starkware’s StarkPay addresses many of the drawbacks of Lightning, and why StarkPay can’t be built on Bitcoin. No liveness requirement, low collateralization, non-custodial.
Stuff for developers
- Tutorial: how to build roll-up with Circom
- Solidity v0.5.5
- web3.js v1.0.0-beta.48
- Tutorial: Solidity + Vue.js simple auction
- 0age: on efficient gas storage with CREATE2
- Get your Ethereum dev tools to work together using Buidler
- Truffle JSON compression tool
- watch-eth: a “robust” event watcher
- Speeding up IPFS content discovery with Piñata
- Solidity parser for Python
- Lambdeth: functional programming EVM library
- self-balancing binary search tree with order stats tree extensions
- solc-select: quickly switch between Solidity versions
- Analyze your Solidity with a variety of testing suites
- Resolver engine
- Zastrin’s intro tutorial to using ethers.js in a dapp
Ecosystem
- Gas Station Network Alliance: Zeppelin and Tabookey team up to push decentralized meta transaction relayer
- Soltix: automated Solidity compiler testing framework
Enterprise
- Pantheon v1.0.1
Governance and Standards
- Notes from last week’s core devs call.
- Roadmap for EVM evolution and EIP615
- A summary of Vlad Zamfir’s governance arguments
- Fixing Ethereum’s gas fee system with EIP-1559
- Vitalik proposes a voluntary 1 gwei fee at the wallet level
- EIP1837: explicit transaction fees
- ERC1820: Pseudo-introspection Registry Contract
- ERC1822: Universal upgradeable proxy standard.
- ERC1812: verifiable claims
Application layer
- Relevant beta is live – tokens for curating and upvoting, a la Reddit.
- You can now get BAT for watching ads on Brave’s dev version
- Civil’s newsrooms and registry goes live as well as rebranded token sale on a bonded curve
- EthMail: Send/receive email to 0x[publicKey]@ethmail.cc
- CDP Saver – never get liquidated. live on Kovan.
- Omise Holdings strategy update
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki on Into the Ether
- Maker’s Martin Lundfall on Zero Knowledge
- Latest Curation Markets call
- IDEO’s Dan Elitzer with Laura Shin
- Starkware’s Eli Ben Sasson on Software Engineering Daily
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- CFTC Chair Giancarlo speech last week. Bullish.
- EthDenver winner Pactful on bonded curve crowdfunding
- Jesse Walden: from co-ops to crypto networks
General
- Boneh, Boyle, et al: Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Distributed Data via Fully Linear PCPs
- Dan Finlay on Liquid Liberal Radicalism
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Mar 8-10 – ETHParis
- Mar 8-10 – EthUToronto
- Mar 15 – Next core devs call
- Mar 22 – Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
- Mar 27 – Infura end of legacy key support
- April 4-5 – Deconomy (Seoul)
- April 8-14 – Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)
- Apr 19-21 – ETHCapetown
- Apr 29 – Oslo Blockchain Day
- 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)
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