News and Links
Protocol
- Latest Plasma implementation call.
- Kelvin Fichter: Plasma XT. Plasma Cash but much less per-user data checking.
- Xuanji Li: Plasma Cash with smaller exit procedure
- Blockchain at Berkeley’s Plasma implementation
- BankEx plasma on Rinkeby. github.
- Latest Casper standup
- Casper FFG v0.1 “First Release” to get serious about versioning
- Latest Prysmatic Labs sharding implementation call
- Justin Drake: a scheme for proposers to omit witnesses in stateless validator execution.
- Scaling Ethereum panels: Deconomy and Edcon
Stuff for developers
- Sūrya. Gonçalo Sá’s extension of soli for exploring Solidity code
- scry-one resilient log awaiter in Typescript
- Parr, a query tool
- Manticore v0.1.9
- Conditional scheduling with the Ethereum Alarm Clock
- Embark is now part of Status and released v3.0
- Solidity event debugger
- FOAM’s Cliquebait. PoA testnet in a Docker container
- You can now inspect smart contract variables with Truffle’s built-in Solidity debugger in v4.1.8. Plus Truffle hits 500k downloads.
- Zastrin basics of Ethereum course (free!)
- Yoichi releases Bamboo v0.0.03
Ecosystem
- Aragon Nest announces first give grants: Gnarly optimistic UI from XLNT, Prysmatic Labs for sharding, Frame: OS-level signing provider, toolkits for planning on Aragon from Space Decentral and Giveth, and a git-like versioning system using Aragon.
- EF grant winner vipnode’s roadmap
- Amberdata analytics dashboards
- A look into Ethereum mining pools using miner payouts
- Etherscan on its values and monetization strategy
- Flippening: Ethereum’s fee market is now larger than Bitcoin’s
- 45 new members of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- Ron Resnick on how the EEA’s stack release makes Ethereum more attractive for enterprise than competitors with vendor lockin
- An interview with Christine Moy, the new head of Quorum
Governance and Standards
- the goals of EIP0 going forward
- ERC1068: Loan standard
- ERC1070: Standard Bounties
- ERC1066: Status code proposal
- ERC780 claims registry updates
- simplify ENR for v4 compatibility merged into EIP778
- EIP908 incentives for archive nodes update
- ERC1046 to “extend ERC20 token interface to support the same metadata standard as ERC721” merged
- EIP 1062: Formalize IPFS hash into ENS resolver
- ERC1067: Upgradeable token approach
- EIP1057: programmatic PoW
- Discussion on ERC1056 lightweight identity
- ‘Final call’ added as draft to EIP process
- Composables ERC998 Update
- Dan Finlay proposes “Strange Loop,” a type of liquid democracy signaling process for governance
Project Updates
- Kauri is live on Rinkeby, with knowledge base article requests for uPort, Maker, Aragon, Remix, Toshi, Dharma
- Following up on their video, the Aragon Manifesto in print form.
- Steph Curry has his own CryptoKitty
- draft of the Civil Constitution
- 0x April update
- OmiseGo full roadmap update
- Townsquare Media to test BAT and Brave for adblock visitors
- uPort’s take on data onchain in the age of GDPR
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Edcon live streams. See schedule to find a specific talk.
- Linda Xie’s intro to crypto talk at an Andreessen Horowitz event
- Interview of Kiev’s DappDev speakers
- Blockchain UX with Jose Caballer and Chris Pallé
- 10 min Vitalik Buterin interview from Deconomy
- Thibaut Sardan on setting up a full Parity node on Zero Knowledge
- Fabian Vogelsteller with Jeffrey Tong
Tokens
- SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce speech on how regulators should be lifeguards at the beach, not sandbox monitors
- a16z’s Scott Kupor and Sonal Chokshi: Analogies, the big picture, and considerations for regulating crypto
- Fred Wilson: Is Buying Crypto Assets “Investing?”
- “12 Graphs That Show Just How Early The Cryptocurrency Market Is”
- Bloomberg graphic on cryptoasset and non-cryptoasset correlations
General
- Chris Ballinger launches MOBI to explore blockchain applications with companies comprising >70% of worldwide vehicle production, eg BMW, Ford, GM, Renault etc
- Brian Armstrong publishes the decision making framework at Coinbase
- Starkware raised 6m from an allstar list of investors for a zkSTARK hardware and software stack
- Lots of melodrama about “WSJ FUD” when there was no public SEC hearing on May 7. Paul Vigna is a reputable reporter and only reported a “working group.” Seems to me like most of the kerfuffle was due to over-extrapolation by crypto media in search of pageviews.
- Eric Schmidt talking web3 with EF and ConsenSys
- Facebook’s messenger lead now leading blockchain efforts.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
- May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 15 – Kleros sale
- May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17 – Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)
- May 17-19 – Melonport hackthon in Zug
- May 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathon
- May 19-20 – Hacketh (Warsaw)
- May 25 – 27 – EthBuenosAires hackathon
- May 28 – Zeppelin’s zepcon0 conference (Buenos Aires)
- June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)
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