Ethereum News and Links
Layer 1
- Latest Eth2.0 implementers call. This week we have two different versions: Mamy’s detailed notes, and NoteGarden is more high level
- Sigma Prime Eth2 client update – BLS library standards, 25x merkle root speedup through caching
- Nimbus Eth2 client update – public testnet performance improvements. Pledges to get a few things ready by Devcon: cross-client production-ready phase0 testnet as well as phase1 prototype. Plus a POC light client and polished Whisper.
- Lodestar client vision: “browser compatible ETH2.0 client (and light client) “ to help dev tools transition to Eth2
- Eth2 networking slides from Kevin Chia
- layer-1-minimizing phase 2 state execution proposal
- Fast verification of multiple BLS signatures
- Justin Drake on VDF ASICs: An “attacker needs to be 100x faster than our ASICs to break the randomness … [even] if 100x+ is achieved, the randomness gracefully decays to the not-too-shabby RANDAO”
Layer 2
- Connext to build v2 on Counterfactual for interoperability
- Counterfactual dev update.
- Vector Addition State Machine interpreter compatible with generalized state channels
- Burner Wallet on LeapDAO/MoreViablePlasma
- LiquidityNetwork v2 mobile app release
Stuff for developers
- Solidity v0.5.8 “further completes ABIEncoderV2, SMTChecker and Yul and improves the optimizer.” Also Solidity v0.4.26 backports bugfixes for v4
- web3.js v1.0.0-beta.54
- Truffle v5.0.15 and Ganache v2.0.2-beta.0
- Alpha version of Play, a simplified Remix for beginners
- IEEE 754 quadruple precision (128 bit) floating point Solidity library
- Fixed point math in Solidity library
- ABI and RLP for the JVM
- solang: Solidity to wasm PoC compiler using llvm written in Rust
- GodsUnchained on gas efficient mass NFT creation
- How to integrate 3Box with profiles
- Introduction to Formality
- web3 on AWSLambda
- sbt-Ethereum. deployment and development tool for Scala tools and apps. Steve Randy Waldman explains why he built it: to use Eth as a Petri dish for communities
- ConsenSys Ethereum tools portal
Ecosystem
- A new ethereum.org launched to be a portal to community resources and maintained through Github pull requests
- ENS permanent registrar is now deployed. You have one year to migrate
- Metacash: gasless (using metatransactions with CREATE2) noncustodial Dai wallet for Android, with iOS coming.
- RicMoo on CREATE2 magic: offchain contract wallets which can be updated
Enterprise
- Microsoft publishes Azure Ethereum dev kit
- JPMorgan and Microsoft partnership for Quorum adoption
- Atomic Crosschain Transactions for Ethereum Private Sidechains
- Podcast: John Wolpert debates R3’s Richard Brown
- Privacy in Pantheon v1.1
Live on mainnet
- CDP Saver live on mainnet. Repay and boost in one click. Auto liquidation prevention coming soon.
- dYdX v2 is live on mainnet
Governance and Standards
- Results for Aragon second vote. 3 AGPs rejected, though one whale deciding the results illustrates some of the perils of onchain governance
- dxDao white paper. Scheduled to launch May 29.
- ERC1973: mint and distribute tokens per block to dapp users
- EIP1985: sane limits for EVM parameters
Application layer
- Secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Singapore will issue degrees using OpenCerts
- Degrees of decentralization in DeFi
- DeFiScan – check your Compound, Uniswap and Spankchain balances from one site
- RAC, Goldroom and Ujo launch a music label
- Status v0.12 – adds dapp curation through SNT staking
- Maker Stability Fee at 19.5%
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Rick Dudley on Into the Ether
- PlasmaGroup AMA and freestyle
- Andrew Keys keynote at Harvard Business
- Aztec’s Zac Williamson on Zero Knowledge
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Fidelity report arguing that institutional money is coming to crypto
- Q&A with Caitlin Long about Wyoming’s new crypto laws
- London club West Ham join PSG and Juventus in using Socios to issue fan tokens
- Why Ethereum will likely emerge as the preferred platform in capital markets
General
- There were rumors Facebook would launch its crypto project at F8, but it did not. WSJ had initial paywalled report. Wired reports the possible options WSJ laid out.
- Stellar crashes if just two nodes fail. Both of which are run by…Stellar.
- Elon Musk tweets “Ethereum,” which leads to back and forth with Vitalik Buterin, with Vitalik offering his thoughts on applications best suited to Ethereum.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- May 9 – Fluidity Summit (NYC)
- May 10-11 – Ethereal (NYC)
- May 16 – Eth2 workshop (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)
- May 24-26 – Ethereum Madrid Hackathon
- May 27-28 – EthCon Korea (Seoul)
- June 8-9 – WASM in blockchains (Berlin)
- June 22-24 – Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- July 3-5 – WindingTree’s HackTravel (Lisbon)
- Aug 2-4 – ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2-4 – TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21-23 – Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23-25 – ETHBerlin
- Sep 16-17 – Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8-11 – DeVcon (East Asia)
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