Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Layer 1

• [Eth 2.0] What’s New in Eth2
  
• [Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth 2.0 implementer call
  
• [Eth 2.0] Beacon chain explainer
  
• [Eth 1.x] Casey Detrio: a half-backed Ethereum 1.x roadmap. See also Martin Köppelmann’s tweetstorm if you prefer a quicker but not as thorough version.
  
• [ewasm] Latest ewasm call with walkthrough of testnet setup and deploying code
  
• [wasm] Fransham: why WASM vs EVM
  
• “The bomb” will be different than last time. We’ll start seeing a spike in block time in mid-Jan if the fork hasn’t been implemented
  

Layer 2

• This map of Plasma is very cool, so is the associated writeup
  
• Short RSA exclusion proofs for Plasma Prime
  
• Game channels from DAO Casinos: state channels with randomness paper, a la FunFair’s Fate Channels
  
• Raiden v0.17
  
• POANetwork’s ERC20 to ERC20 bridge.
  
• BLS DAG sidechain idea
  
• Kauri’s dive into how to use sidechains
  
• SNARK based Side-Chain for ERC20 tokens
  

Stuff for developers

• Waffle: a testing framework based on ethers.js and mocha
  
• Meadow: dev and testing framework written in cross-platform C# with .NET Core
  
• web3 React: build single-page dapps in React with hooks
  
• More on Parity’s light.js for building dapps on a light client
  
• CryptoZombies lesson #9: ERC721x
  
• Yakindu Solidity language server – all the IDEs
  
• Kyber trading API
  
• Kyokan’s chaind: caching layer in front of any Ethereum JSON-RPC endpoint
  
• OneClickDapp: “instantly build a dApp with a simple URL to bookmark or share with a friend.”
  
• Austin Griffith’s sandbox for playing with MolochDAO
  
• How to query Ether supply in BigQuery and plot the number of Ethereum addresses
  
• Getting started with Eventeum
  
• Truffle v5.0.0-beta.2 – Solidity v0.5, Vyper support, and update to Web3.js 1.0.0-beta.36
  
• Samuel Furter: my first 3 months maintaining web3.js
  
• How to use Mythril Classic to find bugs
  
• LevelK discovers a potential exploit of exchanges if they were not using best practices. If exchanges fail to put a gas limit on contract calls, then that enables an attacker to drain an exchange’s hot wallet, or potentially use GasToken to profit.
  
• Panvala’s token grants for making Ethereum safer will start in the next 2 months.
  
• AirSwap’s Keyspace: e2e encrypted messages with Ethereum and IPFS
  
• Palladino: the transparent proxy pattern in Zeppelin
  

Ecosystem

• MetaMask’s Mustekala light client that also shares pieces of the chain over libp2p
  
• VIPNode releases a demo to incentivize full nodes serving light clients.
  
• An overview of the Gnosis Safe’s features
  
• Security considerations for Shamir’s secret sharing in Dark Crystals
  
• A working proposal for permanent ENS register and why there will not be Harberger taxes in ENS
  
• Safe zero confirmation payments in Ethereum (by using a bond)
  
• The mission and practices of Ethereum Magicians
  
• Stureby POW testnet to test Constantinople changes and how to help test.
  
• Görli testnet explorer and their bounties initiative
  

Client-related

• Pantheon v0.8.2
  
• Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.17
  
• EthereumJS VM v2.5.0: Constantinople fork ready, full consensus, StateManager
  

Enterprise

• Pantheon video tutorial: start a private blockchain in Java with Docker

Governance and Standards

• Latest core devs call. Here are the notes.
  
• Also, the notes from the Devcon meetings that were discussed on the core devs call. Sometimes there are private meetings, Parity CTO Fred Harrysson summed it up well.
  
• Ethereum Dispute Resolution Alliance, joint work on research and standards by Bounties Network, Aragon, and ENS
  
• ERC820 pseudo-introspection registry in last call
  
• ERC875 better NFTs to last call
  
• ERC1592: Address and ERC20-compliant transfer rules
  
• ERC1616: Attribute registry standard
  
• ERC1621: Referral interface
  
• ERC1620: Money streaming continuous payments over time
  
• EIP1601: only full blocks get full mining reward
  

Project Updates

• Golem graphene-ng demo and how to make SGX usable in decentralized scenarios
  
• Aragon: the future of organizations and their first governance proposal passed with 99.97%
  
• Status v0.9.31 – includes eip1102 for better privacy
  
• AXA’s Fizzy flight delay insurance expands to cover 80% of all flights
  
• Melon supply: burning 248k now, may do another competition with ~70k already minted. 300k to be printed annually, but fees paid in Eth will buy and burn Melon.
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Maker’s Martin Lundfall on Smartest Contract
  
• Prysmatic’s Preston Van Loon on Penn Blockchain podcast
  
• Latest Open Block Explorers community call
  
• DeFi Summit videos in Prague
  
• First Görli testnet contributors call
  
• Scuttlebutt’s Dominic Tarr with Arthur Falls
  
• I missed this from web3summit: Jeff Burdges and Robert Kiel on mixnet instead of Whisper
  
• Vlad and Gav debate governance on Zero Knowledge
  

Tokens / Business / Regulation

• Neufund is doing their equity token offering on December 8th (whitelisting opens Nov 27th) but regulators forced them to raise the minimum to 100k euros. Interesting tweetstorm commentary.
  
• Personal Token Economics with your own bonding curve
  
• A bonding curve to decentralize how apps get listed in Status
  
• Automatically roll one-week long/short contracts from Daxia (formerly DDA) using SetProtocol
  
• [Between Apple, Facebook, Nasdaq, Ethereum and Bitcoin], “Ethereum feels like the easiest one to make a bull case for right now.“ – Fred Wilson
  
• Fundamental questions to ask yourself about blockchain investing. I wrote this.
  

General

• You can now buy Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood
  
• Newsweek does an Ethereum profile
  
• Bakkt moves launch data target to Jan 24th
  
• EOS: an architectural and economic analysis. Apparently under real world conditions, EOS doesn’t do more transactions per second than Ethereum despite a large compromise on decentralization
  
• There were widespread reports that a game with tradeable Ethereum NFTs had passed Sony review for the PS4, but I’m skeptical of anything I only find in crypto media.
  
• IMF paper on central bank digital currencies
  
• Overstock said it would sell the retail business to focus on blockchain/TZero security token exchange. The stock went up ~25%.
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):

• Dec 7-9 – ETHSingapore hackathon (ETHGlobal)
  
• Jan 10 – Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends
  
• Jan 29-30 – AraCon (Berlin)
  
• Feb 7-8 – Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)
  
• Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)
  
• Feb 23-25 – EthAustin hackathon (EthUniversal)
  
• Mar 5-7 – EthCC (Paris)
  
• Mar 27 – Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)
  

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