Eth News and Links
Eth1
- Special-purpose light clients for old receipts and transactions
- A quick EIP2124 explainer to help compatible nodes find each other
Eth2
Layer 2
- Dai Card live on Connext v2. Send Dai back and forth for free.
Stuff for developers
- 3Box’s chatbox plugin, free and real-time decentralized chat with IPFS and libp2p
- ERC20 compliance verification tool
- Truffle v5.0.41 with some debugger improvements
- Implementing holographic consensus on Aragon, pt 4
- SCSVS, a security checklist
- Sam Sun strikes again: CheezeWizards had a bug
- Chainstack’s free access to shared Eth nodes
- Wyre v2 for your fiat onramps. lower fees, simpler KYC, better frontend
- Alethio opensources its scraper and indexer
- AirScript v0.5 for STARKs
Ecosystem
- Legendre PRF bounty smart contract instructions
- Use one ENS name for your cryptotokens on every chain; 24 wallets onboard.
- Data on the Eth gas market. 1:30pm GMT seems to be the daily price peak
Enterprise
- ThomsonReuters and OpenLaw proof of concept on executing parts of legal contracts on Ethereum
- EY launches OpsChain Public Finance Manager for government finance processes
- Kaleido ‘enterprise deploy’ option for contracts with governance, workflow, versioning, security and firewall protection built in
Standards and governance topics
- EIP2315: Simple subroutines for the EVM
- Year of the DAO turned out into the Year of the MolochDAO
Application layer
- Ulysses weight loss app: lose weight or your ETH deposit gets burned
- The Sacramento Kings NBA franchise to do physical/NFT collectibles for winners of their monthly scavenger hunts
- HKDai, live on Ropsten
- Winners from Decentraland’s hackathon. Some impressive looking stuff.
Tokens / Business / Regulation
- Ryan Sean Adams compares monetary policy of ETH and BTC
- EIP1559: the final piece to ETH’s monetary policy
- Federal Reserve Governor speech on stablecoins
- Zero Hedge says $1000 ETH valuation as a stablecoin platform
- Bermuda to accept USDC for taxes
- Western Australia’s Perth Mint launching “first digital gold token on a public blockchain backed by government guaranteed gold”
General
- A simple explanation of zero knowledge proofs.
- Tim Swanson updates his estimates of resource usage for PoW chains
- Circle is spinning out Poloniex, which will close for the US
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):
- Oct 25-27 – Game Oasis hackathon (SF/remote)
- Oct 26 – Zero Knowledge Summit (SF)
- Oct 28-Nov 11 – Web3 World virtual hackathon
- Oct 28-Nov 1 – SF Blockchain Week
- Nov 1 – Ledger EU apply for 200k euro startup funding
- Nov 5-6 – Decentralized insurance D1Conf (Malta)
- Nov 8-10 – ETHWaterloo
- Jan 1 – Augur v1 cutoff
- Feb 9-15 – EthLagos
- Feb 14-16 – ETHDenver
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