Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Protocol

• [Eth 2.0] What’s new in Eth 2.0
  
• [Eth 2.0] More Ben Edgington: State of the beacon chain
  
• [Eth 2.0] Overview of Ethereum 2.0 chains: committees, proposers & attesters
  
• [Eth 2.0] Lighthouse’s fortnightly update. Also, security in the Lighthouse client
  
• [Eth 2.0] Eth Sharding and Beyond SFBW panel
  
• [Casper] Casper FFG incentives paper by Buterin, Reijsbergen, Piliouras
  
• [Casper] Casper CBC lite via committees
  
• [Plasma] Latest two Plasma implementer calls: this week and last week
  
• [Plasma] More on Parsec’s Plasma Leap, including working dapp demos
  
• [Plasma] Gluon Plasma for dexes
  
• [Plasma] Plasma Bank. Project 8 dev framework for “token-incentivized, Plasma sidechains”
  
• [Plasma] work in progress of Plasma Cashflow
  
• [Plasma] Building a dex using snarks spec from Gnosis
  
• [Plasma] Plasma Challenge Auctions
  
• [Plasma] 3 opcodes to build Plasma dex
  
• [Plasma] RSA accumulator implementationfor Plasma
  
• Fast Multi-Signature Aggregation protocol
  
• Spamming the bloom filter, or: should logx be higher priced?
  

Stuff for developers

• OpenZeppelin v2.0
  
• Getting started with OpenZeppelin-eth EVM Package
  
• An update on EthPM
  
• Connext/Spainchain rewritten Solidity payment channel hub code
  
• Kyokan’s prototype of Lightning on Ethereum
  
• Step by step dice game on state channels tutorial
  
• circom and snarkjs tutorial from Jordi Baylina
  
• Getting started with zksnarks on ZoKrates
  
• uPort developer libraries v1
  
• uPort offshoot 3Box released User Profiles API v1. It’s easy to create a profile; I did.
  

Client (testing) releases

• client consensus Test Suite v6.0.0-beta

Ecosystem

• How the Ethereum Foundation grants program makes decisions. And Aragon grants, round 3
  
• Jeff Coleman tweet on what state channels are good for
  
• Kelvin Fichter’s audio commentary on the last issue of Week in Ethereum.
  
• Alethio: who uses dexes with some nice data viz
  
• 16 groups team up for wBTC – wrapped BTC on Ethereum, coming Jan 2019
  
• Dappnode update
  
• Etheroscope open source block explorer focused on state
  

Enterprise

• Hyperledger Fabric now supports Ethereum

Governance and Standards

• IfDefElse: Understanding ProgPOW
  
• Zamfir: best practices for participating in governance
  
• ERC1530: standard contract upgrade events
  
• ERC1512: insurance policy storage standard
  

Project Updates

• Golem v0.18 – with Nvidia GPU rendering. They also hired Qubes’ Joanna Rutkowska
  
• Oxfam to use Etherisc for insurance to Sri Lankan rice farmers
  
• Mysterium quarterly update – released Mac and Windows VPN apps
  
• localethereum announced integrations with a bunch of wallets
  
• imToken open sources its code. Android. iOS
  
• OpenLaw’s OpenCourt – legally enforcable blockchain arbitration
  
• CelerNetwork’s cWallet is now in alpha, come play Gomoku on state channels with me.
  
• Baskets of stablecoins using Set
  
• Video demo of using Raiden
  
• Dharma Lever – quick loans for margin trading
  
• All about delegating to Plasmachain validators on Loom Network
  
• Status v0.9.30 with extensions and ENS
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Eric Conner on 51 Percent
  
• MyCrypto’s Taylor Monahan on Zero Knowledge
  
• Niran Babalola on Hashing It Out
  
• Austin Griffith on TokenPoints
  
• Felix Feng on Smartest Contract
  
• web3summit videos
  
• Colony’s Jack du Rose with Arthur Falls
  

Tokens / Business

• Continuous Organizations bonding curve org funding model
  
• Radical Markets in the arts by Simon de la Rouviere
  
• Jon Choi: the crypto idea maze
  

General

• Trail of Bits’ guide to post-quantum cryptography
  
• Pay to play has been a big problem in crypto media
  
• Quisquis: “updatable keys” with zero knowledge by Fauzi, Meiklejohn, Mercer, Orlandi
  
• Orders open for HTC’s Exodus “blockchain phone.” Ships in Dec
  
• Coinbase joins Circle’s reserve-backed USDC dollarcoin
  
• Some new chapter 2 videos from Karl Floersch on cryptoeconomics.study
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):

• Oct 29 – Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
  
• Oct 29 – Swarm mini-summit (Prague)
  
• Oct 29 – Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
  
• Oct 30 – Nov 2 – Devcon4 (Prague). Check out Josef’s Prague picks
  
• Nov 1 – Blockchains LLC launch event (Prague)
  
• Nov 2 – MetaMask, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3
  
• Nov 3-4 – Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
  
• Dec 7-9 – ETHSingapore hackathon
  
• 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
  
• Feb 23-25 – EthAustin
  

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