News and Links
Protocol
- [Eth 2.0] Ethereum 2.0 Prysm demo v0.0.0
- [Eth 2.0] The Week in Eth 2.0 from Ben Edgington
- [Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s biweekly update
- [Eth 2.0] Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse client update
- [Eth 2.0] Parity’s implementation repo using Substrate
- [Eth 2.0] Eth 2.0 implementer call notes from Peter Gallagher
- [Casper] Latest Casper standup
- [SNARKs] Roll_up / roll_back snark side chain ~17000 tps
- [SNARKs] How Ethereum could use ZCash’s Sapling release
- [Plasma] OMG Plasma Update with notes from last implementer call
- [state channels] Patrick McCorry’s update on battleship using state channels
- [state channels] See Connext and Celer at top of stuff for devs section
Stuff for developers
- You can now run your own Connext payment channel hub
- Celer Network SDK and testnet launch
- Ropsten testnet will now implement the Constantinople fork on block 4.23m in about 4 days
- Starkware’s hands on tutorial for zero knowledge proofs
- Universal Logins, first demo
- Austin Griffith video demo of meta transactions
- George Spasov: meta transactions, counterfactual instantiation and P2P networks, part 2
- Mustekala: Ethereum chain data available via light client p2p network
- Exw3: Eth RPC client for Elixir
- Ideas and requests for EthSF hackers. And bounties you can earn at EthSF
- Learnings from the EthSecurity interviews
- Trail of Bits’ Eth security guidance, including office hours to learn their tools and Awesome Eth Security reference
Live on mainnet
Ecosystem
- Introducing .luxe, natively enabled on ENS
- How RAC imagines Ethereum will reshape the music industry
- Moloch DAO, an experiment to get projects to coordinate around funding Eth infrastructure
- Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger join each other’s group as associate members. Because as Bob Summerwill always says, “EEA is a standards body. Hyperledger is an umbrella for open source blockchain projects.”
- Blockchain Gaming Alliance to develop best practices and standards
Governance and Standards
- EIP1459: Node discovery via DNS
- ERC1462: basic security token
- ERC1470: smart contract weakness classification
- Vlad Zamfir: Blockchain Governance 101, his call to think about how we want which of 5 governance scenarios we prefer. He followed up with his declaration to fight against 3 of the 5, though it was relatively clear after the first article.
Project Updates
- Numerai announces Erasure Protocol using NMR, a “p2p, decentralized data marketplace for predictions.” Create a track record of predictions that people can buy but you can get slashed if they’re wrong.
- Spankchain’s stable USDtoken BOOTY (collateralized using its native token) goes live today.
- OMG community update
- Streamr’s retrospective on building their data marketplace
- What’s coming in Augur v2. Also topical index funds, eg Lebron James
- Gnosis DutchX code is deployed and pilot to begin. Also: GnosisX had zero possible winners submitted, so what they’re going to do now to encourage #buidl
- How to know what’s going on in the Raiden network: Raiden Explorer
- Air France-KLM joins WindingTree’s platform as a trial partner
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Loom’s Georgios Konstantopoulos talk on Plasma at Blockchain Game Summit
- Joey Krug on Enigma’s new podcast
- Joseph Lubin conversation at Next18
- Streamr’s Henri Pihkala on Zero Knowledge
- Ben Siegel’s blockchain in context talk
- Venrock interviews Coinfund’s Jake Brukhman and Alex Bulkin
- George Gilder: forget cloud computing, Ethereum is the future
- Embark’s Iuri Matias on Hashing It Out
Tokens / Business
- ErisX – a crypto exchange for spot and physically delivered futures from Virtu, DRW and TDAmeritrade
- A UI for ERC998: cryptocomposables
- USV’s Dani Grant and Nick Grossman: The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase arguing that apps drive infrastructure
General
- Parity’s Substrate in a nutshell
- Buterin and Weyl Radical Markets correspondence
- Shapeshift fires back at WSJ article, points out basic errors
- A survey of consensus algorithms from Jordan Clifford
- Reddit implemented karma-weighted polls as an exclusive pilot for r/ethtrader
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note (additions in bold):
- Oct 5-7 – TruffleCon in Portland
- Oct 5-7 – ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
- Oct 8 – Settle virtual hackathon
- Oct 11 – Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
- Oct 12 – Non-fungible summit (SF)
- Oct 17-21 Lebanon hackathon (Beirut)
- Oct 22-24 – Web3Summit (Berlin). 50% off available for devs, students & researchers
- Oct 24-25 – Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
- Oct 26-28 – Status hackathon (Prague)
- 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)
- Nov 2 – MetaMask, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3
- Nov 3-4 – Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
- Dec 7-9 – dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
- Dec 7-9 – ETHSingapore hackathon
- Jan 29-30 – AraCon(Berlin)
- Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver
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