Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Protocol

• [SNARKs] Toward ~500 tx/sec through mass tx validation
  
• [ewasm] Latest Ewasm call
  
• [Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s latest implementation update: proposer & attester responsibilities, RPC validator interactions and minimal beacon chain processing & fork choice. Chose Bolt for database.
  
• [Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth 2.0 implementers call.
  
• [Eth 2.0] Sigma Prime introduces its Lighthouse Eth 2.0 client
  
• [State channels] Latest state channels call
  
• [State channels] Learn State Channels, similiar to Learn Plasma
  
• [Plasma] snapp – fully verified plasma chain using SNARKs and BarryWhiteHat’s roll_up
  
• [Plasma] Enabling Faster Plasma Exits – NFT collateralization
  
• [Plasma] Data Availability Solution for Plasma EVM without Confirmation
  
• [Plasma] Quark–gluon Plasma – verified Plasma chain without confirmation signatures
  
• [Plasma] Plasma Cash Defragmentation
  
• [Plasma] Plasma Cash Minimal Atomic Swap
  
• [Plasma] The current state of Plasma (before this week anyway!) by Kevin Zhang
  
• [Plasma] Latest Plasma implementers call
  
• A suggestion: if you want to work in this industry, publishing notes on any of these calls (Plasma, Ewasm, Eth 2.0, state channels, etc) is a great way to build knowledge and reputation.
  

Stuff for developers

• Parameterized transaction reviews for when you want to decide which signers you want to approve different types of transactions
  
• hosted Eth nodes and load balancing
  
• Deconstructing Solidity, pt 5: function bodies
  
• Solidity capture the flag pt 4 challenge, with pt 3 writeup
• Sigma Prime’s Mehdi Zerouali: ‘breaking smart contracts for fun and profit’ slides
  
• event logs parser
  
• ethjs-abi for use in BigQuery, to decode Ethereum event logs
  
• Ethereum in Google’s BigQuery: how we built this dataset
  
• Ameen Solemaini video code walk through of Moloch DAO
  
• Using APM to replace centralized package managers
  
• Implementing Harberger tax deeds
  
• Zymbit and Oaken blockchain security module available for pre-order for $47. i2c, Raspberry Pi ready. Ships mid-October
  
• Registration open for next ConsenSys Academy cohort. Zastrin also just released an NFT/ERC721 course
  
• RuntimeVerification’s formal verification spec in K of ERC777
  

Releases

• Parity v2.1.1 beta and v.2.0.6 stable. Parity 1.x end of life.

Ecosystem

• Multi-Collateral Dai: the code is formally verified and ready. Check it out on Kovan.
  
• Avsa’s Universal logins working demo: first code release
  
• Beltran on UX for mass adoption
  
• Wyohackathon submissions and winners. EthBerlin winners. Also Hack the North Ethereum submissions
  
• What Eth 2.0 layer 1 scalability will look like, by the numbers
  
• TurboGeth is in private beta, per Rachel O’Leary’s interview with Alexey Akhunov
  
• MEWConnect iOS app is out from My Ether Wallet
  
• Ethfinex Trustless – non-custodial trading using Bitfinex order book, settlement on-chain
  

Governance and Standards

• EIP1418: blockchain rent proposal
  
• ERC820 pseudo-introspection registry is in last call
  
• ERC1412: Batch Transfers For Non-Fungible Tokens
  
• ERC1410: partially fungle token
  
• ERC1417: poll standard
  
• Nick Johnson had a chat with Kristy-Leigh Minehan and switched to supporting ProgPOW. Currently, there’s a 20x increase in processing over ethash in benchmarking, though Minehan says that’s because the CPU code is currently just a copy of the GPU code
  
• Tokensoft on its ERC1404: simple restricted token standard
  

Project Updates

• CasinoFair will be the first live FunFair casino later this month. Available in Canada, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Thailand. Signup for free FUN
  
• Raiden update on mainnet launch. Testnet release: v0.10.0
  
• Augur app v1.5
  
• Streamr helping build a nationwide traffic map in Georgia
  
• WindingTree’s summer demo release
  
• Santiment’s daily active addresses and Github commit data is free.
• Grid+ is live with its first electricity customers
  
• Dapped launches with dapp game reviews
  
• Intro to the Golem marketplace during Brass
  
• 1.25m Loom (~110kUSD) to run a LoomNetwork PlasmaChain validator
  

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

• Two great Blockcrunch podcasts on state channels: Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani and Celer Network’s Mo Dong
  
• EthBerlin videos
  
• Golem, Status, Raiden UX talks from their meetup at EthBerlin
  
• Linda Xie with Laura Shin
  
• First episode of Around the Block documentary
  
• An interview with Conrad Barski
  
• Latest Open Source Block Explorers call
  
• Zero Knowledge Summit videos
  
• Hudson Jameson on Zero Knowledge
  

Tokens / Business

• Chart: staker rewards and total inflation in Eth 2.0
  
• Polymath on using partially fungible tokens from its security token standard for gaming
  
• Claims curated registries: reputation development
  
• Bonding curves as funding mechanisms
  

Polkadot/web3

• Jack Platts: state of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkascan explorer is live
  
• GRANDPA block finality in Polkadot
  
• Buzzfeed published a sensationalist hit piece on Gavin Wood over a short story he wrote years ago. His response. I read the story years ago; ‘twas obviously fiction.
  
• Cloudflare now runs an IPFS gateway. How they built it e2e
  

General

• 15 of the world’s largest banks and trading firms start Komgo to build a commodity trading platform on Ethereum.
  
• Airbus announced an ERC721 framework for charities to take donations
  
• Rep Emmer (R-MN) unveils blockchain-friendly bills to clarify tax with regard to forks and not require miners to register as MSBs (which would be a truly asinine requirement)
  
• NY AG claimed that Coinbase was doing its own trading. Actually, 20% of Coinbase exchange volume comes from Coinbase’s retail. It doesn’t even have an OTC desk.
  
• Putting a Syrian airstrike early warning system on Ethereum for data transparency
  
• SEC Commissioner Peirce speech on being CryptoMom
  
• Blockchain futurism from John Wolpert: sidechains for fun and profit
  
• David Chaum says he has built a better Bitcoin
  
• A Bitcoin bug would have allowed inflation. It was discovered by a Bitcoin Cash developer
  

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

• September 21-23 – EthAtlanta
  
• Sept 29 – Oct 1 – Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
  
• 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 22-24 – Web3Summit (Berlin)
  
• Oct 24-25 – Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
  
• Oct 26-28 – Status hackathon (Prague)
  
• Oct 28-30 – Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
  
• Oct 29 – Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (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
  
• Feb 15-17 – ETHDenver
  

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