News and Links
Protocol
- [Eth2.0] shasper implementer call notes. Also some good VDF evaluator discussion on r/ethereum
- [Eth 2.0] Prysmatic dev update
- [Eth 2.0] Who is building what in Ethereum 2.0?
- [sharding] Batched cross-shard transaction fee payment
- [Casper] Latest Casper standup call
- [Casper] Parallelizing Lamport’s 99% fault tolerant consensus
- [State channels] Unavailability griefing with Pisa explainer
- [State channels] Forward Timelocked Contracts
- [Plasma] Plasma chains with enforced consistency between multiple parent chains
- [wasm] Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly
- [wasm] Raul Jordan: WebAssembly and the future of blockchain
- [starks] Cheap hash functions for zkSNARK merkle-tree proofs, which can be calculated on-chain
- [starks] Roll up: scale Eth with starks from Barry WhiteHat
Stuff for developers
- Toward frictionless upgradeability from Zeppelin’s Fran Giordano
- Contract upgrade anti-patterns from Trail of Bits
- Trail of Bits explains its binary static analysis tool, Rattle
- Superblocks releases its new IDE
- DateTime library v1.00 from Bokky
- Another web3swift with ENS support
- Loredana’s latest video demo of Pipeline visual IDE
- Tutorial on writing private transactions with Parity’s Secret Store
- Boilerplate for Truffle5 + Solium + Zeppelin + Coveralls
- Code for Delegated Execution Subscriptions[EIP1337/EIP948]
- Strengthening the weakest link in smart contract security – “onlyOwner”
- Exploring the Ethereum chain with Quickblocks. and part 2
- OpenZeppelin 2.0 release candidate
Releases
Live on mainnet
- Connext’s first payment channel hub (Spankchain) is live on mainnet
- Spankchain also began the process of releasing its stablecoin BOOTY, which is heavily collateralized by its native token. You stake SPANK to get BOOTY. (links should be safe for work)
- Zinc launches ERC725 identities on mainnet
- Bounties Network exploreris live (and get your BRLN coinat ETHBerlin)
- 0x v2 deployed to mainnet
- Dether is live, so you can trade ETH locally in 120 countries
- DDA goes live with 1 week long & short tokens available on ETH/USD (5X multiplier) and BTC/USD (1X multiplier
- BZx margin trading protocol launches on mainnet, Bamboo Relay should have margin trading live on Monday
Ecosystem
- .xyz names are now supported by ENS on mainnet
- Alethio’s visualization of opcodes over blocktime
- Rinkeby consensus failure port-mortem
- Dogethereum bridge is live with Doge mainnet and Rinkeby
- Sina Habibian: identity and reputation in web3
Enterprise
- Scaling for enterprise: explaining the IBFT algorithm
Governance and Standards
- ERC809/1201: Tokenizing Non-fungible Access
- Dean Eigenmann: Blockchains are not companies
- Last call for ERC1167 minimal proxy contract
- ERC1376: service friendly token
- ERC1384: equity agreement standard
Project Updates
- FunFair to launch this month after it got a Curaçao gambling license
- Aragon Core as decentralized OS
- Raiden v.0.8.0 update
- Digix’s two votes: rewards pool 4.2%, 97% voted to give them 20m USD, 34% participation
- Maecenas raised 1.7m for 31.5% of an Andy Warhol painting
- omiseGO ewallet update
- Maker monthly update
- Golem’s call for potential use cases
- Dmunity has a beta release of their Reddit-like app on Ethereum
- An early Brave 1.0 beta release. Current Brave stats: >4m mau
- Peepeth cancelled the Kickstarter and is doing a crypto-only fundraiser
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
- Phillip Angele talks Livepeer at Berlin meetup
- Arthur Falls returns with an interview of Zilliqa’s Amrit Kumar and Xinshu Dong
- Open Source Block Explorers community call
- Kleros on Epicenter
- Bernhard Müller on Hashing It Out
- Nadav Hollander with Laura Shin
- Gnosis CTO Stefan George on Inchained
Tokens / Business
- TechCrunch published a sloppy anti-ETH op-ed this week (no link). Check out Ameen Soleimani’s response and Vitalik Buterin’s.
- A false report may have tumbled cryptoasset prices this week, but Nathaniel Popper says Goldman is still moving forward with cryptoasset futures/forwards.
- Brayton Williams on using and investing in dapps
- ERC998 and the future of blockchain game assets
- Introducing the equilibrium bonding market
- Dynamic token bonding curves
General
- A comparison of interoperability protocols – Polkadot, Cosmos, Wanchain, Icon and Aion
- Gavin Wood: why we need web3
- Cosmos August update
- Zilliqa’s thinking on dev and user challenges of sharded chains
- Grin testnet <> Ropsten testnet atomic swap
- Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS
- Liberal Radicalism: Formal Rules for a Society Neutral Among Communities by Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl
- Shapeshift is moving to an account-based approach
- Coursera and ConsenSys intro to blockchains course
- With issuance reduction to 2 ETH per block, Bitcoin and Ethereum now have similar inflation rates
- Always good for a laugh: Ethereum obituaries
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
- September 7-9 – ETHBerlin hackathon
- September 7-9 – WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
- September 8 – Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
- Sept 10 – Devcon4 final wave of tickets go on sale at 4pm PDT
- September 12 – Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
- September 13-14 – EEA Tech Spec working group (NYC)
- September 21-23 – EthAtlanta
- Sept 29 – Oct 1 – Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
- Oct 5-7 – TruffleCon in Portland – ROGUETIM discount code this weekend only
- Oct 5-7 – ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
- Oct 11 – Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
- 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 to stop injecting web3
- Nov 3-4 – Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)
- Dec 7-9 – dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
- Dec 7-9 – ETHSingapore hackathon
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