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Mesos Theme, recorded at Warm Studios in Leander, TX.

We are celebrating Owlboy's 7th anniversary, and Jonathan has graced us with this beautiful performance of the Owlboy Soundtrack.

Jonathan Geer (Composer) Piano Rachel Browne, Harp Eduardo Cassapia, Quenacho Tony Rogers, Cello Aaron Lack, Vibes

[weekinethereum]

July 26, 2018

News and Links

Protocol (with an assist from the Ethereum Research team)

Shasper chain, v2.1

Prysmatic’s biweekly update on transitioning to Eth 2.0 with separate Go codebase

VDFs are not Proof of Work by Danny Ryan.  Verifiable Delay Functions have some properties - requiring significant computation to calculate but relatively little computation to verify - that is suitable for strengthening RANDAO-based RNG. That sounds like proof of work, but Danny explains the difference between VDFs and PoW.

STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds by Vitalik Buterin: In Vitalik’s STARKs series part 3, he introduced how to actually implement a STARK with vivid explication.

Latest Casper standup call

VB: Epoch-less Casper FFG liveness/safety argument

Why Shasper makes more sense than the previous FFG, then sharding roadmap

LearnPlasma is really coming together as a Plasma education resource

A Plasma Cash primer from Simon de la Rouviere

Jinglan Wang: what is Plasma?  Plasma Cash?

Raiden is live on Ropsten testnet and open to testing

Stuff for developers

Benchmarking between Mythril, Manticore and Oyente from ConsenSys Diligence

What FoMo3d’s real exit scam might look like, but you can hedge with Augur?

Péter Szilágyi: How to PWN FoMo3D, a beginners guide

Pipeline - video explaining PoC of visual IDE of already deployed functions

Airswap tutorial on building with their API server

Adding ENS into your dapp tutorial

Tutorial to using Parity’s Secret Store multi-party key generation

IDEO on dealing with gas in UX

ethereum-to-graphql: autogenerate the schema and resolver

EthQL alpha from PegaSys and Infura

Aragon Package Manager - upgradeability for Aragon orgs

Zeppelin: Exploring upgradeability governance in ZeppelinOS with a Gnosis MultiSig

Apache Camel connector for Ethereum enterprise using web3j

The new Infura dashboard - existing access tokens need to migrate to v3 authentication keys and endpoints

Release

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.12, better syncing and performance.   Also has a new website.

web3j v3.5

web3.js 0.20.7 and web3.js 1.0.0-beta.35.  breaking change on http provider

EthereumJS VM v2.4.0 (and their monthly recap)

Live on mainnet

iExec went live on mainnet to test rendering.  80% of jobs completed.

Melonport is live on mainnet with somewhat constrained Paros release

Gnosis DutchX contracts are live on mainnet in advance of their 100k competition to build on them

Ecosystem

The new Gnosis Safe miltisig is live on Rinkeby

Parity’s Thibaut Sardan: what is a light client and why should you care?

Someone managed to briefly cause a kerfuffle with a 1337 Javascript popup in Etherscan using their Disqus comments.  

Nathan Sexer: State of stablecoins

Metamask’s retrospective on getting removed from the Chrome store this week.  Also how they’ll support more networks

A reader friendly version of 100+ Eth dev interviews from EthPrize

Governance and Standards

EIP1227 (remove difficulty bomb, revert to 5 ETH block reward) vs EIP1234 (delay difficulty bomb, reduce to 2 ETH block reward) vs EIP1240 (remove difficulty bomb, leave at 3 ETH block reward).   Results in Afri’s poll mirror what I hear in the community.

ERC1257: proof of payment standard

ERC1238: non-transferrable token badges

ERC1261: membership verification token

Add bottom-up composables to ERC998

ERC1263: NFT index

Project Updates

As planned, Augur burned the escape hatch, so the code is now decentralized.

Messari buys OnchainFX, lays out content strategy

Status now displays at full resolution on tablets, and no more Mixpanel

Maker to vote on increasing the Dai stability fee to 2.5%

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

Dappcon videos are coming in

Andy Tudhope talks about EthPrize’s dev interviews on Smartest Contract

CoinTelegraph with some good print interviews: Jutta Steiner and Joe Lubin

FunFair’s Jez San podcast interview

Open Source Web3 Design call

Jay Rush talking The Dao and how Quickblocks grew out of that from Gitcoin’s weekly stream

Dan Boneh on the Bitcoin Podcast

Ethan Buchman talks testnets on Zero Knowledge

Dan Finlay on MetaMask and Mustekala on Smartest Contract

Maker’s Rune Christensen print interview where he says they are developing their own language for better security

Martin Becze on Epicenter

 Tokens 

You now need Santiment tokens to access some of their market and data feeds.

Text tutorial of how to claim your (free) Livepeer tokens.

Incentivizing new users of TCRs through gamification

Mike Maples: Slow money crypto

General

Zilliqa releases its Scilla language “with formalization of its semantics and its embedding into Coq.”  Also of interest, Etheremon is planning to have gameplay on Zilliqa but will use Ethereum as its store of value.

First Polkadot parachain deployed in PoC2

Raul Jordan with an intro to hashing algos

NYTimes on art and blockchain

Péter Szilágyi: TOR from within GO.  I imagine many who read it will immediately start using the Brave browser’s private tabs with TOR

Ethereum coming to Google Cloud

John Backus with his lessons learned from p2p file sharing

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

August 7 - Start of two month distributed hackathon from Giveth, Aragon, Swarm City and Chainshot

August 10-12 - EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)

August 10-12 - ENS workshop and hackathon (London)

August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)

September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 - EthBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - EthSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)

December - EthSingapore hackathon

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Around the Block #12: NFT mania

Coinbase Around the Block sheds light on key issues in the crypto space. In this edition, Justin Mart and Ryan Yi take a look at the mania around NFTs (non-fungible tokens).

At this point, NFTs have taken over public discourse of crypto in a way reminiscent of ICOs in 2017, including mainstream and pop-culture coverage. Global search interest for NFTs has now surpassed that of Ethereum’s ICO frenzy in 2017.

What is an NFT?

The term “NFT” can be quite generic, so let’s break down some of the confusion. A “fungible” asset is one that is mutually interchangeable. Think dollar bills, where each one is identical and interchangeable with another.

According to Coinbase Learn, “NFTs (or “non-fungible tokens”) are a special kind of crypto asset in which each token is unique. Because every NFT is unique, they can be used to authenticate ownership of digital assets like artworks, recordings, and virtual real estate or pets.” The distinction here is around the asset itself vs the authenticated ownership of the asset. As Nic Carter put it, “the NFT should be understood as the autograph, not the art.”

Take for example digital art. The art itself is a simple jpg or gif file that can be shared anywhere, and is entirely fungible with limited intrinsic value. However, the NFT of that same picture is unique, and serves as the socially-recognized record of ownership over that same picture. It lives on the blockchain as a unique token (dubbed an ERC-721), where anyone can see whose address it belongs to.

Viewed from this light, if you own an NFT, what do you actually own?

It’s not a legal claim on the 0s and 1s that make up the digital art. There are no legal rights involved.

It’s not physical ownership of the picture, NFTs are entirely digital

It is a digital token that lives on a blockchain, which contains metadata that points to the art in question, and is freely transferable

It is a socially-recognized record of ownership. The artist themselves (or whoever minted the NFT) bestows upon the owner special status as the owner of this artwork

That last part is the special sauce. NFTs are a social coordination game, where creators and communities can collectively assign and recognize ownership over digital goods. But it also belies an important point: the value of NFTs are directly tied to the issuer. For example, nobody would care if I minted an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s tweet — I am not Jack Dorsey. But it’s a different story if the NFT came directly from Jack.

In other words, NFTs are a sort of liability of the issuer, it is up to the issuer to honor the importance and provenance of the NFT, and whatever other special properties the NFT may bestow.

NFTs are a social concept of digital ownership. Why should we care? What makes NFTs interesting?

How many times have you bragged about discovering a band before they were cool? What if we could represent this dynamic economically, in a socially-provable way?

This is the magic of NFTs. They make this a possibility by tokenizing fan ownership and community involvement early on. Consider a band. For them, issuing NFTs of their albums and special events can be a way to reward their earliest adopters and biggest fans with special status and a unique connection. The fact that NFTs live on a blockchain also brings a more direct, economic relationship, where the band can provide discounts for concerts to NFT owners, or other special rights.

For creators, NFTs allow them to take control of the economics based on their brand power — they can go direct-to-consumer and smart contracts can guarantee that creators will capture a slice of all future sales.

In the end, owning an NFT plants a flag on your fandom, for all to see and recognize and for others to tap into. Additionally, NFTs enable novel new composable interactions — for example, the owners of a LeBron James Top Shot might also get reduced prices or exclusive access to other NBA merchandise, as they’ve proven to be high-value customers and deeply loyal fans. “Buying an NFT is angel investing into culture.”

What is the NFT lifecycle?

Source: this can be any unique asset that exists. However, to drive value the source itself should come from the asset issuer (ie Jack’s tweet from Jack).

Primary Issuance: these are platforms that “tokenize” the source into an NFT. Platforms can be closed (“invite-only”) or open (anybody can mint an asset).

Secondary Exchange: these are platforms that facilitate the buy/sell of NFTs. Oftentimes, secondary exchanges have their own native primary issuance funnels.

The future of NFTs

Today, most cryptocurrency products live only in a digital format. But NFTs may begin to mark a transition where we may eventually be able to map real-world assets onto a blockchain in meaningful ways, perhaps including some sort of legal framework that secures actual ownership. In this future, imagine if a sports franchise like the LA Lakers tokenized their season tickets as NFTs? They could live in their fan’s wallets, secondary market price discovery could happen with P2P price discovery, and they would be immortalized as NFTs that live in this expansive, composable, digital metaverse.

News roundup

Retail

BTC breaks $60K all-time high

Etoro to go public via SPAC at $10B

FTX wins naming rights to the NBA Miami Heat stadium

Paypal acquires Curv

Beeple sells $69M NFT via Christie’s

Institutional

Blockchain.com raises $300M

NYDIG raises $200M led by Morgan Stanley

Fireblocks raises $133M led by Coatue (incl. BNY Mellon)

Taxbit raises $100M led by Tiger Global

Lukka raises $53M

FalconX raises $50M led by Tiger Global

Visa allows settlement of USDC on its network

Avanti raises $37M

Grayscale rolls out new trusts

GBTC Trust falls discount to NAV

Ecosystem

Uniswap v3 launches

Dapper Labs (Flow) raises $305M

Starkware raises $75M

Opensea raises $23M

Circle rolls out payments solution for NFT marketplaces

Compound Grants program launches

Livepeer launches Filecoin co-mining pilot

Staked launches ETH 2.0 trust

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Brighton go top with 3-0 win over 10-man QPR

Brighton & Hove Albion beat 10-guy Queens Park Rangers 3-0 to maneuver two factors free from Newcastle United at the very top of the British Tournament (second-tier) on Wednesday.

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REUTERS: Brighton & Hove Albion beat 10-guy Queens Park Rangers 3-0 to maneuver two factors free from Newcastle United at the very top of the British Tournament (second-tier) on Wednesday.

Mike Baldock obtained after 11 moments before a fee was transformed by Murray within the 53rd Luongo getting fouled Stephens. QPR captain Onuoha was delivered 3 minutes afterwards off and the 3rd was got by Knockaert .

Because they managed to move on to 51 factors from 23 activities to dominate at the very top from Newcastle who dropped athome to Sheffield on Friday, the gain expanded Brightonis unbeaten work to 17 activities.

” we’ve gained the best to become there and It’s really gratifying to become leading,” stated Brighton supervisor Chris Hughton.

“There’s a terrible long approach to take and we have to attempt to perform using the concepts proven within the first-half of the growing season.”

It had been a sixth consecutive beat for QPR who’re battling under manager Holloway that is new.

(Composing by Ken Ferris; Modifying by Louise Ireland)

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[weekinethereum]

June 28, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Latest Casper standup call

Buterin: Hash-based VDFs, MIMC and STARKs and Verifiable delay functions and attacks

More Buterin: griefing factor analysis model

Prysmatic’s latest sharding implementation update

Esteban Ordano: Plasmabits. Ethresear.ch writeup of EVM on Plasma chain

Alexey Akhunov: recent data on turbo-geth performance

Mist Browser beta and Ethereum Wallet v0.11.0 release candidate

Stuff for developers

Velma: real time Solidity debugger with VS Code integration

SolidStamp - on-chain registry of code audits

“A definition of purity in the Ethereum EVM with strategies for detecting purity on-chain”

Zero knowledge taxation on Ethereum from QED-it

What we learned contributing to OpenZeppelin

Tutorial on using Puppeth to create a PoA testnet on AWS

Writing WebAssembly by hand

ethereum-abi-ui: generate UI form fields from ABI

Bloom releases developer documentation

uPort overhauls its developer documentation

Simple NodeJS Eth explorer

Solidity, Truffle, NodeJS starter in a Docker image

Metamask passport client - verify token holdings for access

Your first Dharma loan dapp in 5 minutes tutorial

Etherlime: dev framework using ethers.js

web3.Swift v0.3 - native ABI parsing

IBFT explainer for enterprise devs

Ecosystem

Ethereum Name Service: New team, new logo, new roadmap, new workshop/hackathon

Analyzing decentralized exchange activity from Alethio. Cool data viz.

Bankex’s charity water vending machine using NFC

UX challenges in Ethereum - wrapup of post-Edcon UX unconf

Two Ethereum messaging implementations: Melon mail updated and Eth-mail live on Ropsten

Live on mainnet

Status beta is live on mainnet

DAOStack’s Alchemy frontend is deployed to mainnet

Governance and Standards

Enjin blog post on ERC 1155. Gaming NFTs so you can swap many tokens with less gas

ERC1178: Multi-class token standard similar to ERC1155

A different take on NFT composables from Cryptokitties

Project Updates

Livepeer: a path to scaling video transcoding — mining GPUs can transcode video in parallel with only marginal increase in electricity

Updates on the Digix Gold Marketplace

Nice summary of recent Golem AMA

Grid+ gets regulatory approval in Texas to sell electricity

Maker is revamping Oasis dex

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Vlad Zamfir and Vitalik Buterin talk scalability on Hidden Forces

Logan Brutsche talks his new Crypto Primitives Academy on Hashing It Out

London meetup talks: OpenLaw, Incentivai, Ambrosus

Joe Lubin video (and transcript!) on some of the theses that drive ConsenSys

Vanessa Grellet talks social impact on Blockchain Bridge

Paratii’s Felipe Santa Ana The Bitcoin Podcast

Jutta Steiner on fixing the internet with Economist radio

Tokens

Eric Budish NBER working paper: The economic limits of Bitcoin and blockchain. The “model suggests that Bitcoin would be majority attacked if it became sufficiently economically important”

Objective vs subjective TCRs

Incentive alignment in TCRs

Mimicables as token primitive

Token Foundry’s standards for consumer tokens

Vitalik’s estimate of Bitcoin and Ether demand elasticity using historical events

General

EthNews owner Blockchains, LLC pulls back the curtain just a little bit at its massive Northern Nevada industrial park

Sacramento Kings NBA franchise to mine Ether for charity

Brian Armstrong launches GiveCrypto with a 1m donation

a16z announces 300m crypto venture fund

Fortune Q&A with Olaf Carlson-Wee on getting to 1 billion AUM

Facebook lifts its blanket ban on crypto ads

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

June 25 -- Etherisc token sale starts

June 28 -- BuildEth (San Francisco)

June 30 -- Solidity Gas Golfing challenge deadline

June 30-July1 -- Off the chain state channel workshop (Berlin)

July 6-7 -- TechCrunch blockchain and Ethereum events (Zug)

July 9 -- Augur scheduled to launch

July 12 -- Sharding and Casper workshop with Karl Floersch and Justin Drake (New Delhi)

July 12-18 -- IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)

July 14-15 -- Ethereum Magicians governance talks in Berlin

July 19-20 -- DappCon (Berlin)

July 24-26 -- NIFTY hackathon and NFT conference (Hong Kong)

August 3-4 -- Discon (Boulder, CO)

August 10-12 -- EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)

August 10-12 -- ENS workshop and hackathon (London)

August 22 -- Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

September 6 -- Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 -- EthBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 -- WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

Oct 5-7 -- TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 -- EthSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 22-24 -- Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- Devcon4 (Prague)

December -- EthSingapore hackathon

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May 3, 2018

Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

Vitalik published shard fork choice POC, “a fork choice rule-based mechanism for how sharding can be bolted on top of the current ethereum main chain, with a specialized random beacon and shard block times of <10 seconds” (source with lots more)

Prysmatic Labs: sharding update

More VB: Cross-links between main chain and shards

Latest Casper standup

Justin Drake: Plasma chain for offchain gas payments

VB: Optimistic cheap multi-exit for Plasma

Kelvin Fichter: Reliable exits of “limbo exits”

Swarm POC3 released ahead of their summit in Ljubljana next week

 Stuff for developers

State machine testing with Echidna

documentation for Chanterelle, FOAM’s Truffle competitor in Purescript

Proof of concept for a trustless ethereum mixer using zksnarks

Writing a dominance assurance contract

Set up a light geth node for 35 bucks

Detecting batchOverflow (and similar flaws) using Mythril.  Or you can watch Bernhard’s conference talk

Releases

Geth v1.8.7 - fix for archive nodes exceeding 1 tebibyte

web3j v3.4.0 with dynamic gas support

“is live on mainnet” section

p2p video streaming platform Livepeer’s alpha release live on mainnet.  See also Reddit thread.

Dharma live on mainnet, though in closed beta for bug bounty

KnownOrigin ERC721 marketplace live on mainnet

Reversible ETH with Silverwire live on mainnet, with a 5 gwei gas subsidy.  Similar to Tabby from BlockCat

Ecosystem

Next cohort of Ethereum Foundation grants

18 Ideas for 0x Relayers in 2018

b0x margin trading is live on Ropsten.  Their contrast with dY/dX and Lendroid

Practical Plasma game examples from Loom

PoA sidechain bridge launches May 10th for tokens

Truebit April research update

ConsenSys Academy is developing a Coursera class

Open Source Money will BUIDL the Open Source Ecosystem

Infura: 15,000 registered devs, over 6 billion daily API requests, moving 1.6 petabytes monthly

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance releases architecture stack

Governance and Standards

Hudson Jameson and Nick Johnson talk current Ethereum governance process.  Or check Dan Finlay’s flowchart of EIP process. Also summaries of the EIP0 breakout sessions.

Aragon’s road to decentralization: minimum viable foundation

Discussion on ERC948 about a subscription standard

EIP1052: proposal for new EXTCODEHASH opcode

EIP1051: Arithmetic overflow detection for the EVM

ERC1056: Lightweight identity

Project Updates

Jaak launches music rights database pilot with Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell, BMG and Global Music Rights

Brave growth stats: now over 2.2M monthly active users, 75% mobile (where it’s a must use).  If you don’t use Brave yet, here’s my referral code.

How to Launch a Newsroom on Civil

Q&A on the Cellarius universe

Kyber Network to rebrand and also “facilitate ICOs”

localethereum adds 22 payment methods worldwide

Spankchain review of 1 month of beta

The Kauri stack

RightMesh video demo (2 mins)

A deep dive into Golem architecture

Hoard building an NFT exchange on OmiseGo.  The FreeMyVunk idea lives.

An update to the OmiseGo roadmap

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

Zaki Manian on Hashing It Out

Linda Xie and Avichal Garg on YC podcast

Zero Knowledge podcast does intro to zk proofs.  So meta.

Text interview with Christian Reitwießner

A video walkthrough of Status Incubate

Podcast with Max Stein from Balanc3

Podcast with Nick Johnson on governance

Brian Fabian Crain on the other side of the mic with Software Engineering Daily

  Tokens 

Two reputation-like take on TCRs: layered TCRs and graded TCRs

Matt Lockyer on use cases for ERC998 composable NFTs

Livepeer’s “MerkleMine” token distribution method

Cofound.it’s Actionable Research, a product-market fit tool.  Also their Q1 report

FOAM white paper

Wendy Xiao Schadeck: how to efficiently distribute tokens

  General

Russia wants to become a leading geographic hub for blockchains, and Paul Vigna reports that perhaps American regulators want to help them.  SEC and CFTC folks are meeting May 7 to discuss their approach to this space.

Joe Lubin: Ether is not a security and regulators understand that

Cosmos is “85% of the way to launch.”

Brave WSJ op-ed: The Internet’s ‘Original Sin’ Endangers More Than Privacy

GoldmanSachs to trade Bitcoin futures

Is Coinbase creating a centralized or decentralized financial system?

Next episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley is named “Initial Coin Offering.” Maybe the only surprise is that it is this season and not last.

Sergey Brin’s 2017 letter: “boom in computing . . . stemming from . . . the GPU-friendly proof-of-work algorithms found in some of today’s leading cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum.”

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

May 3-5 -- Edcon in Toronto (livestream)

May 7-11 -- Swarm Summit in Ljubljana

May 10 -- Fluidity Summit on finance (NYC)

May 10 -- CryptoCup opens for World Cup predictions

May 11-12 -- Ethereal (NYC)

May 15 -- Kleros sale

May 16-17 -- Token Summit (NYC)

May 17 -- Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)

May 17-19 -- Melonport hackthon in Zug

May 18-20 -- EthMemphis hackathon

May 19-20 -- Hacketh (Warsaw)

May 25 - 28th -- EthBuenosAires hackathon

June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)

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