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September 21, 2018
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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June 14, 2018
Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
Counterfactual: generalized state channels. Academic paper. Also Jeff Coleman Reddit comment on the history and progress of state channels. The rest of that Reddit thread is worth reading as well.
Tom Close: Minimal Progamable State Channels
Latest Casper standup call
Drake: Committee-based sharded Casper.
Drake: 1-bit BLS aggregation-friendly custody bonds
More Justin Drake: “we are considering changing the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap to skip Casper FFG with 1500 ETH deposits. Instead Casper and sharding validators would be unified from the get-go in the beacon chain, and deposits would be 32 ETH.” Two less technical Reddit threads worth reading: one and two.
Prysmatic’s geth sharding implementation update
Hsiao-Wei Wang: what you can do for sharding slide deck. Nice sharding overview in there as well.
Latest Plasma implementation calls: this week and two weeks ago
an “alternative light-client concept for plasma chain clients”
Dan Robinson: Plasma Debit. payment channels on Plasma Cash?
Loi Luu video talk on Kyber’s Gormos scalability project: application specific “plasma plus sharding”
Ben Jones, Kelvin Fichter: More Viable Plasma
Alexey Akhunov: latest on Turbo-Geth
Stuff for developers
First Vyper beta release
Truper: compile vyper contracts to truffle compatible artifacts.
Karen Scarbrough: A guide to generalized state channels for developers. And part 2.
Connext on becoming a network for projects to open hubs
Human readable contract ABIs using ethers.js
sol2proto - Amis’s first step to Contract as a Service
hevm: an EVM implementation for unit testing from Dapphub
ethQL: a graphQL interface from ConsenSys
Loom SDK out in public beta with long update on their plans
dappeteer: e2e testing with Puppeteer + MetaMask
libSTARK: C++ library for Starks from EliBen-Sasson
Thetta DAO framework v0.1. Github repo
Eth dev with Go online guide book
Cryptographic javascript-functions for Ethereum with web3js tutorials
Ecosystem
Slock.it INCUBED client - a network of server nodes for Slockit’s IoT devices
How Weeve puts an Eth wallet in trusted enclave
Latest Open Block Explorers call
John Wolpert on the future of private and public blockchains
Introducing EthIndia and EthBerlin applications are open
Vitalik’s ELI5 on the difference between full and archive nodes
Tips on applying for ECF grants
Releases
Geth v1.8.11: 28% less disk usage, 23% faster block processing, increased memory stability
Governance and Standards
Casey Detrio on what happened to EIP648 (tldr: disk I/O is bottleneck, not CPU)
ERC721 finished last call and is finalized
Dean Eigenmann: against community governance
Avsa: governance of the .ETH namespace and ENS foundation
PoA Network governance model
Project Updates
Augur bounty program opens tomorrow before full launch on July 9
Bloomberg on the Decentraland land rush
Dharma 3 month roadmap: improve dharma.js API, better documentation, standardize terms on some debt agreements
Maker: a Dai primer
Now much easier to pay in tokens like Dai on Gitcoin
How Golem wants to use SGX for computational integrity and privacy
FunFair to seek platform licenses so casino operators don’t have to get their own license
TrustWallet to sell its tokens on Kyber
Brave at 2.7m MAUs and giving away 500k more in BAT
0x’s vision, mission and core values
Andy Warhol work to be auctioned by Maecenas
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Truebit’s Harley Swick on Hashing It Out
Grigore Rosu talks K framework on Epicenter
Joey Krug with Laura Shin
5 mins of Joey Krug’s story of risktaking leading him to Augur
Meher Roy gets interviewed by Decrypt Asia
Glen Weyl lecture on Radical Markets at Google
Video of Kyber Network’s event last week
Griff Green revisits The DAO on Zero Knowledge
Tokens
SEC’s William Hinman: “current offers and sales of Ether are not securities transactions.”
CFTC Commissioner Rostin Behnam: “Blockchain is more than technology: it is an advance that reaches out into every aspect of life.”
Colony’s Hackathon is an MVP of perpetual inflation to incentivize developers.
Etherisc: democratizing insurance using blockchain
A compendium of NFT links
Ujo: expanding collectibles for artists
Incentivized music curation with curved bonding rewards
What if BitTorrent had a token? More lessons learned from p2p file sharing by John Backus
General
Leigh Cuen reports on Code to Inspire offering Afghan women opportunities to earn Eth for completing tasks
How Polkadot is addressing the big issues in blockchain
Academic paper claiming Bitfinex/Tether manipulated Bitcoin price. I skimmed and did not see reason to update my priors. Still maybe.
Coinbase Index Fund is now open.
VB answers a few technical questions on Marginal Revolution.
Irish newspaper interviews Joe Lubin
Discussion of 20 psychological biases around money that is getting passed around in crypto circles this last week
A year after the sale, Tezos adds KYC/AML
WSJ on big pharma companies tracking supply chains using Ethereum.
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
June 24 -- Colony online hackathon finishes
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 12-18 -- IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
July 14-15 -- FEM governance meetings 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)
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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January 1, 2017
News and Links
Top
"If you understood how many companies, large and small, and developers are jumping into the Ethereum space, you would consider 2016 to be an enormous growth year. All of this will soon surface." -- Joe Lubin
Brianne Rivlin's 2016 Retrospective for EthNews
Christoph Jentzsch on public vs private chains for enterprise
Get a RaspberryPi node running in 30 minutes . . . now with Swarm!
Protocol
Vlad Zamfir has gone on a writing (and tweeting!) binge to end 2016:
Against Economic Abstraction (& Reddit comment thread)
Vitalik agrees for mandatory fees and deposits, but is ok with abstraction for voluntary fees.
Plus: Against Economic Abstraction Round 2! (& very interesting cryptoeconomic Reddit thread)
The History of Casper, Chapter 5
Vitalik's Design Philosophy for Proof of Stake
Part of the point of PoS is that "many orders of magnitude more economic value can be cleared by the consensus than is staked in the consensus." - Vlad
Interest rate likely to be variable
Explain Like I'm Five Years Old: Casper Proof of Stake.
There's a community proposal to significantly lower block rewards for mining.
That would likely lead to Zcash having 3x the hashpower of Ethereum.
PoS will likely launch like Ethereum did with Olympic: an incentivized testnet first
Vitalik believes the chances of Proof of Stake in 2017 are between 50 and 80%.
Viktor Tron believes we'll get Swarm's incentive systems due in PoC 0.4 during 2017.
Swarm
Demo video on how to use Swarm
Will Swarm be used to store the blockchain?
What's the difference between IPFS and Swarm?
Stuff for Dapp developers
Avsa's Time Lock multisig tutorial
Solidity 4.7 compiler may give different code for different spacing
Consensys' Igor Lilic: A round of Open Source Ethereum tools from banking.
Raine Revere on the state of the Eth developer community
Looking for Dapp ideas? /u/Dunning_Krugerrands has a list for you.
Also worth reading: DK on Ethereum dapp low-hanging fruit.
Ecosystem
Confirmed beyond a Joe Lubin hint: Overstock’s TØ is using Ethereum
Lots of controversy over Ether.Camp Hackathon results, much like in the first one.
Final day voters: 80% for the winner, 20% everyone else.
A few days of work a few months ago creating real-looking FB accounts could've won you $50,000.
Project Oaken won the vote among the judges
Stephan Tual published a blog post “What’s with the price of Ether?” . . . yet didn't mention the DAO?
Vitalik's roundup of December publications on PoS, Casper, Swarm, privacy, monetary policy, and more
Vitalik apparently wrote an unpublished report for R3 in September entitled "Chain Interoperability."
Project Updates
Status.im on the long-term privacy vision of their Ethereum mobile interface
Bernd Lapp: Arcade City changes name to Swarm City
Rouleth reaches 10k bets and launches Rock-Paper Scissors alpha
CypherPoker update
Digix releases alpha demo of Spectrum - its "lightsuite"
Testnet launch: Ethmail.tech client that stores email on the blockchain
All about the Etherplay game platform
Create invoice smart contract via Telegram bot
Selected podcast interviews
Augur's Joey Krug
Golem's Alex Leverington
Dmitry Buterin
General
Jeffrey Berns continues to fight the absurdly broad IRS subpoena of Coinbase customer info. The IRS is now cynically trying to remove his standing by excluding just him from the subpoena.
Berns: "[IRS's move] makes it clear that the IRS does not have a legitimate purpose in seeking substantial personal and financial information concerning approximately 3 million Americans."
America's tax dollars at work!
TechCrunch talks iEx.ec and Golem computing on the blockchain
Harvard Business Review: The Truth About Blockchain
FastCo: This Blockchain Thing Is Really Happening, Time To Learn What It Is
Vitalik on Bitcoin scaling
Dates of note
Jan 15 -- Intellisys private equity "Mainstreet fund" sale begins
Jan 17 -- iEx.ec token sale begins
Jan 27-29 -- Thomson Reuters "Hack the Valley" hackathon
Feb 6 -- FundRequest sale begins
Feb 15 -- Chronobank sale ends
Feb 17-18 -- Ethereum Euro Dev Conference in Paris
[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. This is not investment advice.]
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