Protocol
At EthCC, Vitalik announced . [Outside, Karl Floersch was giving an ].
This design framework – coins deposited on Plasma chain as NFT thus
you can track only Merkle branches for your own coins – comes from in last week’s issue.
Karl released a .
:
“Plasma is not a sidechain/drivechain. Sidechains and drivechains let
50% of the miners on the sidechain steal all coins in the side/drive
chain. Plasma relies only on the security of the main chain”
Machinomy:
A from Spankchain
Latest Eth/RChain
Sharding: .
Sharding:
Scaling now with – initial deployment connecting PoA chains
You’ve probably already seen their CryptoZombies series, now LoomNetwork (one DPoS sidechain per dapp written in Go; there’s a decentralization tradeoff). You can , which is aimed at game developers.
Stuff for developers
– smart fuzzer for Solidity code from Trail of Bits
: a (much) better way to airdrop. Can also be used for NFTs
– store gas when it’s cheap to use when it is expensive by using the storage refund. For more, worth a read due to Phil Daian participating.
Is the ? They’re soliciting opinions
?
O(1)Labs released
Alex Sherbuck is doing a that has been done in Soldiity
SwarmCity releases – group agreements to maintain IPFS data. .
Updated version of using
Ujo’s
– security tool from the recent academic article.
EIP/ERC
: Eth Avatar standard
: Eternal storage standard
Release
– choose your EVM, new features, bugfixes, etc
: Get an ENS subdomain and point it at your wallet instantly
Ecosystem
Lane Rettig’s notes on the at EthCC
– visual Eth address explorer
Cool from Etherchain
A
– bounties for things the ecosystem needs. first bounties for EthPM package manager and open source block explorerNearly due to one character typos
All . I particularly liked .
Project Updates
“” after Zeppelin audit
Docker’s ex-CEO is joining
Propy records on blockchain
Updated
is shipping kits to early backers
Washington Post is now
Iconomi announces
LivePeer’s
Digix to
New Projects
– decentralized SETI, reusable for different problems.
– putting identities onchain using ERC725 and ERC735
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Software Engineering Daily hits Ethereum hard this week. First, PoS with , then talking , and talking . And last week and . What’s great about these is that they have transcripts.
More (interview starts around 30:05)
with Yoichi Hirai, Matt Condon, and Santi Palladino
with Laura Shin
talks to Max Sklar
Corey Petty talk on
Zero Knowledge talks to and to
Just to reiterate: all
Tokens
:
“The potential market of blockchains that use smart contacts, like
Ethereum, dwarfs that of ‘store of value’ chains (i.e. bitcoin)”
Why Dharma Protocol
Cofound.it:
TrueDigital and ConsenSys create a , a crucial step for derivatives
Robby Greenfield on the
SEC:
Bloomberg:
USV’s Nick Grossman: why
General
Vivek Singh: of the history of the internet
Politico on
IMF head Chrstine Lagarde acknowledges
ConsenSys announces
Caitlin Long on getting enacted into law, “a US version of Switzerland’s “Crypto Valley””
US House . You may get annoyed when Brad Sherman (D-CA) comes on.
Sierra Leone put on Ethereum as a backup
as UK banking partner
Last Week Tonight.
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