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March 31, 2018

Week in Ethereum News
March 31, 2018
News and Links

Protocol

Latest Plasma implementation call
Latest core dev call.  Call notes.
Latest Casper standup
Latest Prysmatic Labs sharding implementation call
Taipei sharding workshop recap
Wrapup of current scaling solutions from web3/Giveth ScalingNow conf
VB: layer 2 solutions to reduce latency and curb front running
KF: POS Plasma Cash with Sharded Validation so that Plasma Cash is useful for more than just exchanges.
Li Xuanji: State channels and Plasma Cash
Mustafa Al-Bassam: Data availability proof-friendly state tree transitions
VB: Improving the UX of rent with a sleeping+waking mechanism (and napping from Dan Robinson).  "Rent + sleeping/waking is essentially a moderate position between status quo and statelessness.“

Stuff for developers

Trail of Bits 8 Ethereum security tools
Machinomy’s walkthrough of generalised state channels
GnosisX competition to build using their SDK
Use EthDNS to host a DNS domain
First WASM contract deployed on Kovan
Part 3 of Jaak’s intro to web3 developing includes Swarm
Richard Moore: when you might want to use intentionally replayable transactions
bytecode generator from EVM assembly on Haskell DSL
Comparing contract storage and upgrading in Augur and Colony
Latest OpenZeppelin release includes ERC721 implementation
Karen Scarbrough walks you through that ERC721 implementation


EIP/ERC

ERC945: web3 QR Code Scanning API  
ERC948: recurring subscription model
EIP958: modify block mining to be ASIC resistant
Nick Johnson: A proposed update to the process for EIP drafts
The EIP repository

Release

ethereum.rb v2.2
ethereumjs-devp2p v2.5.0 – w/ LES/2 light client protocol
AragonCore v0.5 – on Rinkeby

Ecosystem

The Address Handle System, an alternative to ENS?
A step by step walkthrough of Truebit
EthPledge: onchain matching for charity donations
VB: Against coin votes as governance and VB’s counter to Larimer’s response.
Transaction Permission Layer from Zeppelin: KYC/AML/accreditation layer for exchange
Sarah Mills: How to design for trust in trustless tech
Beltran Berrocal: UX framework for dapp development

Project Updates

DGX tokens (1 gram of gold) for sale April 8 except to US, China, Japan.  KYC open now
Updated FunFair roadmap – close to going live.  Also Q&A with Jez
GitCoin Q1 update
RequestNetwork is live on the mainnet
SpankChain’s camsite beta is going live this week
OasisDirect – instant exchange of ETH for MKR or DAI
Exchange ERC20 instantly using 0x.  1 click purchase using their widget
How bounties translated MetaMask
Brave desktop browser switching from their Electron fork to Chromium UI
RightMesh demos microRaiden payment channels between two mesh networks
Basic Attention Token is the first Ethereum token approved for the iOS store
Dharma Plex – open source tool to create and fund p2p lending agreements

New Projects

Trustwallet – eth and tokens wallet, available on iOS and Android
Kauri – decentralized tech support network.  Ethereum definitely needs better documentation.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

5 min Jutta Steiner video interview on what she wants from decentralization
Stefan George talks Gnosis Dutch exchange at EthLondon
Tony Sakich resurfaces with Dee on the bitcoin Podcast
Jackson Palmer on the Ethereum roadmap
Zooko with Laura Shin
Taylor Monahan on CryptoTokenTalk
Open source block explorer Giveth video conference
Zero Knowledge with Karl Floersch and Phil Daian
This short and awesome Aragon video on why they’re building Aragon
Lately Software Engineering Daily is all Ethereum: Christian Reitweissner, Streamr, DAO/Slock.it with Christoph Jentzch, Ethan Buchman,

Tokens

Jacob Eliosoff: Ethereum is a better store of value than bitcoin
ConsenSys comments on the CFTC virtual currency proposal, particularly around what constitutes delivery
A generalized Metcalfe’s Law model to predict bitcoin price
Transcript of the Etherisc AMA
Simon de la Rouviere – Arcade Bazaar: Continuous, Multi-Party, Tokenized Funding Without Central Issuance
Userfeeds to be the social layer for NFTs.


General

Coinbase to next add ERC20 tokens support.  First with CoinbaseCustody then other products.
Dunning_Krugerrands with an updated vision of the future running on Ethereum
OmiseGo and Vitalik Buterin are donating $1m USD in OMG tokens to refugees through GiveDirectly
Congrats to the Ethereum Community Fund’s first grantees – XLNT (Gnarly/NFTs), Prysmatic Labs (sharding), Reality Check (decentralized oracles), EthPrize, and Swingby (crosschain protocol to issue BTC tokens on Ethereum)
Zilliqa releases public testnet
Economist talks trade finance on blockchains
How Micah Dameron’s journey led to the Beige Paper (accessible Yellow Paper)
Reuters: Wall St is finding it hard to put blockchains into production
Reuters: JPMorgan to spin off Quorum for greater adoption?

Dates of note

Upcoming dates of note:

April 3-4 – Deconomy in Seoul
April 9 – Blockchain for Social Impact incubator begins
April 11 – European Blockchain Summit in Slovenia
April 17 – DappDev in Kiev
April 24 – Oslo Blockchain Day in Norway. 20% off with discount code EVAN
April 25 – Virtue Poker sale
April 27-29 – Hackital Eth hackathon in Washington, DC
May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
May 15 – Kleros sale
May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)
May 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathon
May 25 – 28th – EthBuenosAires hackathon

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