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March 7, 2018

Week in Ethereum News
March 7, 2018
Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

Spankchain releases 2 generalized state channel videos: an overview and a code walkthrough
Prysmatic’s sharding Golang implementation roadmap.  [And want to work on a stateless sharding implementation in Rust?]
Justin Drake: Optimised proposal commitment scheme
More Justin: Proposer withholding and collation availability traps
VB: Proposal/confirmation separation: a bug and a fix
Latest Eth/RChain Casper standup call
Single-round Validation Failure Analysis under Equivocation
Plasma implementation call 4
KR8OS Plasma implementation code
Karl Floersch Plasma overview.  Slides.
VB: Plasma with much less per-user data checking
EIP905: Fast clone the storage by copying the storage root hash
EIP909: Revert contract state back to specific block
Vitalik on scaling in 2018 in Singapore.  Trustnodes summary.

Stuff for developers

Gonçalo Sá: Improved `delegatecall` proxy contract factory
Solidity ABI v2
Sha256 zksnark parameter generation + ethereum deployment
Axlang: formally verifiable language based on Scala.  Compiles to JVM, cross-compiles to EVM.  Not yet open source.
Infura benchmarks performance and costs in AWS EC2 instances
Create your first dapp with Web3 an Vue.JS
CryptoZombies Lesson 5: ERC 721 editions
Indorse on architectures for upgrading your code.

Client release

Geth v1.8.2
ethers.js v.3.0.1

Ecosystem

MyCrypto’s new site is now in beta
List of the Ethereum Foundation scalability grants
Jacob Horne: Cryptoeconomic primitives
Cryptogs – play pogs on Ethereum testnet
If you’re a visual learner about Ethereum fundamentals: Ethereum Illustrated.  Reminds me of Ethereum Ontology
VB: Prediction markets for content curation DAOs
VB: Conditional PoS hashcash

Project Updates

UjoMusic releases testnet alpha of their Creator’s Portal
Status in security audit for beta release
New demo from OpenLaw on creating contracts
Auctus is live on Rinkeby
Melon Jan/Feb dev update
Bounties Network: the future of work is on blockchain (and what’s wrong with freelance sites)
Toshi now supports ERC20 and ERC721 tokens
Alethio’s suite of Ethereum analytics products.  Pretty cool data viz.
Blockpunk: the Cellarius take on cyberpunk

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Will Warren with Laura Shin
Brendan Eich on Changelog’s Request for Commits podcast
Transcript of Griff’s scaling talk with Truebit
Print Q&A with Fabian Vogelsteller
EthNews brief Q&A with new Foundation ED Aya Miyaguchi

General

PayPal files patent for “expedited virtual currency transaction system
VB:
“all DPOS systems as far as I can tell basically succumb to the
explicit bribing attack. These pools give up to 90% of their staking
revenues out to anyone who votes for them; this game inherently favors
larger and larger pools”
Ledger appears to have an exploit, so update your firmware.  Ledger claims that it’s not a critical flaw as it requires physical access to your Ledger and malware on your computer.
Nouriel Roubini and Preston Byrne: the blockchain pipe dream
Brazilian development bank to create a Real fixed token.
Coinbase index fund – initially GDAX assets weighted by market cap, and US only accredited investors, but with plans to expand both.

Dates of note

Upcoming dates:

Mar 8-10 – Ethereum Community Conference in Paris
May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto
May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)
May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)

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