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May 17, 2018

Week in Ethereum News
May 17, 2018
News and Links

Protocol

Casper FFG v0.2 with partial slashingCasper FFG schedule for decline of mining rewardsLatest Casper standupVB: RANDAO beacon exploitability analysis, round 2Prysmatic’s sharding implementation updateVB: Extending minimal sharding with cross-linksJustin Drake: proof of independent executionXuanji Li: Plasma limbo Exits and Challenging Fraudulent ExitsSourabh Niyogi: Plasma Cash with Sparse Merkle Trees, Bloom filters & Probabilistic TransfersHamdi Allam: structure for Plasma validators to earn fees even if confirm signature is unbroadcasted

 

Stuff for developers

RingCT PoC token live on RopstenFacu Spagnuolo: Ethereum (and EVM) in depth, pt 1Yoichi’s release notes on Bamboo v0.0.03Analyzing two honeypotsSolium 2 min demo videoParticipatory random numbers through repeated hashingLLL: a viable alternative to Solidity?Embark v3 release notesUpdate on Pyramid languageLoom’s Unity SDK to make it easy to integrate with their dappchain on the backendGroundhog: smart contract escrows for ERC948 recurring paymentseth-auth: validate control of an address by decoding signing of auth tokendot-abi-cli: framework for generating CLIs from ABITruffle and VueJS tutorialTruffle, Oraclize, ethereum-bridge and Webpack tutorialSetting up a multi node Swarm network tutorial
Practical decompilation of Ethereum contractsOnline Solidity decompiler

Ecosystem

Devcon4 in Prague on Oct 30th to Nov 2nd.Swarm Summit summaries: day 1, day 2, day 3Gathering of the security/audit community at EthBerlin?The new MyCrypto
is out of beta with all its new features, mobile Parity signer,
scheduled transactions with Chronologic, better gas slider, automatic
selection of most performant node, request payments, etcDexy
launches
in bug beta. Permissionless token listing for erc20, 223 and
777 standards, centralized low latency orderbook for now.  Their audit
found a bug in the Solidity compiler.

Enterprise

EEA client spec v1.0 released
Amazon unveils ConsenSys’ Kaleido in AWS for private Geth/Quorum enterprise networks using various consensus protocols with option to store a block hash on mainnetTaipei Fubon Commercial Bank deploys Quorum-based payment system for merchants using Istanbul BFT

Releases

Solidity 0.4.24: null pointer detection, multi variable declarations and storage variables for the SMT componentParity 1.11.1 beta.  Private transactions, faster warp sync, transaction queue optimizations, etc.  Also, Parity’s improved security processesGeth v1.8.8Remix IDE v0.6.3 – now uses ethers.js, ux changes, etc

Governance and Standards

ERC1077: users sign messages to show intent, but allow 3rd party to executeERC1078: a design method to replace the usual signup/login design pattern.Avsa’s talk at the UX unconf on the 2 ERCs above and discussion thread.ERC1082: standard to trade tokens across blockchains via atomic swap ERC1080: Recoverable token standard for loss or chargebacksERCs 1072 and 1084 merged into ERC721ERC1085: common genesis.json formatERC1087: Net gas metering for SSTORE operations

 

Project Updates

UjoMusic is live on the Ethereum mainnetJaak on their evolution towards a universal music ownership databaseAragon Q1 dev update.  Also they’ve officially split off the current team into a for profit entity, so that the foundation can also fund competitive teams Golem’s new promo and demo videosTrustWallet deeplinking: user hits link, downloads TrustWallet, automatically goes to dapp URL destinationHow to create a product for Streamr marketplace.  HPE and Nokia will be in the marketplace.Livepeer network economics update on transcoder performanceIntel and iExec working together on offchain computing using SGXNumerai locked up 3m tokens (~45m USD) for 10 yearsBrave with big performance improvements for users with too many open tabs0x Protocol v2
launch around July 30, with erc721 and ability to add more standards,
user friendly info for signing messages, support for more signature
types, etc.   Also check out its report on all its relayersERC dex to offer market makers 0% fees plus a rebate.  Augur to deploy to mainnet on July 9.  Joey Krug tweetstorm on building Augur

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

Phil Daian talks rent on Zero KnowledgeCZ from Binance on EpicenterWatch POA Network transfer 1.2m POA tokens (then ~1m USD) from its sidechain to Ethereum back to sidechainTomasz Drwiega talk on Parity’s tech stackPrint interview with Jack DuRose from ColonyLedger’s Thomas France on BoostVC podcastEthLondon: Kleros, CreditMint, ArtEvoMimir’s Hunter Prendergast and Forrest Marshall on Hashing It OutFluidity Summity morning and afternoon sessionsEthereal talksVideos from the web3 UX unconf in Toronto.  Also interviews with participants on Zero Knowledge podcastLaura Shin interview on UN’s World Food Programme Ethereum-based program for refugeesHudson Jameson talks governance with Jeff TongAya Miyaguchi with Laura ShinBrendan Eich on This Week in Startups

Tokens 

The Brooklyn Project’s framework for consumer tokensSEC releases HoweyCoins parody of scamToken Utility Canvas. a framework for token designSantiment keeps adding features to SanbaseCME launches ETHUSD reference rates using … only Kraken and Bitstamp?

 

General

Sia’s David Vorick with a must read on why proof of work inherently leads to centralizationVitalik points out EOS consensus protocol mistakes
FedEx’s Fred Smith says blockchain is “the next frontier” for supply chains and logistics.Bitmain leads $107m round for Circle plus $136m for tokenized USD New family of consensus protocols?Coinbase suite of institutional products.  They also get a Washington Post profileCNLedger says Chinese IT Ministry ranked 28 cryptos, with ETH first.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

May 17-19 – Melonport hackthon in ZugMay 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathonMay 19-20 – Hacketh (Warsaw)May 25 – 27 – EthBuenosAires hackathonMay 28 – Zeppelin’s zepcon0 conference (Buenos Aires)June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)July 14-15 – FEM governance meetings in BerlinSeptember 7-9 – EthBerlin hackathonOct 30 – Nov 2 – Devcon4 (Prague)

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