Protocol
call. Lane’s .Latest Jaynti Kanani: getting through propose and commit periodic checkpointsKelvin Fichter: Vitalik Buterin: codeGithub issue for using , eg sharding: 3rd party agent to solve the monitoring problem for state channels. from Patrick McCorry, Surya Bakshi, Iddo Bentov, Sarah Meiklejohn, and Andrew Miller
Stuff for developers
Nick Johnson announces the first to write gas optimized code on Rinkeby: An EOS-Like DPoS sidechain: compile Solidity faster and easieruPort’s code to What it’s like to go from development workSuperblocks Truffle : upgrade to solc v0.4.24 implements Perun’s virtual channel code (and tutorial)dev’s perspective
Ecosystem
Dan Finlay: ?Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin: uPort to rewrite some of its Latest “” callEtherscan has a : dex order book, dex tracker, gas tracker, Swarm searchA beginner’s Ideo on ECF: available in the greater Ethereum ecosystem: better documentation, better debugger, getting data off the chain, error codes, tooling, etc. Great work by Robbie Bent, Sina Habibian, Andy Tudhope and Josh Stark. An writeup. FedEx is getting into our space.: Forced bribes
Live on mainnet
is now live on mainnet. Borrow and lend ERC20 tokens, write a debt
relayer, be an underwriter, build your own debt agreement, etc. promo vid.
Governance and Standards
is in “last call” so there’s a decent amount of discussion. : “proposes a 10x reduction in the gas cost for the ECADD precompile, 20x for ECMUL, and a 14x reduction in the per-pairing cost of the pairing check precompile” due to faster implementation: Remove call costs for precompiled contracts: standard bounties (updated): decentralized user authentication standard: introspective metadata definition disclosure: opt-in web3 access: Cross-client encrypt/decryptDiscussion on using eth_signTypedData as a human readable standard
Project Updates
Akasha update with their Mysterium with Viant’s supply chain trackerWhat’s The crazy things Pangea fractional tokenized real estate Coinbase . GDAX rebrands as is openWhy and how Gnosis is addressing Get your on <githubname>.gitcoin.eth. Also, the .TheNextWeb Q&A with Kauri update on its
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
on Zero Knowledge presents Parity Substrate with Laura ShinJacob Eberhardt ZoKratesJarrad Hope on how at NYC EthereumNYC Blockchain week with Joseph Poon, Kelvin Fichter, Jae Kwon, Vitalik Buterin and Karl Floersch on Crypto101Deconomy: and talksVideo interview of founders
Tokens
An overview of Venture bonding: Jacob Horne on the from Etherisc – an implementation of DAICO for exchanges trading “virtual currency” derivatives. This takes me back to the days of holding a series 3 license.NAASA announces “”
of 32 enforcement actions against fraud plus the recent inquiries from
the NY AG’s office (though he has now resigned in scandal). I’ve never
heard of any of those 32, but the WSJ reports they’re saying it is the “.” applauding them. There’s also the WSJ report .
General
. Still aiming for q3 2019 launchParity discontinues its (PICOPS) due to GDPR is a libertarian fantasyJump Trading’s crypto desk is to appleWSJ profiles . The WSJ also says . Just writing that gave me flashbacks to my days filling out banking regulatory applications to dozens of regulatory agencies.HTC building a . [Reminder, media sites need the Brave browser. Here’s my ]: Ethereum v R3 v Hyperledger
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
May 25 – 27 – hackathonMay 28 – Zeppelin’s (Buenos Aires)June 1 – (Washington, DC)June 28 – (San Francisco)June 30 – challenge deadlineJuly 14-15 – in BerlinSeptember 7-9 – hackathonOct 5-7 – in PortlandOct 30 – Nov 2 – (Prague)
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