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Week in Ethereum News
May 23, 2018
News and Links

Protocol

Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes.Latest Casper standupJaynti Kanani: getting block times down in Plasma through propose and commit periodic checkpointsKelvin Fichter: Proving UTXO Sum Validity for Mass ExitsVitalik Buterin: Network latency based “clocks” and their limitsblob serialization codeGithub issue for using libp2p in the future, eg shardingPisa: 3rd party agent to solve the monitoring problem for state channels. Academic paper from Patrick McCorry, Surya Bakshi, Iddo Bentov, Sarah Meiklejohn, and Andrew Miller

Stuff for developers

Nick Johnson announces the first Solidity Gas Golfing Contest to write gas optimized codeRegister .test domain with ENS on RinkebyLoom’s ZombieChain: An EOS-Like DPoS sidechainSolidity-cli: compile Solidity faster and easieruPort’s code to pay gas for usersReact starter kit integrated with DrizzleWhat it’s like to go from decentralized dev back to centralized development workSuperblocks online IDETruffle v4.1.11: upgrade to solc v0.4.24Connext v0.2 implements Perun’s virtual channel codethe Aragon developer portal (and tutorial)Learning Solidity from a Java dev’s perspective

Ecosystem

Dan Finlay: why build a new society on blockchain?Glen Weyl and Vitalik Buterin: Liberation Through Radical DecentralizationuPort to rewrite some of its JavaScript libraries as php for a WordPress pluginLatest “Open Source Block Explorers” callEtherscan has a bunch of new tools: dex order book, dex tracker, gas tracker, Swarm searchA beginner’s explanation of gasIdeo on designing for blockchainECF: mapping out all the grants available in the greater Ethereum ecosystemEthPrize on the learnings from their developer interviews: 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 EthMemphis writeup.  FedEx is getting into our space.ENS dispute resolution: Forced bribes

Live on mainnet

Dharma protocol
is now live on mainnet. Borrow and lend ERC20 tokens, write a debt
relayer, be an underwriter, build your own debt agreement, etc. Dharma launch promo vid.FunFair’s first fate channel on mainnet

Governance and Standards

ERC721 is in “last call” so there’s a decent amount of discussion. EIP1108: “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 implementationEIP1109: Remove call costs for precompiled contractsERC1081: standard bounties (updated)ERC1115: decentralized user authentication standardERC1111: introspective metadata definition disclosureERC1102: opt-in web3 accessEIP1098: Cross-client encrypt/decryptDiscussion on ERC712 using eth_signTypedData as a human readable standard

Project Updates

Akasha update with their Colored Essence token modelMysterium updated roadmapFollowing a tuni from Fiji to Brooklyn with Viant’s supply chain trackerWhat’s next for LivepeerThe crazy things people are building on DecentralandPangea fractional tokenized real estate rebrands to MeridioCoinbase acquires Paradex.  GDAX rebrands as CoinbaseProNeufund’s registration is openWhy and how Gnosis is addressing key management with Gnosis SafeGet your github login as a subdomain on <githubname>.gitcoin.eth.   Also, the bounties going up from the Ethereum Foundation’s grant.TheNextWeb Q&A with Golem’s Julian Zawistowski Kauri update on its documentation competition

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

Lane Rettig and Alex Beregszaszi talk eWasm on Zero KnowledgeRob Habermeier presents Parity SubstrateKraken’s Jesse Powell with Laura ShinJacob Eberhardt talk on his zkstark tooling ZoKratesJarrad Hope on how Status is implementing a decentralized orgEtherisc at NYC EthereumNYC Blockchain week Ethereum panel with Joseph Poon, Kelvin Fichter, Jae Kwon, Vitalik Buterin and Karl FloerschJoseph Lubin on Crypto101Deconomy: Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir talksVideo interview of Decentraland founders

Tokens 

An overview of TCR design patternsVenture bonding: funding network effects on donations and bountiesJacob Horne on the playful future of NFTsDecentralizing the minting of NFTsNew decentralized business models from EtheriscDaoX – an implementation of DAICOCFTC advisory for exchanges trading “virtual currency” derivatives.  This takes me back to the days of holding a series 3 license.NAASA announces “Operation Cryptosweep
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 “tip of the iceberg.” SEC Chairman Clayton’s statement applauding them. There’s also the WSJ report categorizing many ICOs as having red flags.

General

Polkadot POC1. Still aiming for q3 2019 launchParity discontinues its Parity ICO Passport Service (PICOPS) due to GDPRSeasteading floating islands and crypto is a libertarian fantasyJump Trading’s crypto desk is their largest trading deskSteve Wozniak compares Ethereum to appleWSJ profiles crypto-friendly banks.  The WSJ also says Coinbase and IvyKoin met with regulators about bank licenses.  Just writing that gave me flashbacks to my days filling out banking regulatory applications to dozens of regulatory agencies.HTC building a blockchain phone called Exodus. [Reminder, media sites need the Brave browser. Here’s my referral code]Comparing enterprise blockchains: Ethereum v R3 v Hyperledger

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

May 25 – 27 – EthBuenosAires hackathonMay 28 – Zeppelin’s zepcon0 conference (Buenos Aires)June 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)June 28 – BuildEth (San Francisco)June 30 – Solidity Gas Golfing challenge deadlineJuly 14-15 – FEM governance meetings in BerlinSeptember 7-9 – EthBerlin hackathonOct 5-7 – TruffleCon in PortlandOct 30 – Nov 2 – Devcon4 (Prague)

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