Protocol
Vitalik published ,
“a fork choice rule-based mechanism for how sharding can be bolted on
top of the current ethereum main chain, with a specialized random beacon
and shard block times of <10 seconds” ( with lots more)Prysmatic Labs: More VB: Latest Justin Drake: VB: Kelvin Fichter: released ahead of their summit in Ljubljana next week
Stuff for developers
documentation for , FOAM’s Truffle competitor in Purescript using zksnarksWriting a Set up a using . Or you can watch Bernhard’s
Releases
– fix for archive nodes exceeding 1 tebibyte with dynamic gas support
“is live on mainnet” section
p2p video streaming platform . See also ., though in closed beta for bug bounty live on mainnet live on mainnet, with a 5 gwei gas subsidy. Similar to from BlockCat
Ecosystem
Next grants is live on Ropsten. Their Practical from LoomPoA for tokens updateConsenSys Academy is : 15,000 registered devs, over 6 billion daily API requests, moving 1.6 petabytes monthlyEnterprise Ethereum Alliance
Governance and Standards
Hudson Jameson and Nick Johnson talk . Or check Dan Finlay’s . Also summaries of the . Aragon’s road to decentralization: Discussion on ERC948 about a : proposal for new EXTCODEHASH opcode: Arithmetic overflow detection for the EVM: Lightweight identity
Project Updates
Jaak with Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell, BMG and Global Music Rights: now over 2.2M monthly active users, 75% mobile (where it’s a must use). If you don’t use Brave yet, here’s my .Q&A on the Kyber Network to localethereum worldwideSpankchain review of The demo (2 mins)A deep dive into Hoard building an on OmiseGo. The FreeMyVunk idea lives.An update to the
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
on Hashing It Out on YC podcastZero Knowledge podcast does . So meta.Text interview with A video walkthrough of Podcast with Podcast with on the other side of the mic with Software Engineering Daily
Tokens
Two reputation-like take on TCRs: and Matt Lockyer on composable NFTsLivepeer’s “” token distribution methodCofound.it’s , a product-market fit tool. Also their FOAM Wendy Xiao Schadeck:
General
for blockchains, and Paul Vigna reports that perhaps . SEC and CFTC folks are meeting May 7 to discuss their approach to this space.Joe Lubin: and regulators understand thatCosmos is “.”Brave WSJ op-ed: GoldmanSachs to Is Coinbase creating a ?Next episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley is named “.” Maybe the only surprise is that it is this season and not last.:
“boom in computing … stemming from … the GPU-friendly
proof-of-work algorithms found in some of today’s leading
cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum.”
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
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