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May 3, 2018

Week in Ethereum News
May 3, 2018
Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

Vitalik published shard fork choice POC,
“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” (source with lots more)Prysmatic Labs: sharding updateMore VB: Cross-links between main chain and shardsLatest Casper standupJustin Drake: Plasma chain for offchain gas paymentsVB: Optimistic cheap multi-exit for PlasmaKelvin Fichter: Reliable exits of “limbo exits”Swarm POC3 released ahead of their summit in Ljubljana next week

 Stuff for developers

State machine testing with Echidnadocumentation for Chanterelle, FOAM’s Truffle competitor in PurescriptProof of concept for a trustless ethereum mixer using zksnarksWriting a dominance assurance contractSet up a light geth node for 35 bucksDetecting batchOverflow (and similar flaws) using Mythril.  Or you can watch Bernhard’s conference talk

Releases

Geth v1.8.7 – fix for archive nodes exceeding 1 tebibyteweb3j v3.4.0 with dynamic gas support


“is live on mainnet” section

p2p video streaming platform Livepeer’s alpha release live on mainnet.  See also Reddit thread.Dharma live on mainnet, though in closed beta for bug bountyKnownOrigin ERC721 marketplace live on mainnetReversible ETH with Silverwire live on mainnet, with a 5 gwei gas subsidy.  Similar to Tabby from BlockCat

Ecosystem

Next cohort of Ethereum Foundation grants 18 Ideas for 0x Relayers in 2018b0x margin trading is live on Ropsten.  Their contrast with dY/dX and LendroidPractical Plasma game examples from LoomPoA sidechain bridge launches May 10th for tokensTruebit April research updateConsenSys Academy is developing a Coursera classOpen Source Money will BUIDL the Open Source EcosystemInfura: 15,000 registered devs, over 6 billion daily API requests, moving 1.6 petabytes monthlyEnterprise Ethereum Alliance releases architecture stack

Governance and Standards

Hudson Jameson and Nick Johnson talk current Ethereum governance process.  Or check Dan Finlay’s flowchart of EIP process. Also summaries of the EIP0 breakout sessions. Aragon’s road to decentralization: minimum viable foundationDiscussion on ERC948 about a subscription standardEIP1052: proposal for new EXTCODEHASH opcodeEIP1051: Arithmetic overflow detection for the EVMERC1056: Lightweight identity

Project Updates

Jaak launches music rights database pilot with Warner Music Group, Warner/Chappell, BMG and Global Music RightsBrave growth stats: 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 referral code.How to Launch a Newsroom on CivilQ&A on the Cellarius universeKyber Network to rebrand and also “facilitate ICOs”localethereum adds 22 payment methods worldwideSpankchain review of 1 month of betaThe Kauri stackRightMesh video demo (2 mins)A deep dive into Golem architectureHoard building an NFT exchange on OmiseGo.  The FreeMyVunk idea lives.An update to the OmiseGo roadmap

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

Zaki Manian on Hashing It OutLinda Xie and Avichal Garg on YC podcastZero Knowledge podcast does intro to zk proofs.  So meta.Text interview with Christian ReitwießnerA video walkthrough of Status IncubatePodcast with Max Stein from Balanc3Podcast with Nick Johnson on governanceBrian Fabian Crain on the other side of the mic with Software Engineering Daily

Tokens 

Two reputation-like take on TCRs: layered TCRs and graded TCRsMatt Lockyer on use cases for ERC998 composable NFTsLivepeer’s “MerkleMine” token distribution methodCofound.it’s Actionable Research, a product-market fit tool.  Also their Q1 reportFOAM white paperWendy Xiao Schadeck: how to efficiently distribute tokens 

General

Russia wants to become a leading geographic hub for blockchains, and Paul Vigna reports that perhaps American regulators want to help them.  SEC and CFTC folks are meeting May 7 to discuss their approach to this space.Joe Lubin: Ether is not a security and regulators understand thatCosmos is “85% of the way to launch.”Brave WSJ op-ed: The Internet’s ‘Original Sin’ Endangers More Than Privacy GoldmanSachs to trade Bitcoin futuresIs Coinbase creating a centralized or decentralized financial system?Next episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley is named “Initial Coin Offering.” Maybe the only surprise is that it is this season and not last.Sergey Brin’s 2017 letter:
“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:

May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto (livestream)May 7-11 – Swarm Summit in LjubljanaMay 10 – Fluidity Summit on finance (NYC)May 10 – CryptoCup opens for World Cup predictionsMay 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)May 15 – Kleros saleMay 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC) May 17 – Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)May 17-19 – Melonport hackthon in ZugMay 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathonMay 19-20 – Hacketh (Warsaw)May 25 – 28th – EthBuenosAires hackathonJune 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)

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