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January 11, 2018

News and Links

Constantinople is coming. [Also, this is the January 11, 2019 issue but I can't fix the title without breaking links]

Upgrade your clients ASAP! EF FAQ and blog post. From MyCrypto, what users need to know about the Constantinople fork

Layer 1

[eth1] Rinkeby testnet forked successfully. Update your clients ASAP!

[eth2] What’s New in Eth2

[eth2] Latest Eth2 implementer call notes

[eth2] Validator economics of Eth2. Also a thorough Eth staking ROI spreadsheet model

[eth2] Discussion about storage rent “eviction archive” nodes and incentives

web3foundation, Status and Validity Labs update and call for participants on private, decentralized messaging, a la Whisper

Layer 2

Live on Rinkeby testnet: Plasma Ignis - often called “roll up” - 500 transactions per second using SNARKs for compression (not privacy), no delay to exit, less liveness requirements, multi-operator. Check out the live demo.

Georgios Konstantopoulos: A Deep Dive on RSA Accumulators

Canto: proposed new subprotocol to allow sidechain-like subnets

Fae: a subnet by putting Fae’s binary transactions in the data field

A RaidenNetwork deep dive explainer

Can watchtowers and monitoring services scale?

Counterfactual dev update: full end to end implementation of Counterfactual with demos and dev environment will be live on Ropsten in next 2 weeks

Stuff for developers

Embark v4.0.0-beta.0

Ganache v2.0.0-beta.2

ZeppelinOS v2.1

Updated EthereumJS readthedocs

Solidity CTF: mirror madness from authio

Solstice: 15 analyzer Solidity security tool

EVM code fuzzing using input prediction

Compound’s self-liquidation bug

Gas Stations Network, an incentivized meta transaction relay network, live on Ropsten

Understanding Rust lifetimes

How to quickly deploy to Görli cross-client testnet

Maker CDP leverager in one call

Codefund2.0 - sustainability for open source project advertising without 3rd party trackers

RSA accumulator in Vyper

Analyzing 1.2m mainnet contracts in 20 seconds using Eveem and BigQuery

0x Market Maker program. 15k to run a market making bot on a 0x relayer

POANet: Honey Badger BFT and Threshold Cryptography

Ecosystem

Afri’s Eth node configuration modes cheat sheet. A great accompaniment to Afri’s did Ethereum reach 1 tb yet?  The answer is obviously no, state plus chaindata is about 150 GB.

MyEtherWallet v5 is in beta and MEWConnect on Android

Ethereum Foundation major grant to Parity: $5m for ewasm, light wallet, and Eth2

Enterprise

What enterprises need to know about AWS’s Blockchain as a Service

2019 is the year of enterprise tokens?

Governance and Standards

Notes from latest core devs call, includes ProgPoW section. On that topic, IfDefElse put out a ProgPoW FAQ including responses from AMD and Nvidia. Also check understanding ProgPoW from a few months ago

Martin Köppelmann on the governance protocol of DXdao

Pando Network: DAOs and the future of content

EIP1682: storage rent

EIP1681: temporal replay protection

ERC1683: URLs with asset and onboarding functionality

ERC1690: Mortability standard

ERC820 Pseudo-introspection Registry Contract is final

ERC1155 multi-token standard to last call

Application layer

Demo testing on Kovan testnet of the Digix governance platform

Brave at 5.5m MAUs, up 5x in 2018. It also got much more stable over the year, and being able to use a private tab with TOR on desktop makes it a must (mobile has been a must for a long time). Here’s my referral code if you haven’t switched yet.

I saw some warnings about tokenized US equity DX.exchange that was in the last newsletter. I have no idea if they are legit or if the warnings are in bad faith but the reason that Szabo’s “trusted third parties are security holes” gets repeated frequently is because it is true. If you choose any cryptoasset that depends on custody of a third party, caveat emptor.

Origin now has editable listings and multiple item support

Nevada counties are storing birth and marriage certificates on Ethereum

Scout unveils its customizable token/protocol explorers for apps, live on Aragon and Livepeer

Veil prediction markets platform built on 0x and Augur launches Jan 15 on mainnet. Fantastic to see the app layer stack coming together. Not open to the USA because…federal government.

Gnosis on the problem of front running in dexes

Status releases desktop alpha, v0.9

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Joseph Lubin on Epicenter. Some good early Eth history here.

Curation Markets community call

Ryan Sean Adams on the case for Ether as money on POV Crypto

Nice Decrypt Media profile of Lane Rettig

Q&A with Mariano Conti, head of Maker Oracles

Andrew Keys on the American Banker podcast

Austin Griffith 2018 lessons learned talk at Ethereum Boulder

Starkware’s Eli Ben-Sasson and Alessandro Chiesa on Zero Knowledge

Nick Johnson talks ENS and ProgPoW on Into the Ether

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Paul Kohlhaas: bonding curve design parameters

Ryan Zurrer: Network keepers, v2

Zastrin to sell a tradeable NFT as a license to use its blockchain dev courses.

Sharespost says it did its first compliant security token trade of BCAP (Blockchain Capital). Link opens PDF

Actus Financial Protocol announces standard for tokenizing all financial instruments.

Missing DeFi piece: longer-term interest generating assets

Gemini’s rules for the revolution on working with regulators.

Blockchain Association proposes the Hinman Standard for cryptoassets

Blockchains LLC releases its 300 page Blockchain Through a Legal Lens

China released restrictive blockchain rules including censorship and KYC

Why Ether is Valuable

General

ETC got 51% attacked. Coinbase was first to announce it, though it appears the target was the gate.io exchange. Amusingly, the price hardly suffered. The amazing thing is that a widely known and relatively easily exploited attack vector like this didn’t happen during bull market when this attack could have been an order of magnitude more profitable.

Michael del Castillo tracks the supply chain of an entire dinner using blockchain products like Viant

Julien Thevenard argues Ethereum is on par or safer than Bitcoin in terms of proof of work.

Coindesk video interview of the creator of HODL. He isn’t at all convinced by Bitcoin’s new “store of value” meme. Very entertaining use of 8 minutes.

That very odd Bitcoin nonce pattern. Phil Daian says it is caused by AntMiners

Researchers brute force attack private keys of poorly implemented ECDSA nonce generation.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 14 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 10-Feb7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon

Jan ~16 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 24 - List of things for Aragon vote, including on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 25 - Graph Day (San Francisco)

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)

April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

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November 24, 2018

News and Links

Layer 1

[Eth 2.0] What's New in Eth2

[Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth 2.0 implementer call

[Eth 2.0] Beacon chain explainer

[Eth 1.x] Casey Detrio: a half-backed Ethereum 1.x roadmap. See also Martin Köppelmann’s tweetstorm if you prefer a quicker but not as thorough version.

[ewasm] Latest ewasm call with walkthrough of testnet setup and deploying code

[wasm] Fransham: why WASM vs EVM

“The bomb” will be different than last time. We’ll start seeing a spike in block time in mid-Jan if the fork hasn’t been implemented

Layer 2

This map of Plasma is very cool, so is the associated writeup

Short RSA exclusion proofs for Plasma Prime

Game channels from DAO Casinos: state channels with randomness paper, a la FunFair’s Fate Channels

Raiden v0.17

POANetwork’s ERC20 to ERC20 bridge.

BLS DAG sidechain idea

Kauri’s dive into how to use sidechains

SNARK based Side-Chain for ERC20 tokens

Stuff for developers

Waffle: a testing framework based on ethers.js and mocha

Meadow: dev and testing framework written in cross-platform C# with .NET Core

web3 React: build single-page dapps in React with hooks

More on Parity’s light.js for building dapps on a light client

CryptoZombies lesson #9: ERC721x

Yakindu Solidity language server - all the IDEs

Kyber trading API

Kyokan’s chaind: caching layer in front of any Ethereum JSON-RPC endpoint

OneClickDapp: “instantly build a dApp with a simple URL to bookmark or share with a friend.”

Austin Griffith’s sandbox for playing with MolochDAO

How to query Ether supply in BigQuery and plot the number of Ethereum addresses

Getting started with Eventeum

Truffle v5.0.0-beta.2 - Solidity v0.5, Vyper support, and update to Web3.js 1.0.0-beta.36

Samuel Furter: my first 3 months maintaining web3.js

How to use Mythril Classic to find bugs

LevelK discovers a potential exploit of exchanges if they were not using best practices. If exchanges fail to put a gas limit on contract calls, then that enables an attacker to drain an exchange’s hot wallet, or potentially use GasToken to profit.

Panvala’s token grants for making Ethereum safer will start in the next 2 months.

AirSwap’s Keyspace: e2e encrypted messages with Ethereum and IPFS

Palladino: the transparent proxy pattern in Zeppelin

Ecosystem

MetaMask’s Mustekala light client that also shares pieces of the chain over libp2p

VIPNode releases a demo to incentivize full nodes serving light clients.

An overview of the Gnosis Safe’s features

Security considerations for Shamir’s secret sharing in Dark Crystals

A working proposal for permanent ENS register and why there will not be Harberger taxes in ENS

Safe zero confirmation payments in Ethereum (by using a bond)

The mission and practices of Ethereum Magicians

Stureby POW testnet to test Constantinople changes and how to help test.

Görli testnet explorer and their bounties initiative

Client-related

Pantheon v0.8.2

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.17

EthereumJS VM v2.5.0: Constantinople fork ready, full consensus, StateManager

Enterprise

Pantheon video tutorial: start a private blockchain in Java with Docker

Governance and Standards

Latest core devs call. Here are the notes.

Also, the notes from the Devcon meetings that were discussed on the core devs call. Sometimes there are private meetings, Parity CTO Fred Harrysson summed it up well.

Ethereum Dispute Resolution Alliance, joint work on research and standards by Bounties Network, Aragon, and ENS

ERC820 pseudo-introspection registry in last call

ERC875 better NFTs to last call

ERC1592: Address and ERC20-compliant transfer rules

ERC1616: Attribute registry standard

ERC1621: Referral interface

ERC1620: Money streaming continuous payments over time

EIP1601: only full blocks get full mining reward

Project Updates

Golem graphene-ng demo and how to make SGX usable in decentralized scenarios

Aragon: the future of organizations and their first governance proposal passed with 99.97%

Status v0.9.31 - includes eip1102 for better privacy

AXA's Fizzy flight delay insurance expands to cover 80% of all flights

Melon supply: burning 248k now, may do another competition with ~70k already minted. 300k to be printed annually, but fees paid in Eth will buy and burn Melon.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Maker’s Martin Lundfall on Smartest Contract

Prysmatic’s Preston Van Loon on Penn Blockchain podcast

Latest Open Block Explorers community call

DeFi Summit videos in Prague

First Görli testnet contributors call

Scuttlebutt’s Dominic Tarr with Arthur Falls

I missed this from web3summit: Jeff Burdges and Robert Kiel on mixnet instead of Whisper

Vlad and Gav debate governance on Zero Knowledge

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Neufund is doing their equity token offering on December 8th (whitelisting opens Nov 27th) but regulators forced them to raise the minimum to 100k euros. Interesting tweetstorm commentary.

Personal Token Economics with your own bonding curve

A bonding curve to decentralize how apps get listed in Status

Automatically roll one-week long/short contracts from Daxia (formerly DDA) using SetProtocol

[Between Apple, Facebook, Nasdaq, Ethereum and Bitcoin], “Ethereum feels like the easiest one to make a bull case for right now." - Fred Wilson

Fundamental questions to ask yourself about blockchain investing. I wrote this.

General

You can now buy Mastering Ethereum by Andreas Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood

Newsweek does an Ethereum profile

Bakkt moves launch data target to Jan 24th

EOS: an architectural and economic analysis. Apparently under real world conditions, EOS doesn’t do more transactions per second than Ethereum despite a large compromise on decentralization

There were widespread reports that a game with tradeable Ethereum NFTs had passed Sony review for the PS4, but I’m skeptical of anything I only find in crypto media.

IMF paper on central bank digital currencies

Overstock said it would sell the retail business to focus on blockchain/TZero security token exchange. The stock went up ~25%.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):

Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 23-25 - EthAustin hackathon (EthUniversal)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support (Jan 23 begins Project ID prioritization)

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September 14, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

[Eth 2.0] Eth 2.0 implementers call

[Casper] A tight and intuitive Casper slashing condition

[State channels] State channel researcher call

[State channels] Off-chain issuable tokens

[Plasma] Basic Mass Exits for Plasma MVP

[Plasma] More Minimal Plasma - an easy to read version to learn Plasma

[Plasma] demo of Bankex’s coffee vending machine running on Plasma

[Plasma] Debt & Liquidity in layer 2 UX

Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes. Ropsten hard fork on Oct 9.

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.4.25 important bugfix release

Manticore v0.2.1.1

Tech details and SDK for Grid+ hardware agent

Evaluating storage: on-chain index vs sidechain index vs read-only IPFS index

Piñata Overlay to make it easier to incentivize IPFS pinning

Agile dev environment

A simple guide for writing unit tests

Typescript alternative to web3.js

A walkthrough of Gemini’s regulated stablecoin code

Deconstructing Solidity, pt4: function wrappers

3box’s API to access and interact with a dapp user’s latest OrbitDB hash

iden3: new SNARK tools for an identity system from Jordi Baylina

Kauri’s full stack dapp tutorial series

Releases

Remix v0.7.2 with better testing, API, library deployment

Parity Ethereum v2.0.4-beta

EthereumJS August recap

Live on mainnet

FOAM’s map is live. You can stake your tokens on veracity of points of interest on their map.

Schedule transactions with Chronologic’s Etherum Alarm Clock, live on MyCrypto

Ecosystem

I've often said in jest that we'll know web3 succeeded when we stop using Slack. Status is making plans to stop using Slack

EthSF: hacking in the belly of the beast

All the EthBerlin submissions. I think variance struck because I think I judged at least half the winners

A particular EthBerlin highlight: a cross-client testnet named Görli - even if implementing a Rinkeby <> Kovan testnet turned out to be more ambitious than possible for a a few people at a hackathon. Vlad’s sharding POC was interesting too, though quite a bit different than current roadmap. Despite the clickbait title, Rachel O’Leary’s Coindesk article had some good quotes. Ethstonia ID also pretty fascinating, among many others.

Gemini and Paxos got NY approval for a regulated and centralized stable USD token on Ethereum

Governance and Standards

LoomNetwork’s ERC721x for transferring game assets: wrapping ERC1178 with ERC721

Philippe Castonguay on the different multiclass token standards and gas costs

Writeup about using ERC1167 minimal proxy

ERC1400: security token standard

Delegated execution subscriptions for ERC948/1337

ERC1404: simple restricted token standard

ERC1402: Signature Composition and Verification

ERC1407: Namespacing ABI interface to allow function signature reuse in different context but same contract

EIP1380: reduced gas for call to self

Project Updates

LA Dodgers giving away 40,000 “digital bobbleheads” on their Sept 21 game

9 months of single-collateral Dai. Also an amusing explainer video of using CDPs and Dai

AirSwap to work with a broker-dealer on tokenized real estate

OpenLaw demo of their Chainlink integration

Etherisc planning to write hurricane insurance policies next year in Puerto Rico

Raiden v0.9 breaking release

Loom Network roadmap update for next 6 months

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Danny Ryan talks Eth 2.0 on Hashing It Out

Prysmatic’s Raul Jordan talks their Eth 2.0 Go implementation on Scaling Today

Justin Drake’s high level sharding talk from TechCrunchZug

Matthew Green on Let’s Talk ETC

Joe Lubin CNN hit

The bull case for Ethereum podcast interview of Spencer Noon and Cyrus Younessi

Mitch Kosowski & Andrew Cravenho talk about POA’s open source block explorer on Zero Knowledge

Nick Johnson print interview on ENS and where he sees documentation lacking

Video from UXUnconference in Berlin

web3 design community call

Sam Cassatt, Amanda Gutterman and Joe Lubin at TechCrunch SF event

6 min video of Vitalik against on-chain governance

Jacob Eberhardt talking Zokrates on Zero Knowledge

Tokens / Business

Cofoundit is winding down due to crowdsale market conditions and distributing assets to token holders. That’s doing the right thing - there are more projects that should do this. I bet we will see more projects do at least partial refunds. 

Indiegogo refunded everyone who bought FCFL tokens, apparently after SEC told them to

The Consumer Token Framework from The Brooklyn Project

Recap of Nifty composables ERC998 call

Intro to token bonding and curation markets

General

What’s a Sparse Merkle Tree?

Matthew Di Ferrante: Blockchains as a Public Good

Karen Scarbrough: scaling blockchains in the context of large systems

An Illustrated Primer on Cross Currency Swaps in HTLCs

ZK-SNARGs: zero knowledge succinct non-interactive argument from Ben-Sasson, Chiesa, et al.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

September 21-23 - EthAtlanta

Sept 29 - Oct 1 - Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 8 - Settle virtual hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 12 - Non-fungible summit(SF)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

Nov 2 - MetaMask to stop injecting web3

Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)

Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)

Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon

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