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September 21, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

[SNARKs] Toward ~500 tx/sec through mass tx validation

[ewasm] Latest Ewasm call

[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic’s latest implementation update: proposer & attester responsibilities, RPC validator interactions and minimal beacon chain processing & fork choice. Chose Bolt for database.

[Eth 2.0] Notes from last Eth 2.0 implementers call.

[Eth 2.0] Sigma Prime introduces its Lighthouse Eth 2.0 client

[State channels] Latest state channels call

[State channels] Learn State Channels, similiar to Learn Plasma

[Plasma] snapp - fully verified plasma chain using SNARKs and BarryWhiteHat’s roll_up

[Plasma] Enabling Faster Plasma Exits - NFT collateralization

[Plasma] Data Availability Solution for Plasma EVM without Confirmation

[Plasma] Quark–gluon Plasma - verified Plasma chain without confirmation signatures

[Plasma] Plasma Cash Defragmentation

[Plasma] Plasma Cash Minimal Atomic Swap

[Plasma] The current state of Plasma (before this week anyway!) by Kevin Zhang

[Plasma] Latest Plasma implementers call

A suggestion: if you want to work in this industry, publishing notes on any of these calls (Plasma, Ewasm, Eth 2.0, state channels, etc) is a great way to build knowledge and reputation.

Stuff for developers

Parameterized transaction reviews for when you want to decide which signers you want to approve different types of transactions

hosted Eth nodes and load balancing

Deconstructing Solidity, pt 5: function bodies

Solidity capture the flag pt 4 challenge, with pt 3 writeup

Sigma Prime’s Mehdi Zerouali: ‘breaking smart contracts for fun and profit’ slides

event logs parser

ethjs-abi for use in BigQuery, to decode Ethereum event logs

Ethereum in Google’s BigQuery: how we built this dataset

Ameen Solemaini video code walk through of Moloch DAO

Using APM to replace centralized package managers

Implementing Harberger tax deeds

Zymbit and Oaken blockchain security module available for pre-order for $47. i2c, Raspberry Pi ready. Ships mid-October

Registration open for next ConsenSys Academy cohort. Zastrin also just released an NFT/ERC721 course

RuntimeVerification’s formal verification spec in K of ERC777

Releases

Parity v2.1.1 beta and v.2.0.6 stable. Parity 1.x end of life.

Ecosystem

Multi-Collateral Dai: the code is formally verified and ready. Check it out on Kovan.

Avsa’s Universal logins working demo: first code release

Beltran on UX for mass adoption

Wyohackathon submissions and winners. EthBerlin winners. Also Hack the North Ethereum submissions

What Eth 2.0 layer 1 scalability will look like, by the numbers

TurboGeth is in private beta, per Rachel O’Leary’s interview with Alexey Akhunov

MEWConnect iOS app is out from My Ether Wallet

Ethfinex Trustless - non-custodial trading using Bitfinex order book, settlement on-chain

Governance and Standards

EIP1418: blockchain rent proposal

ERC820 pseudo-introspection registry is in last call

ERC1412: Batch Transfers For Non-Fungible Tokens

ERC1410: partially fungle token

ERC1417: poll standard

Nick Johnson had a chat with Kristy-Leigh Minehan and switched to supporting ProgPOW. Currently, there’s a 20x increase in processing over ethash in benchmarking, though Minehan says that’s because the CPU code is currently just a copy of the GPU code

Tokensoft on its ERC1404: simple restricted token standard

Project Updates

CasinoFair will be the first live FunFair casino later this month. Available in Canada, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Thailand. Signup for free FUN

Raiden update on mainnet launch. Testnet release: v0.10.0

Augur app v1.5

Streamr helping build a nationwide traffic map in Georgia

WindingTree’s summer demo release

Santiment’s daily active addresses and Github commit data is free.

Grid+ is live with its first electricity customers

Dapped launches with dapp game reviews

Intro to the Golem marketplace during Brass

1.25m Loom (~110kUSD) to run a LoomNetwork PlasmaChain validator

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Two great Blockcrunch podcasts on state channels: Connext’s Arjun Bhuptani and Celer Network’s Mo Dong

EthBerlin videos

Golem, Status, Raiden UX talks from their meetup at EthBerlin

Linda Xie with Laura Shin

First episode of Around the Block documentary

An interview with Conrad Barski

Latest Open Source Block Explorers call

Zero Knowledge Summit videos

Hudson Jameson on Zero Knowledge

Tokens / Business

Chart: staker rewards and total inflation in Eth 2.0

Polymath on using partially fungible tokens from its security token standard for gaming

Claims curated registries: reputation development

Bonding curves as funding mechanisms

Polkadot/web3

Jack Platts: state of the Polkadot ecosystem. Polkascan explorer is live

GRANDPA block finality in Polkadot

Buzzfeed published a sensationalist hit piece on Gavin Wood over a short story he wrote years ago. His response. I read the story years ago; ‘twas obviously fiction.

Cloudflare now runs an IPFS gateway. How they built it e2e

General

15 of the world’s largest banks and trading firms start Komgo to build a commodity trading platform on Ethereum.

Airbus announced an ERC721 framework for charities to take donations

Rep Emmer (R-MN) unveils blockchain-friendly bills to clarify tax with regard to forks and not require miners to register as MSBs (which would be a truly asinine requirement)

NY AG claimed that Coinbase was doing its own trading. Actually, 20% of Coinbase exchange volume comes from Coinbase’s retail. It doesn’t even have an OTC desk.

Putting a Syrian airstrike early warning system on Ethereum for data transparency

SEC Commissioner Peirce speech on being CryptoMom

Blockchain futurism from John Wolpert: sidechains for fun and profit

David Chaum says he has built a better Bitcoin

A Bitcoin bug would have allowed inflation. It was discovered by a Bitcoin Cash developer

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, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3

Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)

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

Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver

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womenofcolor15 · 5 years ago

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Lizzo FLEXES Her Vocals During Emotional Performance Of ‘Jerome’ At The AMAs

Lizzo brought down the house when she hit the stage to perform her track “Jerome” during the American Music Awards. Get into her stellar performance inside….

This has been one hell of a yeah for Lizzo and she’s wrapping up the year with an incredible performance at the 2019 American Music Awards. Our good sis was tapped to perform at this year’s awards and chick totally delivered.

For her performance, the 24-year-old singer/rapper/twerker/flutist rocked this gorgeous fuchsia Dominique Galbraith high-low tulle gown to perform her ballad “Jermone.” And guess what? The dress almost didn't make it to her time, but thankfully her glam squad made sure it got to her in time:

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@lizzobeeating wearing D. Auxilly styled by @jasonrembert and shout out to hubbybear @garrygphoto for getting it to the airport right on time

A post shared by Dominique Galbraith, Designer (@dauxilly) on Nov 24, 2019 at 5:30pm PST

“This light represents the love that you have for yourself. So shine bright,” she told the audience at the beginning of her performance. The “Good As Hell” singer flexed her vocal range on the track, dropping down to her knees at one point.

Supermodel Tyra Banks was tapped to introduce Lizzo's debut AMAs performance:

Performance intro, but make it fashion. @tyrabanks is here to introduce the one and only @lizzo! #AMAs pic.twitter.com/5OekRAWyxn

— American Music Awards (@AMAs) November 25, 2019

Peep clips from her performance below:

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UPDATE: Jerome went tf home. WHAT YALL THINK ABOUT THE @amas PERFORMANCE?! Comment w/ the name of the person you think should take they ass home..

A post shared by Lizzo (@lizzobeeating) on Nov 24, 2019 at 8:54pm PST

LIZZO JUST DID THAT!!!!! #AMAs pic.twitter.com/ceWKt7clzX

— verônica (@swiftielegend) November 25, 2019

Lizzo performs "Jerome" for the first time at an awards show #AMAs pic.twitter.com/dncMfY2dhL

— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) November 25, 2019

I’m about to LIVE for this #Lizzo moment at #zplJingleJam on 12/10! Who’s ready for @lizzo in exactly TWO weeks from tomorrow?? pic.twitter.com/b6dR05eDc8

— ZakkOnAir (@ZakkOnAir) November 25, 2019

Backstage...

Official @AMAs after party.. wya? pic.twitter.com/S5AS6ZOSP6

— Feelin Good As Hell (@lizzo) November 25, 2019

The "Juice" singer snacked on some Flamin' Hot Cheetos before hitting the afterparty scene.

Lizzo didn't scoop up any awards last night, however, she nabbed the most nominations for the 2020 Grammy Awards. She was nominated for eight awards. Find out which categories she was nominated for HERE.

EXTRAS:

1. Lizzo is being sued by a Postmates driver she accused of stealing her food. STORY

2. Uber has been fined $649 million for saying drivers aren’t employees. The company also won't have its license renewed in London due to the city's concern there are too many fraudulent drivers. STORY

Photos: Getty/Lizzo's IG

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matoki-project · 8 years ago

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B.A.P Primer [Link Saved Version]

-- Updated last 6/17/17 -- (Updated with Party Baby Links!)

Who is B.A.P?

B.A.P (Best Absolute Perfect) is a six member Korean k-pop group under TS Entertainment that debuted on stage on Jan. 27 2012 with their first mini album Warrior. They are best known for their strong messages and signature powerful style of music. | More info here |

V Live Channel [Follow on V App as well]

The official fanclub name of B.A.P is BABY (plural Babys or Babyz) and the unofficial fan color is spring green.

Hiatus?

To catch new fans up with the previous development of events, in November of 2014, B.A.P announced they were filing a lawsuit against TS Entertainment to nullify their contracts due to unfair conditions and profit distribution [x]. Since then,they went months into inactivity, attempting to hold a trial throughout. On August 1st, 2015, B.A.P and TS reached a settlement [x]. B.A.P returned to TS, prepared for their next activities and promoted with “Young Wild & Free” from their Matrix album and now recently released “Wake Me Up” from their Rose.

Yongguk’s hiatus and return

Due to Yongguk’s recent health (diagnosed with panic disorder in October of 2016 x), the five remaining members promoted for the Skydive/Noir comeback. Himchan took the leadership role and filled in for Yongguk during their Skydive performances. Following that, Yongguk was revealed to return to activity for their Wake Me Up comeback and so far is active in promotion again.

Members:

Yongguk is the stoic, and shy, yet caring leader of B.A.P. He is responsible for many of B.A.P’s album lyrics and more recently their song productions. His deep cave-like voice is well-known and impersonated by many. He’s also known for his vast amount of charity work and fondness of children. His favorite things, besides working on his music include ramen and his favorite character, tigger. He’s easy to embarrass, but he has a childlike side to him as well. Overall, he’s a strong leader and a strong believer of justice.

Himchan is B.A.P’s resident “mother” figure. He brings the group to life especially during variety shows, as his outrageous humor and outgoing charms are a crowdpleaser. He is known for his talent with the janggu, a korean drum and knowledge of traditional Korean music. On top of that, he originally was an emcee for MTV’s “The Show”, so his abilities are diverse. His favorite things include fashion, food and iced americanos. While he can be quite strict and teasing towards the other members, he’s very caring and sensitive. He especially shares his positivity with Babys.

Daehyun is infamous for his high notes heard throughout many of B.A.P’s songs. True to his vocal position, Daehyun is one of the more talkative members, even assuming the role as reporter for the group. Besides his voice, Daehyun is also known for his intense appetite for food (his favorite is cheesecake). He enjoys teasing and rough-housing the other members, especially the younger ones. Like Himchan, he shows a lot of love for the fans but can be sensitive himself.

Youngjae is the group’s energetic spirit and he is the huskier vocal that melodically holds together B.A.P songs. As the group’s “brain” he’s a wisecracker that enjoys trolling the other members and especially the fans. His laughter is extremely contagious and he’s best known among fans for his silly faces and reactions. Some of his favorites include R&B music and photography. Just like Himchan and Daehyun, he’s another talker and fan of the fans. Despite his often sassy to moody nature, he is quite caring over the other members.

B.A.P’s ball of sunshine, Jongup excels in heightening the group’s stage performances with his effortless dancing ability. And since B.A.P’s return from their hiatus, he’s been able to showcase his impressive vocal skills as well. His many loves include pokemon, hamburgers, chocolate milk, Frozen (particularly Olaf) and Chris Brown. One of the quieter members, his clever sense of humor is his best charm, and he never ceases to remind fans or the group of that. When he’s not smiling he’s in a perpetual state of judgement and even babys aren’t safe from his troll-like jokes.

The youngest of the group, Zelo impressed with his famous LTE rap. He is also an immensely talented dancer, and his fluid style compliments their stronger dance styles very well. Despite his age, he’s also the tallest member, at 187 cm, and he’s quite conscious about it. Including rapping and dancing, he skateboards a lot and is often seen carrying one around. He also has a liking for interesting fashions (socks) and strange animals. Another of the shy members, he’s coy when put on the spotlight outside of the stage, but a very playful and curious person at heart.

Matoki

The mascot of B.A.P are a species of alien masked rabbits, from the planet Mato, called “matoki”. The B.A.P members have corresponding matoki and each has a color that helps designate their respective member. Their personalities loosely reflect B.A.P’s alien personas introduced in “Ta-dah It’s B.A.P!” Matoki are heavily used for promotional purposes (like album covers or graphic logos) and are frequently seen in their merchandise and products.

Original release photos | Group Photo

Shishimato (Yongguk) | Red | Intro Vid

Shishi can be described as the most soldier-like of the matoki (he’s fascinated by war tanks, fighting, destruction, and of the such). He looks after Tototmato often. Sometimes he’s seen looking at 19+ material.

Tatsmato (Himchan) | Pink | Intro VId

Tats is a laid-back, high maintenance, tatted matoki. He’s often seen drinking wine or lazing about. Tatsmato is also the only matoki wearing the default matoki mask (in logo form, the matoki symbol looks like Tatsmato).

Kekemato (Daehyun) | White | Intro Vid

Kekemato is the only matoki that is actually in a suit. Keke’s real skin color is pink, and he wears a mask with a heart on it. When in suit, his mask is white/gray (This brought a lot of confusion to fans when first released, but Keke’s/Daehyun’s representing color is white. Since white isn’t visible over light colors, fans will sometimes use gray, pink, purple or other lighter colors as a substitute in their posts/subtitling). Because of the suit, Kekemato has a secretive type of personalty. He has a fascination with Batman and superheroes.

Jokomato (Youngjae) | Yellow | Intro Vid

Joko is the brains and jokster of the group with a clown-like face. He often tries to come up with ideas and schemes but fails at executing them. In their “Goodbye” short, Joko and Keke work together to leave planet Mato. However, they crash in on the remaining matoki in their own spaceship, causing them to veer off course to Earth.

Dadamato (Jongup) | Green | Intro Vid

Dada is a playful, tough, and active matoki with tire markings over his body. He fantasizes of riding a motorbike and is often seen making the noises as he pretends to.

Totomato (Zelo) | Blue | Intro Vid

Toto is a robot matoki (named after Zelo’s love of cherry tomatoes in Ta-Dah It’s B.A.P!). Because he’s a robot, he’s needs to recharge himself every so often. He often follows Shishimato’s lead in their adventures. Since he’s still a baby, he is very curious about everything around him.

Earthventures Comic (original comic strip series featuring the main matoki)

Discography

Warrior [1st Single Album] | 2012 Jan. 26

Power [2nd Single Album] | 2012 April 26

No Mercy [1st Mini Album] | 2012 July 19

Crash [1st Mini Album Repackage] | 2012 Aug. 29

Stop It [3rd Single Album] | 2012 Oct. 23

One Shot [2nd Mini Album] | 2013 Feb. 12

Badman [3rd Mini Album] | 2013 Aug. 12

Warrior [Japan 1st Single Album] | 2013. Oct. 9 | Limited Edition Tracks: [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] | Type A Tracks [x] [x] [x] [x] [x] | Type B Tracks [x[ [x] [x] [x]

One Shot [Japan 2nd Single Album] | 2013 Nov. 13

First Sensibility [1st Album] | 2014 Feb. 3

No Mercy [Japan 3rd Single Album] | 2014 April 2

Unplugged 2014 [4th Single Album] | 2014 June 3

Excuse Me [Japan 4th Single Album ] | 2014 Sept. 3

Matrix [4th Mini Album] | 2015 Nov. 16

Carnival [5th Mini Album ] | 2016 Feb. 22

Best.Absolute.Perfect [Japan 1st Album] | 2016 March 30

Feel So Good [Japan 5th Single Album] | 2016 July 13

Put ‘Em Up [5th Single Album] | 2016 Aug. 8

Noir [2nd Full Album] | 2016 Nov. 7

Fly High [Japan 6th Single Album] | 2016 Dec. 7

Rose [6th Single Album] | 2017 March 7

Wake Me Up [Japan 7th Single Album] | 2017 April 26

Daehyun x Jongup Project Album [Party Baby] | 2017 June 8

Music Videos

Going Crazy (Predebut - Yongguk & Jieun)

Shy Boy (Predebut - Appearance by Yongguk, Himchan & Jongup)

Starlight Moonlight (Predebut - Appearance by YG, HC, JU & YJ)

I Remember (Predebut - Yongguk & Yoseob)

Never Give Up (Predebut - Yongguk & Zelo)

Warrior

Secret Love [TS Ver,] | Ta-Dah Version

Power

Goodbye (Animated Short with Matoki)

No Mercy

Crash

Stop It

For a Year (Appearance by Yongguk)

Everything is Pretty (Youngjae & Sunwha)

Rain Sound

One Shot

Coffee Shop

Hurricane

Badman

Warrior [Japanese]

One Shot [Japanese]

1004 (Angel)

No Mercy [Japanese]

Where Are You? What Are You Doing? | NG Version

Excuse Me [Japanese]

AM 4:44 (Yongguk personal work created during the lawsuit)

Young Wild & Free

Feel So Good

Body Lotion (SLEEPY feat. Yongguk)

Breakaway (Braclet feat. Zelo) Band Version | Drama Version

Kingdom [Japanese]

Feel So Good [Japanese]

That’s My Jam

Now (Jongup MV)

Skydive | Director’s Cut | Dance Highlight

Wake Me Up [Stream to increase views!]

Wake Me Up [Japanese]

Shadow [Daehyun Special Video]

Try My Luck [Jongup Special Video]

Past Live Stages

Warrior Era | Secret Love Era

Power Era

No Mercy Era

Crash Era

Stop It Era

One Shot Era [Himchan was absent due to a hand injury]

Badman Era

1004 (Angel) Era

Young Wild & Free Era

Feel So Good Era

Skydive Era [Yongguk was absent due to hiatus]

Wake Me Up Era [Himchan was partly absent due to a rib fracture]

Performances (starting from recent)

Miscellaneous performances to check out

Other Song Works/Features

Mine - Bang Yongguk for The Star

Sexy Clap - Bang Yongguk & Himchan

Q - Bang Yongguk

T - Bang Yongguk

Sacramental Confession - Bang Yongguk

Hallucination - Bang Yongguk

Curxe - Bang Yongguk

Vintage - Song Jieun feat. Zelo

No Title - Zelo

R(x)play - V-hawk feat. Zelo

Young Wild & Free (Mozaix Remix) - Bang Yongguk

X - Bang Yongguk

Feel So Good (Remix) - Bang Yongguk

Drunkeness - Bang Yongguk

Photo - Jongup feat. Bang Yongguk

How About You - Daehyun

Dark Light - Daehyun

Song recommendations list (songs mentioned by members)

B.A.P Must Watch Shows

Ta-dah It’s B.A.P! (Their first show in 2012 and the introduction of their “alien concept”) Ep. 1, 3 - 9 Eng Sub | Ep. 2 Eng Sub

B.A.P Diary Ep. 1 Eng Sub | Ep. 2 Eng Sub

Killing Camp Ep. 1 Eng Sub | Ep. 2 Eng Sub | Ep. 3 Eng Sub (Starts at 7:11)

Go! B.A.P Full Eng Sub

B.A.P Attack! Ep. 1 - 12 Eng Sub

B.A.P’s One Fine Day Ep. 1 (P1 P2 P3) | Ep. 2 (P1 P2 P3) | Ep. 3 | Ep. 4 | Ep. 5 | Ep. 6 | Ep. 7 | Ep. 8

Other Shows to Watch

Weekly Idol 120822 No Sub (beginning is cut out | 130904 Eng Sub | 140305 Eng Sub

After School Club 130817 Ep. | 140219 Ep. | 151124 Ep.

Gurupop Full Eng Sub

B.A.P HeyoTV Private Life

Hello Counselor160321 Eng Sub [Himchan and Daehyun] | 161114 Eng Sub [Himchan and Youngjae]

Some misc vids to check out (these are out of order)

B.A.P The Star Interview and iconic aegyo Eng

B.A.P Workplace Song

B.A.P Day Cut Eng

B.A.P Egg Song

B.A.P Egg Song 2

B.A.P and Miss A visit Nursery

Youngjae & Sunhwa at MTV Waiting Room Eng

DFLA X B.A.P Interview

B.A.P & A Pink for Skoolooks Eng 1 2 3 MV

Miss & Mr. Idol B.A.P Cut

B.A.P Safety Song

B.A.P Elevator Safety

Himchan wrestling

131003 B.A.P Interview Eng

Daehyun plays reporter in this Show Champ Interview

Yinyuetai V-charts Awards Interview Eng

B.A.P struggle with aiming in this game

LOE Special Memory In Japan Eng

B.A.P interviews B.A.P

B.A.P make Valentine’s chocolates

140530 B.A.P Interview

DFLA Live on Earth Interview

Ice Bucket Challenge Himchan Eng

Ice Bucket Challenge Youngjae & Zelo Eng

B.A.P’s first video as 6 after lawsuit is dropped

B.A.P Vring U trailer and debut of giant matoki heads Eng

The Qmentary Eng

Chemitest with B.A.P Eng

5 Second Interview at The Show Eng

B.A.P plays pepero game

B.A.P play dance practice

B.A.P Young Wild & Free dance practice

B.A.P are warm and pretty in this Star1 photoshoot

B.A.P Be Happy dance practice Christmas special

B.A.P reacts to Kiss Scenes Eng

B.A.P Fan Heart Attack Idol Eng

B.A.P Heyo TV

Youngjae and GOT7′s JB in Celebrity Bromance [look in playlist]

Mato TV On-Air Zelo CF Parody

Mato TV On-Air Daehyun and Jongup Drama Parody Eng

Mato TV On-Air Yongguk Lotion Parody

161223 Idol Battle Likes Eng Daehyun MC

B.A.P vs Teen Top in Overwatch 1 2 3

B.A.P are helpless in this VR roller coaster game Eng

B.A.P do the limbo Eng

B.A.P Bingo Talk Eng

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weekinethereum · 6 years ago

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August 17, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes.

[Casper] Vitalik Buterin’s 75 tweets on the history and current plans of Casper

[Casper] Latest Casper standup

[Casper] Censorship detectors via 99% fault tolerant consensus

[Casper] Casper FFG and light clients. Vitalik listed the major challenges of light client protocol design and compared with old Casper FFG, this post explored how to optimize the times on BLS verifications for beacon chain light clients.

[Eth 2.0] Eth2.0 Implementers call

[Eth 2.0] VDF explainer

[Plasma] OmiseGO’s comprehensive Plasma update (with notes from last Plasma call)

[Plasma] Enabling Fast Withdrawals for Faulty Plasma Chains

[Plasma] Challenge Bond Pricing Concerns

[Plasma] Batch auctions on Plasma

[Plasma] Plasma bridge between chains

[STARKs] BarryWhiteHat: babyjubjub ecc

[State channels] Channels Can Enforce Contracts Beyond Intermediary Lockup Time

Stuff for developers

List of opcodes and gas prices. Kelvin Fichter adopted Danny Ryan’s list

eth-mutants: mutation testing tool from Federico Bond

Cryptofin’s array utilities library for Solidity

Austin Griffith on his Clevis and Dapparatus dapp dev tools

Runtime Verification: Formal verification of ERC20 tokens

Loredana’s new video tour of Pipeline visual IDE. Github code

New and comprehensive Infura documentation

A list of tools to get data out of the Ethereumchain

Getting deep into the EVM. Reminds me of Howard Yeah’s EVM series.

Zeppelin: deconstructing a Soliditycontract, part 1 and part 2

OpenZeppelin v1.12

Client Releases

Trinity third major alpha release- faster sync

Scala/Akka v0.1

Ecosystem

Maker and Wyre announce compliant fiat <> Dai onramp in 30+ countries, so now it will be easy to acquire the best store of value in crypto. An AMA with Maker and Wyre

ETH India recap from Lendroid. Check out the EthIndia submissions, lots of ambitious projects as well as devs new to Solidity. ENS Hackathon recap

ECF and EthPrize team up to fund EthWorks to implement Avsa’s universal logins

Luke Duncan: Harberger taxes for a middle ground between copyleft and permissive licenses

CryptoKitties filed for a Nifty trademark, which is messed up. Perhaps this means Nifty will win out in the nifty vs nfty nomenclature wars.

Governance and Standards

Harbour <> Aragon bridge for Harbour voting in Aragon orgs.

Secret voting with Enigma

ERC1329: Inalienable Reputation Token

ERC1319: Smart Contract Package Registry Interface

ERC1328: WalletConnect Standard URI Format

ERC1327: Extendable Atomic Swaps

Project Updates

Brave plans to release an in-browser ETH wallet running a geth light client. Also, they’ll add Reddit and Twitter tipping.

Toshi rebrands as Coinbase Wallet

Columbia Journalism Review profiles Civil

Aragon Q2 dev update

0x monthly dev update

100 pages on local electricity market regulations to guide Grid+ domestic expansion

Gnosis on getting to 100% decentralized exchanges

Augur hit 1000 markets

Raiden v0.5 testnet breaking change release

Ocean Protocol v0.1 testnet release

Loom Network’s Zombie Battleground is in private alpha

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Howard Wu talks snarks and libsnark on Zero Knowledge

Joseph Lubin 11 min BloombergTV interview

Cheddar’s 5 min profile of ConsenSys

Matt Condon’s intro to blockchain talk

Podcast interview of EEA Executive Director Ron Resnick

Ryan Selkis on Epicenter

Origin Protocol’s Stan James on Hashing It Out

Vitalik’s transaction fee economics talk from TechCrunchZug

30 mins of Brian Armstrong with Emily Chang

General

ZCash 2.0 released, should activate Oct 28 on 2 year anniversary

Dan Boneh’s Cryptography II Coursera class starting in September

Fascinating story of Indian politicians and Bitconnect. Ignore the fake news title.

Foreshadow: “how speculative execution can be exploited for reading the contents of SGX-protected memory as well as extracting the machine’s private attestation key”

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

August 19 - deadline to submit Devcon4 talk/workshop/discussion

August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)

September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

September 21-23 — EthAtlanta

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

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

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

December - ETHSingapore hackathon

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August 2, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Vitalik proposed a three-stage beacon chain plan. To make the roadmap more incrementalist, we assume a fixed validator set in stage 1, and introduce the dynasty transition in stage 3.

Sharding p2p POC in libp2p

Boneh, Bünz, Fisch: survey of 2 VDFs

Latest Casper standup

Casper v Ouroboros in two parts

Latest ewasm call

Fichter: Why is EVM on Plasma hard? (Also: Parsec’s EVM on EVM)

Plasma Cash verification cost thread

Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes

Everything you need to know about the Trinity Ethereum client - the history, why Python, and how it is good for research prototyping

Intro to the Nimbus Ethereum 2.0 client from Status

Stuff for developers

Liam Horne: Counterfactual state channel applications. Github

Connext on real world implementation of virtual channels; currently live on Spankchain mainnet for testing

Etherlime v0.6 - dev framework based on ethers.js, faster compile and test

“A quick example of how to set up Truffle and Ethers.js with the new experimentalABIEncoderV2”

Ethereum gas golf talks from Nick Johnson and Zachary Williamson

whisper-tools stand-alone API wrapper over shh RPC calls

How to prepare your dapps for uPort’s standards based identity

Sourabh Niyogi’s Go implementation of Vitalik’s STARK code

Mobius ring signatures code

Why mainstream languages are no good at smart contract programming

TheGraph is now opensource

Brief EthQL tutorial

AnalyseEther - “real-time data analysis” in your browser

Péter Szilágyi warns of dapp hijacking using dormant service workers and localhost

ENS Toolkit, and ENS Q&A with Nick Johnson

Orion: private transaction manager for EEA spec in Java from PegaSys

video tutorial intro to Dapphub’s KLab debugger in K framework

Release

Geth v1.8.13 with Swarm v0.3.1 - maintenance release. Combo geth/swarm releases from now on.

Live on mainnet

Enjin’s ERC1155 is live on mainnet to tokenize game assets. FreeMyVunk lives!

Ecosystem

Devcon4 call for speakers, workshop leaders and breakout room hosts

Game theory behind FoMo3d and speculative exit scenarios

Open source block explorer call #10

Trusted execution environments for Ethereum nodes, from Intel’s Sanjay Bakshi and ConsenSys’s Andreas Freund

imToken 2.0

Gnosis Safe - also video of interacting with a dapp using Gnosis Safe

Governance and Standards

Eric Conner: a case for Ethereum block reward reduction. There’s an Etherchain coinvote (hardly perfect, must use MyCrypto/MEW) on the subject where 50k ETH has vote nearly unanimously to decrease block rewards to miners. There’s also proposal variations like 1276 (delete bomb, 2 ETH) and 1277 (2 ETH). There’s wide support for issuance reduction, the question is about magnitude of reduction, how long should the bomb be delayed, and should an anti-ASIC measure be included.

signaling for Ethereum proposals should not be formalized

EIP1285: increase the Gcallstipend fee parameter in the CALL OPCODE from 2,300 to 3,500 gas

EIP1283: Net gas metering for SSTORE without dirty maps

ERC1271: Standard signature validation method for contracts

ERC1288: Get contract return values from transaction recepts

Next hardfork issue tracker

Project Updates

Golem v0.17.0. Also, guide to Trusted Computations, part 1

365 days of Iconomi platform - cool graphic recapping last year

Underwriters in Dharma protocol

DopeRaider launches on POANetwork and teaches people how to move assets

Dappos - point of sale Eth register for mobile

Reporters.chat to promote Augur reporting standards

MakerDAO governance risk framework, pt 2

Jarrad’s letter to Status

Digix currently has a coinvote on how much Digix is required to be a proposal moderator and how much the mod will be rewarded

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Swarm Orange Summit videos

Lane Rettig talks governance and scalability on BlockCrunch

Dmitry Buterin podcast interview

Livepeer’s Eric Tang talks offchain computation on Zero Knowledge

Modular’s Chris Brown and Will Dias on Hashing It Out

More Dappcon vids are out, including my talk on governance

Binary District state channels event videos

Tokens

Neufund has a security token newsletter - this issue focused on exchanges

Livepeer open claim period has started. Pay the gas to MerkleMine for others and get rewarded

Alex Van de Sande’s idea for tokenized sustainable communities on Reddit

Better information with curation markets slides

General

Validating on Polkadot POC2 when everyone has been slashed

List of Cosmos and Tendermint projects

Zilliqa’s Scilla language is open sourced

Binance buys Trust Wallet

EthNews interview with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on her ETF dissent and being open to innovation

Bitcoin use in commerce is down more than 80% in last 9 months

John Backus argues filesharing teaches us to only decentralize what is necessary and how bittorrent came from behind to win

Blockchain innovation in Europe paper from EU Blockchain Forum

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

August 7 - Devcon4 tickets, wave 2

August 7 - Start of two month distributed hackathon from Giveth, Aragon, Swarm City and Chainshot

August 10-12 - ETHIndia hackathon (Bangalore)

August 10-12 - ENS workshop and hackathon (London)

August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)

September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

September 15-16 - Kiev DappDev hackathon

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

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

December - ETHSingapore hackathon

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September 7, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

[Eth2.0] shasper implementer call notes. Also some good VDF evaluator discussion on r/ethereum

[Eth 2.0] Prysmatic dev update

[Eth 2.0] Who is building what in Ethereum 2.0?

[sharding] Batched cross-shard transaction fee payment

[Casper] Latest Casper standup call

[Casper] Parallelizing Lamport’s 99% fault tolerant consensus

[State channels] Unavailability griefing with Pisa explainer

[State channels] Forward Timelocked Contracts

[Plasma] Plasma chains with enforced consistency between multiple parent chains

[wasm] Wasabi: A Framework for Dynamically Analyzing WebAssembly

[wasm] Raul Jordan: WebAssembly and the future of blockchain

[starks] Cheap hash functions for zkSNARK merkle-tree proofs, which can be calculated on-chain

[starks] Roll up: scale Eth with starks from Barry WhiteHat

Stuff for developers

Toward frictionless upgradeability from Zeppelin’s Fran Giordano

Contract upgrade anti-patterns from Trail of Bits

Trail of Bits explains its binary static analysis tool, Rattle

Superblocks releases its new IDE

DateTime library v1.00 from Bokky

Another web3swift with ENS support

Loredana’s latest video demo of Pipeline visual IDE

Tutorial on writing private transactions with Parity’s Secret Store

Boilerplate for Truffle5 + Solium + Zeppelin + Coveralls

Code for Delegated Execution Subscriptions[EIP1337/EIP948]

Strengthening the weakest link in smart contract security - “onlyOwner”

Exploring the Ethereum chain with Quickblocks. and part 2

OpenZeppelin 2.0 release candidate

Releases

Parity v2.0.3 beta

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.15

web3.js 1.0.0-beta.36

Live on mainnet

Connext’s first payment channel hub (Spankchain) is live on mainnet

Spankchain also began the process of releasing its stablecoin BOOTY, which is heavily collateralized by its native token. You stake SPANK to get BOOTY. (links should be safe for work)

Zinc launches ERC725 identities on mainnet

Bounties Network exploreris live (and get your BRLN coinat ETHBerlin)

0x v2 deployed to mainnet

Dether is live, so you can trade ETH locally in 120 countries

DDA goes live with 1 week long & short tokens available on ETH/USD (5X multiplier) and BTC/USD (1X multiplier

BZx margin trading protocol launches on mainnet, Bamboo Relay should have margin trading live on Monday

Ecosystem

.xyz names are now supported by ENS on mainnet

Alethio’s visualization of opcodes over blocktime

Rinkeby consensus failure port-mortem

Dogethereum bridge is live with Doge mainnet and Rinkeby

Sina Habibian: identity and reputation in web3

Enterprise

Scaling for enterprise: explaining the IBFT algorithm

Governance and Standards

ERC809/1201: Tokenizing Non-fungible Access

Dean Eigenmann: Blockchains are not companies

Last call for ERC1167 minimal proxy contract

ERC1376: service friendly token

ERC1384: equity agreement standard

Project Updates

FunFair to launch this month after it got a Curaçao gambling license

Aragon Core as decentralized OS

Raiden v.0.8.0 update

Digix’s two votes: rewards pool 4.2%, 97% voted to give them 20m USD, 34% participation

Maecenas raised 1.7m for 31.5% of an Andy Warhol painting

omiseGO ewallet update

Maker monthly update

Golem’s call for potential use cases

Dmunity has a beta release of their Reddit-like app on Ethereum

An early Brave 1.0 beta release. Current Brave stats: >4m mau

Peepeth cancelled the Kickstarter and is doing a crypto-only fundraiser

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Phillip Angele talks Livepeer at Berlin meetup

Arthur Falls returns with an interview of Zilliqa’s Amrit Kumar and Xinshu Dong

Open Source Block Explorers community call

Kleros on Epicenter

Bernhard Müller on Hashing It Out

Nadav Hollander with Laura Shin

Gnosis CTO Stefan George on Inchained

Tokens / Business

TechCrunch published a sloppy anti-ETH op-ed this week (no link). Check out Ameen Soleimani’s response and Vitalik Buterin’s.

A false report may have tumbled cryptoasset prices this week, but Nathaniel Popper says Goldman is still moving forward with cryptoasset futures/forwards.

Brayton Williams on using and investing in dapps

ERC998 and the future of blockchain game assets

Introducing the equilibrium bonding market

Dynamic token bonding curves

General

A comparison of interoperability protocols - Polkadot, Cosmos, Wanchain, Icon and Aion

Gavin Wood: why we need web3

Cosmos August update

Zilliqa’s thinking on dev and user challenges of sharded chains

Grin testnet <> Ropsten testnet atomic swap

Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS

Liberal Radicalism: Formal Rules for a Society Neutral Among Communities by Buterin, Hitzig and Weyl

Shapeshift is moving to an account-based approach

Coursera and ConsenSys intro to blockchains course

With issuance reduction to 2 ETH per block, Bitcoin and Ethereum now have similar inflation rates

Always good for a laugh: Ethereum obituaries

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

Sept 10 - Devcon4 final wave of tickets go on sale at 4pm PDT

September 12 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

September 13-14 - EEA Tech Spec working group (NYC)

September 21-23 - EthAtlanta

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

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland - ROGUETIM discount code this weekend only

Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

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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July 26, 2018

News and Links

Protocol (with an assist from the Ethereum Research team)

Shasper chain, v2.1

Prysmatic’s biweekly update on transitioning to Eth 2.0 with separate Go codebase

VDFs are not Proof of Work by Danny Ryan. Verifiable Delay Functions have some properties - requiring significant computation to calculate but relatively little computation to verify - that is suitable for strengthening RANDAO-based RNG. That sounds like proof of work, but Danny explains the difference between VDFs and PoW.

STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds by Vitalik Buterin: In Vitalik’s STARKs series part 3, he introduced how to actually implement a STARK with vivid explication.

Latest Casper standup call

VB: Epoch-less Casper FFG liveness/safety argument

Why Shasper makes more sense than the previous FFG, then sharding roadmap

LearnPlasma is really coming together as a Plasma education resource

A Plasma Cash primer from Simon de la Rouviere

Jinglan Wang: what is Plasma? Plasma Cash?

Raiden is live on Ropsten testnet and open to testing

Stuff for developers

Benchmarking between Mythril, Manticore and Oyente from ConsenSys Diligence

What FoMo3d’s real exit scam might look like, but you can hedge with Augur?

Péter Szilágyi: How to PWN FoMo3D, a beginners guide

Pipeline - video explaining PoC of visual IDE of already deployed functions

Airswap tutorial on building with their API server

Adding ENS into your dapp tutorial

Tutorial to using Parity’s Secret Store multi-party key generation

IDEO on dealing with gas in UX

ethereum-to-graphql: autogenerate the schema and resolver

EthQL alpha from PegaSys and Infura

Aragon Package Manager - upgradeability for Aragon orgs

Zeppelin: Exploring upgradeability governance in ZeppelinOS with a Gnosis MultiSig

Apache Camel connector for Ethereum enterprise using web3j

The new Infura dashboard - existing access tokens need to migrate to v3 authentication keys and endpoints

Release

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.12, better syncing and performance. Also has a new website.

web3j v3.5

web3.js 0.20.7 and web3.js 1.0.0-beta.35. breaking change on http provider

EthereumJS VM v2.4.0 (and their monthly recap)

Live on mainnet

iExec went live on mainnet to test rendering. 80% of jobs completed.

Melonport is live on mainnet with somewhat constrained Paros release

Gnosis DutchX contracts are live on mainnet in advance of their 100k competition to build on them

Ecosystem

The new Gnosis Safe miltisig is live on Rinkeby

Parity’s Thibaut Sardan: what is a light client and why should you care?

Someone managed to briefly cause a kerfuffle with a 1337 Javascript popup in Etherscan using their Disqus comments.

Nathan Sexer: State of stablecoins

Metamask’s retrospective on getting removed from the Chrome store this week. Also how they’ll support more networks

A reader friendly version of 100+ Eth dev interviews from EthPrize

Governance and Standards

EIP1227 (remove difficulty bomb, revert to 5 ETH block reward) vs EIP1234 (delay difficulty bomb, reduce to 2 ETH block reward) vs EIP1240 (remove difficulty bomb, leave at 3 ETH block reward). Results in Afri’s poll mirror what I hear in the community.

ERC1257: proof of payment standard

ERC1238: non-transferrable token badges

ERC1261: membership verification token

Add bottom-up composables to ERC998

ERC1263: NFT index

Project Updates

As planned, Augur burned the escape hatch, so the code is now decentralized.

Messari buys OnchainFX, lays out content strategy

Status now displays at full resolution on tablets, and no more Mixpanel

Maker to vote on increasing the Dai stability fee to 2.5%

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Dappcon videos are coming in

Andy Tudhope talks about EthPrize’s dev interviews on Smartest Contract

CoinTelegraph with some good print interviews: Jutta Steiner and Joe Lubin

FunFair’s Jez San podcast interview

Open Source Web3 Design call

Jay Rush talking The Dao and how Quickblocks grew out of that from Gitcoin’s weekly stream

Dan Boneh on the Bitcoin Podcast

Ethan Buchman talks testnets on Zero Knowledge

Dan Finlay on MetaMask and Mustekala on Smartest Contract

Maker’s Rune Christensen print interview where he says they are developing their own language for better security

Martin Becze on Epicenter

Tokens

You now need Santiment tokens to access some of their market and data feeds.

Text tutorial of how to claim your (free) Livepeer tokens.

Incentivizing new users of TCRs through gamification

Mike Maples: Slow money crypto

General

Zilliqa releases its Scilla language “with formalization of its semantics and its embedding into Coq.” Also of interest, Etheremon is planning to have gameplay on Zilliqa but will use Ethereum as its store of value.

First Polkadot parachain deployed in PoC2

Raul Jordan with an intro to hashing algos

NYTimes on art and blockchain

Péter Szilágyi: TOR from within GO. I imagine many who read it will immediately start using the Brave browser’s private tabs with TOR

Ethereum coming to Google Cloud

John Backus with his lessons learned from p2p file sharing

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

August 7 - Start of two month distributed hackathon from Giveth, Aragon, Swarm City and Chainshot

August 10-12 - EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)

August 10-12 - ENS workshop and hackathon (London)

August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote

August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)

September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)

September 7-9 - EthBerlin hackathon

September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)

September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)

Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland

Oct 5-7 - EthSanFrancisco hackathon

Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

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

December - EthSingapore hackathon

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October 24, 2017

Ethereum News and Links

Hybrid PoS/PoW -- the finality gadget -- may be in the Constantinople fork.

Jon Choi: Casper 101. Seems more like an upper level than a 101, but lots of resources to learn from.

Protocol

Latest core dev call. Agenda.

Diving Into The EVM, part 5

Yoichi: Implementing a vault in Bamboo and what Yoichi is spending time on

Vitalik: the stateless client concept

Runtime Verification to work with UIUC on formally verifying Viper using K

EIP 747: Watch Token

Latest Casper call

Stuff for developers

Nick Johnson's SHA1 implementation in Solidity

A crowdsale fuzz tester

The code for the Colony token sale that wasn't

OmiseGo airdrop code

Test your Solidity code with Javascript

Nethereum 2.1

Mythril adds..."lasers"

Uport library breaking change

Azure ERC-20 Token Service on Quorum

Spificator: notifications UI for your dapp's users

Manticore - dynamic binary analysis tool

Ecosystem

Vote in CoinDesk's Most Influential People in Blockchain. You don't need an email address to vote, it takes 2 minutes, and I don't want to lose in my category to Paris Hilton. So please vote?

Hardware wallet vulnerabilities analysis from Karl Kreder

ConsenSys Academy's first class graduates.

Simon de la Rouviere: Continuous Token-Curated Registries

Another 0x Tracker & an EtherDelta tracker

Ethereal Summit in San Francisco on October 27. Use discount code WeekInETH for $100 off. I’ll be there, so come say hi.

Pelle from Uport: Adventures in “Decentralized” Push Notifications

On MyEtherWallet, gas price can now be adjusted by 0.1 gwei instead of 1 gwei

Project Updates

Technical details of what Ujo is doing with the Giraffage release

Bancor monthly update

LocalEthereum does 100 trades in its first 2 days

SingularDTV's Tokit launches Nov 6

OmiseGo's approach to delivering scalability

Project Announcements

Pryze: automated sweepstakes protocol

Metronome: a new currency on Ethereum with the hopes of taking it elsewhere. by Jeff Garzik.

MeVu: peer to peer betting.

LunarToken: buy land on the moon. "how smart contracts could be used to manage real estate"

CryptoCribs: AirBnB using Ether as payment method, eventually decentralized AirBnB

ERC Dex: another dex built on 0x

Interviews, Videos and Talks

Q&A with Simon de la Rouviere on Ujo and Curation Markets

20 min Swarm City documentary

Video interview of Hudson Jameson intro to blockchain

Matthew Spoke conference talk on Aion

6 min of Ujo and RAC talking about revolutionizing the music industry

Token Sales

Evan Van Ness (yup, that’s me!): There's no such thing as "fat protocols"

Jordan Daniell writes up Vitalik's comments on tokens at EthWaterloo

Brendan Bernstein: Structuring Optimal Token Sales

Don’t get those tokens unless the tokens need you by Yoichi Hirai

Ben Evans: the scale of tech winners. If scale continues to increase, perhaps some seemingly absurd valuations are more rational than appears.

Vitalik Buterin: On Medium-of-Exchange Token Valuations

Token Sale Projects

Karl Kreder from Grid+ on Epicenter

Spankchain whitepaper and "single-round, blind, dutch, state channel auction" details

Blockchannel talks to PROPS

How to participate in the Mercury Protocol sale

General

Joe Lubin on CNBC

Coinlist -- the offshoot of FileCoin and Angelist.

EtherDelta injection attack hacker wasted over $75k trying to enter AirSwap sale

Google unveils advanced protection, an upgraded 2fa.

Robert Habermeier on Polkadota's Parachain

Video tutorial: support the Ethereum Community with Brave Payments

Don't give money to phishers: beware of infested ENS names using ZeroWidthCharacter (and Reddit thread)

Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:

Upcoming token sale start dates:

October 25 – Mercury Protocol (registration opens Oct 10)

October 28 – Gatcoin

October 30 – Grid+

October 31 – Snov

October 31 – SpankChain

November 1 – Winding Tree

November 1 – ScriptDrop

November 1 – RockChain

November 1 – PayFair

November 6 – Sense Token

November 7 – Leverj

November 8 – Fans Unite

November 9 – Stayawhile

November 10 – Bounty0x

November 10 – Gizer

November 13 – Sharpe Capital

November 14 – Auctus

November 14 – SimpleToken (pre-sale underway)

November 14 – LevelNet

November 15 – Kudos Project

November 15 – Aigang

November 15 – Guts (pre-sale underway)

November 16– TokenBox

November 20 – PROPS by YouNow

November 21 – Dopameme

November 25 – Relest

November 28 – Gazecoin

November 30 – Debitum

Ongoing token sales:

Raiden Network (Dutch auction)

Privatix

Ripio Credit Network

Horizon State

Duber

Crypto.Tickets

Snip

Self Pay

Enjin

Ethino

DFS

Hirematch

Etherparty

Customization Basic Income

CarTaxi

Jibrel Network

MatchPay

Wolk

Aeron

Matryx

Atlant

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October 12, 2018

News and Links

Protocol

Core devs call. Lane’s notes

[Eth 2.0] ETH2.0 implementers call (local recording, some sound issues for first ~10 mins)

[Eth 2.0] Ben Edgington’s Eth 2.0 slides for Paris talk

[Eth 2.0] This week’s What’s New in Eth 2.0

[ewasm] ewasm talks at SF meetup

[VDF] Intro to VDFs from Trail of Bits. Also Peter Robinson talk on randomness

[Plasma] Comparison of Plasma designs by Eva Beylin

[Plasma] Latest Plasma implementer call

[Plasma] Plasma Debit implementation from Georgios/Loom

[Plasma] RSA Accumulators for Plasma Cash history reduction

[Plasma] Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 3

[Casper] Latest Casper standup call

[Misc] Account abstraction radically simplified

[Misc] Optimizing sparse Merkle trees

[Casper CBC] Vlad’s sharding PoC that won at EthSF was a joint project with Alex from NEAR. Vlad’s viz. Separately, the NEAR folks also published TxFlow: Towards faster cross-shard transactions by rerouting transactions bypassing the beacon chain

Stuff for developers

SpankChain got hacked with a reentrancy bug from an ERC20 call, but for less than a security audit would cost. Here’s a walkthrough of the hack. Subsequently the hacker gave the money back and received a smaller bounty, but also offered a ~free MolochDAO audit

EthSecurity resources

Discovering signature verification bugs

interface for aggregating on-chain data to avoid incessant Infura calls

Maker’s code for market making and arb bots

web3x - a Typescript port of web3JS

Cent Wallet’s tradeoffs between usability and trustlessness

8x Protocol launches subscription payments on Kovan

Deploy a private chain on Kubernetes tutorial

Ronan Sandford: The case for automated origin checks, non-interactive signatures, and non-interactive decryption

shadowlands - a Python, text UI platform to use dApps in terminal without a web browser

Client releases

Geth v1.8.17 - hard fork ready

Nethermind v0.9 - a new .NET core client

Not really a release, but all about the Nimbus client

Parity v2.12 and 2.0.7 stable - hard fork ready

Live on mainnet

Origin Protocol beta live on mainnet. Buy and sell on a Craigslist-like marketplace with ETH

Giveth is live on mainnet in closed beta, using Rinkeby and a bridge. Plans to change to POA Network when their new bridge is live. They’re looking for beta testers.

Docusign releases Ethereum integration. Write and verify your contracts to the chain.

Ecosystem

Blockscout - opensource block explorer from POANetwork/EthPrize

There are some hiccups with the Ropsten hardfork, first with a lack of miners and then with a consensus error where Parity and Geth charged a different amount of gas for a transaction. This could possibly push back the Constantinople hard fork.

You can now pre-register your .eth name on .luxe

How Aragon’s grants program is evolving

All the ETHSanFrancisco submissions. List of winners and runner-ups. Kyle Samani’s favorites. And no weed, flirting or crypto prices during hackathons (don’t hold this against OP, it got a little overinterpreted)

Parity Signer v2 beta - use an old phone as a transaction signer

Some clues about what Blockchains LLC is up to in their 67000 acres in Reno

Governance and Standards

EIP1482: Define a maximum block timestamp drift

ERC1480: Access Control Standard

ERC1483: Digital Identity Aggregator

ERC1155 gas benchmarking

Luke Duncan’s response (why autonomy matters) and Vitalik’s response (mutability is not feasible) to Vlad’s governance posts last week.

Project Updates

Raiden getting close to Red Eyes alpha launch, will be limited to 250 ETH total, only wrapped ETH, and .075 ETH per direction in a payment channel. Latest testnet release: v0.13.0

Dappos point of sale register adds ERC20 starting with DAI

CasinoFair now live in Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, New Zealand. Up to 14 countries.

Video demo of Golem Unlimited

Gitcoin Q3 retrospective and Q4 goals

Meridio’s reLease dapp lets you lease and rent daily workspaces. For now, at ConsenSys, CryptoNYC and in the DC burbs.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Holger Drewes on Ethereum’s Javascript ecosystem and Eth 2.0

Raul Jordan on Smartest Contract

Dan Zuller and Ryan Sean Adams on Venture Stories

Nucypher comes back to Hashing It Out for fully homomorphic encryption

Coinfund on Epicenter

Sarah Baker Mills talk on design and UX

Latest web3 design call

Print Q&A with Maurycy Pietrzak of Infura

Richard Craib on Enigma’s Decentralize This

John Wolpert on Masters of Blockchain

ETHSanFrancisco main stage videos, including Vitalik and Balaji

Brendan Eich talk at Founders Fund

Gavin Wood on Polkadot and sharding on Zero Knowledge

Tokens / Business

Forbes joined the Civil network, but also got some bad press about paltry fundraising, including from WSJ and CNN

Token work profiles to understand users

First Round’s case study on scaling at Coinbase

CoinbasePro lists ZRX, the first token on Coinbase

Binance says all listing fees will be transparent and donated to charity

General

Joseph Lubin will be a SXSW keynote speaker “with special guest.” Also Joe offers a quick history of Ethereum’s earliest days

Parity Substrate testnet launches.

Polkadot “hello world” tutorials, part 1 and part 2

Zaki on how to play Cosmos Game of Stakes

Cardano is having a Tezos-like fight with their Foundation

Microsoft pledges 60k patents to Open Invention Network

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new additions in bold):

Oct 17-21 Lebanon hackathon (Beirut)

Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin). 50% off available for devs, students & researchers

Oct 24-25 - Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)

Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)

Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

Oct 29 - Swarm mini-summit (Prague)

Oct 29 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague

Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)

Nov 2 - MetaMask, Mist, imToken and Status to stop injecting web3

Nov 3-4 - Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)

Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon

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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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