Week in Ethereum News

News and Links

Layer 1

[eth1] state rent proposal 2

[eth1] selfish mining in Ethereum academic paper. Per Casey Detrio, EIP100 changed the threshold to 27%. But since ETC doesn’t have EIP100, it’s just 5 or 10%.

[eth2] a long AMA from the Eth2 research team

[eth2] yeeth Eth2 client in Swift

[eth2] What’s new in eth2 includes Ben’s take on future of the PoW chain

[eth2] notes from last eth2 implementer call

[eth2] Vitalik’s security design rationale

[eth2] More Vitalik: Eth2 and Casper CBC video talk

[eth2] Collin Myers takes a look at the proposed economics for validators

Layer 2

Raiden on progress towards Ithaca release, which will include pathfinding and fee earning as well as monitoring. More from Loredana on building CryptoBotWars on Raiden

Magmo update: about to release their paper on Nitro, their protocol for a virtual state channel network

The case for Ethereum scaling through layer 2 solutions

Optimistic off-chain data availability from Aragon

Starkware on a layer 2 design fundamental: validity proofs vs fraud proofs. Also: its decentralized exchange using STARKs planned for testnet at end of q1.

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.5.3

web3j v4.1.1

Web3.js v1.0.0-beta.38

Waffle v2 of its testing suite (uses ethers.js)

Celer Network’s proto3 to solidity library generator for onchain/offchain, cross-language data structures. Celer’s SDK

ERC20 meta transaction wrapper contract

“dumb contracts” that store data in the event logs

ETL pipline on AWS for security token analytics

Interacting with Ethereum using web3.py and Jupyter notebooks

Tutorial on using Embark

Tutorial: using OpenLaw agreements with dapps

OpenBazaar’s escrow framework

Etherisc opensources the code for their Generic Insurance Framework

Austin Griffith’s latest iteration of Burner Wallet sales

Deploying a front end with IPFS and Piñata SDK

Video tutorial of Slither static analyzer

Overview of formal verification projects in Ethereum

zkPoker with SNARks - explore iden3’s circom circuit

Ecosystem

Lots of charts on the bomb historically and present

Gnosis Safe is now available on iOS

A big thing in the community was r/ethtrader’s DONUT tokens. Started by Reddit as “community points” to experiment in ethtrader upvotes, the donuts can be used to buy the banner, vote in polls, and get badges. So a Reddit <> Eth token bridge was created, and DONUT traded on Uniswap. But some people preferred donuts to be used for subreddit governance, so the experiment is currently paused. That’s my take, here’s Will Warren’s take.

Decentralizing project management with the Ethereum Cat Herders

ENS permanent registrar proposals

Client releases

The Mantis client written in Scala now supports ETH and will stop supporting ETC

Enterprise

Hyperledger Fabric founder John Wolpert on why Ethereum is winning in enterprise blockchain

Levi’s jeans, Harvard SHINE and ConsenSys announce a workers well being pilot program at a factory in Mexico

Tokenizing a roomba to charge it

Correctness analysis of Istanbul BFT. Suggests it isn’t and can be improved.

Governance and Standards

Notes from last all core devs call

A postmortem on the Constantinople postponement

SNT community voting dapp v0.1 - quadratic voting system

EIP1712: disallow deployment of unused opcodes

EIP1715: Generalized Version Bits Voting for Consensus Soft and Hard Forks

ERC1723: Cryptography engine standard

ERC1724: confidential token standard

EIP1717: Defuse the bomb and lower mining reward to 1 ether

Application layer

Augur leaderboard. And Crystalball.be stats. Augur v1.10 released

Lots of action in Augur frontends: Veil buys Predictions.global, Guesser to launch Jan 29, and BlitzPredict.

A fiat-backed Korean Won is live on AirSwap

Adventureum - “a text-based, crowd-sourced, decentralised choose-your-own adventure game”

PlasmaBears is live using LoomNetwork

Kyber’s automated price reserve - a simpler though less flexible option for liquidity providers. Also, Kyber’s long-term objectives

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Trail of Bits and ChainSecurity discuss 1283 on Hashing It Out

Videos from Trail of Bits’ Empire Hacking

Scott Lewis and Bryant Eisenbach give the case for Ethereum on a Bitcoin podcast

Philipp Angele talk on Livepeer’s shared economies for video infrastructure

Tarun Chitra on PoS statistical modeling on Zero Knowledge

Gnosis’ Martin Köppelmann on Into the Ether

Martin Köppelmann and Matan Field on Epicenter

Tokens / Business / Regulation

If you don’t have a background in finance, MyCrypto’s learning about supplying and borrowing with Compound will be a good read.

A nice look at the original NFT: CryptoPunk

NFT License 2.0 to define what is permitted with NFT and associated art

IDEO on what NFT collectibles should learn from legacy collectibles.

Matthew Vernon is selling tokens representing 1 hour of design consulting

Caitlin Long tweetstorm about Wyoming’s crypto-friendly legislation

Crypto exchanges don’t need a money transmitter license in Pennsylvania

General

Samsung to have key store in their Galaxy S10. Pictures show Eth confirmed.

Zilliqa to launch its mainnet this week, much like Ethereum launched with Frontier

NEAR’s private testnet launches at event in SF on the 29th

Polkadot upgrades to PoC3 using GRANDPA consensus algo

Looks like Protonmail wants to build on Ethereum

Messari says Ripple drastically overstates their supply to prop up their market cap

Sia’s David Vorick on proof of work attacks

a zero knowledge and SNARKs primer

Infoworld when the Mac launched 35 years ago: do we really need this?

Have a co-branded credit card in the US? Amazon (or whoever) probably gets to see your transaction history, which means they’re probably selling it too.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Jan 30 - Feb 1 - Stanford Blockchain Conference

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - Maker to remove OasisDEX and Oasis.direct frontends

Feb 2 - Eth2 workshop (Stanford)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon ends

Feb 14 - Eth Magicians (Denver)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 27 - Constantinople (block 7280000)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 8-10 - EthUToronto

Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support

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

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork

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Ethereum News and Links

Constantinople postponed

The day before the scheduled Constantinople upgrade fork, ChainSecurity found that EIP1283 potentially allowed deployed contracts to be vulnerable to a re-entrancy attack. There was no bug in the EIP per se, but it broke an implied invariant for a small but then-indeterminate amount of deployed code. Hence, out of an abundance of caution but with limited time for the community to come to consensus, Constantinople was successfully postponed.

A full post-action report by Trail of Bits, ChainSecurity, and Eveem. They proffer a different alternative to 1283 - refund difference of intended cost of writes. Magicians thread on 1283 alternatives and thread on invariants.

New ConstantiNOPE client releases by which the fork was avoided (update if you haven’t): Geth, Parity (stable) and beta, Trinity, Nethermind, Pantheon, Ethereum on ARM

Constantinople is set for block 7280000, around Feb 27. EIP1283 is not included.

Layer 1

[eth1] Ethereum State Rent Proof of Concept

[eth2] Ben Edgington: exploring Eth2.0 design goals

[eth2]  James Prestwich: An engineer’s guide to eth2. See also Vitalik’s annotations.

[eth2] Latest Eth2.0 implementers call. agenda to follow along

[eth2] What’s New in Eth2

[eth2] Prysmatic dev update

[eth2] Lighthouse dev update

[eth2] Lodestar dev update

[eth2] Dean Eigenmann and Eric Tu are implementing the Beacon Chain in Swift

[eth2.x] What CBCifying the beacon chain would look like

[eth2.x] Bitwise LMD GHOST: an efficient CBC Casper fork choice rule

Swarm v0.3.9

Layer 2

OmiseGo Plasma update

Encumberments as a common mechanism in sharding and L2

Plasma snapp-1-bit

Aragon’s Voting Relay Protocol for optimistic vote counting

Connext dev update

Loredana Cirstea on building CryptoBotWars on Raiden

Stuff for developers

0x dev tools suite: compiler, tracer, code coverage measurer, and gas profiler

Trail of Bits’ Slither v0.5.0 static analyzer

Panvala’s first token grant applications

A flow chart analyzing the potential EIP1283 attack

Using the Truebit file system

Rust bindings for the Solidity compiler

Python REST api for JSON-RPC Infura calls

On efficient Eth addresses to eek out gas savings

Automatic authentication signatures for web3

Mintable’s SDK to generate ERC-721s

Piñata on IPFS economics. And an SDK for pinning on IPFS with Piñata

Web3 yeet wraps most common web3js operations for one line use

draft of code for ENS permanent registrar

Live on mainnet

Augur interface Veil launches on mainnet

STK payment channels live on mainnet

Urbit Address Space live on mainnet. You may find the Urbit Primer useful

Ecosystem

The Year in Ethereum 2018. #longreads

Andrew Keys’ 2019 predictions

New ENS manager

Parity Fether v0.2 beta light-client based wallet

Austin Griffith: onboarding new users with Burner Wallet point of sale

New Etherscan beta site

Enterprise

Quorum v2.2.1 and Tessera v0.8

Oaken Innovations’ toll road transactions pilot

Governance and Standards

Latest core devs call. Agenda to follow along.

List of Aragon proposals up for a vote on the 24th.

2019: the year of the DAO?

Kristy-Leigh Minehan on ProgPoW tradeoffs between Nvidia and AMD

ERC1710: URL format for web3 browsers

ERC1700: non-exhaustible token

ERC1702: generalized account versioningscheme

ERC1707: version byte prefix for account versioning

Application layer

0x roadmap: ZEIPs. Also a new look 0xTracker.

Understanding the risk/reward of providing Uniswap liquidity

Ari Juels on Chainlink and TownCrier

Brave’s opt-in ads paying 70% to user are live in their dev release. I tried it - slightly unexpected, but I like it.

Monetha’s decentralized reputation framework

Ryan Yi on Augur’s dispute resolution mechanism and US Congressional elections

Gnosis to prime the liquidity pump for DutchX with some DAI/ETH orders

Althea beta release “to dynamically route, buy, and sell bandwidth” with Eth

Maker to completely rebuild Oasis and will remove OasisDex and Oasis.direct frontends on Jan31

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Multiparty Computations episode of Zero Knowledge

Andrew Keys talks ConsenSys 2.0 on Decentralize This

Decentralized Data Now call. Formerly open source block explorers

Andy Bromberg on the Smartest Contract

Settle’s Scott Lewis on Into the Ether

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Status app store curation mechanism

Brooklyn Project: the state of regulation in 2019

Continuous Organizations 1.0

de la Rouviere: Moloch DAO and collapsing the firm

General

Implementing secp256k1 on Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) to create cross-platform Ethereum-Scuttlebutt applications

Ex-BitTorrent employee Simon Morris on lessons for crypto from BitTorrent (link to part 1 of 4)

CBInsights: how blockchain could disrupt insurance

Shapeshift on 2018 law enforcement requests

Profile of DuckDuckGo and founder Gabe Weinberg

Gitcoin planning on experimenting with Liberal Radicalism with its grants

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 23 - Infura Project ID prioritization

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 30 - Feb 1 - Stanford Blockchain Conference

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - Maker to remove OasisDEX and Oasis.direct frontends

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon ends

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 27 - Constantinople (block 7280000)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

Mar 8-10 - ETHParis (ETHGlobal)

Mar 8-10 - EthUToronto

Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)

Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support

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

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown (ETHGlobal)

May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork

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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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News and Links

Layer 1

[eth1] Quick summary of Constantinople hard fork

[maybe eth1, eth2] ELI5 storage rent

[eth2] What’s New in Eth2 from Ben Edgington

Latest Eth2 implementers call. Agenda to help follow along (plus brief notes in What’s New in eth2 above)

[eth2] An updated Beacon chain mini-spec

[eth2] Prysmatic dev update - sync’d with spec, 100% test coverage; Go BLS sigs ready

[eth2] Lodestar Javascript client dev update

[eth2] Cross-shard receipt and hibernation/waking anti-double-spending

[eth2] Stan Kladko: Use validators BLS key pairs to keep transactions encrypted until included in chain

[eth2[ Justin Drake: Eth2 consensus objects natively compatible with multiple hash functions

[eth2] How Vitalik thinks about incentives for stakers to stay online

[eth2] Staking reward spreadsheet by Eric Conner

[eth2-> eth3] Beacon-chain friendly CBC Casper

[eth3] Bitwise LMD GHOST

Layer 2

Cryptoplayer.one - rock-paper-scissors (with a StarWars flavor) on Raiden, acted out by robots you can watch on Youtube. Try it out - it helps test Raiden.

An overview of state channels projects

Connext opensourced their generalized custodial hub. You can check out their hub, client, and contract code. Non-custodial hub coming in the next month.

Stuff for developers

Austin Griffith: Burner Wallet v2.2, burner-to-burner encrypted messaging with Eth keys. Also solid ELI5 of Burner Wallet

OpenZeppelin v2.1

Truffle v5.0.1

Paul Berg’s how to write upgradeable code with Truffle5 and ZeppelinOS2

Intro to Mythril Classic and symbolic execution

ConsenSys Diligence’s registry of code weakness and test cases

SmartCheck security tool adds Vyper

Minimal Solidity testing with Ganache and Jest

Yondon Fu: How not to use ECDSA

“stack too deep” error in Solidity

Jez San on thinking about GDPR and blockchain

Video example of queries to GraphQL api with 3box.js

Monitoring events with Kauri’s Eventeum

ConsenSysDesign’s rimble v0.2 adaptable components and design standards

Gitcoin Grants an easy way to give recurring contributions to your favorite OSS projects and maintainers. Ben Edgington’s UX report

Ecosystem

In case you haven’t noticed on Twitter, all the cool kids are getting an Eth dappnode from Ava.do [I don’t have one, but I want to be cool, so I’m probably going to get one]

Bernhard Mueller’s hilarious tweetstorm satire of a maxi tweetstorm

EthHub launches. Great documentation and FAQs for devs/users

A note about Blockchains LLC from founder Jeffrey Berns

imToken at 7.5m accumulated installed devices, 30% iOS, 70% Android

To every Bitcoin maximalist who says you can’t run a full node, Afri very strongly disagrees.

More Afri: on Jan 3, only 10.2% of nodes were Constantinople-ready. Update your clients!

ConsenSys and AMD’s W3BCLOUD collaboration “to develop optimized solutions powered by AMD hardware” for enterprise and dapps (link opens PDF)

Enterprise

John Wolpert on lessons learned in blockchain consulting

Busting the myth of private blockchains

Kaleido launches Marketplace for “blockchain at consortia scale”

Governance and Standards

Core devs call. Agenda. Summary per Hudson, “Constantinople is on track. We are already starting to develop timelines for Istanbul. ProgPoW is going to happen barring any major issues.”

Lane Rettig on transparency and the Devcon meetings on the PoW chain that caused a ruckus

Application layer (I decided no 2018 reviews; those could have been the whole newsletter)

Many Augur markets ended on Dec 31, so there is a record 140 disputes in this week’s round. Also prediction markets to facilitate cross-chain swaps?

Grid+ rolling out electricity to more in next couple months; had Samsung stop manufacturing a component of Lattice agent, so had to replace; still on track for Q2

Air quality data streams from 10,210 locations in 68 countries on Streamr

BloqPress - a web3 CMS

Pando - decentralized VCS enabling contribution tracking, via the Aragon client

DX.exchange - buy tokens representing Tesla, Apple and 8 more Nasdaq stocks where the stock is held in custody. Per Bloomberg, this goes live next week. To me, the interesting bit is that now those stacks can trade 24/7

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Starkware’s Eli Ben-Sasson and Uri Kolodny on Into the Ether

Vitalik Buterin with Kartik Talwar at ETHSingapore

Jutta Steiner on ZeroKnowledge

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Livepeer network economics update. LPT continues to be an interesting experiment (and you probably have some from the MerkleMine airdrop)

Cameroon separatists launch their own currency on Ethereum. Reading the article doesn’t give me great hope for its legitimacy, but it’s an interesting idea.

Interesting funding model from Mintable: selling NFTs that let you use their app for free for life.

Santiment built an Ethereum token market cap

General

Elegy for a cypherpunk. Remembering Tim May. Nice work about the values from which our space springs.

How much each year Ethereum is mentioned in Google Scholar articles

IEEE: Ethereum plans to cut energy consumption by 99%

Proof of existence timestamp chain on Substrate

Chris Dixon: blockchains can wrest internet control from corporations

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 10-Feb7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon

Jan ~16 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 24 - Aragon vote, including on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Jan 31 - GörliCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 23-25 - EthAustin (EthUniversal)

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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News and Links

Layer 1

[eth2] Latest what’s new in Eth2

[eth1&2] Nimbus dev update

CBC Casper proofs of properties in Isabelle

Confidential Transactions with Reusable Commitments on Ethereum

Layer 2

OMG’s update on Plasma Prime implementation

Stuff for developers

learning SNARKs from scratch with a board game

OpenZeppelin 2.1 RC 2 and Manuel Araoz’s Zeppelin motivations and plans

Etherlime update - solc v0.5.x, 95% coverage, and what’s coming in 2019

Tool to refactor your solidity v0.4.x code to v0.5.x

JIT for Truebit

debugging working group with data representation paper

3box.js v1.1 with local and network caching and a GraphQL endpoint

Auditing Solidity with Trail of Bits’ Slither

Tutorial to bridge PoA sidechain assets to Ethereum. Maker, Giveth, Protofire and POANet run xDai

LiveOverflow’s Capture the Flag with video explanations

Ecosystem

MyCrypto 1.5 is live with 0xInstant available

EnjinX: Eth block explorer. NFT and memecoin support coming in 2019

Threshold ECDSA sigs from Keep.

Basic concepts to understand to control your private keys

Ethereum Explained from PegaSys: Merkle Trees, World State, Transactions, and more

Governance and Standards

ERC1671: bonded fungible tokens

Application layer

Gitcoin in 2019

Eth gaming pioneer Etherplay is exploring “blockchain game economies minted by central servers”

Cryptowars (running on Loom) has a tournament going live this week

Loopring v2 is live.

Brave does a hotfix around clearly showing who is a verified publisher. Whiners kept whining in possibly the dumbest complaint ever - they’re upset that BAT can accumulate for a publisher who hasn’t yet verified.

Lympo and the Dallas Mavs have a fitness incentive program using a token on Ethereum and lets you buy Mavs merchandise with it.

Unikrn launches esports betting platform

In response to lawsuit threats from BNY Mellon, Melonport is now waterMelonport. The water may be silent.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Maker’s Andy Milenius on a16z podcast

Nadav Hollander on Epicenter

Q&A with Buterin Fellowship receipient Mikerah Quintyne-Collins

Georgios Konstantopoulos on Into the Ether

Maurice Herlihy talk on atomic cross chain swaps

A Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon and Sonal Chokshi conversation from November and a different conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon from September.

General

Ledger responds to the hardware wallet attack talk at 35c3. They’re underwhelmed.

Facebook’s centralized decisionmaking about what people are allowed to say around the world. Yuck.  

An intro to the Radical Markets ideas

No surprise that in crypto winter Wall Street’s crypto projects are on hold. Which is great, because then the true believers are better positioned in future competition

Somehow I’d missed the return of Merry Merkle doing renovation work in a South African high school. Also, Unicef France now accepts Dai

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 10-Feb7 - 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon

Jan ~15 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 17 - Aragon vote on funding original AragonOne team

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal) 

Feb 23-25 - EthAustin (EthUniversal)

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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News and Links

Layer 1

[Eth 2] Danny Ryan’s state of the spec

[Eth 2] Latest Eth 2 implementers call. Agenda to follow along.

[Eth 2] What’s New in Eth2

[Eth 2] Latest Prysmatic dev update

[Eth 2] Lighthouse dev update

[Eth 2] Coindesk profiles the teams building Eth2

[ewasm] Latest Ewasm call.

[1 -> 2] When stable, the beacon chain to finalize the POW chain

[Eth1] State Rent proposal update

[Eth1] How types of contracts would handle contract state-root-plus-witness architecture

NEAR: Unsolved problems in blockchain sharding

Boneh, Bünz, Fisch: Batching Techniques for Accumulators for stateless chains

Justin Drake Ethereum 3.0 tweet

Layer 2

Storj is planning to use Raiden for its payments. Raiden v0.19

Building MixEth as a state channel dapp with Counterfactual

Celer’s team to play their state channel Gomoku game for real Eth

gas payment abstraction in layer 2

prime numbers to transactions instead of coins?

should fraudulent exit bonds be partially burned?

Demo snark for Plasma Cash and Cashflow history compaction

SKALE releases architecture of their sidechain network

Stuff for developers

Ethereum on ARM. Constantinople-ready images

registry-builder: A modular approach to building TCRs from LevelK

7 uses cases with 3box.js

Gnosis Apollo to create your own prediction market interface or tournament

Schedule your token transfers on MyCrypto using Ethereum Alarm Clock

BudgetBox from Colony. Binary choices turned into budget percentages, and can be done onchain. Github

web3j v4.1 for Android

You can now integrate Gitcoin’s Kudos into your app. Gitcoin also hit 500k in issues.

A quick Austin Griffith tutorial on Commit/Reveal

Matt Tyndall’s counterfactual loan repayment for Dharma

Linkdrops: let people send crypto embedded in URLs without gas/wallets

Panoramix decompiler using symbolic execution instead of static analysis

Streamr’s cold chain monitoring tutorial

Dennis Peterson: Spam protection with probabilistic payments and cheap doublespending protection

How to debug with Tenderly and Truffle

A teaser for Harvey fuzzer from ConsenSys Diligence

Automated Eth code exploiter and similar how to scan and steal ETH

Hard fork enabled client releases

Geth v1.8.20 - hard fork enabled, Puppeth improvements, etc

Parity Ethereum 2.2.5-beta and Parity Ethereum 2.1.10-stable hardfork enabled

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.20 Constantinople support and genesis file support 

Ecosystem

Opera releases native Eth wallet and dapp browser for Android. Download. Slick and well worth checking out.

How I learned Solidity basics for free as a noob dev

Uncle rate keeps falling. Time to start nudging up the gaslimit?

Monetary policy chart of historic and future Ether issuance

All the impressive ETHSingapore submissions and winners. Some of Josh Stark’s favorites.

A comparison of ETHSanFrancisco and EOS SF hackathons

Ethereum product management interviews. Also, video of Eth PMs call

Alethio’s EthStats block explorer

Ecosystem job listings

Web3Foundation, Validity Labs and Status working on Whisper alternative

Live on mainnet

OriginTrail: data exchange in supply chains protocol

Enterprise

Quorum v2.2.0

Cheddar suggests Facebook wants to do its own basechain and is recruiting

Why Enterprise Ethereum is way more than DLT

See OriginTrail above

Governance and Standards

ProgPOW testnet block explorer

A quick case study on Aragon’s AGP1 proposal

Evolution of a security token standard

ERC1643: Document Management Standard

ERC1644: Controller Token Operation Standard

ERC1666: Decentralized Autonomous Zero-identity Protocol

ERC1613: Gas stations network

Application layer

Cellarius first anthology released. Free to MetaMask users.

Golem’s Graphene-ng demo part2

XYO Network to launch satellite named EtherX on SpaceX’s Falcon9 in next few months

Data auditing and repair with Storj

The Fluidity stack to allow liquid secondary markets

Vitalik tweetstorm on non-financial apps

Onchain mutual insurance to return insurance to its origin: communities sharing risk

p2p loan offers on Bloqboard using Dharma

Ujo Portal out of beta and in version1.

KyberNetwork’s monthly update - new reserves, wBTC updated

Liquality offers crosschain swap of testnet Eth for Bitcoin. You can also get a good price buying Eth with Summa’s crosschain swap

GnosisSafe users can pay gas fees in OWL.

Maker proposal to reduce stability fee from 2.5% to 0.5%. Vote Dec 17

Augur’s controversial US House elections market has been reported as Republican. This is obviously nonsense because no one would have bet on that market and it makes no sense to encourage wordsmith trickery. This is a huge test of Augur and will be interesting to watch. Also, v1.8.4 out with new node endpoint. And a nice Augur 2018 review from Guesser

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

All Devcon4 videos and photos

Arthur Falls uploads some Joe Lubin Devcon3 video footage

Video: a Wolfram language platform for Ethereum

Zero Knowledge ETHSingapore episode

Open Block Explorers community call

Blockchain Insider with Vitalik Buterin

Grid+ Alex Miller and Karl Kreder on Hashing It Out

Prysmatic’s Preston Van Loon and Raul Jordan on Into the Ether

Andrew Keys talks ConsenSys2.0 with Laura Shin

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Chris Burniske argues Ether and Bitcoin prices are undervalued based on fundamentals

4 eras of blockchain computing: degrees of composability from Jesse Walden

CFTC requests input. EthHub and Brooklyn Project are both crowd sourcing responses

Basecoin/Basis quits after raising ~130m and returns money to its VCs, blaming the SEC. I feel there may be more to come with this story.

MythX (formerly Mythril) decides against its announced token

Don’t think there was any doubt, but Coinbase is listing tokens. 30 assets up for consideration

Bonding curve intuition and parameterization

Harberger taxes in action on r/ethtrader banners

Simon de la Rouviere: Desire paths and recommendation markets

General

Zero-Knowledge Proofs Starter Pack

Support starving Venezuelans by buying NFT Christmas cards through Giveth. Easy onboarding for your non-crypto friends.

Results of Bounties Network paying local to participate in Manila Bay beach cleanup. Some interesting UX lessons.

Terra-Bridge: Transfer between Ethereum and Bitcoin protocol

CMEGroup puts up an Intro to Ether course

Zilliqa testnet v3 is live and in feature freeze ahead of January mainnet release. It also got an AWS case study

Boerse Stuttgart and SolarisBank say in next 6 months they’ll launch crypto trading platform in Europe

The state of Surveillance Capitalism is dire: your apps are tracking your location and selling it. It’s very easy to figure out who you are from your location. Bring on web3!

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Dec 17 - vote to reduce Maker stability fee

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan ~15 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal) next hacker application round closes December 31st

Feb 23-25 - EthAustin hackathon (EthUniversal)

Mar 4 - Ethereum Magicians (Paris)

Mar 5-7 - EthCC (Paris)

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

Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown

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News and Links

Layer 1

[Eth 1] Notes from the call on improving the current Ethereum chain

[Eth 2] The latest What's New in Eth2

[Eth 2] Notes from latest Eth2 implementers call

[Eth 2] Nimbus dev update

[Eth 2] Eric Conner’s Eth2.0 economic primer

[Eth 2] Vitalik: layer 2 computing model using optimistic state roots. Or the ELI5 version. Big if it works.

[CBC Casper] Latest Casper standup call

[CBC Casper] CBC Casper explanation by Vitalik

Layer 2

Latest state channels call

Explainer video for Raiden Network

Minimum number of rounds required for plasma cash with rearrangeable transactions

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.5.1 “improves the usability of interfaces, fixes some bugs, extends the SMT checker and provides an early preview of the Yul optimizer”

Embark 4.0.0-alpha.2

web3j v4 out of alpha and in general relelase

Rocketh test library with any web3 library and test runner

Aragon: cheaper voting through EVM storage proofs

dappboard: load chain data into PostgreSQL to analyze

Securify academic paper

An IPFS for devs explainer from Piñata

a URL shortener live on Ropsten

Using the iExec SDK

How to use Quiknode to quickly start a dedicated node

0x Instant react.js component

RuntimeVerification formally verifies the beacon chain in COQ and models RanDAO

Ecosystem

ConsenSys reorg from 1.0 to 2.0 included 13% layoffs.

Alethio’s block explorer and free linked data graph

Curious Giraffe has some nice dapp analytics for Compound, Augur, ENS, etheroll, Kyber, AirSwap, and Cryptokitties.

In 2019, Gnosis will give away up to 600k USD to build on Gnosis products through its ecosystem fund

A list of Ethereum community calls from Trenton Van Epps

More on AZTEC Protocol’s confidential transactions. Plus costs would go down to 200-300k gas with eip1108

Live on mainnet

slow.trade is live on mainnet; it builds on the DutchX protocol by Gnosis

Havven launches stablecoins for EUR, JPY, AUD, KRW, and gold.

FOAM Signaling live on mainnet

Enterprise

SignatureBank to offer commercial clients 24/7 money transfer for free using a private Ethereum chain

Governance and Standards

Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes. Fork will be around Jan 16th. Working group updates. Dropping Ropsten/PoW testnets forever?

ERC1633: Refungible token standard

ERC1638: Gift vault standard

Application layer

0x Instant. No more wrapping Eth! Also, 22 ideas to explore with 0x.

dy/dx’s Antonio Juliano tweetstorm on state of 0x

Cyrus Younessi’s overview of Uniswap Exchange

A new and slick version of Maker Tools

Status v0.9.32 with private group chats

Funfair product update

Imbrex open sources its real estate data exchange called Tegula

OpenLaw and Rhombus build onchain derivatives

3Box spins out from uPort

Livepeer’s Streamflow upgrade proposal with probabilistic micropayments

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

AZTEC Protocol’s Zach Williamson on Smartest Contract

Video of local news report on Blockchains LLC fiber optic ring

Curation markets community call

John Lilic video interview

Intro to Scaling on Into the Ether

Numerai/Erasure’s Richard Craib AMA

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Richard Craib on redesigning Numerai. Cutting supply by half, making it more useful with Erasure, and decentalizing it.

Bonded curves for charity

Brian Armstrong: adoption of cryptoassets will come through VR

Video of NYT’s Sorkin interviews SEC Chairman Clayton

General

Zaki Manian’s Cosmos and Polkadot comparison

NEAR’s Alex Skidanov: Core ideas in blockchain sharding

Update on ETC<>ETH peace relay

Coinbase filed to trademark buidl, though Balaji pledges it will only be defensive.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

Dec 9 - Neufund equity token offering (closes after a week)

Jan 10 - Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan ~16 - Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000

Jan 29-30 - AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 7-8 - Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15-17 - ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal) next hacker application round closes December 31st

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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News and Links

Layer 1 - Eth PoW

Lane’s notes on the Ethereum 1.0 improvements call -- the nomenclature Eth1.x is deprecated

Péter Szilágyi: chain pruning for long term 1.0 viability

ewasm proposal for Eth 1.0

A rough proposal for storage management fees. Discussion at FEM and two at Ethresearch: one and two

Layer 1 - Eth2

What’s New in Eth2

Eth2 implementers call. in lieu of notes, agenda

Prysmatic’s biweekly update - explanations of both new cross-shard approach and STARK-friendly hash functions, refactoring to single state, BLS implementation and much more

Lighthouse fortnightly update: Alex Stokes joins, spec updates, etc

Encumberments: instant cross-shard payments over slow cross-shard

VB: A minimal state execution proposal

A Tale of Two Ethers explainer.

Notes from Eth 2.0 Q&A in Prague

An ELI5 on how Eth2 landed on 32 ETH to be a validator

Layer 2

Latest state channel call. Penultimate state channels call

Raiden v0.18

Plasma Prime PoC client

A sketch for a STARK-based accumulator. Or Vitalik’s ELI5 on Reddit

OmiseGo Plasma update

Stuff for developers

PubSub pattern using Solidity 0.5.0

Use Whisper in Embark tutorial

Quick Formality update from Victor Maia. [Formality is kin to Haskell.]

Compound releases documentation for devs to earn interest on eth/tokens

Comparing GUN, OrbitDB and Scuttlebutt

AragonOS 4: refining our framework for production

Import Ethereum state to use on local chain

Elixir implementation of Ethereum’s RLP encoding

Ahken: Eth aware automatic IPFS pinning PoC

Writing a Truebit task in Rust

Octopus security analysis tool for wasm, EVM and some centralized chains

Native Meta Transactions: signed message recovery integrated in contracts

Remix 0.7.5 released with solidity 0.5 support, plus some cool plugins

Ecosystem

Chart over time of Eth locked up in DeFi (note: Maker off by default)

MyCrypto is doing an Advent-style calendar of security tips with prizes

How to easily import your Medium articles into Kauri

Interview with Shawn Wilkinson on Storj’s current approach to decentralized storage

Joe Lubin’s tweetstorm overview of the Ethereum ecosystem

Two great client releases. Update now

Geth v1.8.19 trie read cache for 15% faster full-sync speed and 30% faster in-sync processing and Swarm v0.3.7. Also, Swarm’s Kubernetes setup is now open source

Parity Ethereum v2.2.2 beta - lower the uncle rate allowing higher gas limit. warp sync reuses local info to reduce required data to sync. and 2.1.7 stable

Parity CTO Fredrik Harrysson interviews Geth lead dev Péter Szilágyi for Zero Knowledge

Live on mainnet

Gnosis Safe is on mainnet - Android app (download link. iOS coming soon). Big step forward in UX and multi-sig availability, though obviously you should wait for it to be battle tested before committing large sums. (RuntimeVerification’s formal verification is in process)

Mintable: easily mint and manage your ERC721 nfty tokens

Ethertify: certification platform for IP rights and document signing

Aztec: working zero knowledge proof for confidential transactions on mainnet. Send Maker’s Dai to a contract, then withdraw to another address. The addresses are public, but the amounts are not. Roadmap includes: anonymous voting for governence mechanics, anonymous identity schemes and zero knowledge exchange

Enterprise

Amazon announces QLDB (one party owns the chain/database) and Managed Blockchain (multiple nodes) for Ethereum and Fabric

At same event, Kaleido announced consortium plans

Trends in enterprise blockchain

Excel to blockchain with web3j

Governance and Standards

Polkadot: never fork again

Giveth’s Unicorn DAC non-hierarchical governance experiment

ERC1630: hashed time-lock standard

Application layer

Ocean Protocol’s v0.2 Trilobite testnet release - data access control, secure compute via fitchain

Capbridge and ConsenSys working on a Singaporean security token exchange

Management and performance fees in a Melon fund

A look under the hood of Mysterium’s decentralized VPN

Streamr open sources their front end, Solidity code and event watcher

upbloc: curated periodic publishing platform, live on Ropsten

FedEx to work with XYO to build out proof of location

More on Etherisc, Aon and Oxfam’s crop insurance for Sri Lankan rice farmers

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Justin Drake on Epicenter

Luke Mulks AMA on Brave Ads and he tells us about all the ways we’re being tracked

Pokt Network’s Michael O’Rourke & Luis C. de Leon on Hashing It Out

Hudson Jameson on the inaugural edition of Eric Conner’s podcast

Tokens / Business / Regulation

Sina Habibian: tokenizing real estate

Harbor’s security token platform launched with 20m equity in South Carolina student housing

A CFTC primer on “smart contracts”

Chris Burniske reports that SEC Chair Clayton confirmed that ETH and BTC are not securities, but refused to comment about Ripple.

SEC announced settlements with Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled for touting shady sales and not disclosing it

US Treasury sanctions 2 Bitcoin addresses associated with ransomware in Iran

General

NEAR Protocol open sources its client; uses Typescript for its smart contracts. IDE live. (headsup: I’m an investor)

Zilliqa’s v3 testnet is live in advance of targeted Jan 31 mainnet launch. (As said before, I own some)

Trail of Bits: 10 Rules for Hardware Wallets

Buterin/Weyl: Central planning as overfitting

Jerome de Tychey’s recap and lessons learned of last year’s EthCC has me pumped for 2019.

Holocracy founder on crypto network organization

University of Basel gives Vitalik Buterin an honorary doctorate

Scuttlebutt’s Dominic Tarr statement on a hack that happened because he transferred control of a widely-used module to an attacker who inserted code to steal crypto. Always check your dependencies.

The hack above highlighted lack of incentive for open source maintainers, which is part of what Gitcoin highlights in their roadmap for financial open source sustainability. A different approach: the ZeppelinOS ecosystem of secure code

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

Dec 7-9 - ETHSingapore hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Dec 9 - Neufund equity token offering(closes after a week)

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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