Week in Ethereum - June 21, 2018
ethereum·@evanvanness·
0.000 HBDWeek in Ethereum - June 21, 2018
<html> <h2><center><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hhsslviub/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,q_auto:good,f_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15f333e1-ffdd-408c-a909-ebb7cda46a07_190x308" width="190" height="308"/></center></h2> <h2><strong>News and Links</strong></h2><BR> <p><strong>Protocol</strong></p> <ul> <li>EIP1011 deprecated in favor of <a href="https://medium.com/@djrtwo/casper-%EF%B8%8F-sharding-28a90077f121">casper + sharding</a>. It “brings us to a full-PoS, sharded, scalable blockchain much sooner”</li> <li>New <a href="https://notes.ethereum.org/SCIg8AH5SA-O4C1G1LYZHQ?view">Casper+Sharding</a> spec</li> <li>Drake: <a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/artificial-beacon-chain-penalties/2302">Artificial beacon chain penalties</a></li> <li>Casey Detrio: <a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/synchronous-cross-shard-transactions-with-consolidated-concurrency-control-and-consensus-or-how-i-rediscovered-chain-fibers/2318">Synchronous cross-shard transactions with consolidated concurrency control and consensus</a></li> <li>Drake: <a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/optimised-handling-of-proposer-and-attester-signatures/2280">Optimised handling of proposer and attester signatures</a></li> <li>Buterin: <a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/attestation-committee-based-full-pos-chains/2259">Attestation committee based full PoS chains</a></li> <li>Latest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8GeuRbBI6k">Casper standup</a></li> <li>Tom Close: <a href="https://medium.com/statechannels/introducing-the-force-move-games-framework-for-state-channels-b32dd953c13f">Force-Move games state channels framework</a></li> <li>Fichter: <a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/griefing-vectors-in-confirmation-signatures/2301">Griefing Vectors in Confirmation Signatures</a></li> <li><a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/double-batched-merkle-log-accumulators-for-efficient-plasma-commitments/2313">Double Batched Merkle Log Accumulators</a> to make Plasma commitments cheaper</li> <li><a href="https://ethresear.ch/t/paying-rent-with-deposits/2221/20">Paying rent with deposits</a>?</li> <li>UTexas paper on <a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~vijay/papers/hotstorage18-eth.pdf">merkleizing levelDB</a> for Ethereum</li> <li>Latest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-AZys80RrU">core devs call</a>. Lane’s <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/pm/blob/master/All%20Core%20Devs%20Meetings/Meeting%2040.md">notes</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/06/21/announcing-swarm-proof-of-concept-release-3/">Swarm PoC3</a> released<br> </li> </ul><BR> <p><strong>Stuff for developers</strong></p> <ul> <li>Zkstark mixer <a href="https://github.com/barryWhiteHat/miximus">Miximus</a> is live on <a href="https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/address/0xb586453a8e44c86e012958e48a0deced462bd16e">Rinkeby</a></li> <li>There’s been a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8sd8ik/are_airdrops_abusing_our_network/">decent chunk of the network used recently by airdrops</a>, so <a href="https://twitter.com/technocrypto/status/1009543517645963267">Jeff Coleman reminds</a> projects that they can save lots of money by using Richard Moore’s <a href="https://blog.ricmoo.com/merkle-air-drops-e6406945584d">Merkle Air Drops</a></li> <li>MetaMask will no longer <a href="https://medium.com/metamask/breaking-change-no-longer-reloading-pages-on-network-change-4a3e1fd2f5e7">reload pages on network change</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.foam.space/exploring-ethereum-storage-costs-with-the-foam-developer-tools-96d84e1a06b5">Exploring Eth storage cost</a> with FOAM’s dev tools</li> <li>7 challenges in <a href="https://blog.dharma.io/fiddle-with-dharma-js-600cb589a13a">Dharma’s JS fiddle</a></li> <li>A rough <a href="https://github.com/maurelian/erc721-vyper">ERC721 implementation in Vyper</a> from Maurelian</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/eolszewski/ipfs-pubsub-chatroom">IPFS Pubsub React</a> boilerplate</li> <li>UI for the <a href="https://medium.com/@Radhika.Anand/the-simplest-multisig-wallet-part-2-939519be954c">simplest multisig wallet</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/consensys/cava">Cava</a>: core libraries for blockchain dev in Java and Kotlin</li> <li><a href="https://blog.status.im/embark-3-1-planet-express-60493ca0ad79">Embark v3.1</a> - better testing, lightweight wallet functionality, a transaction logger, profiler, clever imports, ENS support</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle/releases/tag/v4.1.12">Truffle v4.1.12</a></li> <li>Comprehensive<a href="https://blog.sigmaprime.io/solidity-security.html"> list of Solidity attack vectors</a> and how to avoid them</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Ecosystem</strong></p> <ul> <li>Status unveiled <a href="https://github.com/status-im/nimbus/blob/master/doc/Nimbus%20-%20An%20Ethereum%202.0%20Sharding%20Client_xt.md#january---february-2018">Nimbus</a>, an Eth client in Nim for resource constrained devices. More from Status: <a href="https://blog.status.im/building-censorship-resistant-tools-and-the-introduction-to-custom-bootnodes-and-mail-servers-c2b44ae5e807">building custom mailservers and bootnodes</a>, which they needed to get around Russian anti-Telegram IP blocking</li> <li>Parity: <a href="https://paritytech.io/wasm-smart-contract-development/">why we believe in WASM</a>, though <a href="https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1009562709904330760">Brendan Eich has some skepticism</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/mycrypto/new-feature-address-book-ccfcc56dc833">MyCrypto v1.1</a> with address book</li> <li>Nick Johnson’s state of <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HHKX_r_E-yWy5t9UcMSlQBghUpexHKYkhH2JvYwGTSQ/edit#slide=id.p">ENS slides</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/8smqe0/creating_useful_dapps_is_easier_than_people_think/">CryptoPrimitive Academy</a> - free series of dapp dev seminars starting next Monday</li> <li>A <a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/ethereum-messaging-whisper-status/">Whisper explainer</a></li> <li>AirSwap: <a href="https://blog.airswap.io/the-app-store-of-ethereum-is-powered-by-tokens-25a3af0f71da">decentralized exchanges are the web3 app stores</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@shazow/vipnode-progress-update-b3b53e4ea7a2">VIPNode update</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/verifying-identity-in-venezuela-through-the-tpl-5bccd0a7d5fb">Verifying identify in Venezuela</a> using Zeppelin’s Transaction Permission Layer</li> <li>All <a href="https://medium.com/uport/a-complete-list-of-uports-protocols-libraries-and-solutions-63e9b99b9fd6">uPort protocols and libraries</a></li> <li>Latest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tfKasW3EQ4">Open Block Explorers</a> call</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Live on mainnet</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/SpankChain/status/1007680210286739456">SpankChain’s public beta</a> went live on mainnet</li> <li>Dharma relayer <a href="https://dapp.bloqboard.com/">Bloqboard is live </a>on mainnet</li> <li>iEx.ec deployed their <a href="https://medium.com/iex-ec/iexec-dev-letter-21-v2-mainnet-security-audits-whats-next-380f96d02e86">marketplace and hub contracts on mainnet</a> in a soft launch. Public working pools in September</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Governance and Standards</strong></p> <ul> <li>I was wrong last week. ERC721 is <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1170">now officially finalized</a> with a relatively last minute <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/721#issuecomment-398465608">breaking change</a></li> <li><a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1153">EIP1153</a>: transient storage opcodes. FEM <a href="https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-transient-storage-opcodes/553/11">discussion</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1129">ERC1129</a>: standardized dapp announcements</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1161">ERC1154</a>: Oracle interface</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1155">ERC1155</a>: mint ERC20 and ERC721 tokens in same contract</li> <li><a href="https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1167">ERC1167</a>: Minimal proxy contract</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1152">ERC1152</a>: Access control with NFTs</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/1172">ERC1172</a>: wallet and shop standard for tokens</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1165">ERC1165</a>: registry for human-readable contract descriptions</li> <li>Some discussion on <a href="https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/792">ERC792</a> arbitration standard</li> <li>Dean Eigenmann’s meditations on what <a href="https://medium.com/@decanus/meditations-on-eos-f74790dc45ac">we can learn from the EOS governance anti-pattern</a>.</li> <li>How Nexus Mutual is <a href="https://medium.com/nexus-mutual/dao-governance-a-pragmatic-approach-27d529ad0819">thinking about DAO governance</a></li> <li>Kent Barton’s <a href="https://medium.com/@seven7hwave/scaling-the-community-five-takeaways-from-the-ether-f327fb00adb1">5 takeaways from the recent Ethereum values survey</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Project Updates</strong></p> <ul> <li>Loom Network’s <a href="https://medium.com/loom-network/zombie-battleground-launches-on-kickstarter-fc7579e51e1a">Zombie Battleground NFT card game is on Kickstarter</a> and has already raised <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/328862817/zombie-battleground-the-new-generation-of-ccg-tcg?ref=weekinethereum">$210k out of 250k</a> in less than a week</li> <li>The <a href="https://blog.neufund.org/meet-the-first-companies-tokenizing-their-equity-on-blockchain-8dd2a9c4091f">6 companies tokenizing their equity</a> with Neufund</li> <li>An <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/8rscom/we_are_the_althea_development_team_ama/">AMA with Althea Mesh</a></li> <li>Iconomi <a href="https://medium.com/iconominet/development-overview-q2-2018-fd11fc14388b">Q2 dev update</a></li> <li>FunFair to <a href="https://funfair.io/funfair-technologies-company-update/">launch their own casino</a> to dogfood their product</li> <li>AXA’s “Fizzy” flight delay insurance now <a href="https://medium.com/@laurentbenichou/fizzy-axa-reaches-a-new-milestone-fadd41f20e11">open to French and Italians</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/@humanGamepad/fizzy-axa-smart-contract-explaind-740df52894fd">publishes its code</a> which notarizes your transaction.</li> <li>You can now use your <a href="https://blog.gnosis.pm/generate-your-first-owl-using-gno-2205eb098f8">Gnosis tokens to generate OWL</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/8si2rp/optionality_create_and_trade_options_on_erc20/">Optionality</a> token options trading platform live on Kovan</li> <li>Grid+ imminent <a href="https://blog.gridplus.io/grid-progress-report-6-14-2018-a5aa64a71251">regulatory approval to sell electricity</a> at retail</li> <li>Kleros will provide <a href="https://medium.com/kleros/kleros-blue-frontiers-partnership-decentralized-justice-for-floating-cities-3c089830cbae">decentralized arbitration for seasteading</a></li> <li>NYTimes writeup of <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/business/media/denver-post-blockchain-colorado-sun.html">ex-Denver Post folks joining Civil</a></li> <li>Userfeeds is shutting down current company but <a href="https://blog.userfeeds.io/part-ii-new-beginnings-a7520702b5be">CTO is raising money to focus on being a product</a> instead of platform</li> <li><a href="https://blog.colony.io/colony-rinkeby-283c4a074127">Colony live on Rinkeby testnet</a> for devs in their hackathon. Also, the <a href="https://blog.colony.io/what-does-colony-look-like-edd7e709fc86">Colony stack</a></li> <li>Maker DAO’s <a href="https://medium.com/makerdao/foundation-proposal-caeb382465c1">Foundation Proposal</a> - the first vote on Aug 22</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks </strong></p> <ul> <li>Hashing It Out discussion of <a href="https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/hashing-it-out-12/">Casper + Sharding</a></li> <li>Mythril’s <a href="http://www.thesmartestcontract.com/8">Gerhard Wagner</a> on Smartest Contract</li> <li>All the videos from <a href="https://medium.com/blockchangers/recap-from-oslo-blockchain-day-2018-25e8976991d2">Oslo Blockchain Day</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzoS0tPUAiQ&feature=youtu.be&t=2h10m9s">State channel panel</a> at MIT’s Layer 2 summit</li> <li>Emin Gün Sirer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXrrqtFlGow">talk on Avalanche</a></li> <li>Alejandro Machado talks <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-coin-pod/id1350143328#">crypto use in his native Venezuela</a></li> <li>Spankchain’s <a href="http://www.thesmartestcontract.com/7">Ameen Soleimani</a> on Smartest Contract</li> <li><a href="https://thebitcoinpodcast.com/hashing-it-out-11/">John Pacific and David Nuñez</a> from NuCypher on Hashing It Out</li> <li>Coinbase’s <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/coinbases-adam-white-on-a-momentous-day-in-crypto-ep-023/id1347049808?i=1000413848610&mt=2">Adam White</a> with Laura Shin</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Tokens </strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://medium.com/livepeer-blog/inflation-funding-in-practice-in-delegated-stake-based-protocols-15cd9400e458">Inflation funding in practice</a> in Livepeer. Paratii also looking to <a href="https://medium.com/paratii/pti-token-summary-edf048d36245">incent curation through inflation</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/paratii/curation-markets-infinite-staking-247e8b72caa3">Curation markets with infinite staking</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/simondlr/artonomous">Artonomous</a> - Simon de la Rouviere experiment to sell daily art on curved bond</li> <li>Mapping the <a href="https://medium.com/point-nine-news/mapping-the-emerging-non-fungible-token-landscape-ee56f0d1079f">NFT landscape</a></li> <li>Foam’s <a href="https://blog.foam.space/foam-main-net-preview-token-curated-registries-for-geographic-points-of-interest-af3f0eba5cee">TCRs for points of interest on maps</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@jonthnH/designing-gatekeepers-using-token-curated-registries-and-work-tokens-to-manage-access-control-720b8923eb5">Gatekeepers</a> : TCRs and work tokens for access control</li> <li>Vitalik’s slides on <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MLwN2-pBufDmUNprf-r8LXFCm1Ua8skphzDTNPTaiUQ/edit#slide=id.p">mechanism design challenges</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>General</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ethereum Foundation helps underwrite for Stanford’s new <a href="https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-computer-scientists-launch-center-blockchain-research">Center for Blockchain Research</a></li> <li>How do you get your kids to do chores? You IoT the heck out of your house with <a href="https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/06/18/this-insanely-cool-diy-smart-home-features-alexas-ai-and-ethereums-blockchain/">chore tracking and then pay your kids in crypto</a> on completion.</li> <li>Lots of Ethereum in lastest <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180622005131/en/Thiel-Foundation-Announces-2018-Thiel-Fellows">Thiel Fellows</a></li> <li>Docusign will let you <a href="https://www.docusign.com/blog/momentum-2018-time-modern-systems-agreement/">store a document hash on Ethereum</a></li> <li>EY and Microsoft launch <a href="https://www.ey.com/gl/en/newsroom/news-releases/news-ey-and-microsoft-launch-blockchain-solution-for-content-rights-and-royalties-management-for-media-and-entertainment-industry">content permissions and royalties management</a> using Quorum that will be used first for XBox game publishers.</li> <li>Tether releases <a href="https://tether.to/fss-report-transparency-update/">independent report</a> of fiat matching Tether supply</li> <li>Be wary of MetaMask <a href="https://medium.com/metamask/new-phishing-strategy-becoming-common-1b1123837168">phishing attempts from Cloudflare security holes</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <h2><strong>Dates of Note</strong></h2> <p><strong>Upcoming dates of note:</strong></p> <ul> <li>June 24 -- <a href="https://blog.colony.io/announcing-the-colony-global-hackathon-1d9bf9004407">Colony </a>online hackathon finishes</li> <li>June 25 -- <a href="https://blog.etherisc.com/dip-token-generating-event-will-start-on-25-june-2018-db8c5aa832ac">Etherisc</a> token sale starts</li> <li>June 28 -- <a href="http://www.buildeth.io/">BuildEth</a> (San Francisco)</li> <li>June 30 -- <a href="https://g.solidity.cc/">Solidity Gas Golfing</a> challenge deadline</li> <li>June 30-July1 -- <a href="https://binarydistrict.com/courses/master-workshop-off-the-chain/">Off the chain</a> state channel workshop (Berlin)</li> <li>July 6-7 -- TechCrunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/03/announcing-the-techcrunch-ethereum-meetup-alongside-our-blockchain-event-in-zug/">blockchain and Ethereum events</a> (Zug)</li> <li>July 9 -- <a href="https://medium.com/@AugurProject/augur-weekly-development-update-may-23rd-4d78befe7bf8">Augur</a> scheduled to launch</li> <li>July 12 -- <a href="https://www.meraevents.com/event/ethereum-foundation-workshop-iit-delhi?ucode=weekinethereum">Sharding and Casper workshop</a> with Karl Floersch and Justin Drake (New Delhi)</li> <li>July 12-18 -- <a href="http://www.initc3.org/events/2018-07-12-IC3-Ethereum-Crypto-Boot-Camp.html">IC3 Eth Bootcamp</a> (Ithaca, NY)</li> <li>July 14-15 -- <a href="https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/proposed-agenda-for-the-council-of-berlin-set-for-july-14-15/377">FEM governance meetings</a> in Berlin</li> <li>July 19-20 -- <a href="https://www.dappcon.io/">DappCon</a> (Berlin)</li> <li>July 24-26 -- <a href="https://nifty.gg/">NIFTY</a> hackathon and NFT conference (Hong Kong)</li> <li>August 3-4 -- <a href="https://discon.io/">Discon</a> (Boulder, CO)</li> <li>August 10-12 -- <a href="https://ethindia.co/">EthIndia</a> hackathon (Bangalore)</li> <li>August 22 -- Maker DAO ‘<a href="https://medium.com/makerdao/foundation-proposal-caeb382465c1">Foundation Proposal</a>’ vote</li> <li>September 6 -- <a href="https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/wiki-gathering-of-security-community/433">Security unconference</a> (Berlin)</li> <li>September 7-9 -- <a href="http://ethberlin.com/">EthBerlin</a> hackathon</li> <li>September 7-9 -- WyoHackathon (Wyoming)</li> <li>Oct 5-7 -- <a href="http://truffleframework.com/trufflecon2018">TruffleCon</a> in Portland</li> <li>Oct 5-7 -- EthSanFrancisco hackathon</li> <li>Oct 22-24 -- <a href="http://web3summit.com/">Web3Summit</a> (Berlin)</li> <li>Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- <a href="https://devcon.ethereum.org/">Devcon4</a> (Prague)</li> <li>December -- EthSingapore hackathon</li> </ul> <h2><br></h2> <h2><strong>If you appreciate this newsletter, thank ConsenSys</strong></h2><BR> <p>I'm thankful that <a href="http://consensys.net/">ConsenSys</a> has brought me on and given me time to do this newsletter.<br><BR> </p> <p><center><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/hhsslviub/image/fetch/w_1100,c_limit,q_auto:good,f_auto/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ae9356f-3652-4de2-a85e-57e514ddbd44_240x240" width="240" height="240"/></center></p> <p><br></p> <p>Editorial control is 100% me. 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