March 15, 2018

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Week in Ethereum News

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March 15, 2018

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Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

At EthCC, Vitalik announced PlasmaCash. [Outside, Karl Floersch was giving an abbreviated talk on the steps]. This design framework – coins deposited on Plasma chain as NFT thus you can track only Merkle branches for your own coins – comes from Plasma with much less per-user data checking in last week’s issue. Karl released a PlasmaCash spec. VB: “Plasma is not a sidechain/drivechain. Sidechains and drivechains let 50% of the miners on the sidechain steal all coins in the side/drive chain. Plasma relies only on the security of the main chain” Machinomy: We built a Generalised State Channels framework A state channels adventure with counterfactual Rick from Spankchain Latest Eth/RChain Casper standup Sharding: A new account type in abstraction. Sharding: Guaranteed execution gas for transactions in collations Scaling now with Parity bridge – initial deployment connecting PoA chains You’ve probably already seen their CryptoZombies series, now LoomNetwork announces its first DappChain (one DPoS sidechain per dapp written in Go; there’s a decentralization tradeoff). You can apply to use their beta SDK, which is aimed at game developers.

Stuff for developers

Echidna – smart fuzzer for Solidity code from Trail of Bits Merkle Airdrops: a (much) better way to airdrop. Can also be used for NFTs Gas Token - store gas when it’s cheap to use when it is expensive by using the storage refund. For more, Reddit thread worth a read due to Phil Daian participating. Is the geth console going away? They’re soliciting opinions uPort guide using Truffle boxes Off-chain whitelist with on-chain verification? O(1)Labs released Snarky: A high-level language for verifiable computation Alex Sherbuck is doing a series on each coding error that has been done in Soldiity sails.js Truffle hook Ethereum + IPFS + Create-React-App tutorial SwarmCity releases IPFS consortium code - group agreements to maintain IPFS data. Github. Updated version of using Zeppelin and Truffle for token sales Ujo’s current tech stack MAIAN – security tool from the recent academic article.

EIP/ERC

ERC928: Eth Avatar standard ERC930: Eternal storage standard

Release

Solidity v0.4.21 – choose your EVM, new features, bugfixes, etc ENSNow: Get an ENS subdomain and point it at your wallet instantly

Ecosystem

Lane Rettig’s notes on the Eth Magicians governance gathering at EthCC EtherVis – visual Eth address explorer Cool correlations graphing from Etherchain A front end for Christian Lundkvist’s Simple MultiSig EthPrize.io – bounties for things the ecosystem needs. first bounties for EthPM package manager and open source block explorerNearly 13,000 Ether are lost due to one character typos
All videos from EthCC. I particularly liked Karl’s.

Project Updates

“Augur’s contracts are done” after Zeppelin audit Docker’s ex-CEO is joining Storj as interim CEO Propy records first US (VT) real estate transaction on blockchain Updated how Numerai works $5 DIY hardware wallet Firefly is shipping kits to early backers Washington Post is now verified as a BAT publisher Iconomi announces 3 new uses for its token LivePeer’s path to decentralization Digix to deploy to mainnet this week

New Projects

Arithmetica – decentralized SETI, reusable for different problems. Github EDDITS – putting identities onchain using ERC725 and ERC735

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Software Engineering Daily hits Ethereum hard this week. First, PoS with Karl Floersch, then talking MetaMask with Dan Finlay, and talking web3 with Fabian Vogelsteller. And last week Luis Cuende and Raine Revere. What’s great about these is that they have transcripts. Joe Lubin SXSW interview More Lubin on 11:FS (interview starts around 30:05) CodePodcast on security with Yoichi Hirai, Matt Condon, and Santi Palladino Amber Baldet with Laura Shin Christian Lundkvist talks to Max Sklar Corey Petty talk on Social Implications of Blockchain Zero Knowledge talks to JP Smith from security auditors Trail of Bits and to Parity’s Robert Habermeier Just to reiterate: all videos from EthCC

Tokens

Jez San: “The potential market of blockchains that use smart contacts, like Ethereum, dwarfs that of ‘store of value’ chains (i.e. bitcoin)” Why Dharma Protocol isn’t (yet?) doing a token sale Cofound.it: fundraising options for blockchain startup founders TrueDigital and ConsenSys create a reference rate for Ethereum, a crucial step for derivatives Robby Greenfield on the Venezuelan dictatorship’s Petro scam SEC: 5 things you need to know about ICOs Bloomberg: SEC has subpoenaed some crypto funds USV’s Nick Grossman: why tokens are fundamental to web3

General

Vivek Singh: web3 in context of the history of the internet
Politico on PoW mining in Eastern Washington

IMF head Chrstine Lagarde acknowledges <a href="https://blogs.imf.org/2018/03/13/addressing-the-dark-side-of-the-crypto-world/">downsides to cryptoassets but &ldquo;we must welcome their potential.&rdquo;</a>
ConsenSys announces <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consensys-establishes-customer-success-organization-to-support-quorum-enterprise-customers-300611587.html">tech support for Quorum </a>
Caitlin Long on getting <a href="https://caitlin-long.com/2018/03/09/wyomings-blockchain-bills-a-very-personal-labor-of-love/">Wyoming&rsquo;s blockchain bills</a> enacted into law, &ldquo;a US version of Switzerland’s “Crypto Valley”&rdquo;
US House <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?442556-1/hearing-focuses-cryptocurrency-markets&amp;live">congressional hearing on cryptoassets</a>.  You may get annoyed when Brad Sherman (D-CA) comes on.
Sierra Leone put <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/83v7x9/these_results_represent_the_first_time_a/">raw presidential voting results</a> on Ethereum as a backup
<a href="http://archive.is/gOxTc">Coinbase lands Barclays</a> as UK banking partner
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6iDZspbRMg">Crypto segment on John Oliver&rsquo;s</a> Last Week Tonight.

Dates of note

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March 27 – Pathfounder: Cryptoeconomics in London. 15% off with discount code EVAN. May 3-5 – Edcon in Toronto May 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC) May 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC)

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