Clearmatics Stories #5
Hello from Clearmatics,
It’s great to be back in the office in London for a short while after a busy couple of weeks on the road at a range of conferences, get-togethers and meetups.
The highlight has to be our trip to ETHDenver, a 36-hour marathon of talks and workshops given by the world’s top blockchain and Ethereum experts. We sponsored the event and so we hosted workshops and panels whilst coordinating hackers who worked on our tech stack. It was exhausting and awesome in equal measure!
We’ve also been attending events closer to home. I was lucky enough to be invited to present at the Oxford Blockchain Society, as well as at the DLT-EDI Meetup, where we spoke alongside POA Network. We also headed to Lisbon to meet with the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Lisbon Meet-up, where we worked alongside the likes of JP Morgan, Blockapps, Intel and Microsoft. We also sponsored the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance London Meet-up and presented Autonity, our full client implementation of the Autonity Protocol — an Ethereum-based protocol alongside Consensys’ Pegasys and Aztec Protocol. It was great to see that Autonity was really well received.
Our engineer, Chris Chung, attended the awesome, Rebooting-the-Web-of-Trust #8 workshop in Barcelona, where they focused on the creation of the next generation of decentralized web-of-trust based identity systems. Chris also hit up the Ethereum Community Conference, where he presented Ion, our open interoperability protocol.
So we’ve been busy, travelling all over the world, telling people about what we’re up to and listening to the industry’s movers and makers. We have enjoyed great conversations with industry peers and we look forward to collaborating with many of them in the near future. At these sorts of events, it becomes obvious what ambition, talent and potential we have within our industry. Our community is growing up fast and it’s really exciting to be a part of it.
Best regards,
Christophe MacIntosh
Communications & Community Lead at Clearmatics
Recent blog posts from Clearmatics
Ion: The Vision
It’s an exciting time at Clearmatics with plenty of development going on behind the scenes as we build out our product suite. In this post, we talk about our vision for Interoperability and where we’re headed with Ion, our platform-agnostic interoperability framework.
Clearmatics at SBC19
In the last week of January, our protocol engineer, Giuseppe Giffone, attended the Stanford Blockchain Conference in Palo Alto. Giuseppe really enjoyed the event, learning a lot, meeting some great new people and being inspired by the great work that he saw being done in the world of blockchain. Check out his write up on the blog
What we’re reading
Stablecoins in 2019: Reliable, Proliferating, Liquid, and Global
As we know, one of the major developments in the blockchain industry over the past year has been the rise of stablecoins. This wrap up on Medium sets out the key Takeaways from Blockchain.com’s “2019 State of Stablecoins” Report.
Past, Present, Future: From Co-ops to Cryptonetworks
Some of the most valuable corporations in the world today are “network operators”. So understanding these businesses is vital and, in order to do so, you should dive into this great explainer from Andreessen Horowitz.
Zether: Towards Privacy in a Smart Contract World
Zether is the first privacy mechanism built specifically for Ethereum (i.e. account-based smart contract platforms). It is built to hide both sender/recipient and the amount and no changes to Ethereum are required. Read this excellent paper to learn what it’s all about.
On Efficient Ethereum Storage
As we know, the costs and complexities of Ethereum storage are great. So understanding them is vital. Fortunately, this excellent primer from Coinmonks on Medium is here to tell you all you need to know.
Ethereum: Post-Quantum Recovery
This article on Medium outlines a hypothetical migration path that the Ethereum community could follow to rescue the network from quantum computers. A vital read for anyone who wants to learn about the next stage of Ethereum’s development.
Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall
In this episode of the Zero Knowledge podcast, Martin Lundfall from Dapphub and MakerDAO considers formal verification, explaining what it is, the k-framework, how different this approach is to the “move fast and break things” approach, and more.
An overview of private Ethereum transactions with Paul Berg
In this episode of the Stories in Crypto podcast, Paul Berg from AZTEC Protocol discusses his entry into crypto, his thoughts on the space and deep dives into privacy tech, such as his company, AZTEC.
Dev Report
Electric Capital has undertaken a huge project, fingerprinting more than 20,000 code repos and 16M commits to create this detailed Dev Report on crypto. The findings are worth a read, setting out where crypto developers are currently focused.
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Christophe MacIntosh, cmacintosh, Community & Communications Lead, Clearmatics
