April Roundup
Random Beacon, Conferences, Gas Cost Improvement, and Team Interviews
The Keep Random Beacon
Last month our Engineering Lead Antonio Salazar Cardozo expanded on the Keep Random Beacon and our ongoing work in preparation for the upcoming mainnet launch on Ethereum.
The blog post focused specifically on the randomness for dApps, as those are faced with the difficult task of providing trustworthy randomness within a system designed to minimize trust in individual participants.
You can read the full article here. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions, we would love to hear from you!
If you are a dApp developer interested in building with our random beacon, get in touch. Also, join our Slack to get access to our Random Beacon Yellowpaper draft.
MIT Bitcoin Expo
Last month at MIT Bitcoin Expo in New York, the co-founder of Keep, Corbin Pon, was interviewed by an Underscore VC Co-Founder, Richard Dulude.
The conversation was around the possibilities that Keep enables for public blockchains, different levels of privacy and security, hopes and plans around the better, fairer, safer finance world with certainty over ownership, as well about some top factors hindering blockchain.
Boston & New York Blockchain Weeks
Corbin is also invited to Boston Blockchain Week and will be speaking on the subject “How To Protect Privacy on a Blockchain — Why You Need To Care RIGHT NOW”. This will take place on Tuesday, May 7th at 4pm. You can find the event link here.
Some of us will be there, as well as at Blockchain Week NYC this month, and we would love to meet you, let us know if you are around!
The beauty of open-source
As the world heads towards integrating blockchain technology, developers have a great opportunity to make this transition as seamless and comfortable as possible. It’s important that we take care of the interests involved and be constantly improving and collaborating across teams to move the ecosystem forward.
Keeping these things in mind, our Tech Lead Antonio Salazar Cardozo submitted an EIP for cheaper gas costs for certain curve operations on Ethereum in May. The proposed improvement was too late to make it into the Constantinople release, but now that EIPs for Istanbul are being considered, EIP-1108 is back on the docket. The AZTEC team picked up the gauntlet last week and registered their interest, and submitted some updates to the EIP to reflect the latest state of client performance and add some justifications and use cases, as well as adding EIP-1108 to the list of proposed EIPs for Istanbul.
We are excited to see the EIP-1108 implementation help move the whole ecosystem forward by making core curve operations cheaper, unlocking new use cases that until now have been either prohibitively expensive or downright impossible.
Are you with us?
Your feedback and support are much appreciated — give the Ethereum Magicians discussion a like, and spread the word about EIP-1108!
Team Interviews
Last month we also held an interview with Keep’s Head of Growth, Laura Wallendal, and got to know her better.
Laura is the person who drives the project into the right direction and skillfully wrangles so many go-to-market things here at Keep. Along with fun facts and Keep’s goals, she tells us a very engaging story of her career path, the world of tech startups, and shares some of her background in sales.
We hope you enjoy this engaging read of her life journey.
What’s cooking?
We are working on some really exciting news for you all, including great new partnerships! Stay tuned and don’t forget to follow the latest news in our Slack, where our community often get exclusive information first.
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