Dear Ethereans, welcome to our 30th edition of Ethereum biweekly! We has a lot of news about the Ethereum ecosystem for you as usual.
For those who are a little behind of tomes, Ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Istanbul, is scheduled to arrive on mainnet the week of December 4th. Next fork scheduled in 6 months (~June).
During these two weeks, the team was working assiduously. Community calls took place: Core Devs Meeting, Eth2 Implementers call. Danny Ryan has posted an eth3 quick update covering the hardening of the fork choice defences, introducing challenges.ethereum.org and announcing that a grant has been given out for a super-fast BLS implementation. Ethereum 2.0 development updates were published: Prysmatic Labs, Lodestar, Lighthouse. Ethereum Studio, a beginner friendly IDE that lets any visitor to Ethereum.org get started building within minutes, launched.
The ecosystem is impressive, and it continues to flourish! Many updates on projects build on Ethereum appeared: 100 million Dai were minted using the MakerDAO system. Due to this, MKR token holders voted to increase the ceiling to 120 million and lower the stability fee to 5%. rDai (redeemable DAI) live on mainnet. Dharma’s smart wallet live on top of Compound. DeFi Pulse introduced Interest Per Year, or IPY for short, a new metric created by DeFi Pulse used to track the performance of DeFi lending markets. The Set Protocol team introduced two Inverse Set Strategies on TokenSets last week. These Sets track the inverse price movement of the ETH20SMACO and ETH50SMACO to allow for the ability to have a diversified portfolio of moving average strategies. RealT’s flagship property, 9943 Marlowe, is now available on Uniswap. Livepeer’s Streamflow is on testnet. And many more!
Winners of ETHWaterloo and Kyber’s DeFi virtual hackathon were announced. a16z crypto school applications now open. And worth mention, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has been the shill-of-the-week for the Ethereum community.
Vitalik’s EthWaterloo interview by Cami Russo and Joe Lubin print Q&A by Michael del Castillo were published. Ryan Sean Adams featured on Blockcrunch Podcast. Zak Cole, founder and CEO of Whiteblock joined Into the Ether podcast to talk about what his team is up to and the developments around Eth2. Brandon Ramirez, Research Lead and co-founder of The Graph, talked about the problem the project is trying to solve, the fast evolving Layer1-Layer2 paradigm, the emerging group of Service Protocols, and how these projects interact with other elements of the Web3 stack on Zero Knowledge. All Devcon5 main stage videos are now out.
As for researchers, Vitalik Buterin described a mechanism for implementing cross-shard transactions, particularly Ether transfers and posted Skinny EIP 1559, an easier to implement gas fee market change. Justin Drake wrote about SLONK, a simple universal SNARK. Protolambda has updated his ideas around surround vote detection.
More to follow! Ether is more than tangible, and serenity is just a matter of time!◊
Development
GitHub metrics:
Developer activity (from Coinlib.io):
Protocol updates
Constantinople is successful so far.
Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #74 [2019–11–01]
- Istanbul updates
- Berlin
- Ice Age
- Tentatively Accepted EIPs
- EIP-663: Unlimited SWAP and DUP instructions
- EIP-1380: Reduced gas cost for call to self
- EIP-1702: Generalized account versioning scheme
- EIP-1962: EC arithmetic and pairings with runtime definitions
replaces EIP-1829 - EIP-1985: Sane limits for certain EVM parameters
- EIP-2045: Particle gas costs for EVM opcodes
- EIP-2046: Reduced gas cost for static calls made to precompiles
- EIP-1057: ProgPoW, a Programmatic Proof-of-Work
- Process & scheduling discussions
- Testing updates
- Review previous decisions made and action items
- Client Updates
- Research Updates
Check out Istanbul Meta EIP
Istanbul EIP Implementation Tracker by @holiman
Eth2.0 Call #27 [2019/11/7]
- Agenda
- Ben Edgington’s quick notes.
A few points from the call (see the notes for more detail):
- The new hash to curve algorithm has been updated and is now considered stable. It will be discussed in a couple of weeks at the IETF meeting in Singapore.
- A bunch of bounties for fundamental issues across blockchains, but particularly Ethereum, has been posted by the EF.
- Joint testnets are coming soon.
eth2 quick update no. 3:
Posted by Danny Ryan on November 8th, 2019
- Harden fork choice defences in response to audits
- Introducing challenges.ethereum.org
- Herumi grant for a super-fast BLS implementation
Phase 0 spec v0.9, some changes given phase 1 shift.
Lodestar Post Devcon Update: optimizing state transition/caching, light client research.
Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #38 — Prysmatic Labs: better caching, getting up to spec v0.9.
EthFinance AMA Series with Prysmatic Labs.
Geth v1.9.7, sets the block for the Istanbul upgrade.
The “Why”s of Optimistic Rollup: John Adler on the why of optimistic rollup.
A New Way to Scale — Optimized Optimistic Rollup: An overview of Idex’s planned rollup.
LazyLedger: a data availability layer using erasure codes
Optimistic vs. ZK Rollup: Deep Dive: Matter Labs compares zk rollup and optimistic rollup.
Updated Ethereum 2.0 Devs Handbook and FAQs.
A list of open challenges and bounties: VDF FPGA competition, MiMC Hash Challenge, Legendre PRF Bounties, Starkware hash challenge, bug bounties.
Development tools
Ethereum Studio, a new IDE hosted on ethereum.org, with accompanying tutorials for its templates.
Starter kit repo for Typescript environment with Buidler, ethers.js and Waffle.
Embark v5 alpha.
Truffle v5.0.43 all contract objects return transaction hash.
Subspace v1.1 event tracking.
OpenZeppelin SDK 2.6, upgrades the web3js to v1.2.2.
Typechain v1: Typescript bindings for smart contracts.
ETHcode v0.0.6. unit testing with remix-tests.
ethPM and Remix, tutorial for a universal front end.
dfuse: indexing APIs to abstract away dealing with nodes.
Deprecating “Synchronous” Provider Methods: MetaMask is deprecating synchronous provider methods.
Breaking changes to the MetaMask inpage provider.
Developers and Users Get More out of Blockchain with Samsung Blockchain Platform SDK: Samsung unveils its Ethereum SDK.
Prototyping a new Burner at Devcon with Maker & Rimble: Using Rimble’s React components to create a new Burner Wallet.
Loopring Open Sources its zkSNARK Circuit Code.
Universal Login Beta is Live! Here’s How You Can Apply: Universal Login developer beta is live on mainnet.
ConsenSys Diligence reviewed Vyper, found bugs, says it is not ready for production.
3Box extensions, plugins to make it easier to add decentralized authentication, storage and messaging. Kames’ decentralized identity wallet on 3Box.
Two new CryptoZombies Solidity lessons on testing and deploying with Mocha and Truffle.
EthQL: Transform How You Interact with the Ethereum Blockchain.
Query Ethereum data with SQL on DuneAnalytics and easily create dashboards.
Smart Contracts: Coding Best Practices and Security Recommendations:
How to integrate ENS multicoin support into your wallet.
How to Register & Link Your Own .eth ENS Domain Name:
A video guide showing how to register your own .eth Ethereum domain name and link it to your Eth wallet address.
Governance and new standards proposals
EIP2330: EXTSLOAD opcode.
EIP2327: BEGINDATA opcode.
EIP2333: BLS12–381 Key Generation and call for spec for public key checksums.
EIP2334: BLS12–381 Deterministic Account Hierarchy.
EIP2335: BLS12–381 Keystore
EIP2364: eth/64: forkid-extended protocol handshake.
EIP2348: Validated EVM contracts.
ERC2367: Open grant standard.
Are blockchain voters ‘dummies’? Valuing governance tokens using Banzhaf’s index.
Burn Signal: Burn Eth to quadratically signal your position using BrightID for sybil resistance.
How we integrated Colony Reputation with Holacracy: LeapDAO on using “Colony reputation with holocracy”.
Futarchy in the next Aragon vote.
QuadraticMoloch: from Democracy Earth, an extension of MolochDAO with quadratic voting.
Check out Istanbul hard fork wiki.
Proposals
Discussion thread for Hardfork Meta
The list of EIPs in 1679 are the canonical status of EIPs
This will be maintained as an overview page, can also view the Istanbul GitHub Project in the ECH repo to track progress.
James Hancock has created an automated Google Sheet that covers additional milestones
Proposed
The deadline for EIP proposals for Istanbul was May 17th. All of these EIPs intend to prepare for inclusion in Istanbul, but Core Dev acceptance, implementation, testing, audits, and other work needs to be done to prepare them. Each EIP has a “discussion-to” link where you can find more information, usually on the EthMagicians Core EIPs forum.
EIP 615: Subroutines and Static Jumps for the EVM
EIP 1057: ProgPoW, a Programmatic Proof-of-Work (contingent on positive audit results) — @IfDefElse
EIP 1108: Reduce alt_bn128 precompile gas costs — @zac-williamson
EIP 1283: Net gas metering for SSTORE without dirty maps @sorpass
EIP 1344: Add ChainID opcode — @fubuloubu
EIP 1352: Specify restricted address range for precompiles/system contracts
EIP 1380: Reduced gas cost for call to self — @axic @jacqueswww
EIP 1559: Fee market change for ETH 1.0 chain
EIP 1965: Method to check if a chainID is valid at a specific block Number
EIP 1702: Generalized account versioning scheme — @sorpaas
EIP 1706: Disable SSTORE with gasleft lower than call stipend
EIP 1803: Rename opcodes for clarity — @axic
EIP 1829: Precompile for Elliptic Curve Linear Combinations @remco
EIP 1884: Reprice Opcodes + optional new opcode, @holiman — Discuss
EIP 1930: CALLs with strict gas semantic. Revert if not enough gas available
EIP 2028: Calldata gas cost reduction
Ecosystem updates
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has been the shill-of-the-week for the Ethereum community.
The most popular ENS domains in the .eth short name auction. Meanwhile, you can immediately register all available .eth domains. I’m also noticing an increasing trend of trustless subdomains for sale.
Eth2 at ETHWaterloo: Prizes for Eth2 education, tooling, and research.
DeFi virtual hackathon (all submissions).
MarketingDAO: a Moloch fork to work on Ethereum branding and evangelism.
Development Update #1 — Ethereum.org
30 days of ETH shipping, an October retrospective.
Sync across Metamask devices with 3Box.
Building Better Ethereum Infrastructure: Infura’s open architecture initiative.
Uniswap Birthday Blog: Hayden Adams’ Uniswap inception story.
Has DeFi made Eth unforkable? Apps certainly complicate contentious forks.
Solving spam in Whisper through Semaphore rate limiting.
Running Ethereum Full Nodes: A Guide for the Barely Motivated.
Atechnical analysis of Ethereum vs Fabric vs Corda.
Ensure uptime with PegasysPlus.
Ethereum Core Maintainers Explained 👷
Ethereum by the Numbers — October 2019: Network activity, DeFi stats, Eth2 milestones, and more facts and figures from the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem.
The Next Flippening: More DAOs than Tokens.
The 8 Things That Can Happen to Your Ethereum Transaction and How to Navigate Them in Your Dapp.
Exploring DeFi trading strategies: Arbitrage in DeFi.
Returns of Hodling versus DeFi-ing.
Run An Ethereum Node on Debian on an External SSD (late 2019).
Double Bull DeFiZap Walk-through Tutorial.
The Ultimate Guide To Synthetix.
On the State Rent and pivot to Stateless Ethereum.
Crypto Ideologies, Part 3: From Today, To Tomorrow, and Beyond.
Projects updates
0x:
0x Protocol Governance: Voting Walkthrough and FAQ. Last Updated: November 4, 2019.
0x: The Community-owned Liquidity API. Announcing the upcoming 0x v3 vote.
A founder comeback (Letter to ANT holders).
Notice of permission changes in the Aragon Governance organization.
Ryan’s testimony at International Grand Chamber: RTB data breach enables disinformation. Enforcers can be sued. Speaking to members of ten nations’ parliaments, Dr Ryan of Brave described how RTB allows every voter to be profiled, and enables a business model for the bottom of the web. He also answered questions on how to ensure that regulators enforce the law.
Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets.
Everipedia and Brave Announce Partnership.
Brave input to California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPERA).
Charting the course of Bitcoin, 11 years and counting.
Introducing Staking Rewards on Coinbase. Coinbase is now offering an easy, secure way to earn staking rewards on Tezos.
EOS enters congestion mode due to EIDOS airdrop.
How Coinbase views proof of work security. Coinbase recently changed the confirmation requirement of four different assets, including reducing Bitcoin confirmation requirement from six confirmations to three. This post describes its views concerning proof of work security that informed the team’s decision to make these changes.
Announcing new confirmation requirements: Coinbase is changing the number of confirmation requirements they require for four assets on the platform.
Coinbase is a product led company.
Connext v1 Deprecation: Please upgrade to v2.0 ASAP.
Publish to LAND with Wallet Connect: Deploy your Decentraland creations with Wallet Connect.
Technical update: The latest releases, improvements and fixes from the Decentraland engine room.
New Dether App Feature: add any ERC20 token to your wallet: Customize your Dether wallet the way you want by adding your chosen ERC20 tokens.
The District Weekly — November 9th: News and updates from the district0x Network.
The District Weekly — November 2nd.
district0x Dev Update — October 29th, 2019: Development progress and product changes from district0x.
Announcing the Gnosis Safe Contract Update 1.1.0 & Bug Bounty: Find the bugs, get rewarded. Earn up to $100,000 for every bug you report.
GECO Community Spotlight: Austin Griffith and the Burner Wallet.
October 2019 — The Gnosis Monthly Development Update: Keeping up with the Gnosis developers.
5 Misconceptions about Loom Network that Need to Die.
Governance Poll: Stability Fee Adjustment — November 11, 2019.
What to Expect With the Launch of Multi-Collateral Dai.
Governance Poll: Migration Risk Construct Proposal.
Say Goodbye to CDPs and Hello to Maker Vaults.
Test Your Favorite Dapps Pre-MCD Launch.
Introducing Recurring Payments with Ambrpay in MEW.
MEW CX: The Web3 Wallet That Puts the User in Full Control.
Meet the Fleet: Learn about the latest additions to the Ocean team and how they fit into #ANewDataEconomy.
Data Tokens 1: Data Custody: Data access control, meet crypto wallets & data DAOs.
Diffusion 2019 — Buidl. Hack. Conquer. A recap of a whirlwind weekend of hacking, buidling, and getting in touch with our community.
Meet the Fleet — Razvan Olteanu, COO of BigchainDB: With nearly 20 years of tech expertise, Razvan is ready to dive deep into the New Data Economy.
OmiseGO at the OFFDevcon DeFi Dinner.
Ethereum Light Wallet Parity Fether Completes Audit, v0.4-beta Shipped.
Raiden Pulse #8: News from September and October.
Status Town Hall — Monday November 11, 2019.
The Status Network Quarterly Report — Q3 2019.
Town Hall — Monday October 28, 2019.
Development Update 31 from Storj Labs.
Dev Update October 2019: Corea Network launch, Swash public release and Data Union.
Trinity Biweekly Report — Late October.
Zilliqa Technical Blog 5 November 2019.
Zilliqa Community Update 29 October 2019.
Other project’s updates:
bZx’s Torque is live. Fixed rate, indefinite term loans, as long as you stay collateralized.
Dharma’s smart wallet live on top of Compound.
DeFi Pulse introduced Interest Per Year, or IPY for short, a new metric created by DeFi Pulse used to track the performance of DeFi lending markets. Imagine IPY like the speedometer for DeFi measuring the speed at which interest is accruing in DeFi lending protocols given the borrow rate and outstanding debt at that moment. IPY is useful for measuring the potential performance changes of lending protocols in the short term.
Codefi’s DeFi scoreboard getting live updates.
Maple: use cDai as collateral for tranched CDOs, so you can lock in fixed rates.
Livepeer’s Streamflow is on testnet. Miners can test how little getting paid to transcode video will affect their hashrate. It also has probabilistic micropayments, for those looking for a layer2 alternative.
Details on The LAO: TheDAO returns wrapped in a Delaware LLC with 10 founding members + 90 from public sale, using an extended MolochDAO.
Decentralized note taking app using your Eth address and 3Box.
rDai is live on mainnet. Splits the principal (Dai) and interest (rDai) of cDai, so you can send your interest anywhere you want, ie a charity or a hot wallet.
Swap Rate, if you want fixed rate interest instead of DeFi’s predominant floating rates.
Inverse strategies on TokenSets.
RealT Integrates with Uniswap. RealT’s flagship property, 9943 Marlowe, is now available on Uniswap. 9943 Marlowe RealToken holders can now go to Uniswap.Exchange and instantly buy or sell Marlowe RealTokens with ETH.
Uniswag market for selling tokenized goods.
Nexus Mutual’s capital floor is now dynamic, so more coverage can be written for popular things like Compound.
Oxfam/Aon/Etherisc first agricultural insurance payouts to Sri Lankan farmers.
Streamlining legal contracts with OpenLaw’s Forms and Flow.
The Set Protocol team introduced two Inverse Set Strategies on TokenSets last week — the Inverse ETH 20 (and 50) Day Moving Average Crossover Set. These Sets track the inverse price movement of the ETH20SMACO and ETH50SMACO to allow for the ability to have a diversified portfolio of moving average strategies.
a16z Crypto Startup School Opens Applications. a16z’s startup school is a seven-week educational program aimed at helping more technologists get started with building in crypto.
Introducing Burn Signal: Burn Signal is an experiment in distributed preference signalling (intended to help with the EIP process) where users burn ETH to signal their opinion, with results sorted according to a weighted social graph.
Synthetix Rigil Release Now Live: The Rigil Release features a number of updates to the Synthetix platform including exchange fee changes, bug fixes, tightening the sETH peg and more.
RenVM Chaosnet Launched: Chaosnet is an unaudited and unrefined release of RenVM. It is a pre-production environment for RenVM which is deployed to Ethereum, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, ZCash Mainnet and interoperates real DAI, BTC, BCH, and ZEC (in a permissionless, trustless, and decentralized fashion).
Browse POAP Collections Through Etherscan: You can now use Etherscan to browse through yours (or anyone else’s) POAP NFT collection.
Introducing 3Box Wall: Users can now leave comments on 3Box profiles — this feature is called 3Box Wall and opens up new possibilities for social interaction between web3 accounts.
Check biweekly updates by Paradigm:
Opinion and research articles
Implementing cross-shard transactions: Vitalik describes a mechanism for implementing cross-shard transactions, particularly Ether transfers. Rate-limiting transfers as an anti-DoS mechanism is proposed, with a dynamic gas cost mechanism for transfers.
Skinny EIP 1559 by Vitalik Buterin: an easier to implement gas fee market change.
De-risking Execution environments by adding value-holding EEs. A proposal to ring fence the normal storage of Ether, and possibly ERC20/721 tokens, within a dedicated execution environment. This reduces the risk to funds from poorly implemented execution environments.
Surround Vote Matching: Protolambda has updated his ideas around surround vote detection. Recall that there are two offences a validator can commit that gets it slashed: proposing two different blocks at the same height, and submitting a vote that surrounds (or is surrounded by) another vote it submitted. The first is easy to detect; the latter much harder, partly because there are many more attestations around than blocks, and partly because the matching conditions are more subtle. However, as long as there is at least one node on the network checking these conditions, then we are good. Proto works through an idea of how to do this in practice.
The Economics of Smart Contracts by Kirk Baird, Seongho Jeong, Yeonsoo Kim, Bernd Burgstaller, Bernhard Scholz. In this work, the authors highlight the “real” economics of smart contracts. They show that the actual costs of executing smart contracts are disproportionate to the computational costs and that this gap is continuously widening. They show that the gas cost-model of the underlying EVM instruction-set is wrongly modeled. Specifically, the computational cost for the SLOAD instruction increases with the length of the blockchain. Their proposed performance model estimates gas usage and execution time of a smart contract at a given block-height. The new gas-cost model incorporates the blockheight to eliminate irregularities in the Ethereum gas calculations. Their findings are based on extensive experiments over the entire history of the EVM blockchain.
On the State Rent and pivot to Stateless Ethereum by Alexey Akhunov.
Turboproofs, light clients and saving private Eth1: A turboproofs explainer.
Trasaction execution in the EVM, part 4 of yellow paper walkthrough series.
Podcasts
Zak Cole: Whiteblock and Testing Eth2 on Into the Ether.
Zak Cole, founder and CEO of Whiteblock joins the podcast to talk about what his team is up to and the developments around Eth2. WeThey start with Zak’s background and how it led him to creating Whiteblock Genesis which is a network testing tool which can be used to test things like Ethereum EIPs, contracts and protocol changes. Whiteblock has been vital in Ethereum 2.0 research and development and recently received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. He explains how this will be used and shares his thoughts on ETH being money.
Gnosis Safe: Improving Security and UX with Smart Contract Wallets on Into the Ether:
Stefan George, co-founder and CTO of Gnosis, joins the podcast to discuss smart contract wallets. They start with a background on Gnosis and then immediately dive into the origins of smart contract wallet development. The initial idea of the Gnosis multi-sig has taken on a new form in the Gnosis Safe. They discuss what features the Safe and smart contract wallets in general enable for users on Ethereum. The most important ones highlighted are around security and improved user experience.
The Great Debate, With Eric Conner and Ryan Sean Adams on POV Crypto.
David invites two other Ethereum evangelists to POV Crypto for a discussion on Ethereum as an alternative financial platform.
Topics:
- Risk of Bitcoin security model
- Chain security in relation to moneyness
- Commodity money vs pure money
- The importance of scaling L1 to achieve mass adoption/moneyness
Tokenizing PoolTogether, with Leighton Cusack on POV Crypto.
Leighton Cusack is the CEO of PoolTogether. David and Leighton have been collaborating on possible ways to tokenize the PoolTogether application with a value capture token. This episode is about that
Topics:
- How PoolTogether works
- The importance of the Dai reserve
- The two token models to tokenize the Dai reserve. Pros and Cons of each.
- Building on Ethereum “I would rather fail on Ethereum than succeed on anything else” — Leighton
- Compounding contract risk
- How PoolTogether is a financial application, not a lottery or gambling application
Is There Still a Bull Case for Ethereum with Ryan Sean Adams on Blockcrunch Podcast.
Topics:
ETH vs. BTC’s monetary premium
Whether the “world computer” thesis is still relevant
Challenges with ETH’s immutability
ETH vs. ETH killers
Mapping the Web3 stack with The Graph on Zero Knowledge.
In this week’s episode, they chat with Brandon Ramirez, Research Lead and co-founder of The Graph, about the problem the project is trying to solve, the fast evolving Layer1-Layer2 paradigm, the emerging group of Service Protocols, and how these projects interact with other elements of the Web3 stack.
ETHWaterloo Recap: Part 1: ETHWaterloo was an Ethereum hackathon put on by ETHGlobal that took place in Waterloo, Canada from November 8–10, 2019. Eric was at the event and in Part 1 of the recap talked to 7 different Ethereum developers and community members. The guests include Josh Stark (ETHGlobal), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder), Austin Griffith (Burner Wallet), Kevin Owocki (Gitcoin), Evan Van Ness (Week in Ethereum News), Brantly Millegan (Ethereum Name Service) and Victor Rortvedt (rDai). They discuss what they are building and what they are hoping to get or see from the event.
Synthetix’s Kain Warwick: How Ethereum Will Absorb a Quadrillion Dollar Market on Chain Reaction Podcast:
Videos
Vitalik Buterin | Data Availability Proof | CrossLink Taipei 2019:
Vitalik on BTC’s shrinking security budget “You can’t make crazy assumptions about security models”: Camila Russo interviews Vitalik Buterin at the ETHWaterloo 2 opening ceremonies:
- Is ETH money?
- How the Ethereum developer experience has improved since 2017
- The legacy of the ICO craze of 2017
- Is Ethereum undervalued relative to technical progress?
- DeFi and whether Ethereum should be a finance-only chain
- Bitcoin’s declining security budget, and the need for Proof of Stake for sustainable security
State Channels Summit: Qingkai Liang, Liam Horne, Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Stammler, Franziska Heintel, Arjun Bhuptani, Augusto Hack, Jeremy Longley, Tom Close
Funding as Medium and Message: How We Get Capital and Its Influence on #BUIDL By Paul Kohlhaas
Creative Constraints for Dapp Development Workshop by Ann Kilzer
Upcoming events
- Nov 18 — Multi-collateral Dai launches
- Dec 6 — Istanbul network upgrade
- Jan 1 — Augur v1 cutoff
- Jan 31 — deadline for EU ledger 200k euro grants for blockchain startups
- Feb 9–15 — EthLagos
- Feb 14–16 — ETHDenver
- Mar 3–5 — EthCC (Paris)
Roadmap
When I came up with Ethereum, my first thought was, ‘Okay, this thing is too good to be true.’ As it turned out, the core Ethereum idea was good — fundamentally, completely sound.
Vitalik Buterin
Constantinople is successful so far.
Istanbul
Istanbul is planned for Q4 of 2019. Planned date is December 4th, 2019.
More details on the road to Istanbul.
Next Timelines
Cheesy Hardfork 6 Month Schedule
Current discussion is on moving towards a 6-month cycle. Danno is leading discussion on a Cheesy Hardfork Schedule
- “Asiago” April 2020
- “Brie” October 2020
Serenity / ETH2
Serenity is meant to move from consensus through Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.
See the ETH2 Specs Github Repo.
The ETH2 Project Management repo holds ongoing notes and meetings.
Social media metrics
Social media activity:
Social media dynamics:
The Ethereum community continues to grow. There is constant slight growth in Ethereum social media channels these weeks.
Twitter (Ethereum) — Official announcement channel.
Twitter (Ethereum Network) — News from DApps .
Twitter (Ethereum Report) — Retweets from official announcement channel and team members’ pages.
Facebook — Official announcement channel. Recent publications — about Ethereum Core Devs Meetings, conferences.
Reddit — News about projects, links to interviews, podcasts, upcoming events.
YouTube (Ethereum) — Last video on July 27th, 2017 (5000–20 000 views per video).
YouTube (Ethereum Foundation) — Videos from conferences, meetups, Ethereum Core Devs Meetings.
Check out Ethereum Community and Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians forums.
There is a constant slight growth in the Ethereum community over time. The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Ethereum Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers, and Facebook likes. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.
Main sources
Ethereum official social media
Core Devs Meetings
Eth2.0 Implementers Calls
Week in Ethereum by Evan Van Ness
What’s New in Eth2 by Ben Edgington
Projects build on Ethereum official blogs
Ethereum in news
