Greetings to all Ethereum lovers and crypto friends! We have a lot of essential news for you as usual!
During these two weeks, the Ethereum teams was working assiduously. Community calls took place: Core Devs Meeting, Plasma Implementers call. Istanbul — the Ethereum network upgrade is planned for Q4 of 2019. Planned date is 16th, 2019. These weeks, the Ethereum Cat Herders have released a detailed guide on it. This guide runs through what a hard fork is, what Istanbul is, what happens during the upgrade, what people need to do and covering which EIPs are going into the upgrade. Also, ProgPoW was again largely debated by the community. A few reviews on last weeks Ethereum 2.0 interop appeared. Ethereum 2.0 development updates were published: Prysmatic Labs, Lodestar. Geth v1.9.5, Parity v2.5.9-stable and v2.6.4-beta, Hyperledger Besu v1.2.4 released.
The ecosystem is impressive, and it continues to flourish! Developers have been working hard over the period of the last two weeks, many updates appeared: Bitpay launches support for ETH acceptance. Gitcoin Grants CLR round 3 is live. Even a $1 contribution can result in $100s in matching from the EF/Consensys. Consensys announced it has developed a charity platform along with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Maker details new OasisDEX. Coinbase introduces Crypto Rating Council. Immutable raises $15 million for Gods Unchained. Connext v2 is on mainnet. Matic’s next release will include Plasma predicates. Golem chooses a metric for how often to verify wasm computation: reputation combined with a user chosen variable. Maker and Loom Network creating bridges to take Dai to other chains. And many more!
And worth to mention, Ethereum blocks are now 25% bigger with the new gas limit set at 10M gas!
As for the social side, Joseph Lubin and Vitalik Buterin interview at Ethereal Tel Aviv was published. Ryan Sean Adams featured on Into the Ether podcast. Stefan George of Gnosis discussed the Gnosis team’s core mission to originate a prediction market system capable of aggregating global knowledge on Wyre Talks. Eli Ben-Sasson talked on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas on Zero Knowledge podcast. DeFi Summit videos, the most popular names in the ENS auction, Ethereal Blocks hackathon winners and submissions is now out. Check out Vitalik’s new research posts: “Understanding PLONK”, “STARK-proving low-degree-ness of a data availability root: some analysis”, “Developer incentivization: in-protocol contract author fee rebates”.
Ethereum followers, can you believe it!? There is only one week left until Ethereum’s Devcon! Save the date — October 8th-11th, 2019! Schedule, sponsors and speakers are online now. Read our writeup below as we countdown the final days until Osaka!
Development
“The technical side of Ethereum’s efficacy is 100% an engineering exercise”
- Vitalik Buterin
GitHub metrics:
Developer activity (from Coinlib.io):
Protocol updates
Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #71 [2019–09–20]:
- Istanbul related client updates
- Block number for Istanbul testnet
- blake2b and Net-metered SSTORE EIP Update
- “Ethereum Roadmap 2020: A Community Discussion” @ Devcon5
- Both ProgPoW Audits Released
- Review previous decisions made and action items
7.Client Updates: a) Geth, b) Parity Ethereum, c) Aleth/eth, d) Trinity/PyEVM, e) EthereumJS, f) EthereumJ/Harmony, g) Besu, h) Turbo Geth, i) Nimbus, m) Nethermind
8. EWASM & Research Updates
Istanbul EIP Implementation Tracker by @holiman.
Live tweeted notes:
Istanbul Testnets Are Coming: The Ethereum Cat Herders have released a detailed guide on Istanbul — the latest Ethereum network upgrade. This guide runs through what a network upgrade (hard fork) is, what Istanbul is, what happens during the upgrade, what people need to do and covering which EIPs are going into the upgrade.
Eth2.0 Call #25 [2019/9/19]:
- Testing and Release Updates
- Client Updates
- Research Updates
- Network
- Next interop steps
- Spec discussion
- Open Discussion/Closing Remarks
Notes from Ben Edgington and Pooja Ranjan.
Eth2 interop in review: Check out the progress made on networking, tools, and running on raspberry pi’s.
“Wasm execution engine [running in] the shard chain/client we built in lighthouse”:
What’s New in Eth2–20 September 2019: The Interop Edition.
Some highlight tweets:
- #Eth2Interop is 🔥
- Lighthouse and Nimbus declare interoperability
- Artemis and Nimbus are next
- Lodestar and Lighthouse
- Prysm and Lighthouse
- Artemis and Trinity
- Trinity and Lodestar
- Four way interop: ArtHouseBusStar
- Five way: ArtPryHouseBusIty
- And the pièce de résistance, 7-way interoperability!
- A special mention for Wei Tang of Parity. He couldn’t be on site, but was still able to get Shasper talking to Lighthouse
Other tweetable moments:
- Talking chain syncing
- Nimbus and Lighthouse running together on a two-node Raspberry Pi network
- Greg the Greek looks sceptical
- People fell in the water
- People tried to walk through glass doors.
- Ben Edgington’s reflections from Toronto airport on the way home
Also, Ben an album of a few of his pictures.
How 30+ ETH 2.0 Devs Locked Themselves in to Achieve Interoperability: When the going gets tough, the tough get coding. Here’s the latest on the state of Ethereum 2.0.
Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #35 — Prysmatic Labs: biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum Serenity roadmap. Prysmatic client update — all about faster BLG sigs.
Getting Started with Prysm: This guide outlines the process of installing and initialising the Prysm testnet as well as how to deposit the initial Goerli ETH required to fully participate as a validator in the network.
Lodestar Post-Interop Update: Lodestar Eth2 client update, in the weeds on networking.
Ethereum Miner Test — Results: BloXroute says their mainnet test shows they can reduce block propagation time by 25%.
Alternate phase 2 architecture proposal.
Intro to Beam Sync: A step toward 100,000x speedup over Fast Sync on Ethereum Mainnet.
Gary Rong reduces disk i/o 10x during Geth full sync by patching levelDB:
Evmone v0.2.0–66% faster code processing and execution.
Nethermind v1.0.8 — set for Istanbul.
Parity v2.6.3 beta and v2.5.8 stable — Istanbul-ready but without blocks set.
Parity v2.5.9-stable and v2.6.4-beta adds block numbers for the Istanbul testnet forks.
Hyperledger Besu v1.2.4 also adds testnet block numbers.
Geth v1.9.5 — hot fix release for a larger 1.9.4 maintenance release that sets the blocks for the Ropsten, Rinkeby and Görli testnet forks.
Development tools
Debugging Solidity with a GUI (Remix) and Ganache.
Remix Workshop Uses Decentralized Storage: Decentralized storage with 3box for Solidity tutorials from within Remix.
Intro to Terminal, dev and manage artifacts in a unified workspace.
Zabo, a wrapper for any wallet/interface.
Austin Griffith’s Signatorio, a simple way sign, verify, and share messages signed with your Eth keys:
The AZTEC Toolkit: An Introduction: how to use their zk proofs.
Model-Driven Smart Contract Development for Everyone: Yakindu statechart tools for model-driven Solidity development.
Vyper: Here be Snakes!: ConsenSys Diligence’s Alex Wade found a bug in the Vyper compiler.
Introducing, 3Box Comments Plugin: Add commenting to your dapp with a few lines of code.
Writing an One-to-Many Event Feed Library in Go: Recreating geth’s event library step by step as a way to learn Go.
My First Aragon App: Voting supercharged with DAOstack’s Holographic Consensus (Part 3): Implementing holographic consensus in Aragon, pt 3.
Get a UX audit at Devcon:
My journey building products on the blockchain: Interesting backstory to the product.
Scaling ERC-721: Create 2^(255) NFTs at Once: Mass NFT minting with Cargo.
Understanding Bytecode on Ethereum: “two types of bytecode on Ethereum but five different names”.
Brownie v1: Python framework for Eth dev.
Ethereum for Python Developers: Ethereum.org now has a page for Python devs. Submit those pull requests.
Governance and new standards proposals
ProgPoW was again largely debated by the community these weeks. This Trello board being put together by Scott Lewis, Trent Van Epps, and Andrew is a great resource for keeping up on all of the talking points & arguments while this Kialo dashboard organizes all of the arguments into a Pros and Cons view.
ERC2280: erc20 extension for native meta transactions support.
ERC2294: Explicit bound to Chain ID size.
ERC-1620: Money Streaming.
Birds of a Feather: Aragon having an interesting conversation about whether the current system of voting on grants is the best way to fund working on their stack.
Unpacking The LAO: Why wrapping TheDao in Delaware LLC governance makes sense.
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
Follow the EIPs repo.
Ecosystem updates
Devcon V: Schedule, Sponsors and Speakers are online NOW. There is only one week left until Ethereum’s Devcon! Ready for Osaka?
DeFi Guide To Devcon 5 in Osaka.
EthFinance AMA Series with the Ethereum Name Service (ENS).
Development Update #0 — Ethereum.org: the first development update for Ethereum.org, the first of a regular series of blog posts keeping the community up to date on the website’s progress. Sam Richards leading web dev, website translated into 17 languages, specific pages for Java devs and enterprise.
Gas limit has moved up around 10m per block, so we’re at all time highs in terms of throughput, and puts us in the low to mid 30s for possible transactions per second. However, it seems like much of that gas has been used by a ponzi scheme marketed in Asia.
List of ENS Names that Resolve to Tor .Onion Websites.
Ethereum by the Numbers — September 2019. Network activity, DeFi stats, Eth2 milestones, and more facts and figures from the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem.
20 Blockchain Projects With the Most Dev Activity — September, 2019: Congrats to Status, Storj, Aragon, 0x, Metamask, Gnosis, Augur, and Origin Protocol for all the hard work!
Gitcoin CLR matching is live, and there will be additional 1:1 matching for $50 grants:
The Fairwin Ponzi scheme has critical security vulnerabilities:
[Vulnerability Disclosure] [FairWin] Front-running in the currently most used Ethereum contract: The vulnerability got fully announced, fortunately about half of the ETH has been withdrawn in the past couple days.
Also relevant — Daniel Luca’s tweetstorm:
Running an Ethereum Full Node on a RaspberryPi 4 (model B): Guide to run a full node on a RaspberryPi 4.
Dataviz of mining pool % over time:
The Most Popular .ETH Names in the ENS Short Name Auction.
Ethereal Blocks Retro: Sponsors, Winners, and More.
ConsenSys and WWF Team Up to Launch Impactio: The project aims to modernize sustainable development for individuals, companies and NGOs.
PWC and Onfido to join uPort’s portable identity efforts in the UK financial services sector: uPort, Onfido and PwC to partner on identities in UK financial services.
Digital Securities and Blockchain: Custody and Fund Administration: Clark Thompson of ConsenSys undertakes an analysis on the current state of security custodianship and blockchain tech.
Introducing the DeFi Score — an open-source methodology to evaluate code and financial risk in DeFi lending: There’s more to DeFi lending than APRs.
Introducing ConsenSys Codefi: The Blockchain Operating System for Global Commerce and Finance. A new product suite bringing blockchain to businesses.
ETH East — Ethereum’s Growth in Asia, 2019: Singapore: Let’s start with the Little Red Dot, Invest:Asia, and capital markets.
Put a Crypto Tech Advocate in Congress: SF congressional candidate raising money in ETH.
Projects updates
Check updates by Paradigm:
- Aragon biweekly update 10th September — 24th September
- Enigma biweekly update 10th September — 24th September
- Orbs biweekly update 11th September — 25th September
- OmiseGo biweekly update 17th September — 30th September
Why is Blockchain Infrastructure Important?
Coinbase continues to explore support for new digital assets.
Dash (DASH) is now available on Coinbase.
Congratulations Capture the Coin participants!
Introducing the Crypto Rating Council: Coinbase has joined crypto businesses in announcing the creation of the Crypto Rating Council, a member-operated organization formed to assist market participants that trade or support crypto assets to comply with U.S. federal securities laws. Founding members of the Council are EthererAnchorage, Bittrex, Circle, Coinbase, DRW Cumberland, Genesis, Grayscale Investments and Kraken.
Introducing Custom Asset Packs: Make Decentraland more personal and create a more diverse virtual world using the Builder.
Major new features to seriously up your game (and your Game Jam!): 7 must-have updates to turbo-charge your creative abilities in Decentraland.
district0x Dev Update — September 17th, 2019: Development progress and product changes from district0x.
The District Weekly — September 21st: News and updates from the district0x Network
The District Weekly — September 28th.
Designing for DeFi: A Journey Towards Peace of Mind.
GECO Community Spotlight: A brief discussion with the dOrg team.
Hoard Compiler on GU — “veni, vidi, vici”.
Governance Poll: Stability Fee Adjustment — September 23, 2019.
Making Maker: Special LatAm Edition.
Executive Vote: Lower the Stability fee by 2% to a total of 10.5% per year.
Looking Ahead: How to Upgrade to Multi-Collateral Dai from Single-Collateral Dai: Maker have put together an outline on how to prepare for the migration to Multi-collateral Dai from Single-collateral Dai. Whether you’re a Dai holder, CDP owner or any other MakerDAO participant you will need to upgrade as it is mandatory.
Update on the New Oasis: MakerDAO gives an update on the open-source OasisDEX protocol. A core element of the protocol is that it is truly decentralized and permissionless. It includes a non-custodial setup and a fully on-chain order book, has no central operator, and runs using open-source software.
Saying Goodbye to Vintage MEW on October 20, 2019.
The Essential Wallet Guide Part 3: Custodial and Non-Custodial Mobile Wallets.
My Plans For Status V1 Launch.
Town Hall #43 Istanbul — September 17, 2019.
Ethereal Blocks Hackathon Summary.
Integrating Streamr with Apache Kafka using Kafka Connect.
Trinity Biweekly Report — Early September.
Trinity Biweekly Report — Late September.
Technical Update 24 September 2019.
A Guide to Zilliqa Ledger Nano S app.
Other project’s updates:
State Channels Developer Update #0 — Counterfactual and Magmo are joining forces.
Connext v2.0 is on Mainnet. Natively supports wallets, more trustless.
Plasma Predicates — one step towards generalized Plasma: Matic’s next release will include Plasma predicates.
UniswapEX Announced. UniswapEX brings limit orders to Uniswap and allows relayers to earn a fee when executing these orders.
Vote Results, Etherscan, and Coinbase: Maker and Tether will be added to Compound.
A Tour Of the Varieties of DAI.
Including Non-Trustless Assets in MCD: A Hidden Fatal Flaw in Maker’s Roadmap? Should there be non-trustless assets in multi-collateral Dai? — Reddit discussion.
Addressing Claims of Synthetix Deleted Balances: Why did the Synthetix attacker get his balance deleted? Because his frontrunning got frontrun.
Rocket Pool 2 — Beta v1 Guide: The Rocket Pool team have put together a guide that will walk you through how to set your computer up to interact with the beta when it launches on the 24th of September at 00:00 UTC, see the state of the Rocket Pool network, make a deposit into it, track the state of the deposit and interact with it, and finally, withdraw your earned rETH back into your account.
Ren September Development Update.
Introducing the ETH 26 Day EMA Crossover Set: The ETH26EMACO Set is now live on TokenSets.
Operating Set Protocol Manually Use MyEtherWallet or Etherscan to manually mint and redeem Sets. How to use SetProtocol if the front end is down. More apps should do this.
Rune floats ETH purity assets (ie, single-collateral Dai) in MCD:
Automatic CDP protection faux pas — analysis, updates in place and next steps. DeFi Saver had a couple CDPs get liquidated. While they’re covering the cost, it’s always worth thinking about the risks for any product you use.
Introducing Unlock User Accounts: Unlock User Accounts allow people with no knowledge of crypto to use Unlock services on selected NFT locks. Once users ready, they can then “eject” their accounts and import them into the wallet of their choice.
FRANKLIN: Matter Labs’ Rollup: commit-chain driven by SNARKs. Matter Labs releases their zk rollup code.
Balancer, a “non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor” using automated market makers.
Looking for feedback on my escrow / general agreement app: AtStake, an escrow app with an internal reputation system. 2 person agreements where ETH/tokens are later programmatically distributed. Disputes by pre-agreed 3rdparty
Introducing all-new Margin Trading on Nuo: Nuo v2 margin trading.
Dolomite is Live! Dolomite launches exchange on Loopring with negative maker fees and a fiat onramp through Wyre.
Immutable Raises $15 million for Gods Unchained.
Harbor Tokenizes Real Estate Funds Worth $100 Million on Ethereum: Harbor has pivoted from helping companies issue security tokens to helping them tokenize existing securities. The startup has created tokens on the Ethereum blockchain representing the shares of four real estate funds worth $100 million.
Opinion and research articles
Understanding PLONK by Vitalik Buterin.
STARK-proving low-degree-ness of a data availability root: some analysis: Vitalik Buterin on sharding.
Developer incentivization: in-protocol contract author fee rebates: Vitalik on economics.
Cross-Shard Messaging System: Cross shard messaging in Casper CBC by Aditya Asgaonkar.
Broken Metre: Attacking Resource Metering in EVM by Daniel Perez, Benjamin Livshits:
Metering is an approach developed to assign cost to smart contract execution in blockchain systems such as Ethereum. This paper presents a detailed investigation of the metering approach based on gas taken by the Ethereum blockchain. The authors discover a number of discrepancies in the metering model such as significant inconsistencies in the pricing of the instructions. They further demonstrate that there is very little correlation between the gas and resources such as CPU and memory. They find that the main reason for this is that the gas price is dominated by the amount of storage that is used.
Based on the observations above, The authors present a new type of DoS attack they call Resource Exhaustion Attack, which uses these imperfections to generate low-throughput contracts. Using this method, they show that they are able to generate contracts with a throughput on average 50 times slower than typical contracts. These contracts can be used to prevent nodes with lower hardware capacity from participating in the network, thereby artificially reducing the level of decentralization the network can deliver.
Hijacking Routes in Payment Channel Networks: A Predictability Tradeoff by Saar Tochner and Aviv Zohar and Stefan Schmid:
Off-chain transaction networks can mitigate the scalability issues of today’s trustless electronic cash systems such as Bitcoin. However, these peer-to-peer networks also introduce a new attack surface which is not well-understood today. This paper identifies and analyzes, a novel Denial-of-Service attack which is based on route hijacking, i.e., which exploits the way transactions are routed and executed along the created channels of the network. This attack is conceptually interesting as even a limited attacker that manipulates the topology through the creation of new channels can navigate tradeoffs related to the way it attacks the network. Furthermore, the attack also highlights a fundamental design tradeoff for the defender (who determines its own routes): to become less predictable and hence secure, a rational node has to pay higher fees to nodes that forward its payments. We find that the three most common implementations for payment channels in Bitcoin (lnd, C-lightning, Eclair) approach routing differently. The authors begin by surveying the current state of the Lightning network and explore the routes chosen by these implementations. They find that in the current network nearly 60% of all routes pass through only five nodes, while 80% go through only 10 nodes. Thus, a relatively small number of colluding nodes can deny service to a large fraction of the network. They then turn to study an external attacker who creates links to the network and draws more routes through its nodes by asking for lower fees. They find that just five new links are enough to draw the majority (65% — 75%) of the traffic regardless of the implementation being used. The cost of creating these links is very low. The authors discuss the differences between implementations and eventually derive our own suggested routing policy, which is based on a novel combination of existing approaches.
Check out also Justin Drake’s slides:
Press and podcasts
Ryan Sean Adams: Why Ether is Money on Into the Ether:
Ryan Sean Adams, founder of the Bankless program and Mythos Capital joins the podcast. Ryan is a big believer and advocate for the open finance movement and has recently launched his Bankless program in order to help educate the masses. They dive into what he’s trying to create with Bankless and he shares his thoughts on some general open finance topics. They then discuss why Ether (the native asset of Ethereum) is money, what money really means, and how Ether will accrue value over time. He also shares his thoughts on so called “Ethereum killers” and what he sees for the future.
Gnosis — The Full-Stack Predictions Market with Stefan George, Co-Founder, and CTO on Wyre Talks:
Stefan George is the Co-Founder and CTO of GNOSIS, a prediction market platform that allows users to create custom forecasting applications and produce an entirely new asset class of conditional tokens they can then trade or hold. Stefan joins the hosts to discuss the GNOSIS team’s core mission to originate a prediction market system capable of aggregating global knowledge. He shares the use cases for prediction markets, including information discovery, incentivizing behavior and establishing financial markets.
Stefan goes on to describe how financial markets created on prediction systems differ in terms of bounded loss and winnings and walk us through the process of creating a market on GNOSIS. He also explains the concept of conditional token design, the team’s decision to utilize a Dutch auction model, and the new dxDAO governance community. Listen in for Stefan’s insight around their consumer-facing products, the GNOSIS Multisig Wallet and GNOSIS Safe, and learn how they are becoming the first company with a license to operate a fully regulated prediction market!
Eli Ben-Sasson on the latest from StarkWare and the origin of mathematical ideas on Zero Knowledge:
In this week’s episode, Anna catches up with Eli Ben Sasson to talk about the latest from StarkWare, the explosion of new research within the zero knowledge space and the origin of new mathematical ideas.
Recorded right after the StarkWare Sessions in Tel Aviv, and during a period of incredible development in new cryptographic zk techniques and protocol proposals.
Here are some of the papers and ideas they cover:
- STARK-friendly hash competition
- Succinct Arguments in the Quantum Random Oracle Model
- More resources about StarkWare and STARK technology
- Henri Pointcaré — Science and Hypothesis The chapter mentioned is “On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning”
Flex Dapps with Alexander Ramsey and Tom Nash on Wizard of Dapps.
MakerDAO vs Maker Foundation; What’s a DAO? on POV Crypto:
Videos
Check out DeFi Summit London videos.
Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin Discuss the Future of #Ethereum with Yoni Assia at #EtherealTLV: Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin talk Defi, Buidling, and the Future of Ethereum with eToro’s Yoni Assia at Ethereal Tel Aviv 2019.
Upcoming events
- Oct 2 — Istanbul fork on Ropsten testnet at block #6485846
- Oct 4 — Enterprise Ethereum in Banking Summit (Seoul)
- Oct 5–6 — Cryptoeconomics System Summit (Boston)
- Oct 7 — ENS workshop (Osaka)
- Oct 8–11 — Devcon (Osaka). Social events: OffDevcon and Kickback
- Oct 19–20 — Crosslink (Taipei)
- Oct 26 — Zero Knowledge Summit (SF)
- Nov 1 — Ledger EU apply for 200k euro startup funding
- Nov 5–6 — Decentralized insurance D1Conf (Malta)
- Nov 8–10 — ETHWaterloo
- Jan 1 — Augur v1 cutoff
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 October 16th, 2019, 12:00pm UTC.
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:
Ethereum community continues to grow. There is constant slight growth in Ethereum social media channels these weeks.
Facebook — Official announcement channel. Recent publications — about Ethereum Core Devs Meetings, Conferences (20–100 likes per publication).
Twitter (Ethereum) — Official announcement channel. Duplicates news from Facebook page (250–500 likes per publication, 30–50 comments). Average number of shares is 100–200 for one post.
Twitter (Ethereum Network) — News from DApps (10–20 likes per publication, 1–5 comments, 1–10 shares).
Twitter (Ethereum Report) — Retweets from official announcement channel and team members’ pages.
Reddit — News about projects and blockchain, links to interviews, podcasts, upcoming events. The longest thread has 161 comments (Welcome to r/ethereum — the Reddit frontpage of the Web 3.0).
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.
Ethereum Community Forum. Recent Discussions: Forum has been hacked, Security alert, Forums Database Compromised, Help Stop Forum Spam, Developing Guidelines for acceptable Promotion and Marketing on the Ethereum Forum.
See also Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians forum.
There is a constant slight growth in 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
Crypto Twitter in general
