The Ethereum developers have been working extremely hard over the period of the last two weeks! As usual, they made significant progress with development: Core Devs Meeting and Eth2.0 Implementers Call took place as Ethereum 2.0 development updates were published: Prysmatic Labs, Nimbus. Eth2.0 spec v0.6.0, Truffle v5.0.14, Geth v1.8.27, Ganache v2.0.1, Embark 4.1.0-beta.0 released. Many updates on ecosystem projects build on Ethereum appeared in the media landscape: Brave Ads officially launched, Decentraland introduced Avatars, 0x published Mesh architecture document, Maker stability fee vote on going to 16.5%, FunFair on building their own native wallet, Set Protocol’s Strategy Enabled Tokens are live on mainnet. Ethereum ecosystem is impressive and it continues to flourish, new projects and protocols appear constantly. As for social encounters, Vitalik Buterin had a talk with Kartik Talwar about Ethereum, blockchain use cases in Africa, and scalability at ETHCapeTown as he had a talk at Ethereum Singapore on State of Ethereum Ecosystem. Justin Drake featured on Zero Knowledge podcast. Research and opinion articles (on Plasma Chamber, on CBC Casper, “Fast cross-shard transfers via optimistic receipt roots” and “Another way of understanding what cryptoeconomic aggregated signatures do” by Vitalik Buterin, “Red Queen sync protocol” by Andrew Ashikhmin and Alexey Akhunov, etc) and Istanbul planning videos were published. Devcon returns to east Asia later this year! Save the date — October 08th-11th, 2019, and stay sharp! More to follow!
Development
Protocol updates
Constantinople is successful so far.
Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #60 [2019–04–26]:
- Review previous decisions made and action items
- Roadmap
- EIPs
a) Refer to Roadmap link for list
b) Please add more EIPs to the agenda - Working Group Updates
a) State Fees
b) EWasm
c) Pruning/Sync (ETH V64 Call for Proposals & Stopgaps for cleaning up discovery peers pre-Discovery v5)
d) Simulation
e) Istanbul & ETH1x Roadmap Planning Meeting — April 17th & 18th in Berlin - ProgPoW Audit Update
- Testing Updates
- Client Updates: a) Geth, b) Parity Ethereum, c) Aleth/eth, d) Trinity/PyEVM, e) EthereumJS, f) EthereumJ/Harmony, g) Pantheon, h) Turbo Geth, i) Nimbus, j) web3j, k) Mana/Exthereum, l) Mantis, m) Nethereum
- EWASM & Research Updates
Ethereum Core Devs Eth1x/Istanbul Planning Meeting Day One [2019/04/17]:
14:19 — Intro
26:24 — State Rent, Update 4 (Alexey Akhunov)
1:32:42 — EVM Evolution + EIP 615 (Brooklyn Zelenka)
2:23:17 — Account Versioning + EIP 1712 (Wei Tang)
4:34:46 — RETESTETH (Dmitry)
5:00:26 — Security in the EIP process (Martin Ortner)
5:35:39 — Chain ID Opcode EIP 1344 (Richard Meissner)
6:01:11 — State Testing (Zak Cole)
6:25:18 — ETH V64 Improvements (Matt Halpern)
6:54:00 — Red Queen Sync (Andrew Ashikhmin)
Ethereum Core Devs Eth1x/Istanbul Planning Meeting Day Two [2019/04/18]:
0:00 — ProgPow: Flipping the switch (Danno Ferrin)
20:30 — EWASM updates (Casey Detrio, Pawel Bylica, Alex Beregszaszi, Lane Rettig)
1:18:26 — Transaction Fee Economics + EIP 1559 (Vitalik Buterin)
2:14:08 — Gas Token: Killing the Final Boss (Casey Detrio)
2:46:08 — Opening Pandora’s Box: Funding Eth 1.x and Eth 2.0 (Kevin Owocki)
4:59:06 — OASIS Open Projects — (Jory Burson)
6:48:16 — Finality Gadget Working Group (Alexey Akhunov)
7:02:22 — Istanbul Roadmap Planning (Boris Mann)
Eth2.0 Implementers Call #16 [2019/4/18]:
- Testing Updates
- Client Updates
- Briefings from workshop
- Research Updates
- Network Updates
- libp2p
- discovery
- phase 0 networking protocol
- network serialization
- ethereum/eth2.0-specs#861
- ethereum/eth2.0-specs#871
- gossipsub tests
- Spec discussion
[LIVE] Core Devs Berlin: video.
Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #26: biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on the Ethereum 2.0 roadmap.
Nimbus Development Update — Whisper, 2019 goals, Season of Docs.
Ewasm updates deck.
Signal non-final status of base reward and desired issuance goal: Proposal to boost Eth2 staking rewards which would put inflation at ~1%.
Ethereum Sharding inside a Supercomputer by Leonardo Bautista Gomez: Eth2 simulations inside Barcelona Supercomputer with open source code.
Introducing Hobbits: A lightweight wire protocol for ETH 2.0.
Development tools
Truffle v5.0.13 — decoder improvements. Truffle v5.0.14.
Ganache v2.0.1.
Embark 4.1.0-beta.0.
Infura: Faster Eth logs and events.
OpenZeppelin v2.3.0 release candidate.
Keep’s Random Beacon using threshold relay.
Nodesmith’s JSON RPC API access through Websocket.
Automatic security checks with Mythos and CircleCi.
Signature replay vulnerabilities in Ethereum.
FunFair on building their own native wallet.
How to link libraries into Solidity code.
3rd party contract interaction in Burner Wallet.
Accumulators with RSA and class group interfaces in Rust.
ChainSecurity’s VerX “automated verifier for certifying custom functional requirements” of Eth code.
Skale’s C++ library for BLS Threshold Signatures.
Launchdapp from Zastrin to make dapp frontend hosting easy.
An overview of scaling now solutions for architecting your dapp.
Eth-owl: watch Eth address for transaction notifications by email.
Governance and new standards proposals
ProgPoW audit funded and planned for next hard fork. Aiming for 6 month hard fork cycle.
Istanbul Hardfork EIPs: List of proposed EIPs for next hard fork.
ERC1948: Non-fungible data token.
ERC1949: Delayed distributed mining.
EIP1955: Specify cliquey.
ERC1958: Smart contract functions payable in tokens.
ERC1959: Valid chainID opcode.
ERC1962: EC arithmetics and pairings with runtime definitions.
ERC1967: Standard Proxy Storage Slots.
ERC777: Last call.
Brainstorming the token standard in eth2: Vitalik Buterin on Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians forum.
How Ethereum Could Evolve: William Mougayar’s EF and spending proposals.
Ecosystem updates
E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading: Etrade launching Eth trading.
20 Blockchain Projects With the Most Dev Activity on Github — April, 2019: Here’s a hint: 19 of them are BUIDLing with Ethereum.
Towards a better /r/ethereum…: Ethereum community was born on r/ethereum, how to keep r/ethereum viable.
The CryptoKitties folks called DapperLabs unveil their Dapper smart contract wallet.
How to Open a MakerDAO CDP and Earn Interest on Compound — A Walkthrough Guide: How to use decentralize finance protocols to increase interest from your cryptoasset holdings.
Forbes Releases ‘Top 50 Billion-Dollar Companies Exploring Blockchain’ — Over Half are Working with Ethereum: Amazon, Google, Samsung, Facebook: The race is on for the world’s leading companies to implement blockchain.
Turms: an expensive and slow encypted messaging between Eth addresses. Something like an onchain Earn.com.
Pocket Network MVP is live: “a decentralized relay network for full-node infrastructure”
Introducing, 3Box Personal Data Hub: All your data. In one place. Under your control.
A Vision of A Global Operating System: Filesystem by Loredana Cirstea: What would a file system for an Eth OS look like?
Entering The EthereumLong-Term Economics & Analysis by Delphi Digital.
Amber Baldet: Big Data, Blockchain, and the Way Forward for Ethereum.
Projects updates
0x:
Relayer Report #20–0x Roadmap and Launch Season: The latest updates from the 0x ecosystem.
Augur Weekly Report — April 24th.
Augur Weekly Report — April 17th.
Augur as Wikipedia for Markets: “Wikipedia and Augur are public utilities.”
Expanding crypto-to-crypto support to more countries around the world.
Crypto For All: What the Coinbase team built during our spring hackathon.
Download and Upload Builder Scenes: Back up your work or collaborate with a friend using the new Download/Upload tool in the Builder.
Explore Decentraland in Style with Avatars!: Introducing Decentraland Avatars, the one-stop-shop for customizing your virtual self for the virtual world.
The Winners of the Creator Contest Are Here!: Check out the grand prize winners from Decentraland’s Creator Contest.
Zone Out: A new way to own land on Ethereum — What’s Coming in the New Dether App: Part 1.2 — Using the Harberger Tax to create seller zones through continuous auctions.
Ether Price Prediction Competition #4 by Dether.
district0x Dev Update — April 16th, 2019: Development progress and product changes from district0x.
The District Weekly — April 20th, 2019: News and updates from the district0x Network.
The District Weekly — April 27th, 2019.
#ReFi with #DeFi: Refinance your CDP loan with Dharma today.
How Dharma Works Under the Hood: Dharma’s FAQ.
Dharma is Great for Dai: How Dharma Helps Dai’s Peg.
Formal Verification — A Journey Deep into the Gnosis Safe Smart Contracts.
GECO Community Spotlight: Giving you the inside scoop on the minds behind the Tasit SDK.
OWL Generation Event: Lock GNO between April 16th to May 22nd to get OWL, your community coupon token.
Introducing GolemGrid: a community-built web gateway project.
Gitcoin Product Update: Gitcoin Product Updates from March 2019.
Burner Modules: Third party smart contract interactions in the 🔥wallet.
CodeFund Ads on Etherscan: Reach out if interested in joining as an ethical advertiser.
Ethereal Virtual Hackathon Introduction and Sponsor Profiles.
What’s in a beacon?: A foundational stand-alone component of the Keep Network.
Getting to know the Keep team — Laura: An Interview with our Growth Lead — Laura Wallendal.
Universal Transaction Signing: Seamless Layer 2 DApp Scaling for Ethereum 🔐
Don’t Miss MakerDAO’s Blockchain Week Events in Cape Town, April 18–21.
Executive Vote: Raise the Stability Fee by 3% to a total of 14.5% per year.
Transition to Secure Methods of Wallet Access: the KeyVolution: Are you still using private key, mnemonic phrase or keystore file to access your wallet? It’s time for an update.
Bridging Blockchain to the Real World using Chainlink.
Ocean Protocol + Chainlink Integration: Oracle Smart Contract Services Meets Decentralized Data Exchange Protocol.
Odyssey Hackathon 🌐 2019: Impact & Adventure at the World’s Largest AI + Blockchain Hackathon.
AI for Good, at Scale?: How can AI help address climate change, poverty, hunger and other sustainable development goals?
Initial Exchange Offering of Ocean Protocol on Bittrex International: IEO will start at 1600 GMT on April 30th, 2019 on International.Bittrex.com.
One Protocol. One Network. One Community: Meet the revolutionary collaborators & technologies that are empowering Ocean to carve a bold new Data Economy.
Nimbus Development Update — Whisper, 2019 goals, Season of Docs.
Status TownHall #32 — April 15, 2019.
Discover — Prepare For Launch.
Why Streamr has integrated with Chainlink for reliable Oracles.
Trinity Biweekly Report — Early April.
Zilliqa Project Update #32 — #BuildonZIL, Technical Content.
Also check biweekly updates by Paradigm:
- Aragon biweekly update 9th April — 23rd April.
- Basic Attention Token biweekly update 11th April — 25th April.
- FunFair biweekly update 12th April — 26th April.
- Orbs biweekly update 11th April — 25th April.
- OmiseGo biweekly update 17th April — 30th April.
Other projects:
Péter Szilágyi on Twitter on v1.9:
Lightning VS Raiden #3: myths about business models and accountability of watchtowers (also Celer & PISA): In the third article of this series the team will try to understand if layer-2 watchtowers can scale without becoming a tool of global financial surveillance.
Abridged Public Announcement: Seamless Ethereum integrations catalyzing a delightful Web 3 experience by Eric Chung
Brave Ads officially launches. If you enable ads in the Rewards section, you get 70% of ad revenue with BAT.
Giveth: #20 Decentralize Data NOW! (Formerly Open Source Block Explorers Now!) — video.
Livepeer: Streamflow: Probabilistic Micropayments.
Counterfactual: Development Update #4–04.17.2019.
MyCrypto launches Ambo app. Available now for iOS.
Cent implements Fortmatic so its users don’t need a browser extension.
Why Dapper is a smart contract wallet: Convenience and usability is important, but they should never compromise decentralization.
ConsenSys Spins Off Ethereum Startup Truffle To Take Blockchain To Big Business on Forbes.
New projects:
Moon — Shop Online with Cryptocurrency. Shop directly on Amazon.com via Lightning Network or from your Coinbase account with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether and Bitcoin Cash.
Loopring — Open source DEX matching engine by Loopring.
VerX — ChainSecurity, an ETH Zurich spin-off, is happy to announce VerX, the first automated verifier for certifying custom functional requirements of Ethereum smart contracts.
Cryptoraves Tokens — Cryptoraves tokens can be freely (literally, fee-lessly) requested and shared, all on Twitter, thanks to Loom’s PlasmaChain! They’re on Layer 2.
TokenSets is Live: Automate your Crypto Portfolio Now: Set Protocol’s Strategy Enabled Tokens are live on mainnet. Automated trading to buy the dumps and sell the pumps.
XYO Matrix is Now LIVE on Mainnet.
Whisp, a free payroll tool for Eth or Dai.
The new dYdX is in alpha on mainnet — up to 4x margin with non-tokenized positions.
BZx compares their leverage tokens to dYdX’s leverage tokens.
Opinion and research articles
On Free Speech by Vitalik Buterin.
Fast cross-shard transfers via optimistic receipt roots: Vitalik Buterin on sharding.
Another way of understanding what cryptoeconomic aggregated signatures do: Vitalik Buterin on cryptography.
Red Queen sync protocol by Andrew Ashikhmin and Alexey Akhunov.
The shades of statefulness (in Ethereum nodes) by Alexey Akhunov.
See also Casey Detrio’s tweetstorm.
Plasma Chamber dapp dev framework. Plasma Chamber is a DApps development framework that guarantees security, scalability, and usability utilizing Plasma technology.
CBC Casper and formal verification by Ryuya Nakamura: CBC Casper is a proposal of beautiful PoS consensus protocol which has various potential advantages and will possibly be adopted by ETH2.0 in the future. In this article, the author describes the basics of CBC Casper and introduces the work.
Safety of CBC Casper consensus by Barnabé Monnot. In this essay, the authors reintroduce CBC Casper with a view to proving the safety of the protocol. Once safety is obtained, they show how the protocol can be designed for consensus over different sets, from binary decisions to blockchains.
Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2019/403. Fast and simple constant-time hashing to the BLS12–381 elliptic curve by Riad S. Wahby and Dan Boneh. Pairing-friendly elliptic curves in the Barreto-Lynn-Scott family have experienced a resurgence in popularity due to their use in a number of real-world projects. One particular Barreto-Lynn-Scott curve, called BLS12–381, is the locus of significant development and deployment effort, especially in blockchain applications. This effort has sparked interest in using BLS12–381 for BLS signatures, and in particular for aggregatable signatures, which requires hashing to one of the groups of the bilinear pairing defined by the BLS12–381 elliptic curve. While there is a substantial body of literature on the problem of hashing to elliptic curves, much of this work does not apply to Barreto-Lynn-Scott curves. Moreover, the work that does apply has the unfortunate property that fast implementations are complex, while simple implementations are slow. In this work, the author addresses these issues. First, they show a straightforward way of adapting the “simplified SWU” map of Brier et al. to BLS12–381. Second, they describe optimizations to the SWU map that both simplify its implementation and improve its performance; these optimizations may be of interest in other contexts. Third, they implement and evaluate. They find that the work yields constant-time hash functions that are simple to implement, yet perform within 9% of the fastest, non — constant-time alternatives, which require much more complex implementations.
Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2019/360. SoK: Off The Chain Transactions by Lewis Gudgeon and Pedro Moreno-Sanchez and Stefanie Roos and Patrick McCorry and Arthur Gervais: Blockchains have the potential to revolutionize markets and services, yet, currently exhibit high latencies and fail to handle loads comparable to those managed by traditional custodian financial systems. Layer-two protocols, built on top of (layer-one) blockchains, avoid disseminating every transaction to the whole network by sending transactions off-chain and instead utilize the blockchain only as a recourse for disputes. The promise of layer-two protocols is to complete transactions in sub-seconds, reduce fees, and allow blockchains to scale. With this Systematization of Knowledge, the authors are the first to structure the complete rich and multifaceted body of research on layer-two transactions. Categorizing the research into payment and state channels as well as commit-chains, they provide a comparison of the protocols and their properties. They contribute a systematization of the associated synchronization and routing protocols along with their privacy and security aspects. Contrary to common belief in the blockchain community, they show that layer-two can scale blockchains; that layer-two protocols are secure without full collateralization; that privacy of layer-two transaction is not granted by default; and that fees depend on the transmitted transaction value. The SoK clears the layer-two fog, highlights the potential of layer-two solutions and identifies their unsolved challenges and promising avenues of future work.
A Framework for Efficient STARKs: Combining probabilistic proofs and hash functions.
A (not so) Gentle Introduction to the PCP Theorem — Part 1 by Olivier Bégassat.
Press and podcasts:
Blockchain 101: Randomness and Random Beacons with Justin Drake on Zero Knowledge: In this week’s episode, Justin Drake, researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, discusses randomness in blockchain, how it can be created and what adversarial models exist, the random beacon and how that concept has evolved in the development of ETH2.0
Austin Griffith: Path to Mass Adoption with the Burner Wallet on Into the Ether: Austin Griffith, director of research at Gitcoin and founder of the Burner Wallet joins Into the Ether to discuss xDai and the Burner Wallet. He discusses how the Burner Wallet functions and the benefits it gains via speed and cost by running on the xDai POA Network sidechain. Austin discusses some of the latest features and future plans for the wallet including modules. Then he talks briefly about funding and what the ecosystem can do better to help fund projects like the Burner Wallet.
Giveth — Creating the New Economic Model of Giving: Griff Green, one of the founders at Giveth on Epicenter. The organization, which emerged out of the ashes of the DAO, aims to create a better model for charitable work. Operating as a Dapp, Giveth aims to bring new governance models in the nonprofit space. The goal is to create better incentives for donors and charity workers, in all types of social good projects. Topics discussed in this episode:
- Griff’s background as a gold-hodling digital nomad
- His time spent at Slock.it and his involvement in the aftermath of the DAO collapse
- How traditional charity organizations work
- The problems these organizations face and how funds get allocated
- The Giveth backstory and why the team chose to start the project
- Incentive alignment in the charity space
- The use of bonding curves and continuous organizations to fund charity projects
- The project’s roadmap and future
What Does Dharma Lever Mean for Decentralized Finance? — Brendan Forster (Dharma Labs) on BlockCrunch: The Dharma team recently launched Lever, a platform for decentralized loans.Dharma COO Brendan Forster discusses this step forward for DeFi, and touch on:
- Surprises from the Lever launch
- How will Dharma capture value?
- How does Dharma compete with Compound?
- How do 150% collateralized loans benefit the unbanked?
A Discussion With Some OG Crypto Punks: Autoglyph/CryptoPunk’s Matt Hall and John Watkinson on Digitally Rare.
The Graph — A Marketplace for Web3 Data Indexes Based on GraphQL: The Graph’s Yaniv Tal on Epicenter. The project aims to create a scalable marketplace of robust and high-availability blockchain data indexes. Relying on the modern GraphQL data query language initially developed by Facebook, The Graph allows developers to make complex queries to a robust and high-availability data infrastructure. Launched as a hosted service earlier this year, The Graph plans to move to a decentralized model in the future.
The Future of Margin Lending in Crypto — Guest: Tom Bean & Kyle Kistner of bZx: Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner are the cofounders of bZx, the first decentralized margin lending and trading platform on the Ethereum mainnet. Tom serves as the startup’s CEO, and Kyle is Chief Vision Officer and Operations Lead. They shares an end-to-end overview of the bZx protocol, explaining how it is fundamentally different from dYdX. Tom and Kyle also discuss how margin liquidations work on the network and how bZx incentivizes liquidators. Tom offers insight around the startup’s new Fulcrum product and how it improves the user experience, and Kyle describes the product roadmap moving forward, most notably bZx’s new integrations with Augur and Ethfinex. Listen in to understand why bZx is sticking with the token model for monetization and otherwise keeping the platform open and rent-free — and learn about the protocol’s first big governance proposal for token holders.
Videos:
“Decentralized finance is going to come first” — Vitalik Buterin at ETHCapeTown: Vitalik Buterin & Kartik Talwar talk about ethereum, blockchain use cases in Africa, and scalability at ETHCapeTown.
Ethereum Singapore | Vitalik Buterin on State of Ethereum Ecosystem. Topics covered:
- State of Ethereum ecosystem
- Proof Stake / Casper updates
- Layer 2 scalability updates
- Ecosystem adoption
Coinbase Speaker Series: Dharma CEO & Founder Nadav Hollander: As part of the Coinbase Speaker Series, sat down with Dharma CEO & Founder Nadav Hollander for a discussion to learn more about his startup and experience going from engineer to founder/CEO, and the role of design in making crypto products usable. Before launching Dharma, Nadav was an engineer at Google and Coinbase. Originally built as a decentralized protocol for peer-to-peer lending built on Ethereum, Dharma has since evolved into a product for people to lend and borrow crypto, with Coinbase Ventures investing a stake in Dharma.
Other:
The Ethereum Name Service Is Turning Nearly 300,000 .ETH Domains Into NFTs on Coindesk.
French Lender Societe Generale Issues $112 Million Bond on Ethereum on Coindesk.
Vitalik Proposal Could Turn Ethereum Staking Into $160 Million Industry: A new proposal by Vitalik Buterin suggests he is considering increasing rewards for validators who would secure the operation of the next version of the world’s second-largest blockchain. Ethereum 2.0 is by far the biggest upgrade on the horizon for the ethereum blockchain, today valued at $17.5 billion. Its broader goal is to erase ongoing bottlenecks to transaction throughput and significantly decrease costs on the network.
Upcoming events:
- Apr 29 — Oslo Blockchain Day
- May 9 — Fluidity Summit (NYC)
- May 10–11 — Ethereal (NYC)
- May 16 — Eth2 workshop (NYC)
- May 16 — Token Summit (NYC)
- May 17–19 — ETHNewYork
- May 17 — Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
- May 23–25 — Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)
- May 27–28 — EthCon Korea (Seoul)
- June 8–9 — WASM in blockchains (Berlin)
- June 22–24 — Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)
- Aug 2–4 — ETHIndia (Bangalore)
- Aug 2–4 — TruffleCon (Redmond)
- Aug 21–23 — Dappcon (Berlin)
- Aug 23–25 — ETHBerlin
- Sep 16–17 — Starkware sessions (Tel Aviv)
- Oct 8–11 — DeVcon (East Asia)
Finance
The economic incentives of staking in Eth 2.0 by Barnabé Monnot and Sacha Yves Saint-Léger. This interactive essay allows you to explore alternative scenarios, understand the tradeoffs involved, and come to an informed conclusion about the economics of staking in Eth 2.0. It builds on EthHub’s excellent Eth 2.0 Economics post and the current Eth 2.0 specs.
Roadmap
Release Step 3.1: Metropolis phase 2: Constantinople.
Constantinople is successful so far.
Release Step Four: Serenity. Serenity is meant to move from consensus through Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.
Partnerships
Collaboration with the Ethereum Foundation on VDFs: Protocol Labs and Ethereum Foundation are collaborating on VDF research.
Protocol Labs and the Ethereum Foundation are evaluating and co-funding grants for preliminary research into the viability of building optimized ASICs for running a VDF.
For any VDF, there is knowable uncertainty around the length of the verifiable delay based on the speed and quality of the hardware being used to generate it. The intent of this collaboration is to reduce that uncertainty by developing VDF hardware optimizations upfront and sharing the hardware designs freely for anyone to use. If these preliminary efforts are successful, later efforts may include:
- Public contests to collaboratively optimize VDF implementation runtimes
- Public multi-party computations to generate the necessary VDF security parameters
- Development of hardware optimized to run VDFs
Justin Ðrake on Twitter: Filecoin and Ethereum 2.0 collaborate on various fronts — libp2p, VDFs, BLS12–381, secret single-leader election. Yay for win-win cross-blockchain efforts!
Samsung Developing Ethereum-Based Blockchain, May Issue Own Token: South Korean electronics giant Samsung is developing its own blockchain network and eyeing the issuance of its own token further down the road. An exclusive CoinDesk Korea report, citing a person “familiar with Samsung’s internal situation,” said that the company’s blockchain task force — part of its wireless division — is building a blockchain mainnet based on ethereum. The work, however, is still at the “internal experimental” stage.
Microsoft, Ethereum Group Launch Token-Building Kit for Enterprises: The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and Microsoft have corralled the major blockchain providers behind a new project to help businesses design and create the right sort of crypto tokens for their particular needs.
Rumors
Elon Musk — @elonmusk on Twitter:
D𝚎𝚟𝚊 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚎𝐯𝚌𝚘𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚗 @EFDevcon:
Lane Rettig’s twitter thread — Ethereum’s social evolution in pictures.
Anthony Sassano @sassal0x on Twitter:
Social media metrics
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
- Ethereum subreddits
- Ethresear.ch
- Core Devs Meetings
- Eth2.0 Implementers Calls
- Prysmatic Labs Ethereum 2.0 development updates
- ConsenSys blog
- Week in Ethereum by Evan Van Ness
- Projects build on Ethereum official blogs
- Ethereum in news
- Crypto Twitter in general
