News and Links

Protocol

Core devs call. Lane’s notes.
Latest Casper standup
Fichter: Simple Fast Plasma Withdrawals
Two implementations I didn’t have time to read but seemed interesting: 1) Lucidity’s yellow paper for Plasma chain for programmatic ads and 2) Levj’s Plasma Gluon which says it is on testnet
PlasmaBits: Esteban Ordano’s proposal aimed more at generalized state
Pysmatic’s sharding implementation call
Buterin: A proposal for structuring committees, cross-links, etc
Drake: Registrations, shard count and shuffling
Charging rent for testnet storage discussion

Stuff for developers

gnarly optimistic UI library is in alpha.
Drizzle v1.2
Connext v0.3 - virtual channels live on Rinkeby
OpenZeppelin v1.10 release
Solidity graphical debugger, somewhat similar to Mythril
Mocha reporter for Truffle. Not new, but Andy Tudhope says most devs don’t know it exists in the Ethprize developer interviews
Turning smart contracts into gastoken factories
EthereumJS May recap
Options for fixing the missing return value bug affecting ~100 tokens
Loom releases SDK for dappchains for Cocos gaming platform (supposedly one of the largest in Asia?)
Gas golfing fun: converting quicksort in Java to Solidity
Malicious backdoors in Ethereum proxies

Ecosystem

Josh Stark: making sense of web3
Loom: Ethereum Will Be the Backbone of the New Internet
Zeppelin: Introducing the Transaction Permission Layer
A primer on light clients
EthBerlin is aiming for 500-700 hackers
6 principles for UX dapp design
Raw responses from the EIP0 values survey

Live on mainnet

Aragon launches its survey app on mainnet
Status latest release enables mainnet as a test option. After writing that, they had a hotfix release.

Client Release

Parity 1.11.3 (beta) or 1.10.6 (stable). Upgrade ASAP because of an issue with unsigned transactions when EIP86 disabled

Governance and Standards

ERC1132: Extending ERC20 with token locking capability
Dicussion on ERC1081 bounties standard
Discussion on ERC1098 cross-client encrypt/decrypt
ERC1138: URI Format for Calling Functions
ERC1133: Nesting token standard

Project Updates

A profile of Althea’s NW Oregon meshnet in operation. Also, Althea governance model: subnet DAOs with TCRs for subnet discovery.
Margin trading protocol dYdX launches on Kovan testnet
Golem beta v0.16: requesters can set minimums for provider machines. Non-backward compatible.
Creating easy onboarding for Raiden with Plasma payment hubs
New 2 minute Streamr promo vid
Funfair update on their closed beta
TheGraph decentralized query protocol: use GraphQL to build Eth/IPFS dapps
Fig acquires Ownage to publish blockchain games
Very interesting future of online video stack Twitter thread from Paratii

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks

Amrit Kumar and Ilya Sergey talk Zilliqa’s formally verified Scilla language on Epicenter
Colony’s Alex Rea on Smartest Contract
EthBuenosAires episode of Zero Knowledge
Gavin Wood’s recent talk on Substrate and Energy Web Foundation
More talks and short interviews from EthBuenosAires
DAOstack on Epicenter
Christian Reitwiessner on Smartest Contract
Nadav Hollander talks Dharma Protocol on Token Talks
Raul Jordan and Preston Van Loon on Software Engineering Daily

Tokens

NYT: “In the World of Cryptocurrency, Even Good Projects Can Go Bad.” This was not particularly close to being a “good project” and I barely remember it. But good on NYT for calling them out on exaggerating the amount raised. That’s normally the case unless you can verify on-chain the amount raised.
Interesting ideas for extensible and composable NFTs
Copyright in a time of Cryptokitty abundance
Enigma proposes encrypted secret voting for TCRs
EthBuenosAires winner Crypto against Humanity will be an interesting experiment of TCRs and bonding curves

General

South African Reserve Bank demos Quorum with IBFT consensus that can process all daily SA payments in 2 hours with privacy
NYT on SIG’s crypto desk. Interesting bit: they built their own custody
Coinbase: we’re going to do a regulated security token exchange; acquires broker-dealer, ATS and RIA licenses
Sequoia’s Matt Huang to start crypto fund with Fred Ehrsam
Binance announces $1 billion fund
Guide to joining the Cosmos testnet
Zooko’s notes from a call with Jihan Wu
5 ways the Catholic church should use blockchain
Lots of NYT this week: “When Crypto Meets Conceptual Art, Things Get Weird”
SEC names Valerie Szczepanik its crypto czar. She comes from enforcement, but she’s also known for understanding the tech
IMF: Monetary policy in the digital age. They’re taking this seriously.

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

June 14 -- CryptoCup deadline to enter. Link contains referral code, price goes up June 11
June 24 -- Colony online hackathon finishes
June 25 -- Etherisc token sale starts
June 28 -- BuildEth (San Francisco)
June 30 -- Solidity Gas Golfing challenge deadline
June 30-July1 -- Off the chain state channel workshop (Berlin)
July 6-7 -- TechCrunch blockchain and Ethereum events (Zug)
July 9 -- Augur scheduled to launch
July 12-18 -- IC3 Eth Bootcamp (Ithaca, NY)
July 14-15 -- FEM governance meetings in Berlin
July 19-20 -- DappCon (Berlin)
August 3-4 -- Discon (Boulder, CO)
August 10-12 -- EthIndia hackathon (Bangalore)
September 6 -- Security unconference (Berlin)
September 7-9 -- EthBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 -- WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
Oct 5-7 -- TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 -- EthSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 22-24 -- Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 -- Devcon4 (Prague)
December -- EthSingapore hackathon

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