Development tools

Solidity v0.5.3.

web3j v4.1.1.

Web3.js v1.0.0-beta.38.

Waffle v2 of its testing suite (uses ethers.js).

Celer Network’s proto3 to solidity library generator for onchain/offchain, cross-language data structures. Celer’s SDK.

ERC20 meta transaction wrapper contract.

“Dumb contracts” that store data in the event logs.

ETL pipline on AWS for security token analytics.

Interacting with Ethereum using web3.py and Jupyter notebooks.

Tutorial on using Embark.

Tutorial: using OpenLaw agreements with dapps.

OpenBazaar’s escrow framework.

Etherisc opensources the code for their Generic Insurance Framework.

Austin Griffith’s latest iteration of Burner Wallet sales.

Deploying a front end with IPFS and Piñata SDK.

Video tutorial of Slither static analyzer.

Overview of formal verification projects in Ethereum.

zkPoker with SNARks - explore iden3’s circom circuit.

Weierstrudel: gas efficient elliptic curve scalar multiplication on Weierstrass.

Optimizing Merkle tree multi-queries.

The EVM: how does it work?

A central place to request an audit from 30 auditors.

MythrilClassic v0.20.

Testing potential exploits in a virtual environment.

The journey from Truffle4 to Truffle5.

Drizzle v1.3 with tests and React Native support.

Solhint v2 beta linter.

Secret Rock-paper-scissors with Enigma.

EVM package deployment with ZeppelinOS.

Formal verification for noobs: K.

Governance and new standards proposals

EIP1712: Disallow deployment of unused opcodes.

EIP1715: Generalized Version Bits Voting for Consensus Soft and Hard Forks.

EIP1717: Defuse the bomb and lower mining reward to 1 ether.

ERC1723: Cryptography engine standard.

ERC1724: confidential token standard.

ERC1726: Dividend paying token.

A postmortem on the Constantinople postponement.

SNT community voting dapp v0.1 - quadratic voting system.

Vlad Zamfir: Against Szabo’s law, for a new crypto legal system.

Response from Vitalik Buterin.

In Defense of Szabo’s Law, For a (Mostly) Non-Legal Crypto System: A Lawyer’s Response to Vlad Zamfir’s “Against Szabo’s Law, For A New Crypto Legal System” by Gabriel Shapiro

Core devs call. Hudson’s summary: ProgPoW to get 3rd party audit, miners can start extraData signaling, and EthCatHerders to examine community signal.

Ecosystem updates

I Read Crypto Twitter for Hours Daily — Here Are The 40 Accounts That Really Matter in ConsenSys blog.

Görli Testnet Launched: The Görli testnet is the first cross-client proof-of-authority network for Ethereum. It is based on the Clique PoA protocol. It was launched on 31 January 2019 at the GörliCon. The development is led by Chainsafe Systems + Afri Schoedon from Parity but there are dozens of more contributors that helped in making this a reality. Getting started with Görli Testnet.

Introducing Plasma Group: They’ve built a suite of tools to enable you to easily deploy your own plasma chains. Plasma Group released easy-to-install plasma chains (alpha).

Is the Difficulty Bomb Exploding: Lots of charts on the bomb historically and present.

Decentralizing project management with the Ethereum Cat Herders.

ENS permanent registrar proposals.

Gnosis Safe is now available on iOS.

Gitcoin is doing 25k in CLR grant matching.

POANet on using xDai at ETHDenver.

Hodlbank mixer based on zero knowledge. Live on Ropsten.

Projects updates

0x:

Development Update #15 — January 2019.

I Joined 0x to Grow our Community! by Brent Oshiro.

Augur:

Augur Weekly Report — January 23rd.

Augur Weekly Report — January 30th.

The Augur Prediction Market Claims The Patriots Will Win The SuperBowl in ConsenSys blog - Why the Augur prediction market platform will overtake Vegas for sports betting.

Basic Attention Token:

Brave alerts the FTC about two major problems in digital media & services markets.

Update on GDPR complaint (RTB ad auctions).

Cheddar Partnership.

AMA with Joel Reis and Sergey Zhukovsky.

Coinbase:

New resources for crypto taxes.

Introducing the Coinbase affiliate program.

Supercharging Retrofit with Kotlin.

Blockchain Infrastructure at Coinbase.

Coinbase now providing trading and custody services to high-volume clients across Asia.

CryptoKitties:

How to breed Squib: A step-by-step guide to breeding a Fancy Cat in CryptoKitties.

Decentraland:

LANDRegistry and EstateRegistry Updates: Changes and improvements in Decentraland’s LAND and Estate smart contracts.

Get Ready for the Creator Contest!: Earn prizes and put Decentraland’s new scene builder to use in the upcoming content creation and LANDscaping contest.

Decentraland’s LAND Parcel Size: Just how big is Genesis City, and is it big enough?

Motion and Animations in the SDK 5.0: Part 2: Learn how to bring your scenes to life by moving and animating your models with the new SDK.

Dether:

The Dether App is Now Available on the App Store: You can now download the Dether App from the App Store and use it on your iPhone.

district0x:

The District Weekly — February 2nd, 2019: News and updates from the district0x Network.

The District Weekly — January 26th, 2019.

district0x Dev Update - January 22nd, 2019: Development progress and product changes from district0x.

Dharma Protocol:

Dharma Markets Report #1: On the Trade-offs of Stablecoins: Your go-to resource for staying up to date with the decentralized financial system.

Dharma Markets Report #2: Shorting in DeFi.

Dharma at ETHDenver.

FOAM:

Location Data Mishandling — Reading List: The connection between location data privacy and the state of the geospatial economy.

Dynamic Proof of Location — FOAM Community C ll, Jan 24th Summary.

FOAM Developer Update #5 — Version 1.0 API Release: Stabilizing the FOAM API and some Helpful UI Changes.

The Anatomy of a Zone.

Gitcoin:

Gitcoin Grants: CLR Matching: Matching contributions with up to $25,000 in funding, in ETH.

Gnosis:

Test dxDAO Bug Bounties Live!: Before the dxDAO vote staking period launches on February 18th, take part in the open bug bounties.

2019 is the Year of the DAO: The next-generation of decentralized governance.

Keep:

Getting to know the Keep team: Markus: An interview with one of our newest developers, Markus Fix.

Kyber Network:

WBTC Is Now Live On Ethereum.

Easwap Integrates Kyber’s Permissionless Orderbook Reserve.

Kyber: Long Term Objectives & 2019 Plans.

Introducing the Automated Price Reserve.

Enjin Wallet Integrates Kyber To Enable In-Wallet Token Swaps.

MakerDAO:

Making Maker — January 2019.

Introducing the Maker Ecosystem Growth Group.

MakerDAO and the ETHDenver Wallet.

Stablecoins: Strengths & Weaknesses.

Melonport:

MLN Token Migration Event.

MLN Token Migration Instructions.

Ocean Protocol:

2018 in Review & 2019 Outlook.

Origin Protocol:

3 Ways Blockchain Will Shape How We Celebrate Chinese New Year.

Homesharing and Fractional Usage on the Origin Marketplace DApp.

Introducing Origin Wallet: Decentralized Commerce Goes Mobile.

Takeaways From Our Team Offsite.

Introducing the Origin Marketplace Creator: Instant Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces.

Why “Mainstream Adoption” is an Unfair Short-Term Success Metric for DApps.

Building a Better Company and Community — Origin’s Cultural Values.

Announcing the New Origin Identity.

Parity:

Security Alert: Update Parity Ethereum nodes ASAP; node attack vector discovered.

Polkadot:

Katallassos Moves Towards A Polkadot Parachain.

AdEx Prepares for Polkadot Launch.

Polkadot Proof-of-Concept 3: A Better Consensus Algorithm.

Raiden Network:

Development Update: The Road towards Ithaca.

Status:

Status Town Hall #27 - February 4, 2019.

Founding a Company with the Stable Coin DAI.

Building Secure, Private, Reliable Messaging.

Announcing the Statusphere Ambassadors.

Driving Ethereum Security R&D Forward.

Nimbus Testnet Simulation.

The EthDenver Chronicles - An Open Source Film.

SNT Community Voting DApp.

Streamr:

Login to Streamr with Ethereum.

Get ready. The data revolution is brewing.

The New API Explorer for Streamr Developers.

Report: Streamr’s Realtime Transport Data Hackathon.

Dev Update January 2019.

Introducing Community Products: making crowdselling a reality.

Trinity protocol:

Trinity Biweekly Report——Late January.

TNC Listed on MXC.

Announcement on Trinity ERC20 Smart Contract Upgrading.

ZeppelinOS:

Testing real-world contract upgrades.

EVM package deployment with ZeppelinOS—Part I: Introduction and Creating a LinkedList Contract.

EVM package deployment with ZeppelinOS—Part II: Deploying and Testing a LinkedList Contract.

EVM package deployment with ZeppelinOS—Part III: Linking to mainnet.

Zilliqa:

Zilliqa Mainnet: The Launch and Beyond.

Zilliqa Project Update #26 — Final Testing Before Mainnet Launch.

Zilliqa Project Update — Upcoming Mainnet Launch: What to Expect.

Zilliqa Project Update #27 — Entering A New Era.

Also check biweekly updates by Paradigm:

Aragon biweekly update 15th January - 29th January.

biweekly update 15th January - 29th January. OmiseGo biweekly update 24th January - 6th February.

Other projects:

FunFair’s data shows that they get 100x scaling with state channels.

Counterfactual dev update.

Peepeth is now batching together all user transactions so it’s free to use.

Connext v1 payment channel hub video walkthrough.

Magmo update: about to release their paper on Nitro, their protocol for a virtual state channel network.

The case for Ethereum scaling through layer 2 solutions.

Optimistic off-chain data availability from Aragon.

Starkware on a layer 2 design fundamental: validity proofs vs fraud proofs.

EthereumJS Recap January 2019.

New Projects:

Adventureum - “a text-based, crowd-sourced, decentralised choose-your-own adventure game”.

PlasmaBears is live using LoomNetwork.

Groundhog Network : Introducing a suite of tools to power the crypto subscription economy. It is a recurring subscription payments on Ethereum.

Introducing P4: Private Periodic Payment Protocol.

FRAME: An Os-level Ethereum Interface.

DEX.AG: Introducing DexIndex, an open-source tool to find prices on Ethereum DEX's in real time.

EthArmbian: Ethereum on ARM. Geth and Parity clients update. Status.im, IPFS and Swarm packages. Raiden Network and Trinity client installers.

Web3 Labs (formerly blk.io) have today announced web3j-libp2p a JVM friendly libp2p implementation in Kotlin.