25th September — 9th October

Development

GitHub metrics

The number of commits changes every day (in some repositories — several times a day). In in some repositories there are commits for just one day. This prevents us from analyzing development dynamics and from generating relevant statistics.

Developer activity (from coinlib.io)

Protocol updates

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #47 [09/28/18]:

Testing Client Updates Research Updates Constantinople EIP 1108: Reduce alt_bn128 precompile gas costs ProgPoW

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 47 Notes.

Eth2.0 Implementers Call #4 [9/27/2018]:

Client Updates Research Updates

3.Block processing timing results

4. libp2p daemon

5. Testing

6. Proposal to use separate serialization format for wire vs hashing

7. Alternative tree storage structures

8. v2.1 Discussion

Eth 2.0 implementer call notes from Peter Gallagher.

The Week in Eth 2.0 from Ben Edgington.

State Channel Researchers Call #3:

- Battleship and PISA intro by Patrick McCorry

— Connext intro by Arjun Bhuptani

— The state monitoring solutions: PISA and Celer State Guardian Network

— Virtual Channel constructs of different projects

— Offline recipient problem

— Applicable use cases of state channel

— Operational challenges and experience of state channels

Open Source Web3Design call #7.

Ethereum 2.0 Casper+Sharding Development Update #14 — Prysmatic Labs: biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on Ethereum 2.0.

Research Updates

Minimal VDF Randomness Beacon

Merged Code, Pull Requests, and Issues

Beacon Chain Validator Assignments Public API

Attestation Processing/Relaying/Aggregation

Genesis Config from JSON

Upcoming Work

Full Fork-Choice Implementation

P2P Serialization for ETH2.0

Refactoring DB With Bolt

Ethereum 2.0 Prysm Demo Release v0.0.0.

Ewasm Community Meetup SF [10/4/18].

Casper Standup 69. Casper Standup 70.

Ethereum P2P Networking / Sharding by Felix Lange and Péter Szilágyi in Taipei, March 2018: A flashback of Sharding Workshop in Taipei meetup in March 2018. Felix and Péter gave an introduction of Ethereum P2P network sync challenges and led the sharding network requirements discussion.

Minimal VDF randomness beacon by Justin Drake. A minimal randomness beacon using a Verifiable Delay Function (VDF). The safety and liveness of the RANDAO + VDF scheme.

Shasper viz v0.4.

Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 2: Vitalik Buterin on Plasma.

Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 3: italik Buterin on Plasma.

RSA Accumulators for Plasma Cash history reduction: Vitalik Buterin on Plasma.

Erasure coding (Reed-Solomon) for Plasma data availability: Mihailo Bjelic on Plasma.

Plasma Leap — a State-Enabled Computing Model for Plasma: Johann Barbie on Plasma.

Compact Sparse Merkle Trees: Faraz Haider on Plasma.

Turbo-Geth — beta, constantinopole, tests by Alexey Akhunov.

Roll_up / roll_back snark side chain ~17000 tps.

How Ethereum could use ZCash’s Sapling release.

OMG Plasma Update with notes from last implementer call.

Patrick McCorry’s update on battleship using state channels.

Development tools

ZK Labs Community Audits Initiative for non-ICO projects: Community Audits initiative to sponsor audits for projects that have not done ICO and don’t plan to do one.

Securify is Now on GitHub: Securify is now open source, as well as the publicly available tool on the web.

Embark 3.2 — Much More Than A Moonshot: Embark v3.2 — ENS support on all chains, templates, webpack, latest Vyper, latest Swarm, etc.

v5.0.0-beta.1 — Hazelnut Onigiri — Truffle v5.0.0 beta1 — debugger breakpoints, unique mnemonics, init/unbox into a directory with contents, etc.

Typesafe Truffle with Typescript and TypeChain.

Decentralized E-Commerce using ETHEReact: ecommerce React + web3 + Truffle: ETHEReact is a full stack DApp; demonstrating e-commerce capabilities without any database powering the backend but the EVM standing tall. This is not a product in iteself but the idea for aspiring blockchain enthusiasts to uncover the potential; end-to-end.

This app is comprosied of Truffle powered testrpc (which is also called ganache) facilitating local development.

Web3 bridges Ethereum to ReactJS.

Bokky’s Solidity flattener to verify your source code.

RLP encoding in Solidity.

Testing contracts that use ENS with ENSBuilder: ENSBuilder for testing contracts with ENS.

Pipeline visual IDE video: Solidity and Javascript composite

Ropsten forks at 4.2M blocks, on Oct 9 (no link).

a C#, .NET Core EVM.NET Core Nethermind Eth client.

Uport/3box Ethereum profiles API.

[Part One] Second Layer Solutions: A journey into Meta Transactions, Counterfactual Instantiation and P2P networks by George Spasov. Gasless or Meta Transactions.

Deconstructing Solidity code, pt 6: Swarm hash.

MetaMask: EIP712 is coming.

Web3E: Ethereum for Arduino framework embedded devices.

Eth on ARM. NanoPC-T4 image with official Armbian support. stability improvements and clients upgrade.

Connext payment channel hub.

Celer Network SDK and testnet launch.

Ropsten testnet will now implement the Constantinople fork on block 4.23m in about 4 days.

Starkware’s hands on tutorial for zero knowledge proofs.

Universal Logins, first demo.

Austin Griffith video demo of meta transactions.

George Spasov: meta transactions, counterfactual instantiation and P2P networks, part 2.

Mustekala: Ethereum chain data available via light client p2p network.

Exw3: Eth RPC client for Elixir.

Ideas and requests for EthSF hackers. And bounties you can earn at EthSF.

Learnings from the EthSecurity interviews.

Trail of Bits’ Eth security guidance, including office hours to learn their tools and Awesome Eth Security reference.

Simple Refactoring with Solidity.

Deploy Smart Contract with Web3js & Account Private Key, No Truffle — Solidity Tutorial 2: how to deploy the compiled smart contract to the Ethereum Blockchain by using Web3js v0.20.7 (v1 has some changes which are not backward compatible).

Governance and new standards proposals

Polkadot: why on-chain governance.

EIP712 is coming: What to expect and how to use it?

ERC1450: SEC-compatible security token.

ERC1444: method for converting machine code to human-readable text.

ERC1453: tokenized debt standard.

ERC1438: dApp Components (avatar) & Universal Wallet.

ERC1357: address metadata JSON schema.

EIP1459: Node discovery via DNS

ERC1462: basic security token

ERC1470: smart contract weakness classification

Decentralizing EIP workflow — A proposal to decentralize an existing EIP classification process in order to increase its throughput and level of details possible.

EIP-1014.

Vlad Zamfir: Blockchain Governance 101, his call to think about how we want which of 5 governance scenarios we prefer. He followed up with his declaration to fight against 3 of the 5, though it was relatively clear after the first article.

Ecosystem updates

Lane Rettig: 12 reasons I’m bullish about Ethereum today. Vitalik then added 6 more reasons.

Want to participate in Gnosis futarchy experiments?

Details on POA Network’s Honey Badger BFT consensus algo based on Miller, et al’s 2016 paper.

Cartesi — off-chain computation verification.

Now Circle has a stable USD ERC20 token.

Austria is selling 1.15 billion euros of government bonds, notarizing them on Ethereum.

Metamask now supports Ledger hardware wallets.

The State of Decentralized Oracles: Musings on the oracle problem facing the Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum Security Lead Joins Effort to Oust Blockchain’s Big Miners: A notable voice is joining the ranks of ethereum developers who are seeking to block powerful ASIC miners from earning an outsized share of the platform’s valuable ether cryptocurrency. Martin Holst Swende, security lead at the Ethereum Foundation, said he supports swift action to remove ASIC mining hardware from the ethereum platform. Joining the non-profit in 2016, Swende now works to ensure code changes do not disrupt or harm operations on the world’s second-largest blockchain.

EthPrize Interviews Round Two.

Introducing .luxe, natively enabled on ENS.

How RAC imagines Ethereum will reshape the music industry — The Internet vs. The Music Industry — by RAC.

Moloch DAO, an experiment to get projects to coordinate around funding Eth infrastructure.

Web3 Wisdom: How to Pitch Your Project to ConsenSys Labs.

Projects updates

0x:

Announcing the launch of 0x protocol v2.0.

Development Update #11 — August — September 2018: the release of the V2 0x smart contracts to mainnet.

Blockchain Governance.

0x is showing up under transaction/tax reports on Coinbase.

Relayer Report #11 — Gods Unchained: The latest updates from the 0x ecosystem: October 2nd, 2018.

0x at SF Blockchain Week: A list of ETH SF hackathon project ideas, 0x resources, and events we will be speaking at during SF Blockchain Week.

Augur:

Augur Weekly Report — September 26th: DAI, use it or lose it for REP, oracle price auction system, quicker disputes, etc.

Augur Weekly Report — October 3rd.

Augur v2 Details.

The Civil Foundation:

The Fastest Way To Buy CVL Tokens: Civil now accepts payment via electronic check or wire transfer.​

Share Civil, Earn CVL

Coinbase:

Helping People Understand, Explore and Buy Cryptocurrency.

This Month in Crypto: Stanford, Warhol, the LA Dodgers, and Tour de Crypto: A curated selection of meaningful moments in September that are bringing us all closer to realizing an open financial system for the world.

Coinbase’s New Asset Listing Process.

What we accomplished at Coinbase in Q3 2018.

Helping People Understand, Explore and Buy Cryptocurrency.

Chris Dodds, Charles Schwab Board Member, Is Joining Coinbase’s Board: Chris Dodds, who serves on the Board of Directors of The Charles Schwab Corporation and as a senior private equity advisor, is joining the Coinbase Board of Directors.

CryptoKitties:

A CryptoKitty is more than just an image in a frame: A beginner’s guide to blockchain and art.

DogCat Unleashed: Play CryptoKitties, win a DogCat.

Bringing Blockchain to Life: New animation illustrates how blockchain works behind the scenes — through the birth of a CryptoKitty.

A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain and Art.

Decentraland:

Don’t Miss the CryptoBeasties Presale: Start building your deck of Beasties today.

Decentraland Project Update — October 4th: News and updates from Decentraland.

Animoca Brands Partner with Decentraland: Animoca Brands and Decentraland are co-developing two new games for the Decentraland platform.

Dether:

The B Foundation Wants to Make Bitcoin Sexy Again: Announced at the Baltic Honey Badger bitcoin conference, the B Foundation will carry out a mix of “charitable and commercial efforts” specializing in bitcoin adoption, research, and study.

US Crypto Legislation Remains Murky After Recent Roundtable: Hours of discussion brought together many opinions, but little in the way of new crypto legislation.

Dharma:

Dharma’s ETHSanFrancisco Wishlist for Hackathon Projects: Some ideas for hackers to get your creative #DeFi juices flowing.

Dharma Community Update: 1 Oct 2018: Welcome Max Bronstein, ETHSF, DeFi Summit and DIP Updates.

district0x:

Community Poll Update #7: Results from the final Meme Factory Poll.

district0x Dev Update — October 2nd, 2018: Development progress and product changes from district0x.

The District Weekly — Sept. 29th, 2018: News and updates from the district0x Network.

The District Weekly — October 6th, 2018: News and updates from the district0x Network.

Gnosis:

DutchX code is deployed and pilot is beginning.

Gnosis X — A Retrospective.

Gnosis Portraits #3: Friederike Ernst, COO.

ICONOMI:

A New Chapter for ICONOMI: Transformation of Corporate Governance and Issuance of Equity Tokens: a new structure for ICONOMI that will answer all questions related to ownership and governance.

The Technical and Legal Side of ICONOMI’s Transformation: The Technical and Legal Side of Iconomi’s Transformation. It is ending the utility tokens and making them securities.

Co-creating Delta Summit Index: Capturing Sentiment at Delta Summit 2018: Powered by ICONOMI.

Keep:

The Keep Random Beacon: An Early Look — The first milestone of the beacon in action — a demo video.

Keep Roundup — September 2018: News and Updates from the Keep Team and Network.

Kyber Network:

Kyber Network Bounties For ETHSanFrancisco: Kyber will be participating in the San Francisco Blockchain Week from October 5th — 12th.

Ecosystem and Community Update (September).

Loom Network:

Seoul Developers Party Hard: Blockchain Game Hackathon Highlights — ft. Loom SDK & Mossland.

Loom Network Says Blockchain Gaming Is Next New Wave For Ethereum And Crypto Adoption.

Prepare Your Brains: CryptoZombies Season 2 Is Coming.

MakerDAO:

Foundation Proposal Approved!

Ether Deflation as Caused by MakerDAO (Part 2).

MakerDAO’s Guide to San Francisco Blockchain Week.

MetaMask:

MetaMask Monthly: September.

MetaMask now supports Ledger Hardware Wallets.

Ocean Protocol:

Ocean Protocol Advisor — Dr. Carsten Stöcker: 30+ leaders are bringing their capabilities and expertise to help launch a Data Economy around Ocean.

Ocean Protocol Advisor — Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gajek: 30+ leaders are bringing their capabilities and expertise to help launch a Data Economy around Ocean.

Ocean Protocol European Roadshow — October, 2018.

Mark Zuckerberg Will Eat Your Soul: If the product is free, then the product is me.

Origin protocol:

Turning on Origin’s Testnet Faucet: Origin Protocol live on Rinkeby and Ropsten testnets.

Origin Protocol Expands to Greater China.

Origin Protocol Expands To South Korea.

Origin Announces Support For Circle’s USDC Stablecoin In Decentralized Marketplaces.

Announcing Our Participation in the ERC-725 Alliance.

Responding to Vitalik About Identity & Privacy.

How Decentralization Can Win: a guest post by Melody He, founder and partner at Spartan Group, a blockchain investment fund and advisory firm in Singapore.

Sharing Solutions to Ethereum’s UX Challenges at the Ethereum Industry Summit.

Meet Mila, Origin’s Korea Community Manager.

Parity:

Ethereum Startup Parity Adds Casper Code to Custom Blockchain Toolbox: Parity Technologies has added an early version of ethereum’s hotly anticipated Casper code change to its blockchain development platform, Substrate. Released on GitHub, the code more specifically contains a mechanism to transition to the “Shasper” upgrade, that combines the platform’s in-house scaling solution, sharding, alongside its proof-of-stake consensus switch, Casper.

Substrate in a nutshell: Substrate, a library that can help you build your own custom blockchain. Substrate is created by Parity Technologies and provides the basis for Polkadot.

Substrate testnet launched: Gavin Wood has quietly launched an open testnet for developers to start getting familiar with the next-generation framework for blockchain innovators.

Parity’s implementation repo using Substrate.

Polkadot/web3:

Polkadot Meetup World Tour — Get involved

Why on-chain governance?

Quantstamp:

Quantstamp and Mythril Link Forces with a Shared Vision for Smart Contract Security.

Quantstamp Community Update September 27, 2018.

Quantstamp VP of Strategy Olga V. Mack Facilitates Passage of Blockchain Bills.

Raiden Network:

Update on Safety Measures for Red Eyes Release and the Bug Bounty: several safety features, which will be implemented into the Red Eyes release.

How to know what’s going on in the Raiden network: Raiden Explorer.

Status:

0.9.28 — Important Wallet Bug Fix.

Embark 3.2 — Much More Than A Moonshot.

SWARM Mini-summit at the National House Smíchov.

What The DAO?

Streamr:

Dev Update August + September.

Unlocking the benefits of vehicle data: Solving data limitations in the transport industry.

Market Makers: A retrospective on Streamr’s realtime data Marketplace.

Status.im Hardwallet Progress Update.

Status.im Q3 2018 Wallet Bugfixing Retrospective.

#CryptoLife Judging Criteria.

Trinity protocol:

Trinity Monthly Report — Late Sept.

Trinity Q&A Series: grow with underlying structures and the market.

Aragon biweekly update: 25th August — 9th October.

Basic Attention Token biweekly update: 25th August — 9th October.

OmiseGo biweekly update: 25th August — 9th October.

Other projects:

Geth v1.8.16 — Budapest (v1.8.16) — bugfix maintenance release.

Geth v1.8.17 (Shoutingstone) released. Among the many fixes, it’s also ready for the Ropsten Constantinople hard fork.

Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.16 “Ada Lovelace” — sync and performance improvements.

CasinoFair is live on mainnet — first provably fair casino. 80k FUN “slightly singed”.

Compound Launches Money Markets for Ethereum Assets.

Beta Release of Redesigned Brave Desktop Browser is Available Today for Download and Testing: Brave browser 1.0 beta release.

dYdX is live on mainnet: Margin trade now on expo.

Introducing .luxe on ENS.

POA Network: Building Honey Badger BFT: This article is part 1 in a series detailing POA Network’s efforts to build a resilient blockchain consensus algorithm, known as Honey Badger Byzantine Fault Tolerance — or HBBFT for short.

Opera delivers the first desktop browser with built-in crypto wallet access — Labs version: Opera Labs browser pairs web3 on desktop with transaction signing on Android.

Testing contracts that use ENS with ENSBuilder.

Introducing the OpenLaw API.

Sigma Prime’s Lighthouse client update.

An Unstoppable Predictions Marketplace — Introducing Erasure: The Numeraire token is about to become the cryptocurrency of the entire hedge fund industry. Today, Numerai is announcing a new unstoppable data marketplace called Erasure.

Next Generation uPort Identity App released: a new uPort Identity App with a completely rewritten Identity Architecture and new features such as: Instant Identity Creation, Better Blockchain Privacy, and support for Emerging Identity Standards. Available in App Store and Play Store today.

SwarmCity has an interesting way to update on roadmap progress.

Brave Launches 100K BAT “Best of the Brave” Video Contest for Online Creators and Publishers.

FOAM Map — Almost 3000 Points of Interest and Counting: Two weeks after launching on Ethereum.

Circle launches its stablecoin on Ethereum.

Shining Light on WSJ’s Attack on ShapeShift and Crypto.

BOOTY is Officially (air)Dropping Friday, October 5th: Spankchain’s stable USDtoken BOOTY (collateralized using its native token).

Witnet Monthly Report — September 2018: Development update from the Witnet team.

Grid+ is live with its first electricity customers.

Powered by Mythril: the Mythril Partner Program.

STORJ: Product Manager Development Update 8.

How Zcash Can Fill Ethereum’s Privacy Gap: PegaSys’ R&D discusses how Ethereum can use Zcash’s breakthrough Sapling release.

New Projects:

LDGRToken — A compatible security token for issuing and trading SEC-compliant securities.

Blockchain Game Alliance — a coalition of gaming and Blockchain companies committed to advocate for the democratization of Blockchain within the gaming industry.

Decentralized_eCom — A decentralized e-commerce platform. Tech Stack: Ethereum (Solidity) on the backend, Web3 binding to ReactJS frontend.

3box — TheEthereum Profiles API makes it easy to onboard users and build scalable, user-friendly dapps.

CivD — 4X — strategy game on Ethereum. Reddit.

Securify — Security scanner for Ethereum smart contract.

EthHub — an open source information hub.

MUSTEKALA: Making Ethereum blockchain data available to a peer-to-peer network of light clients.

Erasure — A New Unstoppable Predictions Marketplace. Medium.

Opinion and research articles

Fraud Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities by Mustafa Al-Bassam, Alberto Sonnino, and Vitalik Buterin.

Vitalik Buterin’s paragraph summary.

A RadicalxChange between Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl.

Ethereum 2.0 Research Has Stabilized Says Vitalik Buterin, Implies it Might Launch Next Year: The biggest upgrade of any public blockchain since their invention has now reached the stage of a “software development slog,” according to Vitalik Buterin, Chief Scientist at the Ethereum Foundation. Speaking in an interview at EthSanFrancisco, part of the ETHGlobal events, Vitalik Buterin said there is no significant unsolved theoretical problem left for Ethereum 2.o.

Blockchain Governance 101 by Vlad Zamfir.

My Intentions for Blockchain Governance by Vlad Zamfir.

Vitalik Buterin’s My summary of “Zamfirian anti-immutabilism”.

ETHEREUM Ethereum [ETH]’s Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin: Massive amount has changed in the community over the past 15 months: Recently, a cryptocurrency enthusiast and Twitterati reached out to Vitalik Buterin the Co-Founder of Ethereum on Twitter asking him about the “biggest changes” that have taken place in the Ethereum Foundation over the past 15 months. The Twitterati raised the query after Buterin posted a tweet wherein he stated that Ethereum has undergone a massive amount of change over the past 15 months. In an earlier post, Buterin also stated that the foundation could go on to survive without him. In response to the Twitterati’s post, Buterin put forward 4 points explaining the developments happening in the space. According to him, the difference is very evident.

Joseph Lubin: The co-founder of Ethereum says we’re thinking about money all wrong.

Ethereum Co-founder: Cryptocurrency Next Logical Step in Evolution of Money.

Ethereum Cofounder Invests $6.5 Million In A Former Competitor on Forbes.com: Joe Lubin has formed an unusual partnership with DrumG, a stealth startup emerging today and founded by several senior level executives from R3, one of the ethereum blockchain’s most heavily funded competitors. As part of the $6.5 million cash investment by Lubin’s ConsenSys blockchain startup, the company will take a minority stake in DrumG, and Lubin himself will join as the sole outside member of the board of directors.

Creating Scalability On Ethereum on Forbes.com.

#254 Allen Day: Google’s Mission to Provide Open Datasets for Public Blockchains: video.

EthPrize Interviews Round Two.

Podcast: Conversation between Chris Dixon and Fred Wilson.

Podcast: Rune Christensen of Maker DAO with Laura Shin.

Austin Griffith talks meta transactions on Smartest Contract.

EthIS videos. Sound, not great.

web3design community call.

Around the Block, episode 2.

Stephen King talks Imprex with Nasdaq.

Tomasz Drwięga talks transaction pool on Zero Knowledge.

Arjun Bhuptani on Smartest Contract.

Phil Daian at Usenix: towards principled bug bounties and exploit resistant smart sontracts. Also: Johannes Krupp Usenix talk.

Loom’s Georgios Konstantopoulos talk on Plasma at Blockchain Game Summit.

Joey Krug on Enigma’s new podcast.

Joseph Lubin conversation at Next18.

Streamr’s Henri Pihkala on Zero Knowledge.

Ben Siegel’s blockchain in context talk.

Venrock interviews Coinfund’s Jake Brukhman and Alex Bulkin.

George Gilder: forget cloud computing, Ethereum is the future.

Embark’s Iuri Matias on Hashing It Out.

Brave CEO Pens Letter to Senate Committee Asking for GDPR-Like Privacy Regulation: Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.

Coinbase Gears Up for Biggest-Ever Expansion of Crypto Asset Listings: Coinbase has revamped its policy for listing new cryptocurrencies, replacing an ad hoc process with one the startup hopes will rapidly expand the range of assets traded on its exchange.

QuarkChain Competition Highlights the Potential of Sharding: Scalability has been an ongoing problem in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Most public blockchains suffer from serious issues in this regard. QuarkChain has come up with a TPS competition which will let anyone in the world get a hands-on experience with sharding. This is one of the many possible scaling solutions for cryptocurrencies, and a concept already explored by Ethereum developers.

Ethereum Scaling Capacity Debate Continues As Vitalik Defends Ether Users About Gas Prices: Afri Schoedon, an enthusiastic Ethereum user and an officer of the Parity Communications, went ahead to tweet on September 2018 that the Ethereum is actually at capacity; therefore, he went ahead to request the that the users in the market to stop creating new Dapps, decentralized apps.

You Won’t Have to Wait for This Ethereum Scaling Solution, It Works Now.

Mining empty blocks is spiking on Ethereum — that could be a problem.

The 2018 ConsenSys Israel Pitch Week: November 2018 ConsenSys Labs is coming to Israel.

Learnings from the ETHSecurity Community.

1,000 Developers Hacking Ethereum in San Francisco.

Upcoming events:

Finance

Ethereum Price Decline Hasn’t Hurt ICO-Funded Startups: BitMEX Research: With the ethereum price sitting more than 80 percent below its all-time high in mid-September, the conventional wisdom said that startups who had raised funds through initial coin offerings (ICOs) were likely driving the sell-off. ICOs, after all, had been conducted almost entirely using ETH, leaving hundreds of startups sitting on a steadily-depreciating asset. The convention wisdom, it turns out, was wrong, at least according to a new report from BitMEX Research.

October 7, 2018: Ethereum Transactions Rise as Fees Fall Below One Cent: Ethereum’s transaction numbers have risen to just about 600,000 from a recent low of 434,000 during a 24 hours period. They have now returned to the levels of early September, when ethereum’s price was at about $300, after eth transaction numbers saw a sharp V spike since September 29th.

ICONOMI is ending the utility of their tokens and making them securities.

Socios has announced that Paris St Germain and Juventus will sell fan tokens. Interestingly, Socios apparently has its own token, but I’ve never heard of it and it’s not on coinmarketcap or idex either.

AdChain learnings from the first TCR. Inaugural TCR community call.

Chris Whinfrey: Futarchy with Bonding Curve Tokens.

A quick Placeholder study on market reactions to BTC and ETH forks.

Joseph Lubin: tokenized networks are a natural progression of value and money.

ErisX — a crypto exchange for spot and physically delivered futures from Virtu, DRW and TDAmeritrade.

A UI for ERC998: cryptocomposables.

USV’s Dani Grant and Nick Grossman: The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase arguing that apps drive infrastructure.

Multicoin Leads $10 Million SAFT Sale for Ethereum Scaling Startup Skale: Blockchain startup Skale Labs raised nearly $10 million in an effort to develop a blockchain scalability infrastructure for ethereum.

Major Wall Street Institutions are Finally Launching an Ethereum Futures Market: Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), $29 billion brokerage firm TD Ameritrade, and several other large investment firms are supporting the launch of ErisX, a futures market that will integrate Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin along with Bitcoin.

Roadmap

Release Step 3.1: Metropolis phase 2: Constantinople, 2018.

Ethereum’s developers are gearing up to launch the platform’s next hard fork, Constantinople. Its activation is scheduled to take place by October 30th. Constantinople is designed to increase efficiency and lower transaction fees.

Ethereum Ropsten testnet Constantinople hard fork is delayed by 1 epoch to block #4230000 to allow clients to implement, test and release an update to CREATE2, countering a recently found EVM DoS attack vector. It was originally set for block 4,200,000 on or about Oct. 11, 2018.

Twitter — Péter Szilágyi‏ @peter_szilagyi: “Via community decision, we’ve delayed the Ethereum Ropsten testnet Constantinople hard fork by 1 epoch to block #4230000 (+5 days) to allow clients to implement, test and release an update to CREATE2, countering a recently found EVM DoS attack vector”.

Release Step Four: Serenity, TBA. Serenity is meant to move from consensus through Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.

Partnerships and team members

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger to Advance the Global Blockchain Business Ecosystem: Through Joint Associate Memberships, EEA and Hyperledger Will Collaborate to Meet Global Demand For Enterprise Blockchain.

Hyperledger And Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Join Forces In Enterprise Blockchain Boost on Forbes.com.

Ubisoft, ConsenSys & more unite to form Blockchain Game Alliance: A raft of leading gaming and blockchain companies have come together to form the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA), a coalition dedicated to advocating the use of the technology in the gaming industry. The BGA will serve as an open forum for knowledge-sharing and collaborative research which “fosters new ways to create and play games” with blockchain technology; “Our ultimate goal is to help spread the integration of blockchain by developing common standards and best practices,” reads the BGA website.

Announcement | Strategic Partnership between imToken and Circle: Along with this partnership, users can now store Circle’s newly introduced fully collateralized, US dollar stablecoin: USD//Coin (USDC) in imToken 2.0. On top of that, USDC will also act as the base trading currency for Tokenlon (imToken’s native decentralized exchange).

The Bounties Network x ETHSF: Blockchain Work is Community Work: The Bounties Network is launching a bespoke SF bounty network with rewards in any ERC20 token.

Air France-KLM partners with Winding Tree to strengthen innovation in the travel industry using Blockchain technology: Air France-KLM and Winding Tree have announced a new partnership to develop Blockchain technology in the travel industry.

Typesafe Truffle with Typescript and TypeChain.

Rumors

Twelve reasons I’m bullish about Ethereum today — Lane Rettig. And more… — Vitalik Buterin.

“DPOS is not PoS” — Vitalik.

Universal Logins: First Demo. You can already use an app without ether.

Technologies Driving Mainstream Web3 Adoption. Seamless onboarding powered by ephemeral key pairs signing meta transactions.

The Liberal Radicalism Mechanism for Producing Public Goods by Alex Tabarrok: “The mechanism for producing public goods in Buterin, Hitzig, and Weyl’s, Liberal Radicalism is quite amazing and a quantum leap in public-goods mechanism-design”.

Twitter thread — “Eth and ZCash to merge!!!1!z!!” crypto clickbait stories.

ZCash may be open to using Casper.

TechCrunch Founder Shuns US, Congressmen Demand Clarification From SEC, Battlegrounds Laid For the Fight at Capitol Hill: TechCrunch founder and the first person to perform a property purchase on the Ethereum Blockchain, Michael Arrington, vows to cease investing in US token companies until the SEC provides regulatory clarity.

Swiss Bank to ICO on Ethereum.

Shanghai Court Rules Ethereum is Protected Under the Law as Property: A Chinese court has ruled that Ethereum enjoys the same legal protection as a property.

Austria to Auction €1.15 billion Worth of Bonds on Ethereum’s Blockchain: The Austrian government announced on September 27, 2018, the auction of €1.15 billion ($1.35 billion) worth of government bonds on the Ethereum blockchain. The sale begins on October 2 with operations overseen by Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB), one of Austria’s biggest banks.

Reddit discussion — Why would anyone want to buy old empty Ethereum wallets?

NSA’s Codebreaker Challenge features Ethereum.

Ethereum, the Alternative to the Bankers Who Bankrupted New York.

Ethtrader is about to cross 200,000 subscribers, but for days it has stood just below it, currently needing only 170 people to hit that milestone.

Reddit implemented karma-weighted polls as an exclusive pilot for r/ethtrader.

Gods Unchained — Ethereum game sells 1 million NFTs in 2 months. Adoption through gaming is coming.

Crypto Startup LedgerX Eyes Ethereum Options, Awaiting CFTC Approval.

Prominent Analyst: Ethereum to Undergo Major Trend Reversal, $1,900 Likely: Ethereum has quickly become one of the most bruised and battered assets in the entirety of the cryptosphere, with an array of factors pushing the price of this platform-focused cryptocurrency to values that may make investors shake in their boots. But there are still industry leaders and analysts who claim that Ether is ready to see a strong rally as 2019 nears.

Ethereum’s Scaling Nightmares May Be Over Sooner Than You Think: Ethereum’s scalability is almost always the elephant in the room of any conference speech or passionate ICO pitch. OpenST Mosaic believes they will change all that starting Q1 2019.

Why Ethereum (ETH) Is Well Placed To Tokenize Securities.

JP Morgan’s Quorum-Powered Interbank Information Network Reaches 75 Members: The Interbank Information Network, hosted on JP Morgan’s Ethereum-based Quorum blockchain, now has 75 participating global banks benefiting from better data sharing using blockchain technology.

Ethereum 2.0, Getting to a Billion Transactions a Day: “The ethereum killer is ethereum, the ethereum of China is ethereum, the ethereum of Taiwan is ethereum… 2.0.” So said Vitalik Buterin, ethereum’s co-founder, in November 2017. Since then, developers have been working for months to launch the real ethereum killer, ethereum 2.0, and the aim may well be getting to a billion transactions a day while maintaining a decentralized and secure public blockchain.

Identifying Spammy ERC20 Transfers.

A First For Manhattan: $30M Real Estate Property Tokenized With Blockchain: A luxury Manhattan condo development is getting a new digital home on the worldwide Ethereum blockchain.

MCO — Accelerating The World’s Transition to Cryptocurrency: You Will Soon Be Able to Spend ETH At Any VISA Accepting Store Via http://Crypto.com ‘s Crypto Debit Card.

Social media activity

Social media activity

Facebook — official announcement channel. Recent publications — about Ethereum Core Devs Meetings, Conferences, Devcon4 — (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 companies (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).

Information from Cryptocompare.com

YouTube (Ethereum) — last video — 27th July 2017 (5000–20 000 views per video).

YouTube (Ethereum Foundation) — videos from conferences, meetups, Ethereum Core Devs Meetings. 2–3 videos / month.

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.

Gitter:

Discussion on whether a re-org on the Ethereum 1.0 PoW chain should trigger a re-org on the Beacon Chain. Seem to be moving away from that idea in favour of just having a long delay before the Beacon Chain trusts PoW chain blocks. Debate about how long a delay is desirable.

A clarification : “the validators that are on a shard (building the shard chain) is independent of the committee that is crosslinking that shard chain into the beacon chain at any given time”.

Introduction of possible two-layer network aggregation scheme for attestations.

Reminder from Hsiao-Wei that the Ethereum Foundation is looking to award grants for BLS12–381 implementations in new languages, leading to discussion of test vectors, signature serialisation and benchmarks.

Integer square root discussion.

See also Week in Ethereum by Evan Van Ness.