December 1, 2018

News and Links

Layer 1 - Eth PoW





Layer 1 - Eth2





Layer 2





Stuff for developers





Ecosystem





Two great client releases. Update now

Geth v1.8.19 trie read cache for 15% faster full-sync speed and 30% faster in-sync processing and Swarm v0.3.7. Also, Swarm’s Kubernetes setup is now open source



Parity Ethereum v2.2.2 beta - lower the uncle rate allowing higher gas limit. warp sync reuses local info to reduce required data to sync. and 2.1.7 stable



Parity CTO Fredrik Harrysson interviews Geth lead dev Péter Szilágyi for Zero Knowledge







Live on mainnet

Gnosis Safe is on mainnet - Android app (download link. iOS coming soon). Big step forward in UX and multi-sig availability, though obviously you should wait for it to be battle tested before committing large sums. (RuntimeVerification’s formal verification is in process)



Mintable: easily mint and manage your ERC721 nfty tokens



Ethertify: certification platform for IP rights and document signing



Aztec: working zero knowledge proof for confidential transactions on mainnet. Send Maker’s Dai to a contract, then withdraw to another address. The addresses are public, but the amounts are not. Roadmap includes: anonymous voting for governence mechanics, anonymous identity schemes and zero knowledge exchange







Enterprise





Governance and Standards





Application layer





Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks





Tokens / Business / Regulation





General





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