#How would you like Xday?

[metal-cn]

それと、politicoウーマン→なぜこんな中、国際情勢、露偽装？クーデター騒動に触れない？★★

#偽装 #偽勅 #GHQ #★★ #土曜日 #キム・ジョンウン #キム・ジョンナム #キム・ヒョンヒ #How would you like Xday? #高速バス #sister #遍路 #1☓7 #善通寺 #Jiang Qing #日本語 #nihongo #にほんご #キム・ヨジョン

[purdledooturt]

WIP xDay

SO. @larvasmoon tagged me for WIP Wednesday but I lost track of the days - I'm so sorry!

Anyway, the last WIP I dug up for this turned into a full fic, so I had to find something else to post (we love suffering from success) - please enjoy this excerpt from the Dadstarion fic I'm working on in between other things ❤

Remember That I Love You

His daughter stood on a step stool in front of their mirror, making faces at her own reflection. Astarion, crouched low and armed with sewing pins, looked up to find her scrunching her nose while trying to lift her eyebrows. He clucked his tongue and shook his head. “Darling, do be careful or your face will get stuck like that.”

“Would you still love me, Papa?” she asked, and her face broke into a toothy grin as she turned to face him. Gods – with a smile that wide (missing front tooth and all) she looked very much like her mother, who was elsewhere pottering in the house.

The sudden movement made the cloth slip past his fingers. He tutted gently and without any malice, making a note to himself that, all things considered, she’d been unusually patient and still for this alteration session. She apologised, the words coming out almost as a reflex instead of a genuine apology before he turned her towards the mirror once more to continue rolling and pinning a new hem to her new skirt.

“Well?” she prodded again, careful to only turn her head towards him this time.

“My love, there is nothing you can do that will make Papa love you less,” he answered, truthfully and honestly. He loved his daughter unconditionally, and he did not think it initially possible until he had held her in his arms for the first time. “You know, you looked like a prune when you were born but I still loved you then,” he grinned at her, recalling the memory of her birth like it was only yesterday. Every detail came to mind with ease, her arrival to the world a bright flash of light in the timeline of his life. For someone who had been beaten into believing that you would only be valued for what you could give, Astarion found that he loved his wrinkly little child before she could offer him anything at all. “Mama and Papa will always love you.”

She hummed, and it was obvious the seriousness of his declaration went unnoticed. “Even if my face got stuck like… this?” She made another comical face, crossing her eyes and pouting. She looked nothing short of adorable. How could he, with all his sins, have made something so pure? He gave her nose a light tap, amused as her eyes followed the tip of his finger. The action made her break into giggles, which was a sound he wished he could bottle and hold to his heart forever.

“I suppose even then,” he sighed theatrically.

She began swaying side to side, as she put her hands out for him to hold. She was an affectionate child, and he’d found his personal bubble had grown and accounted for the shape of his daughter in it. The alterations were momentarily forgotten, as her skirt swayed side to side, half too long and half just right. “Even if… I don’t eat my vegetables?”

Cheeky thing. “Sure – but we would still give you a talking to, I think.”

“What?” she asked, and she nearly tipped herself off the step stool if not for his hands holding hers. “Papa, if you loved me you wouldn’t give me a talking to.”

Ah, yes – this deviousness could only have been his contribution to the development of their only child. “My sunshine, that’s not how it works,” he replies, “Nice try.”

The prompt came from Cinnamontails's discord (the prompt was provided by myself, and then taken by myself, like a greedy gremlin). As usual, I'm here to promote our little community - please come and join us!

I'm tagging @larvasmoon back, like a cheeky chook. I'd also like to tag @riskpig and @vyjuarts. And also, @bludazey (my love, because I have missed you), and @cinnamontails-ff (because I'm trying to coax more of that Rolan fic out of you, if it wasn't already obvious).

Fingers crossed I'll have something new soon (wink).

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[globaljobalert-blog]

Marketing Executive, Social Media - Remote

Company: Nethermind What are we all about? We are a team of world class builders and researchers with expertise across several domains: Ethereum Protocol Engineering, Layer-2, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Miner Extractable Value (MEV), Smart Contract Development, Security Auditing and Formal Verification. Working to solve some of the most challenging problems in the blockchain space, we frequently collaborate with renowned companies, such as Ethereum Foundation, StarkWare, Gnosis Chain, Aave, Flashbots, xDai, Open Zeppelin, Forta Protocol, Energy Web, POA Network and many more. We actively contribute to Ethereum core development, EIP's and network upgrades together with the Ethereum Foundation, and other client teams. Today, there are nearly 200 of us working remotely from over 45+ countries. Are you the one? We are looking for a Marketing Executive who is ready to join a rapidly-growing organization. The person in this role will be a self-starter with a good understanding of the web3 culture and the underlying values of Ethereum. You will be an integral part of the Marketing team, working closely with the Engineering and Design teams to build timely campaigns that create awareness around Nethermind products and solutions. This is an amazing career opportunity to help accelerate our Marketing department and pursue your own hunger and ideas within a remote-first, and rapidly-growing company. Responsibilities: - Work closely with our Engineering teams to plan and create meaningful, goal-specific campaigns that raise awareness about our products and solutions. - Liaise across all relevant teams (marketing, engineering, design, legal) to execute & track the results of your campaigns - Produce timely campaign reports demonstrating the campaign’s efficacy - Proofread, edit, and coordinate the publishing of technical articles, liaising between the engineering, design, and legal teams - Write & proofread marketing collateral, e.g. press releases, tweets, website content - Help to maintain the Social Media calendar to make sure we never miss a thing - Research relevant data on competitors, media, content, marketing tools, merchandise suppliers, community forums - Track hot topics/trends to identify content opportunities - Interact and engage with the Ethereum ecosystem and wider web3 communities Skills: - Ability to work remotely and independently in a globally-distributed team - Ability to be creative and strategic, coordinating & following up on tasks across multiple departments - Excellent verbal and written communication skills and high attention to detail - A drive to understand how the infrastructure of Ethereum works - Experience in working in Marketing within the Blockchain (Ethereum) and Web3 industry - The ability to wear many hats and to roll your sleeves up and pitch in where needed - A proactive approach to work and hunger for pursuing own ideas - Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or related fields Nice to have: - Experience with working in Social Media Scheduling tools or Campaign Management tools is a plus - Experience with cutting and editing videos is a plus Keep up to date on what we are working on by following us on our social channels APPLY ON THE COMPANY WEBSITE To get free remote job alerts, please join our telegram channel “Global Job Alerts” or follow us on Twitter for latest job updates. Disclaimer:  - This job opening is available on the respective company website as of 1stJuly 2023. The job openings may get expired by the time you check the post. - Candidates are requested to study and verify all the job details before applying and contact the respective company representative in case they have any queries. - The owner of this site has provided all the available information regarding the location of the job i.e. work from anywhere, work from home, fully remote, remote, etc. However, if you would like to have any clarification regarding the location of the job or have any further queries or doubts; please contact the respective company representative. Viewers are advised to do full requisite enquiries regarding job location before applying for each job.   - Authentic companies never ask for payments for any job-related processes. Please carry out financial transactions (if any) at your own risk. - All the information and logos are taken from the respective company website. Read the full article

[ragunath12]

How to create erc20 and bep20 token:

In the event that you are searching for a commonsense and safe method for addressing the worth of a property, you have arrived in the ideal spot.

In the event that you are searching for a commonsense and safe method for addressing the worth of a property, you have arrived in the ideal spot.

Here, we will let you know what tokens are and how to make an ERC20 and BEP20. You might not have known about them as of not long ago, however they are surprisingly famous, particularly with regards to the blockchain and Brilliant Agreement universe .

Albeit the beginning of the tokens inside cryptographic forms of money is in Bitcoin, it has been with Ethereum that they have effectively grown in the public eye. To understand what they comprise of, how to make them and which are the most famous organizations right now, we welcome you to keep perusing this post. Additionally, we have a new thing to tell you.

What is a token?

A token is a computerized resource made from a Brilliant Agreement with a pre-laid out information design to ensure the satisfaction of the agreement in a decentralized manner. Its purposes can be extremely differed: from conceding an option to paying for a task.

These sorts of resources are utilized for various purposes. Contingent upon what they will be utilized for, they are ordered into various kinds, for example, Utility Tokens, Security Tokens, Value Tokens. What are they? What are they for?

The most utilized today are Utility Tokens , since digital currencies are utilities, that is to say, utility tokens that act for the purpose of installment for this situation. As far as it matters for them, Security Tokens are a type of cryptographic tokens connected to conventional monetary or security protections. At long last, the Value Tokens allude to the kind of token supported by a sort of conventional resource, like an organization or a property (every token addresses a piece of the property that is tokenized).

Would you like to make your ERC20 and BEP20 token?

From one viewpoint, the ERC20 token developement alludes to a shrewd agreement that has a pre-laid out information structure intended to work with the execution of new functionalities on the Etherum blockchain .

Then again, the BEP20 token alludes to a symbolic standard that permits computerized tokens or coins to be carried out on Binance Brilliant Chain .

It is essential to realize that an ERC20 token can act like a digital currency, however they don’t need to be something very similar. ERC20 tokens run on the Ethereum blockchain and BEP20 tokens run on the Binance Shrewd Chain. That is, on the blockchains of other digital currencies (every one has its own chain of blocks).

To make a token on top of the previously mentioned blockchains, you should initially have programming abilities and grasp the Strength language. In the event that this isn’t your case, it is best that you put yourself in the possession of a subject matter expert.

Moreover, you should consider the construction of this kind of Brilliant Agreement, since the abbreviations ERC20 or BEP20 are an approach to giving a name to a shrewd agreement with that design.

Anyway, we are here to help you. At Occam Agencia Computerized we have created TokenFactory so this isn’t an issue.

What is TokenFactory? new stage

At Occam, we have fostered a free stage that permits you to make ERC20 token generator design tokens on top of Ethereum, Binance Savvy Chain, xDAI and the Robsten testnet.

The main expense you should accept at least for now that will be that of the exchange that should be produced to make the agreement. That is, the expense of gas or what is similar the expense of the excavators.

What are the distinctions between Ehereum, Binance Savvy Chain, xDAI and Ropsten?

Then, we will let you know what every one of these organizations comprises of and what their primary benefits and impediments are. Observe!

ethereum

The most famous organization today is Ethereum and the primary benefit is that there is a biological system of utilizations, concentrated and decentralized trades more noteworthy than in the rest. In actuality, the drawback is that since there are more exchanges, the expense of the organization is higher.

Binance SmartChain

Binance Savvy Chain is an organization supported by Binance, whose fundamental benefit is that it is less expensive than Ethereum. Notwithstanding, it is profoundly concentrated, since the organization is claimed by a privately owned business. In spite of the fact that its biological system is developing huge amounts at a time, it is vital to recollect that Ethereum is in front of it.

xDAI

xDAI is the quickest and its expense is for all intents and purposes zero today. The extraordinary drawback of this framework is that it is as yet a tiny organization, regardless of the way that it is being involved a ton in projects that require countless exchanges to be done for an extremely minimal price, exploiting its blockchain foundation.

ropsten

Ropsten is a blockchain of proof. Hence, it is free however it won’t assist us with sending off any venture, just for testing. In this connection you can get phony ETH to test your token or DAPP.

These tokens keep the ERC20 guideline, yet you can design their name, greatest sum, image and decimal spots of the token.

visit : https://www.blockchainx.tech/erc20-token-development

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[blockpaths]

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[cardandpixel]

Top 8 Grab & Go Games...

When it comes to packing for anything it's safe to say I'm atrocious. I overpack for even a simple evening away (sorry, for those still following the 20th C, 'evening away's are something we used to do before we took up as permanent residents of our soft furnishings). I've often had this discussion with friends and colleagues - the simplest one is "how many pairs of pants do you need for x-time away"?  The obvious formula here is xdays + 1 for emergencies, but this thinking is waay too simplistic and covers a pitiful array of contingencies. I would argue that a sudden and catastrophic change of weather to downpour conditions needs to be considered, as does an unexpected drive-by of a large lorry thru an adjacent puddle, fall in a stream/burn or river, being unexpectedly caught in a fountain based celebration etc etc etc. This immediately doubles or even triples the amount of basic layers - pants, socks, trousers, tees etc. And then, we can relax into actual choices for formal vs casual, sudden wedding invitations whilst away and national or academic award ceremonies. It's a minefield. Unfortunately, this approach to covering the bases has translated thru to my boardgaming. I blame Ikea. Frankly their big blue bags allow the simple transportation of many, many titles, including some decent sized heavyweights. Never tried it, but I'd reckon you'd have a reasonable shot at getting TI4, Gloomhaven and possibly 7th Continent in just one of Ikea's capacious holdalls. As a result, I used to turn up to games evenings at work with at least 2 Ikea holdalls of big box games (for an evening that in honesty, we'll only really have time for 1 or 2 games), but with the added bonus bag now which includes what I call my 'grab shelf'. Games that are my usual suspects, these are usually my filler or party games designed to give us warm-up plays or while we're waiting for others to arrive at 7. (We did say 7 didn't we: I'm sure we said 7... was it definitely today?) So here's my round up of the games that we rarely leave home without - we actually do keep them on the top of a bookshelf in the games room and sort of 'scoop' them into a bag if we're in a hurry! These are in no particular order of favour, and most probably just what I can recall from the shelf next door, there will also be some crossover with a list I wrote a while ago on 'little' games...... 1) POINT SALAD - AEG Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich apx £16 This deceptively simple card game has become a house favourite since we were invited to play it at Airecon one night in the hotel. It's a simple set collection game with a little twist. The vegetable cards to collect have scoring criteria on the other side. A scoring card may be flipped and converted to a veg card once in your hand but not back to a scoring card. The scoring cards are achievements like 'lowest number of lettuces =10pts', 'pepper+lettuce+onion = 5pts per set' etc. The 'market' starts with 3 rows of cards, scoring side up and 2 cards are flipped to veg side next to each. Players will take either one scoring card or 2 veg. The game is tricky enough in terms of optimising your own tableau, but factor into that if you start paying attention to what your opponent is trying to do, the game soon gets highly strategic and gratifyingly dirty. 2) DEEP SEA ADVENTURE - Oink Games Jun Sasaki, Goro Sasaki apx £15 Oink Games produce some of my favourite small box games. They are usually simple, bright, fun and challenging. Though I would put in a good word for other titles in their range like: Moneybags, Fake Artist, Troika and Nine Tiles Panic, it is Deep Sea Adventure that stands out. Players are all treasure hunting divers departing a submarine, diving as far as they dare before their joint oxygen runs out. As a push-your-luck game, DSA is genius. It's that joint oxygen that is the real trick here, as your greed may end up costing other players the chance to get back to the ship safely. The deeper you dive, the more oxygen you use, and your treasure is collected blind for its value, so all your risk may have been for very little eventual reward. If the oxygen does run out, any unrecovered treasure you are carrying goes in a pile right at the bottom of the sea, adding to the temptation even more. DSA is a brilliant joint screw each other over game, and may be best avoided with very intense and serious players, but with an easy-going fun group, it's a true gem. 3) LOST EXPEDITION - Osprey Games Peer Sylvester apx £18 I'm a big fan of co-op games, and finding a small box filler co-op is always interesting. We bought the game for its artwork as 'er across the table was a fan of the Blake & Mortimer graphic novels which share a design ethic and The Rainbow Orchid which is by the same artist here, Garen Ewing. This game is beautiful to look at, but savage to play. Players must chop their way thru an Edgar Rice Burroughs style jungle to reach the lost city. Along the way they must face a relentless series of challenges that will demand careful management of very limited resources. The players are aided by explorers with useful skills, but limited health, and by the end of the journey it is entirely possible you will have had to have sacrificed at least one of your explorers to meet the demands of the jungle. It became even more horrifying to discover that these explorers are based on actual historical characters, so that choice to sacrifice the lovely little old lady Ines, is actually choosing to leave a real life character to the fate of leeches, tigers, swamps or quicksand! Another group favourite and a great pub game due to its fairly small footprint. This is also available as Judge Dredd - Cursed Earth which also features some very neat solo play rules. 4) DINOSAUR TEA PARTY - Restoration Games Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin Jacobson apx £16 Restoration Games have been doing an amazing job the last few years refreshing classic older games and turning them into great new games. They are probably best known for the highly successful Kickstarter for Fireball Island, and their great new version of Downforce. Dinosaur Tea Party id probably their smallest game, but it's big on fun. At its core, it's basically an elaborate bonneted dinosaur version of Guess Who. The utter joy of this game comes when a really cool group goes for it and roll plays the social interactions of these wannabe socialite reptiles. There's a couple of extra little twist rules thrown in like dinosaurs who might always lie, always give the wrong answer etc, and these do spice up an otherwise straightforward deduction game, but honestly, when you are looking for a very light, simple, bright, and funny filler or end of evening game, you can't go wrong with this adorably drawn game. 5) CROSSING - Asmodee Yoshiteru Shinohara apx £9 Known fondly to our group as 'The Pointing Game', The Crossing is a brilliant yet almost painfully simple push-your-luck game with no downtime at all. Players vie for gem treasure on several mushrooms in the centre of the table by pointing at them. If only one player is pointing to a pile, they win it and place it in front of them. If two or more players point at the same pile, nobody wins any gems and the pile grows bigger next round. On the second round, players can either point at a new mushroom or point at the pile of won gems in front of another player. Players may also cover their won gems instead of pointing and thereby convert won gems to stored gems where they're safe. Not impossible with smaller player counts, but the game becomes utter chaos at higher player counts and games rarely end without collapse into hilarity all round. Each round plays in about 2 minutes and the game ends when the gems in the bag run out. Points are awarded for sets of colours, rare white gems and single points for any other gems. Crossing is tense, full of 'dagnammit' moments and gets played to death when it hits the table. Highly recommend though I understand it can be a little tricky to get hold of at the mo. 6) MONIKERS - Palm Court Alex Hague, Justin Vickers apx £20 It takes a lot to take an eye-rolling party game and transform it into something a bit special. Monikers basically takes the game of Charades and treats it to a much more anarchic edge. Starting with the topics to be guessed, Monikers is shamelessly nerdy and often needs a little more of a deep nerd-dive into net and popular culture, citing popular memes, channels, phenomena and personalities. Nyan cat, lightsaber kid, and Bob Ross all make appearances in the card decks. Monikers is a team game, and starts with a simple description round where players are not allowed to use the title on the card or any words in the description. Round 2 moves this to a single word, and round 3, merely a gesture (there are some hilarious community suggestions for other rounds eg glove puppets and shadow fingers). Again, with the right group, this game is brilliant, but I accept with the wrong group, could fall flat as a pancake. There are a couple of expansions which effectively play as stand-alone games, but I can highly recommend the completely insane Shut Up & Sit Down Nonsense Box as a good starting point. 7) CELESTIA - BLAM Games Aaron Weissblum apx £21 Sometimes a good filler game comes in a slightly larger box, especially if it features and adorable 3D skyboat! Celestia is a beautiful game to look at, and a brilliant semi co-op push-your-luck game. Each round, a new captain tries to convince the passengers on their ship to stay aboard and venture to lands anew. The further the ship goes, the higher the reward but the much greater the risk. Passengers have to decide if the de facto captain for that round has the resources in their hand to meet the challenges rolled on the dice for that journey.  Passengers can decide to leap off if things look too dodgy and gain lower rewards, but there's also betrayal and nefarious shenanigans to be had with skyhooks, rocket packs etc which may allow passengers to throw other players off the boat, or even the Captain using a jetpack to abandon ship. Celestia is a classic game, and though the rulebook can take a little interpretation at first, the game is fun, solid and a great filler game. 8) RAILROAD INK - Horrible Guild Hjalmar Hach, Lorenzo Silva apx £16 We play a lot of roll/flip/draw and write/build/draw games in our house and this slot could be filled by quite a large number of them which I might save for another list, but some notables are Welcome To, Roland Wright, Rolling Ranch, Dino World and Cartographers. However, despite all these great games, we keep coming back to one nose ahead title, Railroad Ink. We have the Blazing Red edition, but honestly, they are all great including the two new KS versions that recently funded: Forest Green and Desert Yellow. Each set has its own little foibles and unique mechanisms, but the core of these games are the same. What I love about Railroad Ink is that it constantly feels like you have a little more control in this game than some others, which is a 2 edged sword as therefore goofs also have a greater sense of ownership too. Scoring can be a little tricky to decipher the first couple of games, but the production of the game, wipe clean boards, and unique usage make this a stand out favourite. 8.5) An honorable mention.... I didn’t include this one in the list as it probably belongs better in the Roll & Write list, and it’s also more of a ‘big box’ game, but we nearly always take SUSHI ROLL everywhere with us now. It’s the R&W version of the Sushi series and is genuinely brilliant. The dice for a start look almost edible themselves, and it features some really smart little dice drafting that mimics the mini conveyor belt that caused so much hilarity in ‘that’ episode of Miranda. It’s a great theme, it’s immediately engaging, has great player aids and is one of those rare games you immediately want to play the minute you finish as you’s sure you can do better next time. I hope there's some games here to poke your interest glands and become your next favourite filler or "dinner's a-cookin" game. Happy gaming y'all

(Apologies - no idea why Tumblr suddenly won’t let me add images after posting, but if anyone knows, please get in touch!)

#boardgames #quick play #bgg #pointsalad #celestia #railroadink #lostexpedition #crossing #deepseaadventure #monikers #dinosaurteaparty

[evanvanness]

Annotated edition, Week in Ethereum News March 29 issue

This annotated version is brought to you by The Cure’s “The Head on the Door” album, playing over my headphones right now in a vain attempt to avoid the work-from-home-with-kids maelstrom. 

Listening to an album helps me mark the time and stay focused when I’m doing something relatively unstructured like newsletter commentary.   It’s somewhat unclear to me who I’m writing this for, but people seem to appreciate more context for the firehose of information, so I try to provide some.

I’ve occasionally read newsletters for other blockchains and I’m always impressed by how little I understand.  I have no context for what X, Y, and Z mean.  Yet there’s still usually something there that I pick up that is worthwhile enough that makes it worth the click and skim.

Here’s the most clicked for the week.  The eternal caveat exists that people click things in the newsletter that they haven’t read

The annotated roadmap was the top click by a large amount.  

Eth1

Geth v1.9.11’s eth/65 data propagation has reduced bandwidth 75%

Nethermind v1.7.12 has eth/65 support

Notes from the latest stateless call

Guillaume Ballet on why we switch from hex to binary and how the overlay tree works

Evaluating the proposals to reduce witness size

Eth on ARM updated images to run full nodes on Raspberry Pis: Geth, Nethermind, Parity, Besu.

Bitcoiners would tell you that it’s impossible to run a full Eth node, but you can actually run one on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Ethereum has always had “being honest about our problems” as a core value, so it’s amusing that Bitcoiners never do the work to figure out what the actual problems are.  Right now Geth is the vast majority of nodes, because they keep doing incredible work improving their client - or in this case, networking for all of Ethereum.

The client formerly known as Parity is being taken over, but there’s probably going to be a ramp up time.  

In the meantime, running Nethermind and Besu nodes are a concrete thing that anyone can do for the network.  I find the Nethermind client to be particularly easy to run, though the documentation is a bit lacking.  So for a Saturday project, click the link above and get a Nethermind or Besu node running on a Raspberry Pi.

The points in between Geth/Nethermind and Eth on Arm have to do with Stateless Ethereum, the goal of getting network clients to be able to run statelessly.  Those steps include getting the witness size down to be small enough and switching the tree from hex to binry.

Eth2

Latest eth2 implementer call. Ben Edgington’s notes

Least Authority’s audit report of eth2 spec

Notes from the latest networking call

Mikerah explores hybrid networking architectures for validator privacy

Latest Nimbus client update, full interop is main focus. processing validators and sigs 5x faster

RuntimeVerification: verifying ewasm code

Carl Beekhuizen’s sharded consensus explainer, and why signature aggregation is so vital

The audit of the eth2 spec is now public.  Meanwhile nailing down the final networking for phase0 to get the last multi-client testnets up before the Beacon Chain goes live.

Eth2+

Hashmap-based polynomial commitments

Multi-layer hashmaps for state storage

ZKStudyClub video on polynomial commitments with Justin, Vitalik and Dankrad

Casper CBC achieves liveness even in async networks

The debut of the Eth2x section.  That’s a joke - I dislike the 1x moniker which somehow got hung on Eth1 improvements.  

You probably won’t be clicking any of these links unless you’re into math or a protocol researcher who can fake it.

Layer2

AZTEC zk-zkrollup with PLONK proofs. Will soon ship 100 private transactions per second on mainnet

Error-correcting code to optimize ZK-rollup verifier

A revamped Nutberry optimistic rollup plan

No shocker here that Aztec is moving into rollup.  It’s an underrated fact that rollup’s massive scaling is about to ship or has already shipped (ie Loopring), though there is still work to do be do to get those rollups to their full thousnds of transactions per second capacity - like optimizing the verifier.

Stuff for developers

Solidity v0.6.x features: fallback and receive

Yul+ from Fuel Labs. Features added to Yul’s low-level intermediate language: enums, constants, booleans, memory structures, safemath

Truffle v5.1.19. fully decode internal function pointers, new –bail flag in TruffleTest

MetaMask Ethereum provider survey

Catching weird bugs in Solidity with invariant checks

Slither v0.6.10 – 5 new detectors, support for Solidity v0.6

Samczsun finds a bug in Synthetix release

Build an API to interact with Compound

Using the debugger in Remix online IDE

Building frontends with React and NetworkJS

OpenZeppelin CLI v2.8, now you can opt out of upgradeability

Survey of upgradeability standards

ELI5smartcontracts: input Solidity code and the website tells you what it does

Nim libp2p tutorial of peer to peer chat

Zeropool’s Fawkes framework in Rust for building bellman circuits

Iden3’s Circom v0.5 – updated tutorial. Open sourced very fast finite field libraries, getting close to being production ready for writing snark circuits.

I’ve always felt like the dev section hopefully speaks for itself. With Yul+,  FuelLabs is supporting the idea that good projects naturally spinoff open source tools.

Ecosystem

An annotated version of Vitalik’s Eth2020 roadmap

Another tool to understand/revoke what contracts you have given authority to spend your tokens

Ceramic, a permissionless protocol on Eth & IPFS for tamper-proof documents

All three of these were quite high on the most clicked.  

Enterprise

Ericsson: designing a decentralized marketplace

Hyperledger Besu v1.4.2 – improved onchain privacy groups

I think the Ericsson piece just missed the most clicked tweet.  

Governance, DAOs, and standards

Governance in decentralized networks, a survey paper from Streamr’s Risto Karjalainen

A primer on Moloch v2, how new features improve grants and enable for-profit DAOs

The MKR token is now controlled by its governance

ERC2567: Human-Readable Parameters for Contract Function Execution

EIP2565: Repricing of the EIP-198 ModExp precompile

I haven’t read the Streamr paper, though of course governance is one of the unsolved problems in this space, since governance is an unsolved topic among humans.  

Application layer

Uniswap announces v2: token to token pairings, protocol fee, oracles, flash swaps

TheSandbox partnering with Atari to feature their titles

Mailchain’s Dapplaunch, a web3 email marketing tool

You can now play Austin Griffith’s Galleass game on xDai

Maker’s flop auctions successfully concluded for ~253 DAI average price

3 critical trading risks mitigated in Augur v2

Synthetix’s Hadar release includes Brent Crude oil, FTSE100 and S&P Global1200

UMA’s priceless synthetic token design pattern to reduce oracle dependency

Furucombo, a GUI for combining DeFi transactions into 1

TrustlessFund, a timelock for ETH and tokens

LEND721, an NFT borrowing platform, is live on mainnet

I don’t normally include release announcements before they happen, but Uniswap is obviously a special case.

Weekly metric: 5 out of 11 bullet points (counting on low side for DeFi, eg not including Augur) are DeFi.

Tokens/Business/Regulation

SDNY judge halts Telegram token distribution with preliminary injunction

If the SEC wins - which it appears they likely will now that they got the injunction - then Silicon Valley investors will have gotten bailed out of the two craziest crypto deals that they invested in at market top - Telegram and Basecoin.  Just like Basecoin, Telegram will likely be forced to return (most of) the cash it raised.

The SEC is providing regulation-as-a-service to those investors.   Interesting that the deal happened mere months after Tezos, and yet very different regulatory treatments.

General

Vitalik’s garbled circuits primer

Semaphore had to restart the random value generation process

Hive, the community-led fork of Steem, is currently trading for significantly more more than STEEM after Tron’s hijack attempt

It’s pretty great to see that the Steem community managed to fight off the hijacking that was attempted with the (unwitting?) help of Binance and Huobi. While both exchanges backed off, we’ll find out in time whether they really feel like they were misled.  

Finally, time to shill for my Gitcoin grant here.  If you give because you particularly want the annotated edition to continue, could you add .11 to whatever you give?  eg, 1.11 DAI or .11 ETH or .01011 ETH.  

I put this last week and I believe only one contributor added the 11, so maybe no one likes the annotated version.  🤔   

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Annotated edition, Week in Ethereum News, April 5 issue

Listening to Fountain of Wayne’s Sky Full of Holes, which is unfortunately their last album because lead songwriter Adam Schlesinger died this week at age 52 from COVID19.  Unappreciated genius.

For me, the big news of the week is that about 10 days ago I decided to leave ConsenSys:

I’ve been doing this newsletter for almost 4 years now, it seemed like the right time to make the jump.  

My expectation is that the newsletter stays free, while this annotated version goes subscriber-only of some sort.   Figuring out the pricing model isn’t super easy - I think the way to maximize revenue is to price quite high, but I don’t particularly want to do that.  If I spend the time on this, I’d like it to be read more widely.   My tentative pricing is $9 a month or $99 a year.  

The bigger question is whether the main newsletter can stay free long-term.  I’ve been doing this for a long time, and I mostly enjoy doing it it.  But I strongly believe in listening when the market speaks.  

Roughly speaking, the audience is the 15,000 most important people in Ethereum and web3.  That strikes me as quite valuable, and it should be apparent that sponsors and ads will transparently take a more prominent position.  Of course, surveillance capitalism has trained people to think that the only value to advertising is what they can track - which I think quite understates the value of this audience.  There’s no other way to reach all the insiders, devs, investors, journalists, and power users in one place.

More on this in the future, but the bottom line is: if you like Week in Eth News being free, I hope you’ll check out the sponsors. If we do it right, the sponsors should be value add and worth your attention.

Here’s the most clicked this week

Gitcoin extended the CLR round, my grant is here.  I’d love it if you put 11 somewhere after the decimal so I can track the donation to the annotated newsletter.   1 Dai currently gets matched 73 Dai.

Eth1

Latest core devs call. Notes. Discussion of the curve used in eth2 (EIP2537), EVM subroutines (EIP2315), and reducing gas to call precompiles (EIP2046)

Alex Stokes explains how eth2 benefits from EIP2537

OpenEthereum has an initial alpha release

Updated tech tree on Stateless Ethereum – what’s needed for improved sync, witnesses, EVM changes, and binary trees

Gnosis is resuscitating the client formerly known as Parity as OpenEthereum, a welcome contribution to client diversity.

The Stateless Ethereum tech tree is an interesting exercise in decentralized ecosystem vs centralized VC coin.

If you talk to many of the VCs, they don’t believe in Ethereum’s decentralized ecosystem.   They want large dev teams gathered in one central location under centralized leadership - hence all the VC coins with 9 figures to spend, but zero ways to deploy that capital effectively (nor do they even seem to try!) and zero community.

Ethereum isn’t like that.  People show up and pitch in from all corners of the world.  Often they start out making pull requests, and people see the quality of their contribution, then eventually they work their way into being a paid contributor.  It’s decentralized, messy, and there’s often a lot of complaints from those who aren’t good enough to get funded full-time or fall through the cracks for a variety of reasons.

But it’s been working so far.

Eth2

Ben Edgington’s latest what’s new in eth2

Danny Ryan’s quick eth2 update

Bug bounty for the first phase of eth2 is live. Run ‘pip install eth2spec’

A Casper FFG explainer with proofs of its guaranty of liveness and safety

Latest Prysmatic client update – restarting the testnet to run latest spec, RFP for security audits

Latest Lighthouse client update – 3x sync speedup, catching a spec bug, prepping for multi-client testnet

A report on eth2 staking UX

Staking calculator update

The tldr of Eth2 right now is that the long-running multi-client testnet before eth2′s beacon chain launches is close.

Layer2

What is Zeropool? A privacy-first optimistic rollup that functions like a mixer. Next step: rewrite in Rust

Burner Wallet on Fuel’s rollup. Check it out on burner.fuel.sh

Dharma is doing a rollup chain with interstate, using the spec published on ethresearch

The emergent order of rollups is an interesting example of what I was talking about above.  They’re all working out what their selling point is.  Some are going after dexes (ie, loopring, idex, deversifi), payments (Dharma, Fuel), some privacy (Zeropool).  That’s an extremely incomplete list, because I was pointing out the stuff from this week plus the stuff that’s live (loopring) or imminent.

Stuff for developers

Analyzing try/catch in Solidity v0.6

Calculating exponents in Solidity

Decoding the memory of an Eth contract

How to use call value and not transfer

Best practices when using an oracle by Tellor

Implementing a classifieds ERC721 market tutorial

Constructing a FootballManager-type simulation for tennis

An iExec quick start guide

Using static lookahead analysis to guide fuzzers in MythX

Using MythX with Embark

A user comparison of running and benchmarking MythX, Slither, and Security

Samczsun finds an Aragon bug

Easily support hardware wallets with Blocknative’s onboard.js

Fortmatic’s magic.link for web2 logins without a password (input email -> click link in email -> logged in, even if clicked from different browser/device)

RicMoo’s Rooted: deploy a contract and be able to arbitrarily update it. Screens of Austin Griffith playing with it on eth.build

RicMoo continues his exploration of CREATE2 magic.  It’s still something that is underappreciated (possibly good, as users probably also need some education) in our ecosystem among devs.

Samczsun continues his reign of terror when he shows up in your discord/telegram/riot/it doesn’t matter.  As predicted, he’s the clear winner of this round of Gitcoin grants.  Fun fact: I was his first contributor during the CLR round.

Fortmatic’s magic link is pretty cool, and applicable outside of our relatively small web3 circle.

Ecosystem

Ethereum.org is now available on IPFS at ethereum.eth on Metamask, Status, Opera, or Brave. You may have to type in https://ethereum.eth

Chart of Ethereum.org non-English traffic

Ethereum Foundation 2019 grant list

Devcon archive – a permanent site for devcon footage

xDai is now a dPOS chain. Related: Apple killing local storage frustrates Burner Wallet

I included the https bit because ethereum.eth didn’t work for me without explicitly including the https.  

Enterprise

EEA Mainnet Working Group’s first public call video

One pager on Baseline Protocol

FundsDLT private chain for investment funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management and Luxembourg Stock Exchange

Hitachi to partner with ConsenSys for enterprise adoption in Japan

Also could have added that EY is doing a (obviously virtual) conference in mid to late April.

Governance, DAOs, and standards

MakerDAO planning for imminent complete decentralization

The design philosophy of KyberDAO

ERC2579: Merkle Tree Generalized Index

ERC2571: Royalty token standard

EIP2584: Trie format transition with overlay trees

EIP2583: Penalty for account trie misses

It’s an underrated thread that most of the apps are in progress of decentralizing themselves this year.   That’s a trend that will continue.

Application layer

Balancer is live on mainnet

Clay Golem: Task API on mainnet to deploy your own dockerized app

Augur v2 details: v2 scheduled for June, v1 cutoff now May 15

Could prediction markets have prevented the Corona virus pandemic?

Aave interest rate swaps with Opium Network

Status’s web3 browser

RealT has sold 1m USD of tokenized Detroit real estate

Brave launches a swag store on Origin Protocol

Coingecko’s DeFi book is free this month

Graph of DeFi Score vs interest rate

Livepeer’s opportunity in a socially distanced world

Every week I get to this section, and my first instinct is to count “DeFi or not?”  This week it’s 5/11.   That doesn’t include prediction markets - though of course that’s an arbitrary distinction.  Defining the contours of DeFi isn’t easy.

Given the stresses on centralized video infrastructure, Livepeer looks like a prescient bet from Doug and Eric, and something where decentralization can really deliver unique value.

Also very cool to see Brave using Origin Protocol.  We need more of this.

Tokens/Business/Regulation

Fat Brands bonds live on mainnet show how Ethereum will eat Wall Street’s settlement layer

USDC grows 50% in a month

Subcontext of USDC growing is that many folks moved to USDC because DSR went down to zero, plus liquidity crunch etc etc.

However, the interesting part about Maker adding USDC is that USDC ended up being quite symbiotic for Dai.   While USDC seemed like a competitor (and is to some degree!), it turned out that there’s a symbiosis there that emergent order created in a way that a centralized planner would never have come up with. 

General

Bitmain extends E3 ASIC through October with firmware update

Binance acquires CoinMarketCap

Ligero’s IACR paper: Lightweight Scalable RSA Modulus Generation with a Dishonest Majority

Demystifying Supersonic Snarks

Bilinear accumulators as merkle tree alternative, a particular type of polynomial commitments

Simple guide to multiexponentiations

Open VDF, an architecture of the current hardware design

I wonder how long CMC remains dominant.  Having an exchange as an owner seems like untenable in the long-run.  While their dominance is enshrined by Google, that depends on 1) links which may disappear now that it is owned by an exchange and 2) Goog’s (human thumb on the scales) algorithm.

One has to wonder whether Bitmain can extend their ASIC again with another firmware update?

Bump to OpenVDF, a very interesting open hardware collaboration.