During the last month and a half, the teams of Ethereum Core Development and Research relied on the progress made in the past year, and with the spectrum of the security problems of last year now well behind us, the work started in force to implement the Metropolis Hard Fork.
First of all, the progress in progress on collaboration with the ZCASH team and the implementation of ZK-Snarks:
On the front of proof of the stake, myself and Vlad and others continued to consolidate the specifications of Casper and to converge on a roadmap. A key objective of our work has been on a notion of “protocol armor”, which can transform many classes of traditional-faut-tolurant algorithms into “consensus algorithms for the attributable fault”, where if there is a protocol failure, then not only do you know that a large number of validators were defective, but that you also know the blame. The work has not yet been entirely written, although it is still formalized and presented soon, and anyone interested is free to follow https://gitter.im/ethereum/casper-caling-and-protocol-comics.
An article on parameterizing casper has been written here:
We had two Dev nucleus meetingsand approved the following EIPs for a probable inclusion in the metropolis:
In addition, there have been some changes in the EIP process itself:
The work on Mist, Swarm, ENS and the associated infrastructure continues at a rapid rate; The swarm is now at the stage where it can serve the portfolio application, although the incentive logic is not yet in place.
The work on programming languages also progress:
The work on the implementations progress:
We wish everyone a good Valentine’s Day!
