December marks a month of continuous progress in the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and rupture continues after the Workshop in Singapore in NovemberThe light customer slowly continue to improveWhisper and Swarm continue to move forward, and discussions on the economy of protocol and community governance continue to mature.
First, confidentiality technologies on Ethereum, and in particular ZK-Snarks (or “zero knowledge of knowledge”), quickly progressed.
Vlad Zamfir took on him to explain the story behind Casper, from his point of view:
On the proof of stake of myself:
Vlad also took it upon him to rail against the evils of “economic abstraction” (i.e. the aim of trying to create public economic consensus protocols):
Various discussions took place on monetary policy:
Speaking of EIP …
- Greg Colvin’s suggested changes to Adding a new static analysis capacity (184) as part of the transition to “EVM 1.5”
- The Ethereum name system (launched on the Ropsten Testnet late November), saw a EIP has opened its doors (181) to support the reverse resolution of Ethereum addresses
The swarm of “sister protocol” focused on storage of data continues to move forward:
And from the basic point of view of customer development:
We wish the community for a happy new year and we are delighted with more progress in January!
