December marks a month of continued progress within the Ethereum ecosystem. Analysis on proof of stake and sharing continues after analysis staff analysis workshop in Singapore in Novembermild consumer slowly is getting higherWhisper and Swarm proceed to thrive, and discussions of protocol economics and group governance proceed to mature.
First, privateness applied sciences on Ethereum, particularly zk-SNARK (or “zero-knowledge proofs”), are advancing quickly.
Vlad Zamfir took it upon himself to clarify the historical past behind Casper, from his viewpoint:
On the proof of share from me:
Vlad additionally took it upon himself to combat the evil of “financial abstraction” (ie the aim of making an attempt to create public financial consensus protocols that do not rely upon tokens):
Numerous discussions have been held on financial coverage:
Talking of EIP…
- Modifications advised by Greg Colvin for including additional static evaluation capabilities (184) as a part of the motion in direction of “EVM 1.5”
- The Ethereum Title System (launched on the Ropsten testnet on the finish of November) has seen EIP is open (181) to help reverse decision of Ethereum addresses
Swarm’s storage-centric “sister protocol” continues to advance:
And from the viewpoint of core consumer improvement:
We want the group a contented new 12 months and look ahead to extra progress in January!