December marks a month of continued progress in the Ethereum ecosystem. Proof-of-stake and sharding investigation continues after investigative team workshop in singapore in novemberthe thin client slowly keep getting betterWhisper and Swarm continue to move forward, and discussions about the economics of protocol and community governance continue to mature.
First, privacy technologies on Ethereum, and particularly zk-SNARK (or “zero-knowledge proofs”), have advanced rapidly.
Vlad Zamfir has been in charge of explaining the story behind Casper, from his point of view:
In proof of stake myself:
Vlad has also taken it upon himself to rail against the evils of “economic abstraction” (i.e. the goal of trying to create token-independent public economic consensus protocols):
There were several debates on monetary policy:
Speaking of EPI…
- Modifications suggested by Greg Colvin for adding more static analysis capability (184) as part of the move towards “EVM 1.5”
- The Ethereum naming system (launched on the Ropsten testnet in late November), saw a open EIP (181) to support reverse resolution of Ethereum addresses
Data storage-focused “sister protocol” Swarm continues to move forward:
And from a core client development standpoint:
We wish the community a Happy New Year and look forward to more progress in January!
