Over the past month and a half, Ethereum’s core research and development teams have built on the progress made in the past year, and with the specter of last year’s security issues now well behind us, work is off to a strong start. in the implementation of the Metropolis Hard Fork.
First, the continued progress on the collaboration with the Zcash team and the implementation of zk-SNARK:
On the proof-of-stake front, Vlad, myself, and others have continued to solidify the Casper specification and converge on a roadmap. A key focus of our work has been the notion of “protocol armor”, which can convert many classes of traditional fault-tolerant Byzantine consensus algorithms into “failure-attributable consensus algorithms”, where if there is a protocol failure, then Not only do you know that a large number of validators were faulty, but you also know who to blame? The work has not yet been fully written, although it will be formalized and presented sooner, and anyone interested can follow it on https://gitter.im/ethereum/casper-scaling-and-protocol-economics.
A post about Casper parameterization was written here: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/parametrizing-casper-the-decentralization-finality-time-overhead-tradeoff-3f2011672735
we had two core development meetingsand have approved the following EIPs for likely inclusion in Metropolis:
Additionally, there were some changes to the EIP process itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5rp8mr/update_to_eip_ethereum_improvement_proposal_system/
Work on Mist, Swarm, ENS, and associated infrastructure continues at a rapid pace; Swarm is now at the stage where the wallet app can serve, although the incentivization logic is not yet in place.
Work on programming languages is also progressing:
Work on implementations is progressing:
We wish you all a happy Valentine’s Day!
