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Teams, People and Startup

Vlad Zamfir joining CasperLabs (2019-02-22)

CasperLabs Is Building a PoS Blockchain With Help from Ethereum’s Vlad Zamfir

• Vlad Zamfir is gonna join a new startup called CasperLabs working as researcher only (hence no coding, just researching and writings specs) to help them develop a PoS Blockchain

• @VladZamfir

• VZ main research topic is sharding (was involved in Casper)

• Goal: possibly to help them implementing Casper CBC (originally developed in Ethereum context)

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Ethereum 2.0 Progress

Ethereum Foundation Grants 2019

Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5

• Goal

  • Ethereum 2.0 Dev support (scaling scaling scaling!)

• Grants

  • Goerli Testnet
    • Related: the sadly known Afri's rage quite
  • DeepSea: formally verified language that compiles to EVM
    • Have not got much into this yet, so far it seems the idea is to add to a Solidity-like language some true formal verification backed by Coq language

Ethereum Update - Constantinople

• Scheduled at Block Num = 7,280,000 so around Feb 28th
• Will this 4rd attempt be the good one? Wait and see
• Follow the countdown

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Blockchain and Wide Adoption

Smartphone and Devices

Galaxy S10 offering Private Key Storage

Confirmed! New Samsung Galaxy device will offer private key storage

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Partity People

Jack Fransham Interview 20190310

People of Parity: Jack Fransham, Core Developer

Interesting Points

• Rust Love

  • Rust is so much loved for many reasons that are actually common points with C++
  • Possibly the reason why Rust became so popular in Blockchain Ecosystem and C++ not, despite the latter has been present for decades, is it has become really a huge language (it's still trying not to break up with its C legacy), possibly a little messy, and it makes its learning curve even steeper than Rust one

• Blockchain is not so dissimilar from Embedded

  • Blockchain and Embedded Dev share some common requirements:
    1. resource efficiency
    • it typically means using a statically typed compiled language
    • having a small memory footprint alongside an efficient usage of runtime resources also helps a lot
    2. high security
    • again, it typically boils down to let the programmer be exposed to low level details while providing him with the a powerful semantic
    3. high reliability
  • In fact as C++ dominates Embedded, Rust is imposing itself signifcantly on the Blockchain side, let's how the competion with Golang will go on