December marks a month of continued progress within the Ethereum ecosystem. Analysis on proof of stake and sharding continues after the analysis group’s workshop in Singapore in November, the sunshine consumer slowly keeps getting better, Whisper and Swarm hold shifting ahead, and discussions on protocol economics and group governance proceed to mature.
First, privateness applied sciences on Ethereum, and significantly zk-SNARKs (or “zero information proofs”), have been quickly shifting ahead.
Vlad Zamfir has taken it upon himself to elucidate the historical past behind Casper, from his viewpoint:
On proof of stake from myself:
Vlad has additionally taken it upon himself to rail towards the evils of “financial abstraction” (ie. the objective of attempting to create token-agnostic public financial consensus protocols):
Varied discussions had been had on financial coverage:
Talking of EIPs…
- Greg Colvin’s advised modifications for adding further static analysis capability (184) as a part of the transfer towards “EVM 1.5”
- The Ethereum Title System (launched on the Ropsten testnet in late November), noticed an EIP opened (181) to help reverse decision of Ethereum addresses
The info storage-focused “sister protocol” Swarm continues to maneuver ahead:
And from the core consumer improvement standpoint:
We want the group a contented new yr and sit up for extra progress in January!
