Over the past month and a half, the Ethereum core improvement and analysis groups have been constructing upon the progress made within the final 12 months, and with the specter of final 12 months’s safety points now effectively behind us, work has begun in full pressure on implementing the Metropolis onerous fork.
First, ongoing progress on the collaboration with the Zcash staff and the implementation of zk-SNARKs:
On the proof of stake entrance, myself and Vlad and others have continued to solidify the Casper specification and converge on a roadmap. A key focus of our work has been on a notion of “protocol armor”, which might flip many lessons of conventional Byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus algorithms into “attributable-fault consensus algorithms”, the place if there’s a protocol failure then not solely are you aware that numerous validators have been defective, however you additionally know whom in charge. The work has not but been absolutely written out, although will probably be additional formalized and offered quickly, and anybody is free to observe alongside at https://gitter.im/ethereum/casper-scaling-and-protocol-economics.
A submit on parametrizing Casper was written right here: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/parametrizing-casper-the-decentralization-finality-time-overhead-tradeoff-3f2011672735
We had two core dev meetings, and have accredited the next EIPs for doubtless inclusion into Metropolis:
Moreover, there have been a number of modifications to the EIP course of itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5rp8mr/update_to_eip_ethereum_improvement_proposal_system/
Work on Mist, Swarm, ENS and related infrastructure is continuous at a fast tempo; Swarm is now on the stage the place it could possibly serve the pockets app, although the incentivization logic will not be but in place.
Work on programming languages can also be transferring ahead:
Work on implementations is progressing:
We want everybody a cheerful Valentine’s day!
