December marks a month of continued progress within the Ethereum ecosystem. Analysis on proof of stake and sharding continues after the analysis staff’s workshop in Singapore in November, the sunshine consumer slowly keeps getting better, Whisper and Swarm maintain transferring ahead, and discussions on protocol economics and neighborhood governance proceed to mature.
First, privateness applied sciences on Ethereum, and notably zk-SNARKs (or “zero data proofs”), have been quickly transferring ahead.
Vlad Zamfir has taken it upon himself to clarify the historical past behind Casper, from his standpoint:
On proof of stake from myself:
Vlad has additionally taken it upon himself to rail in opposition to the evils of “financial abstraction” (ie. the objective of attempting to create token-agnostic public financial consensus protocols):
Varied discussions have been had on financial coverage:
Talking of EIPs…
- Greg Colvin’s prompt 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 assist 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 neighborhood a cheerful new 12 months and look ahead to extra progress in January!
