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 laborious fork.
First, ongoing progress on the collaboration with the Zcash workforce 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 may 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 a lot of validators had been defective, however you additionally know whom guilty. The work has not but been totally written out, although will probably be additional formalized and introduced 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 conferences, and have permitted the next EIPs for seemingly inclusion into Metropolis:
Moreover, there have been a couple of adjustments to the EIP course of itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/feedback/5rp8mr/update_to_eip_ethereum_improvement_proposal_system/
Work on Mist, Swarm, ENS and related infrastructure is constant at a speedy tempo; Swarm is now on the stage the place it could actually serve the pockets app, although the incentivization logic is just not but in place.
Work on programming languages can be shifting ahead:
Work on implementations is progressing:
We want everybody a contented Valentine’s day!