December marks a month of continued progress within the Ethereum ecosystem. Analysis on proof of stake and sharding continues after the analysis workforce’s workshop in Singapore in November, the sunshine shopper slowly retains getting higher, 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 clarify the historical past behind Casper, from his perspective:
On proof of stake from myself:
Vlad has additionally taken it upon himself to rail towards the evils of “financial abstraction” (ie. the aim of making an attempt 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 including additional static evaluation functionality (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 shopper growth standpoint:
We want the group a contented new yr and look ahead to extra progress in January!