December marks a month of continued progress within the Ethereum ecosystem. Analysis on proof of stake and sharding continues after the analysis crew’s workshop in Singapore in November, the sunshine consumer slowly keeps getting better, Whisper and Swarm preserve 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 information proofs”), have been quickly transferring ahead.
Vlad Zamfir has taken it upon himself to elucidate the historical past behind Casper, from his perspective:
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 aim of making an attempt to create token-agnostic public financial consensus protocols):
Numerous 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 Identify System (launched on the Ropsten testnet in late November), noticed an EIP opened (181) to assist reverse decision of Ethereum addresses
The information storage-focused “sister protocol” Swarm continues to maneuver ahead:
And from the core consumer improvement standpoint:
We want the neighborhood a contented new 12 months and sit up for extra progress in January!