The final one and a half months have seen nice progress for Ethereum analysis, and we’re excited that the protocol is shifting nearer and nearer to the purpose the place it’s prepared for mainstream adoption. Progress on consensus algorithms, privateness, zero data proofs and formal verification is occurring at growing pace, and our analysis and improvement groups are increasing considerably.
A considerable amount of progress has been made on Casper. You could find a number of Medium posts describing the algorithm right here:
And some weblog posts from Yoichi formally proving correctness:
And on “Vlad Casper”:
And it is not simply idea:
Extra progress on Casper and sharding will proceed to be printed as soon as it stabilizes to the purpose the place it is smart to write down the continued work up in a doc; the high-level particulars are actually near finalized, present discussions have extra to do with the finer particulars of the design of the Casper contract.
And another weblog posts from Vlad:
Some bugs have been found within the ENS code resulting in a delay of its launch. A safety audit was commissioned, and the audit is now full, bringing us a step nearer to the ultimate launch day:
Updates on formal proving:
Metropolis is continuous to progress, and the core improvement groups are persevering with to make progress towards absolutely agreeing on the specification. Checks for a number of the EIPs are already accessible, and extra assessments are constantly being written.