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The results of the first ever iOS Developer Community Survey are here! Find out how the broader community feels about Apple platform development.
The next Stateless Ethereum research call is coming up in less than a week! The telegram chat now has hundreds of messages to catch up on, and only a small portion of the topics discussed have made it into the ethresearch forums. This post is just a quick primer...
The iOS Developer Community Survey results are coming, soonβ¦
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Danny Ryan for review. In this installment, we'll discuss the consensus mechanisms behind eth2. Eth2 has a novel approach to deciding which block is the head of the chain, along with which blocks are and are not a part of the chain....
Ready for the biggest Xcode beta since last June?
Keep it coming tldr; Audit and formal verification of deposit contract bytecode completed by Runtime Verification The word of the month is "optimization" Ongoing Phase 2 research driven by Quilt and eWASM. Welcome TXRX to the table Whiteblock releases [gossipsub testing results](https://github.com/wh...
Are you looking for something a bit more⦠firehose'y?
The try/catch syntax introduced in 0.6.0 is arguably the biggest leap in error handling capabilities in Solidity, since reason strings for revert and require were released in v0.4.22. Both try and catch have been reserved keywords since v0.5.9 and now we can use them to handle failures in external function...
I started to write a post that detailed a "roadmap" for Ethereum 1.x research and the path to stateless Ethereum, and realized that it's not actually a roadmap at all ββ at least not in the sense we're used to seeing from something like a product or company. The 1.x...
We sure have come a long way since the "sweet solution" for building apps for the iPhoneβ¦
Are you looking for a reason to learn SwiftUI? Here's oneβ¦
Welcome to the first eth2 quick update of 2020! This is going to be an exciting year. tldr; Release of v0.10.0 spec as stable target for multi-client testnets and security reviews @paulhauner and @sigp_io team hard at work building Lighthouse Relaunch of [...
Thanks to Joseph Schweitzer and Danny Ryan for review. Welcome back! Having discussed eth2's design philosophy last time, today's focus is on eth2's incentives through the lens of that philosophy. More specifically, we look at the incentives effecting eth2 and how they are realised in the form of rewards,...
Did SwiftUI just get easier to use? It sure did!
The idea behind the Vyper Project was to develop something that was designed at the language level to naturally exhibit a high degree of safety. The project was originally authored by Vitalik as a proof-of-concept replacement for Serpent, its predecessor, but shortly after its creation Vyper found itself without a...
Happy new year to you all! Do you have big plans for this year? I know I do.
In the last edition of The 1.x files, we did a quick re-cap of where the Eth 1.x research initiative came from, what's at stake, and what some possible solutions are. We ended with the concept of stateless ethereum, and left a more detailed examination of the stateless client for...
Happy Holidays! Here's the best And Finally⦠links of the year Enjoy!
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,200,000, which is predicted to occur on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones....
Swift on the server news, and much much more! Happy Holidays everyone
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Welcome to this week's eth2 quick update! A handful of new eth2 testnets have come online and last week I had them all running on my laptop. There is still plenty of work to be done, but this is getting real :). tldr; Announcing comprehensive Phase 0 spec...
Are the App Store review guidelines applied to first-party apps too?
Here it is, the questionnaire for the first ever iOS Developer Community Survey!
Welcome to this week's eth2 quick update! tldr; Parity's Shasper joins Prysmatic's Sapphire testnet (the first public eth2 multi-client testnet)! Multiple eth2 block explorers launch -- Bitfly's beaconcha.in and Etherscan First eth2 networking call to tackle all the networkings -- Ben's notes and [Mamy's notes](https://gist.gi...
Friends, Since the last EF-Supported Teams report, progress has been made across the board. From improved network conditions, to the coming Istanbul release and Eth1.x and Eth2 development, all areas core to the functionality and sustainability of Ethereum are advancing. This series focuses on teams and efforts from...
What do you all think of the state of iOS and Apple platform development these days? Should we find out⦠I think so.
Thanks to Danny and Joe for review. As the launch of the beacon chain grows nearer and eth2 becomes ever more final, the time has come to fast-sync the community with the latest on the inner workings of eth2 and on the concrete requirements, incentives and experience of being...
Two announcements from Apple, and is it the end of the developer conference being branded as WWDC? Maybeβ¦
Welcome to the fourth installment of eth2 quick update. There are a lot of moving pieces to talk about this week. Other than the heroic eth2 client development going on, these are the highlights: tldr; Grant to Sigma Prime for eth2 differential fuzzing Light Client Task Force is...
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,069,000, which is predicted to occur on Saturday, December 7, 2019. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones....
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