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Issue 451
Will Apple experiment with pricing models on the App Store? Probably not, but we can live in hope!
Published on: April 10, 2020 | Source:
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Issue 450
Is the new Apple/Amazon agreement good for other developers, or is it just a one off?
Published on: April 03, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The Updated Stateless Tech Tree
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Published on: April 02, 2020 | Source:Ecosystem Support Program: Allocation Update
As we embark on a new decade(!), the Ecosystem Support Program team wanted to speak to some of the recent growth, transition and learning around the program, and share details of our 2019 financial allocations....
Published on: April 01, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 10
Have some fun announcements for y'all this week :) Other than the items below, client teams continue to move toward production. More on that next week! tl;dr Least Authority Phase 0 audit complete Phase 0 Pre-Launch Bounty Program Unification of eth1+eth2 communications in the Eth R&D...
Published on: March 31, 2020 | Source:Introducing the Devcon Archive (and an event update)
Friends, Out of respect for those within our own community and around us currently facing the ongoing global health crisis, our team has decided to temporarily hold scheduled Devcon announcements, first teased in our last post. In the meantime we wanted to share something else that weβve been working...
Published on: March 30, 2020 | Source:Issue 449
How is the situation the world is facing right now affecting the App Store?
Published on: March 27, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #3 - Sharding Consensus
Special thanks to Sacha Yves Saint-Leger & Joseph Schweitzer for review. Sharding is one of the many improvements that eth2 has over eth1. The term was borrowed from database research where a shard means a piece of a larger whole. In the context of databases and eth2, sharding means...
Published on: March 27, 2020 | Source:Development Update #2 - Ethereum.org
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Published on: March 20, 2020 | Source:Issue 448
Was anyone expecting an entirely new way for a mouse/trackpad cursor to interact with UI this week?
Published on: March 20, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 9
Strange times. I hope you are all well and continue to take care of yourselves, your families, and your communities. We're a bit overdue on a quick update. My apologies. I'll keep them coming at a regular clip after this one. Eth2 is looking good -- Phase 0 is...
Published on: March 17, 2020 | Source:Issue 447
WWDC 2020 is announced, and it's online-only. It'll be fascinating to see how that works in practice...
Published on: March 13, 2020 | Source:Issue 446
Will there be a virtual WWDC this year? Will WWDC be virtual from now on?
Published on: March 06, 2020 | Source:Issue 445
Will you be able to read this newsletter? Who knows! Fingers crossed, and here we goβ¦
Published on: February 28, 2020 | Source:Issue 444
The results of the first ever iOS Developer Community Survey are here! Find out how the broader community feels about Apple platform development.
Published on: February 21, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The State(lessness) of the Union
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...
Published on: February 18, 2020 | Source:Issue 443
The iOS Developer Community Survey results are coming, soonβ¦
Published on: February 14, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #2 - Two ghosts in a trench coat
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....
Published on: February 12, 2020 | Source:Issue 442
Ready for the biggest Xcode beta since last June?
Published on: February 07, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 8
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...
Published on: February 04, 2020 | Source:Issue 441
Are you looking for something a bit more⦠firehose'y?
Published on: January 31, 2020 | Source:Solidity 0.6.x features: try/catch statement
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...
Published on: January 29, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The Stateless Ethereum Tech Tree
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...
Published on: January 28, 2020 | Source:Issue 440
We sure have come a long way since the "sweet solution" for building apps for the iPhoneβ¦
Published on: January 24, 2020 | Source:Issue 439
Are you looking for a reason to learn SwiftUI? Here's oneβ¦
Published on: January 17, 2020 | Source:eth2 quick update no. 7
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 [...
Published on: January 16, 2020 | Source:Validated, staking on eth2: #1 - Incentives
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,...
Published on: January 13, 2020 | Source:Issue 438
Did SwiftUI just get easier to use? It sure did!
Published on: January 10, 2020 | Source:Update on the Vyper Compiler
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...
Published on: January 08, 2020 | Source:Issue 437
Happy new year to you all! Do you have big plans for this year? I know I do.
Published on: January 03, 2020 | Source:The 1.x Files: The State of Stateless Ethereum
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...
Published on: December 30, 2019 | Source: