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The Ecosystem Support Program is an arm of the Ethereum Foundation dedicated to providing financial and non-financial support to projects working to help Ethereum grow and thrive. We recently published an update detailing how the Ecosystem Support Program spent 2019, and how we allocated financial support throughout the year....
We've all been pretty busy with all the things! I'll try to keep these posts rolling out, but in the meantime, be sure to checkout Ben Edgington's What's New in Eth2 to get your fix. Tune into Ethereal Virtual Summit this Thursday and Friday! It's full of excellent eth2...
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Since a lot of us have a bit more time on our hands, I thought now might be a good opportunity to proceed with something perhaps a little bit boring and tedious, but nevertheless quite fundamental to the Stateless Ethereum effort: understanding the formal Witness Specification. Like the captain...
Is there a middle ground between full a full, widget laden springboard, and what we have in iOS 13?
How is Swift on the server doing? Find out with some analysis of the iOS Developer Community survey.
Hard to believe that Iβve had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess thatβs yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Will WWDC re-invent online conferences? Probably not, but the community might!
Will Apple experiment with pricing models on the App Store? Probably not, but we can live in hope!
Is the new Apple/Amazon agreement good for other developers, or is it just a one off?
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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....
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...
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...
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...
How is the situation the world is facing right now affecting the App Store?
Hey Ethereum! Hereβs the latest update from the ethereum.org team:...
Was anyone expecting an entirely new way for a mouse/trackpad cursor to interact with UI this week?
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...
WWDC 2020 is announced, and it's online-only. It'll be fascinating to see how that works in practice...
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Will there be a virtual WWDC this year? Will WWDC be virtual from now on?
Will you be able to read this newsletter? Who knows! Fingers crossed, and here we goβ¦
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¦