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Evan Van Ness, EthereumThe Altona multiclient testnet launched a week ago with 4 clients: Lighthouse (Rust), Nimbus (Nim), Prysm (Go), and Teku (Java). Block explorer: https://altona.beaconcha.in/ Assuming things go well, there is just one more planned testnet before eth2 launch in a few months!
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumReddit is hosting an Ethereum scaling competition Reddit has already announced its Community Points for a few subreddits that is running on an Ethereum testnet. Now they want to move their tokenized karma to the Ethereum mainnet. Check it out: www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/hbjx25/the_great_reddit_scaling_bakeoff/
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumHere's a comprehensive guide to layer2 solutions on Ethereum: medium.com/matter-labs/evaluating-ethereum-l2-scaling-solutions-a-comparison-framework-b6b2f410f955 This is especially useful for developers trying to figure out the best tools to build an app.
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumInterested in staking on the Eth2 testnets so you can find out what it's like to stake 32 ETH when it goes live in a few months? Check out these step-by-step guides For Lighthouse: medium.com/nethermind-eth/using-nethermind-to-run-a-validator-in-eth2-5c227653e197 For Prysm: medium.com/@SomerEsat/guide-to-staking-on-ethereum-2-0-ubuntu-prysm-witti-2b972e697918
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumLoopring Pay went live this week. Free ETH or ERC20 token transfers on Loopring’s zk rollup, with essentially immediate finality. Check it out: medium.com/loopring-protocol/loopring-pay-is-live-zkrollup-transfers-on-ethereum-770d35213408
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumHave you checked out Eth.Build yet? It's a "no code" tool to prototype web3 apps Here's a very short and entertaining video if you've ever considered becoming an Ethereum developer. Strongly recommended: www.youtube.com/watch?v=30pa790tIIA
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumStarkWare's StarkEx engine launches 18000 transactions per second on the Ethereum mainnet through the Deversifi decentralized exchange. For more about the tech: medium.com/starkware/starks-over-mainnet-b83e63db04c0 To try Deversifi: app.deversifi.com/
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumDanny Ryan's "The state of Eth2" is today's must read blog.ethereum.org/2020/06/02/the-state-of-eth2-june-2020/ synopsis: Eth2 is a huge undertaking to provide an upgraded, next-generation, highly-scalable and secure, decentralized consensus to Ethereum. There are dozens of teams and hundreds of individuals working each day to make this a reality. The path we’ve chosen is difficult, but immense progress has and continues to be made. The core of this new mechanism is just around the corner.
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumThere's so much going on in the Ethereum ecosystem that it's hard to keep up! Yet for some reason I haven't done a good job of updating this wonderful Blockfolio Signal. I'm committing to posting every day. In the meantime, check out Week in Ethereum News. Latest issue: weekinethereumnews.com/week-in-ethereum-news-may-31-2020/
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Evan Van Ness, EthereumThe tornado.cash mixer is now trustless, as they burned their admin keys medium.com/@tornado.cash/tornado-cash-is-finally-trustless-a6e119c1d1c2 This means that Ethereum now has an onchain mixer that trustlessly uses the magic of zero knowledge SNARKs to allow you to have privacy in your transactions.