Over the last month and a half, the Ethereum core improvement and analysis groups have been constructing upon the progress made within the final yr, and with the specter of final yr’s safety points now effectively behind us, work has begun in full drive on implementing the Metropolis onerous fork.
First, ongoing progress on the collaboration with the Zcash crew and the implementation of zk-SNARKs:
On the proof of stake entrance, myself and Vlad and others have continued to solidify the Casper specification and converge on a roadmap. A key focus of our work has been on a notion of “protocol armor”, which may flip many lessons of conventional Byzantine-fault-tolerant consensus algorithms into “attributable-fault consensus algorithms”, the place if there’s a protocol failure then not solely have you learnt that a lot of validators had been defective, however you additionally know whom responsible. The work has not but been absolutely written out, although will probably be additional formalized and offered quickly, and anybody is free to comply with alongside at https://gitter.im/ethereum/casper-scaling-and-protocol-economics.
A put up on parametrizing Casper was written right here: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/parametrizing-casper-the-decentralization-finality-time-overhead-tradeoff-3f2011672735
We had two core dev conferences, and have authorised the next EIPs for probably inclusion into Metropolis:
Moreover, there have been a number of modifications to the EIP course of itself: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/feedback/5rp8mr/update_to_eip_ethereum_improvement_proposal_system/
Work on Mist, Swarm, ENS and related infrastructure is continuous at a speedy tempo; Swarm is now on the stage the place it may well serve the pockets app, although the incentivization logic just isn’t but in place.
Work on programming languages can also be shifting ahead:
Work on implementations is progressing:
We want everybody a contented Valentine’s day!
