December arrests | Ethereum Foundation Blog

December is a month in which the Ethereum ecosystem continues to develop. The research team’s research on proof-of-stake and sharding continues. November Singapore Workshoplight client is slow It keeps getting betterWhisper and Swarm continue to evolve, and discussions around protocol economics and community governance continue to mature.

First, Ethereum’s privacy technologies, especially zk-SNARKs (or “zero-knowledge proofs”), are advancing rapidly.

Vlad Zamfir personally described the history of Casper from his own perspective.

According to my Proof of Stake:

Vlad has also taken it upon himself to denounce the evils of “economic abstraction” (i.e. the goal of creating a token-agnostic public economic consensus protocol).

There was a lot of discussion about monetary policy.

Speaking of EIP…

• Fix suggested by Greg Colvin Added additional static analysis features (184) As part of the move towards “EVM 1.5”
• The Ethereum Name System (launched on the Ropsten testnet in late November) is EIP open (181) Supports reverse verification of Ethereum addresses.

“Sister protocol” Swarm, which focuses on data storage, continues to evolve.

From a core client development perspective:

Dear Community, Happy New Year and we hope to see more progress in January!