Our intrepid grantees have been retaining busy as all the time – learn on for some latest accomplishments 🏆
ENS
ENS (Ethereum Title Service) runs on the Ethereum blockchain, but it surely’s not only for ETH addresses! ENS maps human-readable domains to areas all throughout the distributed internet, together with ethereum and different blockchain addresses, Tor .onion addresses, decentralized web sites and information hashes saved on IPFS, and extra. ENS continues to increase its attain, with latest integrations together with:
That is removed from the whole lot – learn the ENS 2020 Retrospective for a recap of a fairly packed 12 months, comply with ENS on Twitter @ensdomains and take a look at the 2021 roadmap to see what’s subsequent.
Textile and 3box for IPLD Object signing and encryption
IPLD is a knowledge structuring framework utilized in IPFS. Textile and 3Box obtained a mixed grant, joint funded with Protocol Labs, to create a signing and encryption commonplace to allow better composability and interoperability between web3 purposes whereas retaining person information sovereign. All work funded by this grant has now been accomplished, together with:
Ethereum builders can already combine JOSE requirements akin to JWE and JWS into their IPLD-based dApps, and there is extra to come back! This work is a part of a long term effort to extend information interoperability throughout IPFS/IPLD-based apps and instruments.
For extra, you possibly can comply with principal investigators carsonfarmer and oed, who proceed to have interaction with the neighborhood round this venture; comply with Textile on Twitter @textileio, weblog.textile.io or Slack; and 3box on Twitter @3boxdb, medium.com/3box or Discord!
bitfly for beaconcha.in eth2 block explorer
Because the launch of the beacon chain approached, the bitfly group wished to verify there was an open supply eth2 block explorer from day 1. beaconcha.in has turn into that and far more, with a treasure trove of sources for Ethereum stakers and lovers together with:
- Rising eth2 data base
- Large number of trackers and visualizations together with charts with information on liveness, participation, complete stake and extra
- Cellular app for monitoring eth2 validators
Sustain with bitfly on Twitter @etherchain_org or Reddit u/etherchain.
However wait, there’s extra!
- Unirep personal and non-repudiable fame system: accomplished good contracts, CLI and zk circuits
- MPC Part 2 UI: accomplished design and specification; developed parts together with server, CLI and browser consumer
Extra to come back subsequent month!
