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I’m Gavin Wood, one of the founders of Ethereum, and with Vitalik Buterin and Jeffrey Wilkie, one of the three directors of Eth Dev, the NFP organization that manages Ethereum development (under contract from Ethereum Suisse). blockchain. Here’s a little update to let you all know what’s been going on lately.
I’m sitting here on a pristine sofa that has been transported forward in time since the 1960s. It is the room that will become the relaxation and relaxation room at the heart of the Ethereum (C++) development process. Surrounding me is Alex Levrington in a comfortable Bond chair, and Iron Buchanan is stuck behind a cabinet that looks like it’s an original prop from mash. Lighting equipment from the Soviets Blade Runner, now forgotten except in Berlin’s finest areas where the alchemy of the Renaissance and 1960s luxury breathes Frankensteinian life into them, providing an inexhaustible glow to the work in progress. There is still a lot to be done here (I feel a bit like I’m in a group Annika Challenge) But it is shaping up undeniably. This is mostly thanks to Anneka Rice and Sarah O’Neill, who are working around the clock to get this place ready for ÐΞVcon-0, our first developer symposium. She is assisted, likewise around the clock, by the inimitable Roland, an experienced international interior designer whose memoirs I cannot wait to read.
On a personal level, I have to say that the last few months have been some of the busiest of my life. I spent the last two weeks between Switzerland and the UK, visiting Stefan, Ian and Louis. Despite the attractions of the north of England, it is nice to be back in Berlin; The combination of great burgers and cocktails, beautiful surroundings and nice people makes it hard to leave. Great C++ programmers are welcome to take this as a hint: we are still hiring (-:
Technicians
Over the past two weeks, we have made a number of important revisions to the protocol, mostly provisions for creating light-client ÐApp nodes. There will be a managers’ post in due course detailing these, but suffice it to say that we are more committed than ever to the Ethereum blockchain technology enabling multi-user decentralized applications at scale for all device sizes. The seventh part of the proof-of-concept series awaits an imminent release, while development of the final part of the series, PoC-8, will begin soon.
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Over time, our team is going from strength to strength. I am pleased to announce that Dr. Sven Ehlert has joined us. He will lead development operations. Cleaning up the build process, making the build as robust as possible, helping Caktux with our CI systems, and most importantly, helping design the stress testing tool with which we will simulate a series of extreme situations, measure and analyze. He is also a Scrum enthusiast and will help us streamline some of our development processes as our team grows.
It gives me great pleasure to also announce that Dr. Jutta Steiner will also work closely with us in the field of managing our security audit. In addition to being a passionate application developer, she has an excellent track record in handling projects and a great understanding of not only this cutting-edge technology but also the human processes that must go on behind it.
I also have to shout out to Dr. Andreas Lupe; Although we have been a long-time member of the Berlin Ethereum community and have worked on Ethereum-related code (a notable devotee of node.js), we have recently begun working more closely together on the Ethereum Secure Contract Documentation (SECDoc) framework and the Language Specification Coordination Framework Natural Associated, NatSpec. I look forward to some great cooperation.
Aside from Lefteris, who started his first official day with us today (working with Christian on Solidity, and more specifically on the SECDoc and NatSpec parts), we have two new developers joining us: Yann Levreau and Arkadiy Paronyan. Yan, who recently arrived in Berlin from his native France, will be joined by Arkady who travels all the way from Moscow to become part of the squad. They both have great experience in C++ and related technologies and will help us develop developer tools and in particular pave the way for the IDE vision.
Finally, I am pleased to report that Christoph Jentzsch, although only joining us for two months (taking time off from his doctoral studies), will join the project full-time in the new year and continue his much appreciated work on our project. Testing, general health and robustness of C++.
ÐΞVcon-0
As time goes by, Sarah, Roland and their team rush even harder to finish our center. Because they know that by Monday the 24th, Berlin will have some new arrivals. Developers and collaborators from around the world will descend on 37a Waldemarstraße, Berlin 10999 for a week to get everyone on the same page. It’s DEVcon-0: the first Ethereum developer symposium.
Conceived by Jeff and I on a quiet train from Zug to Zurich as a way to get the Amsterdam/Go youth on the same page as the Berlin/C++ youth, it has evolved into a showcase and set of seminars and workshops for all ÐΞV, our techs, our staff and some of our close collaborators. It is an opportunity for both of us to build lasting professional relationships and connections in what will become a project that may, if not define, certainly characterize our careers.
Our hub will host about 40 people, the vast majority of whom are the brilliant technical minds that Jeff, myself, or Vitalik have mentioned at one time or another, and for a week we will talk, mingle, and share our thoughts, hopes, and dreams on all things blockchain, decentralization, and disruption. It would be great: look for the videos!
Closer than ever
Aside from the ongoing work to get PoC-8 and the alpha series rolling, I’m happy to report that the Solidity project is progressing under Christian’s supervision: the first contracts compiled with Solidity have been delivered and tested while working on the testnet, and as I write this I see another pull request for state assignments. Great stuff.
Alex has also worked tirelessly on our crypto code and has now started working on the p2p layer, which is the full strategy we will see in his speech at ÐΞVcon. Marek and Marianne have also been busy with the Javascript API, and I can assure any Javascript ÐApp developer that they will have a lot to look forward to in PoC-8.
Summary of the above
There are also some other developments and staff I’d like to announce, but I’m afraid, once again, we’ll have to wait until next time. Watch this space for post ÐΞVcon update!
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