Historical archive · 2018 · 14 briefings
14 original, source-linked historical crypto briefings published in 2018.
Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 27, 2018
BIP 118 proposes SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and related modes that could let a signature commit to a transaction without binding to a specific previous output in the usual way.
Read the briefing →Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 30, 2018
BIP 157 describes how full nodes can serve compact filters that let light clients find relevant transactions without downloading every block.
Read the briefing →Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 30, 2018
BIP 158 defines the Golomb-coded set format used for compact block filters, including the filter parameters and elements.
Read the briefing →Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 30, 2018
BIP 322 describes a way to prove control of a Bitcoin output by signing a message using a transaction-like construction.
Read the briefing →Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 26, 2018
BIP 331 proposes package relay rules that consider a child transaction together with its unconfirmed ancestors for fee evaluation.
Read the briefing →DeFi · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 24, 2018
Compound’s early protocol contracts let users supply assets to shared markets and borrow against posted collateral, with rates adjusting algorithmically.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 27, 2018
EIP-1014 introduced CREATE2, allowing a contract address to be computed from a deployer, salt and init-code hash before deployment.
Read the briefing →NFTs · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 25, 2018
EIP-2309 specifies a consecutive-transfer event that can represent a range of NFT token identifiers in one log.
Read the briefing →NFTs · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 30, 2018
EIP-1155 defines a multi-token contract interface that can manage fungible, non-fungible and semi-fungible token types in one contract.
Read the briefing →Ethereum · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 26, 2018
EIP-721 specifies ownership and transfer methods for distinct, individually tracked tokens, creating a shared interface for NFTs.
Read the briefing →Bitcoin · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 25, 2018
Lightning uses off-chain payment channels that can settle to Bitcoin, aiming to support faster payments without recording each transfer on the base chain.
Read the briefing →Security · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 26, 2018
Japan’s Financial Services Agency responded to the January 2018 Coincheck theft with inspection and business-improvement orders for crypto exchanges.
Read the briefing →DeFi · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 27, 2018
Uniswap v1 introduced a simple automated market-maker model in which traders exchanged tokens against liquidity pools governed by smart contracts.
Read the briefing →Stablecoins · Historical retrospective · Published Dec 27, 2018
Circle and Coinbase launched USDC as a dollar-linked token with issuer redemption and reserve disclosures as part of its model.
Read the briefing →The archived publication dates for these retrospectives fall in 2018.