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December marks a month of continued progress\u00a0in the Ethereum ecosystem. Research on proof of stake and sharding continues after the research team’s workshop in Singapore in November<\/a>, the light client slowly keeps getting better<\/a>, Whisper and Swarm keep moving forward, and discussions on protocol economics and community governance continue to mature.<\/p>\n First,\u00a0privacy technologies on Ethereum, and particularly zk-SNARKs (or “zero knowledge proofs”), have been rapidly moving forward.<\/p>\n Vlad Zamfir has taken it upon himself to explain the history behind Casper, from his point of view:<\/p>\n On proof of stake from myself:<\/p>\n Vlad has also taken it upon himself\u00a0to rail against the evils of “economic abstraction” (ie. the goal of\u00a0trying to create token-agnostic public economic\u00a0consensus\u00a0protocols):<\/p>\n Various discussions were had on monetary policy:<\/p>\n Speaking of EIPs…<\/p>\n The data storage-focused “sister protocol” Swarm continues to move forward:<\/p>\n And from the core client development standpoint:<\/p>\n We wish the community a happy new year and look forward to more progress in January!<\/p><\/div>\n\n