Was presented at "Monetary Policy" ETC London Meetup, at 13 Dec 2016

1. Ethereum Classic
Technology Progress
to Date and Next
Steps
December 2016
Igor Artamonov

2. How it started
● At block 1,920,000 (at 20 July 2016) Ethereum Classic was born
● In the early days people kept using the nodes without the hardfork
● At the beginning there were only one person who was able to maintain
the Ethereum Core code - Gravity
● Then, a few more developers joined ETC GitHub
○ To fork and fix Ethereum code
○ To start new projects

3. Ethereum Classic Progress
1. ETC Community has focused on taking care of all core aspects of the
network: Nodes and Wallets
2. Successfully made first protocol upgrade (Hard Fork at block
2,500,000)
a. VM Operations reprice to mitigate DDoS attack
3. Implementation ready for the next fork planned for 15th of January
a. Difficulty Bomb delay
b. VM Operations price improvements
c. Replay Protection

4. Core Projects
● Geth - official client implementation of the protocol
● Parity - 3rd party client implementation, supports both ETC & ETH
● Mist - official wallet for ETC

5. Additional Projects
● ETC Block Explorer (hosted on etherhub.io)
● Dapp UI SDK - Javascript components for building ETC applications
● EtherJar - Java tools for Dapp developers
● EtherKube - tools to deploy/manage ETC nodes in a cloud (Kubernetes
& Docker based clouds)

6. Community
● The Community is the main force
behind ETC decisions and
development
● All significant changes to the protocol
are made through ECIP (Ethereum
Classic Improvement Proposal)
process
● 35 members at the moment who
have rights to commit
● Community makes code reviews for
each commit into core projects
● Other people can send Pull Requests

7. Core Projects Team
● Dedicated team to work full time on Core Projects
● To maintain, improve and implement next versions of core projects
● Forming currently by Igor Artamonov
○ Hiring Rust, Go and Javascript developers
○ Team funded by investors who are interested in Ethereum Classic’s future
○ ETC is also looking for additional and sustainable sources of funding

8. Core Projects Plan for Y17
● Do protocol upgrade on January 15th
○ Difficulty Bomb, Replay Protection, VM Operations Reprice
● Implement and test new Monetary Policy
● Classic Wallet (New Project)
○ We aren’t happy with current Mist (ETH Wallet) code and we don’t think it’s worth the effort to
maintain existing code, so focus is to create a new wallet from the ground up
● Research Hybrid Proof-of-Stake/Proof-of-Work consensus applicability
to Ethereum Classic
● Maintain Geth and Parity

9. Overview

10. Other Teams
Few other teams and commercial organizations are gathering around
Ethereum Classic at the moment

11. Ethereum Classic
https://ethereumclassic.github.io/
2016
Igor Artamonov
igor@artamonov.ru / splix@ethereumclassic.org
Twitter @splix