Plasma Cash: The Ethereum Roadmap

Ethereum Foundation researcher Karl Floersch joined us to discuss the main projects to upgrade Ethereum: Casper, Sharding and Plasma. Karl has been playing a key role in creating a new and simpler specification for Ethereum sidechains called Plasma Cash. We discussed the evolution of the Plasma project and what Ethereum’s evolution in the coming years could look like.

Topics:

• How Karl originally became involved in Ethereum
• The role of Casper, Sharding and Plasma in the Ethereum roadmap
• The problems with the original Plasma concept
• How Plasma Cash provides a simple scalability solution
• The challenge of data availability
• Use cases and timeline for Plasma

Links:

• Plasma Cash Simple Spec
• Ethereum Plasma MVP Overview
• Plasma Cash Discussion on Ethereum Research
• Cryptoeconomics: An Introduction
• Plasma & The Public Ethereum Chain - Joseph Poon (Ethereal Summit 2017)
• Plasma - Original Whitepaper
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