Top
- Metropolis is coming:
- Mozilla’s Internet Health Report features Ethereum
Stuff for Dapp developers
- A new community for Functional Programming on the EVM
- Vitalik’s paper for R3 on chain interoperability
- There are three different Ether/Zcash integrations: 1) ZoE – zk-snarks on Ethereum, 2) ZRelay – use ZCash on Ethereum, 3) Cross-chain atomic transactions
- EIP drafts for elliptic curve arithmetic and pairing functions.
- EIP drafts for elliptic curve arithmetic and pairing functions.
- Tendermint 0.8 released
- Dev diary, week 4
Clients and releases
- EthereumJ v1.4 and Ethereum Harmony v2.0: fast sync and contract full trace locally.
- Gavin Wood/EthCore blocked the relicensing of the C++ client
- I feel terrible for Bob Summerwill who worked for months on this but for naught
- More on the relicense blocking
Ecosystem
- Status.im Ethereum Thought Leader series: Alex Van de Sande, Consensys’ Carolyn Reckhow (part 2), Taylor Gerring
- Peer to peer lending algo-fund LendingRobot is using Ethereum as part of its stack
- How would you implement security for a multi-billion dollar lottery?
- Microsoft/Mojix announce Project Manifest to track goods in retail using RFID
- Swiss consortium adds privacy/encryption module on private chain for OTC trading
- FirstBlood’s five favorite video game blockchain projects.
- Consensys wants to hire for about 25 positions.
- If you code, you can work from anywhere. If not, you need to be in Brooklyn.
- If you code, you can work from anywhere. If not, you need to be in Brooklyn.
Project Updates
- Golem Protocol Part I: Decentralized Exchange for Computing
- Maker Market – UI update with added REP, ICN, 1ST, and SNGLS trading
- Weifund alpha is live on the mainnet
- Mysterium VPN: What we’ve done for the month after our presale
- Automata podcast talks to WeTrust co-founders
- An interview with Mihai Alisie of Akasha
- SpethBet beta live on the test network – sports betting on Ethereum
Token Sales
- How do you know the token you’re buying has value? Cryptoeconomics is hard, part 2
- The Rudimental’s Roadmap – and adventures with the Feds
- William Mougayar: Watch Out, the ICOs Are Coming
- Blockchannel talks to Matt Liston of Gnosis – sale coming in Feb or March
General
- “The Foundation is aware of the issue and addressing it.” – Hudson Jameson on Barry Silbert’s misleading use of the Ethereum trademark
- Do companies that take money from Barry Silbert face a backlash?
- If you’ve ever heard FUD or other rumors about “the bomb” or “ice age,” then just remember that – per Vitalik – if we start getting long block times, the bomb is easily postponed and/or the release scope can easily be changed.
Dates of note
- Jan 27-29 – Thomson Reuters “Hack the Valley” hackathon
- Feb 1 – Contingency sale begins
- Feb 13 – Etheroll token sale begins
- Feb 13 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins (closed to US/EU citizens, KYC done by exchange for initial purchase and for dividends)
- Feb 14 – Chronobank sale ends
- Feb 15 – Melonport sale begins (must check a box that you aren’t US Citizen)
- Feb 17-18 – Ethereum Euro Dev Conference in Paris
- Feb 28 – Humaniq token sale begins
- Feb – Cosmos token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – Gnosis token sale likely to begin
- “Late March” – Matchpool token sale begins
[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. This is not investment advice.]
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