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- A Consensys token sale appears to be under consideration!
- A friend sent me the CFO job listing, which was put up after I mentioned the Consensys job openings last week. Check out this language: “We also anticipate one or more significant external funding events over the next year, potentially leveraging innovative, blockchain based financing as part of our capital structure.”
- A friend sent me the CFO job listing, which was put up after I mentioned the Consensys job openings last week. Check out this language: “We also anticipate one or more significant external funding events over the next year, potentially leveraging innovative, blockchain based financing as part of our capital structure.”
- MediaChain is building on IPFS and Ethereum – scalable, off-chain storage for data-heavy web3 projects
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Truffle 3.0 release with EIP190 package management
- Ethereum package registry
- Piper Merriam: Dogfooding the Ethpm.com package registry
- More Piper: Populus 2.0 – with smart contract packaging support
- Timo Hanke’s Random Beacon – general source of secure randomness
- Debian packages update for EthRaspbian & EthArmbian
- Mahesh Murthy: Full Stack Hello World Ethereum Dapp Tutorial, part 2
Clients and releases
- Geth 1.5.8 – Peachest – “a patch release to address bugs and annoyances”
- Ethereum Wallet and Mist 0.8.9 released
- Solidity 0.4.9 released – watch out for file prefixes
- Dev diary, week 5
Protocol
- EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposal) system updated
- Zk-SNARKs: Under the Hood by Vitalik
Ecosystem
- Ethlance – Free job market/freelancing platform
- Status.im wraps up its interview series: Alexey Akhunov, Pelle Braendgaard, Thomas Bertani, and Loi Luu
- Bug bounties: WeiFund and Chronobank
Project Updates
- AKASHA 0.4.0 – the Tipping Point. lots of new features like tipping.
- Blockjack and Rouleth are joining forces
Token Sales
- The Gnosis token model
- Matchpool: Community-owned social matchmaking, aimed at online dating and beyond
- Etheroll publishes Piper Merriam’s security audit.
- Long Reddit thread on Contingency.
- Dfinity and upcoming fundraising
- There are many upcoming token sales, so I wanted to link back to stuff I wrote early in the newsletter: my work-in-progress investing thesis and token sale investing strategies.
- I also offered a longer document on how I think about token sales. It’s not my most polished work, but had some interesting ideas. I’ll open up the previous offer: share this newsletter on social media or send me any amount of Ether, and I’ll email you the doc if you let me know at weekinethereum@gmail.com
- I also offered a longer document on how I think about token sales. It’s not my most polished work, but had some interesting ideas. I’ll open up the previous offer: share this newsletter on social media or send me any amount of Ether, and I’ll email you the doc if you let me know at weekinethereum@gmail.com
General
- More on Gavin Wood/Parity blocking the C++ client relicensing (here and here)
- Bottom line is that the Foundation ended up wasting money and months of Bob Summerwill’s time working on a relicensing that didn’t happen. Clearly there are quite few people (including Taylor Gerring) who are not happy at the outcome.
- Bottom line is that the Foundation ended up wasting money and months of Bob Summerwill’s time working on a relicensing that didn’t happen. Clearly there are quite few people (including Taylor Gerring) who are not happy at the outcome.
- Coinfund’s Jake Brukhman talks crowdfunding in 2017 on Automata podcast
- A talk I gave for the BIL conference: Blockchains long-term: recreating the Internet. An extended version of my internal TicketLeap talk.
- Blockchannel podcast with Balaji Srinivasan
- I really enjoyed this Epicenter podcast with Rick Dudley.
- Will Warren: The difference between App Coins and Protocol Tokens
Dates of note
- 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 27 – SuperDAO token sale begins
- Feb 28 – Contingency sale ends
- Mar 1 – WeTrust token sale begins (1st day bonus, weekly price changes)
- “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – Gnosis token sale likely to begin
- “Feb/Mar” – Humaniq token sale begins
- March – Cosmos token sale begins
- “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. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice.]
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