Week in Ethereum News

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• Brendan Eich’s Brave browser announced the Basic Attention Token. Blog post announcement
  • White paper on how the token cuts out the middleman – ad exchanges
    
  • Token sale planned – very interesting project with potential for mainstream adoption
    
• Storj is switching to Ethereum
  • WeTrust interviews Storj 
  • Yours might follow Storj
    

Protocol

• Ethereum JS Ecosystem Updates
  • More on EWASM
    
• Yoichi: Fixing safety proof on dynamic validator PoS
  • What he’s probably building next: “automatic test case generator that takes an on-chain contract and tries to find an input that decreases the balance [or assertion failure]”
    
• Vlad Zamfir: Dealing with failure in cryptocurrency
• Etherchain’s optimal gas price calculator.  Optimal right now is 10 shannon, but avg is 23.
• Solidity produces the same bytecode on Windows, Linux and Emscripten
• Christian Lundkvist: Intro to zk-SNARKs with examples

Stuff for Dapp developers

• Nick Johnson’s ENS Launch Postmortem
• Ropsten returns through mining power. Here’s the new Ropsten explorer
• Reitwießner reminder: “A Solidity compiler warning means that there is something seriously wrong with your code”
• Never Use Passwords Again with Ethereum and Metamask
• Be careful using the transfer function for ERC20 tokens
• Proof of Burn to incentivize service requests, but…game theory?
• Truffle 3.2 release

Ecosystem

• You can now run Multi-member Consortium Blockchain Networks on Azure
• For whatever it’s worth: about 1% of Ether has Carbonvoted nearly unanimously to reduce mining rewards
• Status interviews with John and Hudson from Project Oaken, Auryn from FirstBlood and Jarred Chase
• Etherian weekly issue of exhaustive dapp updates
• Ethereum wiki

Project Updates

• ICONOMI introduces Repayment Program(me)
• Aragon alpha running on Kovan testnet
• Smartpool alpha is live on testnet
• Chronobank public Beta release on Kovan testnet
• Progress on Golem’s UX

Podcast

• Ryan Zurrer and Olaf Carlson-Wee talk Polychain Capital with Arthur Falls
• Melonport’s Mona El Isa chats with FutureTech about Ethereum
• Arthur Falls talks to Joe Reed of MeDAOs and Gabe Mitchell of Ethereum Clothing
• Blockchannel podcast with Numerai’s Richard Craib

Token Sales

• What is REX?
• WeTrust interviews some of their community members
• iEx.ec Virtual Machine Management
• Why it’s tough to game Lunyr
• This week I gave a talk titled “So you wanna be a VC?” about Ethereum’s democratization of both (A) who gets to be a VC and (B) access to capital.  Video to follow soon
  • Right before my talk, Naval Ravikant goes on a tweetstorm about how Ethereum is disrupting VC, eg this tweet and this one)
    
  • The same day, Fred Wilson says he is “a true believer. Full stop” in crypto projects
    
  • Harvard Business Review, a few days later: What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care
    

MSM mentions

• Bloomberg feature on EEA and “post-Bitcoin”
• Wired on Augur: Forget Bitcoin. The Blockchain Could Reveal What’€™s True Today and Tomorrow
• Ethereum in Mashable
• ABC sitcom references Ethereum

General

• Tools and technologies in the Ethereum ecosystem
• Auth0’s Intro to Ethereum smart contracts post
• UN expanding Ethereum program for humanitarian spending
• ING and Mercuria have an energy trading platform on Ethereum
  • Trafigura with Hyperledger PoC for energy trading
    

Dates of note

[For ongoing sales, check previous week]

• Mar 29 – Lunyr sale begins
• Mar 30 – WeTrust price change
• Mar 31 – Centz sale begins
• April 2 – Matchpool sale begins
• April 5 – Sikoba sale begins, with the an interesting pre-sale twist that is already open
• April 6 – Cosmos sale begins
• April 6 – Humaniq sale begins
• April 10 – Blockchain Capital “bookbuilding” begins
• April 12 – iEx.ec sale begins
• April 15 – Ethbits sale begins
• April 17 – Boscoin sale begins
• April 24-25 – Rice Blockchain for Business conference. [Registration open]

Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don’t use Ticketleap for event registration, I’m much less likely to include your conference.

[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. If you’re interested in what I do, you can find my investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]

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