News and Links
Top
- The current code for Proof of Stake (and Reddit thread)
- Iconomi spins off Cofound.it to help projects launch their token sale
- I’m happy to announce that this newsletter is now supported by Status.im. See below for details.
Protocol
- ENS audits are now complete
- Babbage – a visual, mechanical smart contract language proposal
Stuff for Dapp developers
- A JSON Parser For Solidity: Process Oracle Responses on-chain
- LipP2P – Modular peer-to-peer networking stack from IPFS
- CommitETH dev update – bounties for accepted pull requests
- Christian Reitwiessner talk on TrueBit
- uml2solidity, v 1.1.1
- ETH Gas Station: Current Dynamics of Transaction Inclusion on Ethereum
Ecosystem
- Slock.it raised their seed round.
- Status talks to MrYukonC
- SmartPool live on Ropsten testnet
- How to Build MetaMask into Brave
- ~9m pre-sale ether has never been touched
- Blockchannel podcast with Storj’s Shawn Wilkinson on why they switched to Ethereum
Project Updates
- Aragon 0.3, The Governance Release
- Golem alpha (running on testnet) now live on macOS
- Latest issue of The Etherian
- Ethlance introduces job sponsorships
- CryptoCompare price module for Melonport live on Kovan
- Status UI refresh: Chats, Contacts & Profile
Token Sales
- Matchpool sold out in 48 hours. Lunyr over 10k ETH at the moment.
- Alex Leverington joins Lunyr as advisor
- iEx.ec promo video
- Bloomberg writes up the Omise token sale
- Brave’s video on cutting out online ad middlemen
- The results of the CoinFund cryptoinvestor survey
General
- Ethereum will be the butt of jokes (mentioned by name?) on the new season of HBO’s “Silicon Valley”
- Which is awesome, because we are rich in material to mine for jokes
- Which is awesome, because we are rich in material to mine for jokes
- Video of Ethereum mention on ABC sitcom “The Catch”
- Andrew Keys has put Ethtrader in a tizzy: “You will be blown away when you see the next group of members that are onboarding Enterprise Ethereum. Its kind of the who’s who of planet earth.”
- What to Expect when the SEC calls
- Text of the Arizona law that recognizes smart contracts
Dates of note
[For ongoing sales, check previous week]
- April 6 – Cosmos sale begins
- April 6 – Humaniq sale begins
- April 6 – WeTrust price change
- April 10 – Blockchain Capital “bookbuilding” begins
- April 12 – iEx.ec sale begins
- April 15 – Ethbits sale begins
- April 24-25 – Rice Blockchain for Business conference. [Registration open]
- April 25 – Sikoba public sale begins.However, a pre-sale is already open
- May 10 – Boscoin sale begins
Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don’t use Ticketleap, I’m much less likely to include your conference, unelss you have a good reason as to why we’re not a good fit. But I doubt you have one, because we’re likely a great fit.
[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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Now supported by Status.im
I’m pleased to announce that this newsletter is now supported by Status.
They offered to help cover the costs of the newsletter, and in return I’ll be posting the weekly updates to Status’ blog. If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while then you already know how I feel about their strategy for Ethereum adoption. That’s why I think they’re a good match.
Status has zero editorial control over what I publish. Any complaints about editorial decisions or errors should be directed at me.
A note about transparency: we hope for this to be a long-term relationship, but either of us can opt out with a month of notice. I’ll receive some compensation for this in the form of tokens from their forthcoming crowdfunding efforts later this year. As a Status tokenholder I’ll be incentivized to promote Status; however, it’s public that I currently hold Augur tokens, and I doubt anyone would accuse me of pumping REP in this newsletter.
Against “Power Hour” in token sales
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate the power hour concept in token sales?
Not only does it feel pretty scammy, but in practice we tend to see that if you don’t sell out during power hour then people are less likely to participate afterwards.
As this space matures, I feel very confident that no one will use power hours and that token buyers will increasingly view “power hour” as a yellow flag, or worse.
There’s a good chance this will be the part where I ask you to share
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