News and Links
Top
- Casper Stage 1 Implementation Guide for PoW to hybrid PoS/PoW
- Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney: A digital book that gets altered as it is passed on
Protocol and Geth release
- Ethereum Core Devs Meeting video and notes
- Geth 1.6.0 now out with lots of new stuff
- Péter Szilágyi puts a Raspberry Pi Zero W on the chain as a light node
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Alex Miller: Getting Started as an Ethereum Web Developer
- Empty Dapp Template code. HTML + JavaScript + jQuery + web3.js + AlphaLayer.js
- Repo for Solidity design patterns
- Zeppelin’s security audit of iEx.ec. After ether.camp’s bug, people still aren’t using safeMath?
- Whisper Push Notifications
- Ledger Labs state channels wiki
Ecosystem
- Trustlines Network: The original Ripple idea on Ethereum
- ENS is part of Foundation’s Bug Bounty program
- Latest issue of The Etherian – in-depth dapp coverage
- Simon de la Rouviere: Jack & The Giant Joint-Stock Pepe: The History & Future of the Corporation
- Storj – opportunities from moving to Ethereum
- Aragon releases white paper
Interviews
- Carl and Jarrad from Status talk with Blockchannel
- Aragon talks to Coin Interview
- Status talks to Patrick Long from WeTrust
- CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman talks to Blockchannel
Project Updates
- Colony Q2 Update
- Golem 0.5.0 for Ubuntu and macOS
- FirstBlood alpha released to token sale participants
- Melon v0.1.0 now available
Token Sales
- I listened to an Andreas Antonopoulos podcast this week about Ethereum token sales, and it was shocking how little he knew about the events he was pontificating on. 45 minutes of getting things factually incorrect. It was so bad I won’t even link to it.
- It appears that Blockchain Capital raised just $180k USD from the Ethereum community
- EthBits has raised about 300k USD so far, Lunyr 700k, Humaniq says 1.6m (tough to verify)
- Gilles Fedak on Epicenter
- Gnosis commits to just 10% tokens for founders.
- It’s fantastic that they’re innovating on token sale structures and ignoring the small but vocal crowd of haters.
- It’s fantastic that they’re innovating on token sale structures and ignoring the small but vocal crowd of haters.
- Daniel Zakrisson: Building a crowdsale evaluation process
General
- Jeremiah Nichol – with a small assist from me – turned last week’s newsletter into a short audio podcast
- The deadline to withdraw DAO ETC has been extended to Jan 10, 2018 by the White Hat Group
- Broadridge, J.P. Morgan, Northern Trust and Banco Santander team up to fix shareholder proxy votes
- My friend Cory is putting together a Devcon3 house in Cancun from Oct 15 – Nov 15. [Disclosure: I think he’s paying me a referral fee]
Dates of note
[For ongoing sales, check previous week]
- April 19 – iEx.ec sale begins
- April 24 – Gnosis Dutch auction begins
- April 24-25 – Rice Blockchain for Business conference. A mini DevCon speaker list. Register.
- April 25 – Sikoba public pre-sale begins.However, a pre-allocation is already open
- April 25 – Veritaseum sale begins
- April 26 – Lunyr sale closes
- May 2 – E4ROW sale begins
- May 10 – Boscoin sale begins
- May 25 – William Mougayar’s Token Summit in NYC. Get a special 20% discount by entering WIENews at checkout. Discount expires April 17th. Will I see you there?
Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don’t use Ticketleap, I’m much less likely to include your conference, unless you have a good reason as to why we’re not a good fit. But I doubt there is one, because we’re likely a great fit. /shamelessplug
[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 may 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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