Ethereum News and Links
Top
- Laura Shin’s cryptobubble article put Olaf Carlson-Wee on the cover of Forbes … and apparently popped the bubble
- ETH Gas Station – what’s new in version 2.0
- Tons of phishing attacks the past week or so – mainly fake MyEtherWallet sites spammed through Slack, but hardly limited to MEW. Don’t click links.
- The phisher moved some Eth to Bittrex
- The phisher moved some Eth to Bittrex
- Zug is giving all residents a uPort identity
- Great example of the Jurisdictional Competition post from Fred Wilson. That post came out of this series of Jason Calcanis and Fred tweets
- Exhibit B: Mauritius is recruiting ConsenSys to turn the island into a blockchain hub
- Great example of the Jurisdictional Competition post from Fred Wilson. That post came out of this series of Jason Calcanis and Fred tweets
Protocol
- Latest Youtube of Casper standup
- Updated sharding github repo
- Vitalik Reddit comments rehashing what currently sucks about Ethereum and technical debt
- “Discouragement attacks” – Vitalik
- Vitalik’s comprehensive Q2 Roundup
Stuff for developers
- Securify: a web interface tool for formal verification of Solidity and bytecode. Also read the Reddit thread
- Ox.js: “hook into…contracts from a client-side web application”
- A practical guide to cheap IPFS hash storage in an Ethereum smart contract
- Clone any contract for 66k gas
- Part 3 of Daniel Ellison’s series on LLL
- Writing Smart Contracts With Truffle – a guide for devs new to Ethereum
- Also Dick Olsson’s guide
- Also Dick Olsson’s guide
- Bug bounty leaderboard #1 Martin Holst Swende analysis on how miners can frontrun Bancor contracts. Here’s an ELI5: don’t use market orders.
Releases
- Solidity 0.4.13, a bug fix for this week’s v0.4.12
- ‘throw’ is deprecated
- ‘throw’ is deprecated
- py-solc 1.2.0 is out
Ecosystem
- How much it costs in gas to bet on each of the Ethereum gaming sites
- Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition to help non-profits figure out how Ethereum can help further their mission
- RAC is releasing an album through Ujo Music. It’s only been about 6 weeks since RAC’s Ethtrader post.
- Tokenize Wikipedia. See also Curation Markets whitepaper
- A list of the week’s new projects added to Ether Casts
- Latest issue of The Etherian
- Stephan Tual on PolkaDot
- Gavin Wood talks PolkaDot at Eth London meetup
- Gavin Wood talks PolkaDot at Eth London meetup
- Is frictionless Ethereum and dapp usage possible?
Project Announcements & White papers
- Grid+ whitepaper is out. If that link goes down, try their website.
- Mattereum – Vinay Gupta white paper on legally enforceable smart contracts
Project Updates
- First Blood locks up tokens for founders until “wide” adoption
- Iconomi June update
- Melonport June Update
- Aragon Q2 Update
- Brass Golem v 0.7 alpha
- Colony’s quarterly update
Interviews and Talks
- Arthur Falls talks to Numerai
- Erik Voorhees on Epicenter
- Colony’s Jack du Rose & Aron Fischer podcast chat with Aaron Watson
- Jordi Baylina and Griff Green talk Metropolis on Youtube
- Tyler Smith on the EnergyMakers podcast
Token Sale Projects
- A quick look at the Santiment token sale distribution
- DA Power Play: digital asset trading automation
- Updates from the district0x Network
Token Sales
- Coinfund’s Alex Bulkin: The biggest cryptoasset by marketcap within 5 years will be an apptoken
- Mougayar: Token sale funding exceeds VC funding.
- Zeppelin unveils Coral: a standardized ERC20 token fundraising platform
General
- Vitalik humorously responds to the litany of Bitcoin maximalist objections
- Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush with an ELI20 for Tezos
- Speculative, but: what’s driving EOS demand
- How I bought and setup my ENS name
- IRS narrows the extent of its Coinbase fishing expedition
- WTF is Ethereum?
- Paul Vigna covers token sales in the WSJ
- Thinking about locked up ether when modeling demand for ETH
- DevCon3 is now sold out.
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar:
Upcoming token sale start dates:
- July 11 – InsureX
- July 11 – Suretly
- July 12 – Dent
- July 14 – Autoria
- July 16 – Agrello
- July 17 – Coindash
- July 18 – ACT
- July 18 – district0x
- July 19 – Aventus
- July 20 – Propy
- July 23 – MyBit
- July 24 – Everex
- July 24 – TribeToken
- July 31 – RexMLS
- August 1 – Harbour DAO
- August 8 – Decentraland
- August 8 – Indorse
- August 15 – Ox Protocol (mandatory registration Aug 9-12)
- August 22 – Monetha
- September 5 – Viberate
- September 13 – Unikoin
Ongoing token sales:
You can find this calendar updated daily at TokenSaleCalendar.com
[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 mysomewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]
Newsletter housekeeping
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I’m very excited about this move and will have significantly more to say in the future. The newsletters should become more regular again! In the meantime, I wanted to make it clear so that you can judge whether I favor ConsenSys projects.
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