Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
- Lane Rettig announced the start of the Casper FFG testnet. You can find the code for the FFG and to run the testnet.
- BeyondBlock Taipei saw Vitalik give a scaling talk and Vlad give a governance talk. Vlad has been tweetstorming about governance. [Lots of other great talks in the morning and afternoon. See agenda.]
- Vitalik: “the point of PoW in Casper FFG is that it can be easily reverted to as the primary source of consensus if the PoS breaks for whatever reason”
- Latest Casper standup call
- ERC 780: Claims Registry
- Vitalik: STARKs, Part II. You might also like Dr. Reitwiessner’s ELI5.
Stuff for developers
- How to code a Tamagotchi-like entity
- 0xConnect – JavaScript library to interact with their standard relayer API
Ecosystem
- Parity’s Afri Schoedon explains the difference between full, fast and warp sync and pruning options to debunk the Bitcoin FUD that Ethereum’s chain size will hit 1 TB. A full node is just 25gb. This is a must read for folks who want to understand the tech better.
- Getting started with MyEtherWallet. Using blockchain basics from MEW
- Fred Ehrsam with an expansive overview of blockchain governance
- Cryptokitty mania during its launch this week. Per EthGasStation, it’s about 5% of recent transactions. You can track kitty sales – one sold for $4500 USD and about 65 have sold for over $100.
Ethereum in the Enterprise
- Guide to running Istanbul BFT on Geth and Quorum
- Block explorer for Quorum (and Ethereum) tailored for enterprise
Project Updates
- Curation Markets: Price discovery of non-rivalrous goods with curved bonding
- REXmls aiming to be live in early 2018
- Grid+ is locking up a bunch of their GRID tokens
- How Variabl builts its ETHUSD price feed
- Aragon Nov update
- Eth PayNow button from ENS Listings
- Metrics for first month of Status Open Bounty
- Digix raised VC money instead of tapping the value they raised in their DAO?
Project Announcements and Whitepapers
- FOAM’s Crypto-Spatial Coordinates – physical addresses have corresponding on-chain addresses.
- Ethereum Login – Oauth but with Ethereum
- Citadel.ink – anti-attention economy social network. Working prototype. Intro post.
Interviews, Videos and Talks
- All the DevCon3 videos are out, including the breakout room! Also see Michael Wee’s Devcon3 notes
- TrueBit’s packed 10min video of interviews from EthWaterloo
- Naval Ravikant on Laura Shin’s podcast
- Neufund’s Zoe Adamovicz on Epicenter
- Streamr talk at Helsinki meetup
- Dharma Protocol’s Nadav Hollander on Rhys Lindmark
- MEW’s Taylor Monahan talks to Aaron Watson
- Q&A with Lendroid’s Vignesh Sundaresan
- RocketPool’s David Rugendyke talks to me about Casper staking pools
Token Sales
- Vitalik video talk on Token Economics. Finally a Vitalik talk I could watch at 1.5x!
- Fat protocols? Or application protocols?
- I’m pleased RocketPool has chosen to do a proportional refund cap. You can hear more in my RocketPool podcast.
- Bonded token pre-sales with Dharma Protoocol
Token Sale Projects
- Bloomberg on YouNow/Props
- CoFound.it’s Playoffs event is happening
- About the Virtue Poker token video
- Bloom roadmap
General
- This week Bitcoin topped 10k and Ether hit 500. Fred Wilson: “been rotating out of BTC into ETH for the past couple years”
- Coinbase won a victory in US federal court to exclude 97% of their customers from the IRS fishing expedition.
- Michael Arrington announces a fund denominated in… Ripple?
- Sunny Aggarwal and Nate Rush: unpopular ideas about blockchains
- FT: Insurers battle for blockchain
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar.
Upcoming token sale start dates:
- November 30 – Cofound.it Seed: Legacy, ENTX, Aversafe, Mediasifter,Datafund, Unico
- November 30 – Nous Platform
- November 30 – Bloom
- December 7 – Debitum
- December 8 – SingularityNet
- December 10 – Gazecoin
- December 11 – Aurora DAO from IDEX
- December 23 – Rocketpool (proportional refund cap, started November 25h)
Ongoing token sales:
- Relest
- CanYa
- Jibrel Network
- Neufund ICBM
- Realisto
- FundRequest
- Dopameme
- Gizer
- Aigang
- Hirematch
- ScriptDrop
- SeedsTokens
- Sense Token
- Leverj
WARNING: list may include or even likely includes scams and quasi-scams. Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk.
[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 somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]
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