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- If you want to catch up on Ethereum research: Vitalik’s Q1 Roundup
- Vitalik asks how Ethereum Research can improve communication. 99% of respondents misunderstand and suggest general communication strategies. Sigh.
- Vitalik asks how Ethereum Research can improve communication. 99% of respondents misunderstand and suggest general communication strategies. Sigh.
- A vision for how Brave’s Basic Attention Token leads to Ethereum mass adoption
Protocol
- Sami Mäkelä: Formalizing Ethereum transactions
- Ethereum Name Service audit results
- Vitalik is optimistic about lowering inflation: “I expect future net inflation will eventually go slightly negative once there’s a high volume of transactions on the network.”
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Golem found a bug on a major exchange that left tokens at risk worth millions.
- The exchange hadn’t verified input
- MyEtherWallet’s kvhnuke: “It is easy to say it is ethereum’s fault rather than typing str.length == 42”
- Piper Merriam: the state of tools for the Python Ethereum ecosystem
- Bringing the web3 API to the browser
- Signing into the backend with Ethereum and JSON Web Tokens
Ecosystem
- Polychain Capital is hiring a Senior Operations Manager and Trader/Portfolio Manager. I might have applied if I was willing to live in the Bay Area.
- Status talks to Luis Cuende from Aragon
- They also interviewed some guy named Evan Van Ness.
- They also interviewed some guy named Evan Van Ness.
- Accept payments in Ether on WooCommerce
- WeTrust chats with Tendermint/Cosmo’s Jae Kwon and with Golem’s Julian Zawistowski
- Numerai’s Xander Dunn on Software Engineering Daily podcast
- ethPay: encrypted chatting via Whisper
- Jason Teutsch & Christian Reitwiessner discuss TrueBit on Epicenter
Project Updates
- What VirtuePoker has been up to
- How To: Create A Good Market on Augur
- New Melonport explainer video
- WeiFund’s first crowdfunding? Feature film Braid to raise capital on WeiFund
- Brendan Eich interview on Basic Attention Token
- How BAT reduces online ad fraud
- ConsenSys’ Adchain: Ad Tech Landscape Today: Existing Problems As We See Them
- I finally switched to the Brave browser and highly recommend it.
Token Sales
- Lots of gnashing of teeth this week over the Gnosis auction mechanics. I’m very happy they are taking a risk and forging a path where the market decides valuations. Not every project should sell 80% up front; some will need additional token sales to scale.
- Updated Gnosis white paper
- Updated Gnosis white paper
- Smith & Crown on iEx.ec
- Cosmos raised $17m USD in 30 minutes.
- DRAMA: Matchpool co-founder burns bridges on his way out and accuses the CEO of stealing funds. Turns out CEO had just moved some ETH to Bitcoin to hedge, as previously promised. However, poor transparency that co-founders were fighting during crowdsale and yet they told no one. Token sale purchasers can get a refund if they want one.
- I wrote some thoughts on Blockchain Capital’s token sale. I may have been on the tough side about their returns, but the lack of disclosure and transparency was very disappointing.
- It still sold out all $10 million in a day.
- It still sold out all $10 million in a day.
General
- Split a seed mnemonic for crypto wallets to multiple mnemonics.
- Latest issue of The Etherian. The number of projects they cover continues to grow
- It’s official: Eris put the EVM on Hyperledger
- Manuel Stagars’ blockchain documentary: The Blockchain and Us
- Just a few days to withdraw DAO To ETC refunds
Dates of note
[For ongoing sales, check previous week]
- April 12 – iEx.ec sale begins
- April 12 – WeTrust sale ends
- April 14 – Humaniq price change
- April 15 – Ethbits sale begins
- April 24 – Gnosis 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
- April 25 – Veritaseum sale begins
- April 26 – Lunyr sale closes
- May 10 – Boscoin sale begins
- May 25 – William Mougayar’s Token Summit in NYC. For a limited time you can use discount code WIENews for 20% off. I’m planning on being 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 you have 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 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.]
Errors or additions: evan@ticketleap.com
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