Ethereum News and Links
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Protocol
- Ethereum blog: comprehensive research and dev roundup
- Vitalik talk on Casper the Friendly Finality Gadget
- Latest Casper standup call with Nate Rush presentation.
- Vitalik on Casper: “It’s not disagreeing with the majority that destroys your entire deposit, it’s disagreeing with yourself.”
- Overview of blockchain scaling methods
Stuff for developers
- Oyente v0.2.6
- TestRPC v4.1.1
- EthAuth – REST/client for authentication
- Solidity Casper interface for interfacing with the Viper Casper contract.
- Leeroy on reducing the gas cost of your code
- How AIGang deals with upgrading its code
- Ethereum from scratch – aimed at devs new to the space
- Deploy static sites using Swarm and ENS
- Grid+ on key management necessary for mainstream adoption
Ecosystem
- Nick Johnson: Results of the first ENS Workshop
- Dan Finlay on the future of ENS incentives
- ENS workshop videos are now much more viewable
- Making uPort’s code architecture smarter – smoother onboarding with meta transactions
- uPort proof of concept with the Brazilian Ministry of Planning for “verification of important notarized documents”
- uPort proof of concept with the Brazilian Ministry of Planning for “verification of important notarized documents”
- OMG airdrop to start Sept 4th and finish in about a week
- 0x donated made five figure donations to Etherscan and MyEtherWallet. Bravo.
- Livepeer’s slashing conditions during testnet soft launch
- Blockchain.info wallets now support Ether
- Chris Georgen’s overview of stablecoins
- MyEtherWallet hiring for a new support member
- MetaMask is over 100k users
Project Announcements
- Lotos: Buddhism on Ethereum
- MediaSifter: “web interface for structuring and managing complex payments”
- AirGap: make airgapped machines easier. Github
Project Updates
- Augur starting to implement IDEO interface suggestions
- Mike Goldin on the Adchain roadmap
- MelonPort update 6 months after token sale
- The FunFair Economy, part 1
- An overview of the Singular DTV modules
- NSFW: Spankchain’s payment channels demo
- Lunyr alpha release on mainnet scheduled for mid-Sept
- imToken v1.3.1
- BAT integrating with Uphold wallet
- Andy Tudhope on Status’ post-token sale challenges of dealing with price-focused community
- District0x’s Meme Factory Partnering with Gifs.com
- What is Grid+? explainer video
Ethereum in the Enterprise
- Quorum v0.3 – with a Whisper-like messaging protocol for private chains
- Hyperledger Sawtooth can now use the EVM
Interviews and Talks
- Vitalik Buterin talk in Singapore. Funny bit around 27:30.
- Zahoor Mohamed talk on Swarm in Singapore
- Arthur Falls on Epicenter
- Decentraland’s Esteban Ordano on Blockchannel
- Video interview with Streamr CEO Henri Pikhala
- Q&A with Colony’s Jack du Rose
- Parity’s Robert Habermeier and Bjorn Wagner in Seoul
- Arthur Falls talks to Lee Weiss about his fight against the very broad IRS’ summons of Coinbase data
- Alex van de Sande on the Daily Tech News Show
Token Sale Projects
- You can now register for Kik’s Kin token sale
- Maecenas Live Q&A
- How Daniel Zakrisson got involved with Maecenas
- As Joey Krug says, tokenized art is a new asset class.
- How the Cofound.it Priority Pass will work for the Musiconomi, Maecenas, X8 Currency and Digital Asset Power Play sales
- The Virtue Poker Justice System to ensure fairness
- Will Warren’s analysis of the 0x token sale
- Floyd Mayweather is all in on the ICO shilling
- Enigma’s accounts got hacked and fooled people into a fake presale … after they published a post on how to secure a token sale that criticized another project that got hacked.
Token funds
- Chris Burniske: The Crypto J-Curve
- Forbes on “Wall Street’s Cowboy Traders” getting into crypto
- Notation Capital’s LP letter on blockchains
- Harvard portfolio manager starting arb-focused fund
- Mark Cuban does a deal with Nick Tomaino’s venture fund
General
- Estonia is considering selling estcoin tokens to its e-residents. Includes comments from Vitalik. Fascinating idea, not much flesh on the bones yet.
- Fortune feature on why big businesses are using blockchains
- Ethereum Foundation objection to EME as a W3C recommendation
- World Economic Forum post on Ethereum
- YCombinator: The Token Effect
- 3 of Fortune’s 40 under 40 from the ecosystem: Vitalik Buterin, Brian Armstrong, Amber Baldet
- Polychain Capital DevCon3 giveaway for students
- Joey Krug wins at post titles: Why Amazon’s margin is Filecoin’s opportunity
- Vlad Zamfir on blockchains potentially harmful. Avsa response.
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar:
Upcoming token sale start dates:
- August 24 – REAL (Real Estate Asset Ledger)
- August 25 – Avalon
- August 28 – HelloGold
- August 28 – ChronoLogic
- August 28 – Grace
- August 29 – Kickico
- August 30 – LookRev
- August 31 – Musiconomi (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale: Aug 29)
- August 31 – Monetha
- September 1 – Opakeco
- September 1 – Landtoken
- September 5 – Viberate
- September 6 – Aventus
- September 6 – Atlant
- September 7 – Maecenas (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale: Sep 5)
- September 7 – SmartContract (ongoing presale)
- September 7 – Blocklancer
- September 10 – Wolk
- September 11 – Enigma Catalyst
- September 12 – Evermarkets
- September 12 – Bitjob
- September 13 – Unikoin
- September 13 – Eventchain
- September 14 – X8 Currency (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale: Sep 12)
- September 15 – Etherparty
- September 16 – MatchPay
- September 16 – Gimli
- September 18 – Winding Tree
- September 18 – Circles
- September 21 – Digital Asset Power Play (Cofound.it Priority Passpresale: Sep 19)
- September 25 – EthLend
- October 1 – Hirematch
- October 2 – WandX
- October 10 – Swap
- October 15 – Paypie
Ongoing token sales:
- 300 Cubits
- Indorse
- Fluence
- Everex
- AIgang
- Authoreon
- Magos
- Agor
- Propy
- Umbrella Coin
- Latium
- SmartRE
- Macroverse
- Blockpass
- NeverDie
- GroceryX
- RexMLS
Want to be included? If you are building your project on Ethereum, email weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com with 1) your URL, 2) sale date and 3) a brief but convincing description of how you are using Ethereum, preferably with a link to your Github repo. Listings are free. But please make sure to follow those instructions. If you don’t follow the instructions, you likely won’t get a response.
WARNING: list may include 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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