Week in Ethereum News August 8, 2017

Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

Diving Into The Ethereum Virtual Machine
Bamboo 0.0.01 Tutorial. “Bamboo makes state transition explicit and avoids reentrance problems by default.”
More Yoichi Hirai: What I think about what KEVM people think about EVM
Swarm’s recent conference videos are online

Stuff for developers

ZeppelinOS technical details
Using Zeppelin contracts in Truff l e
Insights from Ujo on building on Ethereum
Ethereum light client with React Native
web3js had a few releases this week
Matt Condon’s Ethereum for Dev Beginners

Ecosystem

ETH Gas Station: it’s time for wallets to lower their default gas price
EtherScamDB: MyEtherWallet’s open-source database for Eth scams
Hudson Jameson: Why I Am Advising Status and SmartContract.com
Ujo: Distributing & Claiming the EGO Album Badge
UNICEF Ventures has an Ethereum multi-sig
r/ethereum passed 100,000 subscribers on August 7
How decentralized storage projects Storj, Swarm, Filecoin and Sia differ. Also the Swarm v Filecoin view from LivePeer’s Doug Petkanics

Project Announcements and white papers

Virtue Poker releases white paper draft
Legacy – transfer memory and belongings when you die
Ethfinex – Bitfinex’s ERC20 dex. White paper
Docstamp: timestamp your docs on Ethereum
Oracul: you can probably guess it’s an oracle system. Prototype
Firefly – $5 air gapped hardware wallet
Leeroy – Twitter for Ethereum using MetaMask. Impressive! See also Reddit thread.
FOAM – Geospatial data protocol for Ethereum

Project Updates

KyberNetwork MVP release
PlutusDEX beta available to token sale buyers
Toshi – switch between test networks, iOS Chat improvements, main net release this year
FunFair releases baccarat and craps running on state channels, live on the testnet. Lots of interesting info from Jez San in the Reddit thread.
Mysterium Q&A update
Melonport July update
Iconomi July Update
- Become one of the first DAA managers on Iconomi
Design for BAT Mercury
Jaak announces META token to incentivize sharing rights data
- Jaak also has a trial project with Viacom UK

Interviews and Talks

Vitalik’s Shenzhen talk and Q&A
Recent Vlad Zamfir talk
Bancor’s Eyal Hertzog on Epicenter
Arthur Falls talks to MME, the Swiss lawyers who helped with the Ether sale
Swap Protocol on NeoCash Radio
Status Q&A series with Rocketpool
Andrew Keys on the Hidden Forces podcast
Brian Armstrong on the 20 minute VC

Token Sale Projects

0x token sale details – must register first starting Aug 9
Announcing Airswap: implementation of Swap white paper
SlotNSlot’s Android demo video

Token Sales

Ryan Zurrer: Keepers that maintain blockchain networks
ICOMonitor by Neufund – transparency monitor for token sales
Matt Slater: The decentralized web is the birth of a new asset class
Julian Moncada: How VCs fit into a decentralized world
OmiseGo to airdrop their tokens for wide distribution
Concerning bit in this Nathaniel Popper NYT piece from a former SEC staffer who claims that if you buy a token because you think the price might appreciate, then it’s a security. That’d be an extraordinarily broad and novel interpretation of the Howey test, but certainly hints at the ambiguity of current SEC guidance that is hindering blockchain innovation in America.

General

Laura Shin on Shapeshift’s Prism
Jay Rush with a meditation on the potential uses and misuses of this technology
Coinbase announces plan to support Bitcoin Cash – and maybe BCC trading – by the end of the year, similar to what they did for ETC
- Brian Armstrong on how to hire executives
Sign of the NYTimes: Grandpa Had a Pension. This Generation Has Cryptocurrency.
IPFS’ Filecoin long anticipated sale is here. It has already and is going to raise a crazy amount. Stefano Bernardi didn’t like what he found when he dug into Filecoin sale details
- A week or so ago, they raised $52m from insiders at a big discount. Not sure why this sale needs to be so rushed?
- Preston Byrne: Thoughts on the Filecoin SAFT
- Q&A (to come) with Juan Benet
“Fast” Fully Homomorphic Encryption c/c++ library

Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:

Upcoming token sale start dates:

August 9 – Lampix
August 14 – SmartRE
August 15 – Ox Protocol (mandatory registration Aug 9-12)
August 15 – BitDice
August 15 – Propy
August 15 – MyBit
August 15 – Latium
August 17 – Decentraland
August 20 – SlotnSlot
August 24 – REAL (Real Estate Asset Ledger)
August 25 – Avalon
August 28 – HelloGold
August 28 – ChronoLogic
August 30 – LookRev
August 31 – Monetha
September 5 – Viberate
September 12 – Evermarkets
September 13 – Unikoin
September 13 – Eventchain
September 18 – Winding Tree
October 1 – Hirematch
October 10 – Swap

Ongoing token sales:

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 description of how you are using Ethereum. 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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