News and Links
Top
- Swarm – Ethereum’s native base layer storage service – is now in public alpha
- Swarm guide and documentation
Protocol
- Greg Colvin’s EIP (likely for Serenity) to speed up the EVM: Subroutines and Static Jumps
- Solidity 0.4.7 released
- A new Solidity Assembly / Intermediate Language out as well
- A new Solidity Assembly / Intermediate Language out as well
- EthWallet & Mist 0.8.8 is out
- Geth 1.5.5 released
- Chapter 4 of the History of Casper, by Vlad Zamfir
Stuff for Dapp developers
- JPMorgan Chase releases Cakeshop: IDE and SDK
- Laundromat – decentralized Ethereum mixer. PoC for ring signatures. Good to start experimenting so we can implement better privacy at the protocol level.
Ecosystem
- Watching Project Oaken’s video gave me that “seeing the future” feeling. Very cool prototype; nice to see Airlock reincarnated (one of the highest profile Ethereum projects very early on).
- Electron got PR in TechCrunch. They’re trying to convince the UK to use an Ethereum based system to manage their power grid.
- Chainy – trustless URL shorteners built on the Ethereum chain
- Epicenter’s interview with Marley Gray on Microsoft’s Ethereum/Blockchain as a Service projects.
- Bchat.org – web forums using the Ethereum blockchain (need web3 browser to use)
Token Sales
- Two white papers released:
- Gnosis unveils its modified Dutch auction token sale mechanics
- Also opens bug bounty program
- Also opens bug bounty program
- Mysterium sells out its pre-token token sale quite quickly.
- To elaborate on last week’s comments that I didn’t like this deal structure: I don’t like the idea of putting value into a project that has locked in future funding terms that it might not be able to hit (thus unnecessarily crippling itself and ruining the value I put in).
- Given the state of the Ethereum token sale market, this probably isn’t a huge danger for them, but guaranteeing future funding prices is not a good model.
- Why’d they hit it so quickly? Probably three things:
- Techgeek type of project
- Attracted some flippers who figure Mysterium will hold the full token sale, and thus they can exit early.
- Low ask
- Techgeek type of project
- To elaborate on last week’s comments that I didn’t like this deal structure: I don’t like the idea of putting value into a project that has locked in future funding terms that it might not be able to hit (thus unnecessarily crippling itself and ruining the value I put in).
- Coinbase’s Token Sale Law Framework is back up permanently. If you’re going doing a token sale at any point, you should have this bookmarked.
General
- Vitalik’s thoughts on why we’re unlikely to go over 100 million total Ether
- PCMag: The Year of Smart Contracts
- OMG, Ethereum Is So Hard Forked
- Gavin Wood gives a talk by video to the Dutch meetup on what’s happening in blockchain 2.0
- Boston Consulting Group: Strategic perspective on blockchains & tokens
- Federal Reserve paper on blockchains. Skipped this late week, realized I shouldn’t have.
- Vitalik TV interview with CNBC India and part 2.
Dates of note
- Dec 18 – Branche price change
- Dec 22 – Ether.camp HackerGold sale ends
- Dec 25 – Branche price change
- Jan 1 – Branche sale ends
[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. This is not investment advice.]
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