News and Links
Top
- State channel scalability: Update from the Raiden team on development progress and RaidEX
- Raiden MVP release planned for March
- Raiden MVP release planned for March
- Not state channels: Make Ethereum massively scalable today with delayed computations
- Per Vitalik, the 3 greatest challenges for the Foundation in 2017 are: 1) more revenue, 2) finding more of the right researchers, and 3) “Improving the foundation’s external communications; working on helping the community understand what the foundation is doing, why things are done the way they are done, and what the progress is.”
- I hope this newsletter helps with #3.
- I hope this newsletter helps with #3.
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Creating an Ethereum-enabled command line tool with Truffle 3.0
- Embark 2.3.0
- Plugin to support es5, es6, es7 & react
- Plugin to support es5, es6, es7 & react
- Christian Reitwießner on what is and isn’t possible with zk-SNARKs
- Eli Ben-Sasson video presentation of zk-snarks with no trusted setup (and Reddit thread)
- Eli Ben-Sasson video presentation of zk-snarks with no trusted setup (and Reddit thread)
- uml to solidity, v 1.0.9
- web3j, milestone 2.0 release
Client releases
- Parity 1.5.2 includes browser extension
Protocol
- Video of Vlad Zamfir January talk at Stanford. [All videos from that conference.]
- Erik Voorhees: “I’ve found myself now holding a modest balance of Ethereum merely for the purpose of small (not micro) payments to friends. It’s just cheaper and more reliable. And I’m doing that with more allegiance to Bitcoin than almost anyone on Earth.”
- Joe Lubin: “Ethereum has an ambitious, aggressive, coordinated and achievable roadmap to scalability. Bitcoin has an embattled, haphazard ongoing struggle to make the slightest progress on scalability. First system that demonstrates genuine scalability will quickly dominate.”
- Joe Lubin: “Ethereum has an ambitious, aggressive, coordinated and achievable roadmap to scalability. Bitcoin has an embattled, haphazard ongoing struggle to make the slightest progress on scalability. First system that demonstrates genuine scalability will quickly dominate.”
Ecosystem
- Chronicled is thinking about making an Ethereum CryptoSeal for physical assets
- Cryptomarket gets some press for being the first Ether-only exchange in Latin America.
- Ethers Wallet for iOS
- Some folks are bringing back TheDAO and calling it Vega.
- It’s unmistakeable that there is some tension among core developers. This is another small bit of evidence
- Both Dfinity and Santiment sold out their presales quite quickly. Dfinity in 74 mins, and Santiment in about 2 hours.
- How Santiment hopes to transform crypto trading
- How Santiment hopes to transform crypto trading
Project Updates
- Aragon – UI for managing your company (cap table, vesting, payments, voting, bylaws, fundraising and identity) on Ethereum
- Colony is now in beta
- Podcast interview with Firstblood’s Head of Biz dev Marco Cuesta
- SuperDAO Overview
- Blockjack is live on the mainnet
- IDEX is also live on the mainnet
Token Sales
- A Beginner Guide to Polkadot and Parachains
- Gnosis’ design reasoning for their tokens
- Their followup the next day: why so complicated?
- Their followup the next day: why so complicated?
- The Cosmos Roadmap
- Understanding the iEx.ec Architecture
- Simon de la Rouviere: Exploring Continuous Token Models
General
- Vitalik: The Meaning of Decentralization
- Microsoft: Blockchain Smart Contracts for semi-trusted Consortium Networks
- MSFT’s Marley Gray: the 3 tiered architecture for Cryptlets
- MSFT’s Marley Gray: the 3 tiered architecture for Cryptlets
- Two members of the US House formed a Blockchain Caucus.
- Consensys: The UN should use Ethereum to attain its Sustainable Development Goals.
- A few days after publication, Joe Lubin gave a presentation at the UN headquarters.
- A few days after publication, Joe Lubin gave a presentation at the UN headquarters.
- Vitalik on what non-coders can do for Ethereum
- “As the relationship with Dubai deepens, ConsenSys is taking additional office space in Dubai and increasing personnel in the region.” – IBTimes
- Nick Szabo: Money, blockchains, and social scalability
Dates of note
- Feb 13 – Etheroll token sale begins
- Feb 14 – Chronobank sale ends
- Feb 15 – Melonport sale begins (must check a box that you aren’t US Citizen)
- Feb 17-18 – Ethereum Euro Dev Conference in Paris
- Feb 27 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins (closed to US/EU citizens, KYC done by exchange for initial purchase and for dividends)
- Feb 28 – Contingency sale ends
- Mar 1 – WeTrust token sale begins (1st day bonus, weekly price changes)
- Mar 1 – Qtum sale begins
- Mar 15 – SuperDAO token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – Gnosis token sale likely to begin
- “Feb/Mar” – Humaniq token sale begins
- “Late March” – Matchpool token sale begins
[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.]
This is issue 26, so the newsletter has been around for half a year!
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