Week in Ethereum News

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• Tuesday the 28th sees the launch of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
  • NYTimes.  Reuters
  • Monax (Eris) is joining Hyperledger, so there will be an EVM option on IBM’s Hyperledger as well
  • Tyler Smith: Why the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance will prove private chains are an ally
    
• The Uber of hedge funds? Numer.ai issues a token to align incentives.  As someone who spent the last few years messing around with neural nets and reading academic papers, I’ve seen the project evolve and I love that it is combining my two main interests. Awesome experiment. [Did you overfit your model? And then the derivative: did you overfit your confidence?]
  • Coverage: whitepaper. Blog post. Cade Metz at Wired. Laura Shin at Forbes
    
• Gnosis publishes new state of the art multi-sig contract. Also: over 13% of all Ether are controlled by just two single keys.  [Risk factor!]
• Epicenter talks to Vitalik

Stuff for Dapp developers

• What is a uPort identity?
• Remix can now import files via swarm
• EthPM (package management) is getting a Foundation
• How to create a Token Factory on Ethereum using Embark
• 0x: An Open Protocol For Decentralized Exchange

Protocol

• Crazy interesting, but made my brain hurt: formally proving correctness on a fundamental piece of Vitalik’s Casper
• Vitalik’s Intro to Cryptoeconomics talk
• Jeff Wilcke’s Dev diary
• How you can help deploy ENS

Ecosystem

• Status.im’s plan for Ethereum mass adoption still makes the most sense.
• A few new videos from the Foundation
• Consensys stablecoin project VariabL alpha registration is open
• Remember how the testnet was getting mined by GPUs?  Now that testnet Ether is being used to spam the test net
• Ether.camp talks about how HackerGold can be improved.  Indeed.
• Comparing and contrasting Digital Asset Management Platforms
• Coinbase’s Linda Xie: A beginner’s guide to Ethereum

Project Updates

• Akasha, v0.5: Seeking Whispers
• Golem: How we’re making progress on Brass release
• Codetract.io has its gold backed token live in beta on public chain
• Metagold Dev update
• Plutus – Progress & Next Steps
• Mysterium VPN – Feb Update
• Slock.it’s charging station with access control on Ethereum is going live in Germany in a few months.

Token Sales

• Edgeless casino FAQ
• WeTrust:
  • Crowdsale Analyst: Daniel Zakrisson on WeTrust
  • Emin Gün Sirer on why he’s a WeTrust advisor
  • Blockchannel podcast
    
• Mougayar with the obvious historical truth: Just like venture funded companies, 80% of projects with token sales will fail

General

• “Business and the blockchain” conference I’m helping organize at Rice University on April 24.  
  • Remember: private chains aren’t the enemy; they are the gateway drug.
• HackerNews discussion of decentralized storage projects
• If you prefer to watch instead of read: Hudson Jameson on the Ethereum roadmap.
• I continue to enjoy Taylor Gerring’s blockchain vlogs and his sense of humor
• Ethereum now live on eToro.
  
• Brock Pierce’s Blockchain Capital will raise some of their third fund in a token sale
• Attempted exhaustive roundup of Ether projects: The Etherian: Edition 3
• Michael Wuehler: Fortune 500 Ethereum investment probably equal to Ethereum market cap
• Sensationalist headline: R3 Admits Defeat, Stops Blockchain Development

• R3 threatens to sue
• Solid take from Colin Platt: Taxonomy of Distributed Ledgers

• If you haven’t changed your passwords yet because of Cloudbleed, it’s rarely a bad idea to update passwords.
• Fred Ehrsam and Philip Rosedale talk VR and blockchains

Dates of note

• 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 – Enterprise Ethereum Alliance launch
• Feb 28 – Edgeless token sale starts (no US)
• Mar 1 – WeTrust token sale begins (1st day bonus, weekly price changes)
• Mar 1 – Qtum sale begins
• Mar 12 – Intellisys price change
• Mar 14 – Ethereum Name Service (ENS) released on public chain
• Mar 24 – Matchpool token sale begins
• Mar 26 – SuperDAO token sale begins
• “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
• “Feb/Mar” – Gnosis token sale likely to begin
• “March” – Cosmos token sale begins
• April 6 – Humaniq token sale begins
• April 24 – Rice Blockchain for Business conference
• Q2 – Omise GO token sale

[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 Ethereum investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous Ethereum news letters.]

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