News and Links
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- Integrating Zcash on Ethereum – a precompiled Ethereum contract where the zksnark proof took only 42 miliseconds!?
- Practically, what can zksnarks do and what can’t they do?
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Machinomy – directed off-chain state channel JavaScript library
- Typed, functional demo Solidity language that targets the EVM.
- Passing variable-size data between contracts
- SmartPool’s Donation Contract Explained
- 512-bit Big int library
- Delib – apromise based library that provides the core abstractions needed for building DApps on Ethereum
Clients and releases
- Parity v1.5: Multisig wallets, contract deployment, auto-updating, PoA/dev chains, verification badges, etc
- Etheruby – release candidate 2
Protocol
- Interesting empirical data on what PoS has meant for stakers so far in the crypto world
Ecosystem
- Status.im Ethereum Thought Leader series had 3 more: Viktor Trón (and Part 2), Dr. Greg Colvin, and Fabian Vogelsteller
- Why Fred Ehrsam is leaving Coinbase: to pursue working on Ethereum
- Let me advertise for my competition: Taylor Gerring has started a Ethereum-heavy blockchain news vlog
- If you got hacked by someone stealing your cell number, you should do this now.
- These telcoms are going to get sued, and they deserve to be held liable for their negligence.
Project Updates
- Podcast: Joey Krug talks Augur in 2017
- Decentralized Capital’s IDEX – live on testnet
Token Sales
- Fred Ehrsam: Value in token models
- Creating Interoperable Blockchains with Cosmos
- Differences between Cosmos and Polkadot
- Differences between Cosmos and Polkadot
- Matchpool – Disrupting the Dating Industry via Blockchain
- Why they’re building Matchpool
- CoinFund video Q&A with Matchpool
- Why they’re building Matchpool
- Melonport token sale documents
General
- Full stack Hello World Voting Ethereum dapp tutorial – Part 1
- 7 Euro banks form Digital Trade Chain group using Ethereum prototype.
- Hashrate is at an all time high.
- Consensys’s Andrew Keys: The world has a trust problem. Personal responsibility & Ethereum are the solutions.
Dates of note
- Jan 26 – Status.im release Alexey Ankunov, Pelle Braendgaard and Taylor Gerring videos
- Jan 27-29 – Thomson Reuters “Hack the Valley” hackathon
- Feb 1 – Contingency sale begins
- Feb 13 – Intellisys private equity “Mainstreet fund” sale begins (closed to US/EU citizens, KYC done by exchange for initial purchase and for dividends)
- 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 – Cosmos token sale begins
- “Feb/Mar” – iEx.ec token sale begins
- “Late Mar” – 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. This is not investment advice.]
Enforce the trademark?
Barry Silbert’s decision to try to mislead investors by calling his EthClassic fund the “Ethereum Investment Trust” triggered much debate in the community this week.
I consider myself neutral here. As I understand the law, Ethereum may lose control of the Ethereum name if it doesn’t enforce its trademark (as Joe Lubin says). On the other hand, pursuing legal enforcement of the trademark probably means that only lawyers win in the long-term.
My thought: send a cease and desist letter that includes strong language warning about how investors will likely be mislead because we’ve already seen that occur.
Silbert would have a small PR victory among the shrill group of libertarians who believe that all IP is bad. But he’ll also have to think twice about whether the name is really worth it – because any unhappy investor in the future would have a piece of evidence to bolster a claim that they were mislead.
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