Ethereum News and Links
Top
- Almost exactly a year after the DAO raised 150m, Bancor beat the DAO’s record and then ended their sale.
- Emin Gün Sirer is not impressed. Nor is Joey Krug.
- Ron Bernstein on why Augur’s automated market makers didn’t work, and Bancor’s response.
- Reactions worth reading from Fred Wilson and William Mougayar
- Emin Gün Sirer is not impressed. Nor is Joey Krug.
- Vitalik: Analyzing token sale structures
Protocol and releases
- Sharding mindmap from Vitalik
- Vlad’s sharding tweetstorm
- Per Vitalik, we’d be fine with an 8m-13m gas limit
- ETH Gas Station explores why miners maximize profits with ~4 gwei gasprice
- ETH Gas Station explores why miners maximize profits with ~4 gwei gasprice
- Parity 1.6.8 is out
- EthRaspbian and EthArmbian images update
Stuff for developers
- BlockOneIQ oracle for ThomsonReuters’s data (Reuters coverage in NYTimes)
- Yoichi’s Ethereum Contract Analyzer is re-deployed
- A simple payment channel implementation
- Accept ETH payments on your site using just Parity
- Jordi Baylina: A secure way to make a send
- Reminder: “To save fees either (i) stop making as many contracts, or (ii) use DELEGATECALL forwarders…watch your SSTOREs like a hawk.”
- uml2solidity 1.1.2
- Truffle fixes TestRPC installation issues
Ecosystem
- Winners of the Status and Token hackathons
- Parity and Datarella in Coindesk for the UN program to give crypto-tracked vouchers to 10k Syrian refugees
- Vitalik throws down a challenge: you can brag about lambos or saving kids’ lives
- SmartPool live for miner testing on the public chain
- CryptoPunks: digital collectables, a la RarePepes
- P2P physical package delivery with PassLfix and Streamr
- MrYukonC returns for a video
Project Announcements
- FunFair: JezSan’s gaming platform using state channels. Promo video
- OmegaOne: protocol to trade across exchanges for best execution
- Smartex: Ether payment integrations with ecommerce platforms
- NSFW: Spankchain, an adult cam platform
- Introducing District0x network
Project Updates
- The Augur Master Plan: democratize and decentralize finance
- Melonport: v0.1.0 release
- Grid+ demo app release and Electricity Markets 102
- Foodblockchain vision paper
- All the stuff Brainbot (Raiden) is working on
- Rocket PoS Pool: Widow addresses, deposit tokens and token sales.
Interviews and Talks
- More Token Summit videos: Attention economy and more like the Show and Tell series
- Epicenter interviews Golem’s Alex Leverington & Julian Zawistowski
- The Erik Voorhees media blitz: The Ether Review, The Bitcoin Podcast, Reddit AMA
Token Sales
- FunFair commercial and technical white papers
- VR on the blockchain: Decentraland token sale in August
- Audits for Status’ token sale
- William Mougayar: Are token sales to build companies or ecosystems? and a Guide to Token Usage and Value
- Vitalik will no longer be an advisor to projects doing token sales (Omise Go and Kyber Network excepted)
General
- Peter VanValkenburgh: “Much as it did in the 1990s for internet infrastructure, Congress should craft a federal blockchain safe harbor.” I agree!
- Linda Xie: How to get a job in this industry
- Albert Wenger on monetary policy for tokens
- Bloomberg long read to commemorate 1 year since the DAO
- Circle announces USD, GBP, EUR cross-border payments on Ethereum
- Jack Du Rose in VentureBeat: Why Ethereum is Outpacing Bitcoin
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar:
Upcoming token sale start dates:
- June 18 – IDice
- June 20 – Status
- June 22 – FunFair
- June 22 – OpenANX
- June 24 – TenX
- June 26 – Adchain
- June 27 – Omise Go
- June 29 – DAO.casino
- June 30 – Santiment
- July 7 – Blocktix
- July 18 – district0x
- August 8 – Decentraland
Ongoing token sales:
You can find this calendar updated daily at TokenSaleCalendar.com
[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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