Ethereum News and Links
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- Geth v1.6.5 released in a hurry this week, because…
- The DevCon2 DoS attacker returned. Fortunately, u/arrnx gave us an early warning and the Geth team had a fix in a couple hours.
- ETC core dev Cody Burns follows the DoS attacker’s transactions and determines that both Kraken and Poloniex know the attacker’s identity.
- Ethereum Wallet and Mist updated to geth 1.6.5
- Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design by Chris Dixon
Protocol
- Are Ethereum Contracts Vulnerable to Hash Table Poisoning Attacks? Interesting EVM discussion.
- State channel reading list
- Zk-snarks for scalability?
- Yoichi talks through the EIPs in Metropolis
- Help Wanted: Metropolis QA/Testing
Stuff for developers
- How Truffle is making installation issues a thing of the past
- On This Week in Startups, Digg founder Kevin Rose talked at length about token sales and how he would build Digg using Ethereum. (Video got taken down). This isn’t the first time he’s mentioned it … and he wants to talk to an Ethereum developer about it. You can tweet him @kevinrose
- The simple Dai from Maker called Sai is coming soon
- Both the Status and Token $25k virtual hackathons are ongoing.
Ecosystem
- Swarm’s invite-only DevCon0 style summit in Berlin
- FirstBlood’s first Dota2 tournament is June 12th
- Lots of interesting comments on the security challenges of decentralized VPN
- Securing loans with ENS deposits
- Setting up an ENS reverse record (’Ethereum Caller ID’)
- Miners should go back to the normal “target gas limit”
- What’s the difference between AdChain and BAT?
- The Etherian’s project updates
- The Kremlin: Meeting with founder of Ethereum project Vitalik Buterin
- In the last month, Vitalik has also met with officials in China and India
Project Announcements
- OpenANX – white paper
- TenX debit card. White paper
- Get to know Catallax: Demurrage, Catch Up, and Pref Dividends
- Contracts for Difference exchange on Kovan testnet
Project Updates
- Augur: A Roadmap for what’s next
- Augur has about 15m USD at current asset prices
- Augur has about 15m USD at current asset prices
- Trustlines PoC on the testnet, aiming at a beta release for DevCon3
- Aragon orgs can use Ox to operate with any token
- Melonport May update
- iEx.ec fortnight update #2
- The Grid+ demo app
- Raine Revere with a technical overview of Prism
Interviews and Talks
- A few Token Summit videos: Kik, Brian Armstrong on Token, Governance, and many more
- Ox founder Will Warren talks to Adam Draper
- SingularDTV’s Zach LeBeau on UpNext podcast
- Vitalik in Russian
- Tim Ferriss interviews Nick Szabo and Naval Ravikant
- At 95:40, Nick slips and says, “When I created Bitcoin, er gold…”
- I’ve started thinking of Szabo as a proof-of-work maximalist. It explains this tweet where Nick strangely misreads PoS. (If you’re curious, read Minimal Slashing Conditions)
Token Sales
- Status sale details and ways to earn SGT. Plus promo video
- ConsenSys’s Mike Goldin discusses AdChain
- Dr. Petty: A Look at the BAT Token Distribution
- Codetract on how to get into the BAT sale
- Demian Brener on the 4 stages of token sales
- I wrote on EvanVanNess.com why I decided to start Token Sale Calendar
Token Sale Structures
- Alex van de Sande shares some PoC code for continuous token sale
- Tom Ding’s discussion on responsible protocol funding
- Luke Duncan’s proposal: Max time frame, max gas price, proportional tokens to total raised, but burn extra ETH
- Whether the extra ETH goes to founders or to 0xBURN doesn’t affect the price paid by the people over the cap
- Whether the extra ETH goes to founders or to 0xBURN doesn’t affect the price paid by the people over the cap
- Nice comment thread on how to fix token sale structures, including a few from Patri Friedman.
- I’m baffled that so many founders don’t do reverse Dutch auctions. Why do founders like selling their tokens way below market value in order to make whales richer?
General
- Devcon3 registration is now open.
- Reuters writes up the (paywall) WSJ report that Coinbase is raising at a 1b valuation
- What is Coinbase’s strategy? Fred Wilson likes it.
- What is Coinbase’s strategy? Fred Wilson likes it.
- Search engine DuckDuckGo now has ETH price conversion
- Jeffrey Berns: Is ENS squatting illegal?
- Fred Wilson’s thoughts on VCs in the ICO age
- Some hype in our community about “Singapore Dollar Tokenized on Ethereum.” If you read the report, that hype seems quite a bit over its skis.
- Imogen Heap in HBR: Blockchain Could Help Musicians Make Money Again
- Canadian exchange Quadriga lost ~$15m USD by unnecessarily using a splitter
- William Mougayar’s ultimate blockchain reading list and Chris Dixon’s crypto token reading list.
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar:
- June 12 – Bancor sale begins
- June 13 – SuperDAO sale begins
- June 15 – SONM sale begins
- June 17 – Status sale begins
- June 22 – OpenANX sale begins
- June 26 – Adchain sale begins
- June 27 – Omise Go sale begins
- June 30 – Santiment sale begins
- Nov 1-4 – DevCon3
Ongoing token sales:
[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 investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]
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