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- Brendan Eich’s Brave browser announced the Basic Attention Token. Blog post announcement
- White paper on how the token cuts out the middleman – ad exchanges
- Token sale planned – very interesting project with potential for mainstream adoption
- White paper on how the token cuts out the middleman – ad exchanges
- Storj is switching to Ethereum
- WeTrust interviews Storj
- Yours might follow Storj
Protocol
- Ethereum JS Ecosystem Updates
- More on EWASM
- More on EWASM
- Yoichi: Fixing safety proof on dynamic validator PoS
- What he’s probably building next: “automatic test case generator that takes an on-chain contract and tries to find an input that decreases the balance [or assertion failure]”
- What he’s probably building next: “automatic test case generator that takes an on-chain contract and tries to find an input that decreases the balance [or assertion failure]”
- Vlad Zamfir: Dealing with failure in cryptocurrency
- Etherchain’s optimal gas price calculator. Optimal right now is 10 shannon, but avg is 23.
- Solidity produces the same bytecode on Windows, Linux and Emscripten
- Christian Lundkvist: Intro to zk-SNARKs with examples
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Nick Johnson’s ENS Launch Postmortem
- Ropsten returns through mining power. Here’s the new Ropsten explorer
- Reitwießner reminder: “A Solidity compiler warning means that there is something seriously wrong with your code”
- Never Use Passwords Again with Ethereum and Metamask
- Be careful using the transfer function for ERC20 tokens
- Proof of Burn to incentivize service requests, but…game theory?
- Truffle 3.2 release
Ecosystem
- You can now run Multi-member Consortium Blockchain Networks on Azure
- For whatever it’s worth: about 1% of Ether has Carbonvoted nearly unanimously to reduce mining rewards
- Status interviews with John and Hudson from Project Oaken, Auryn from FirstBlood and Jarred Chase
- Etherian weekly issue of exhaustive dapp updates
- Ethereum wiki
Project Updates
- ICONOMI introduces Repayment Program(me)
- Aragon alpha running on Kovan testnet
- Smartpool alpha is live on testnet
- Chronobank public Beta release on Kovan testnet
- Progress on Golem’s UX
Podcast
- Ryan Zurrer and Olaf Carlson-Wee talk Polychain Capital with Arthur Falls
- Melonport’s Mona El Isa chats with FutureTech about Ethereum
- Arthur Falls talks to Joe Reed of MeDAOs and Gabe Mitchell of Ethereum Clothing
- Blockchannel podcast with Numerai’s Richard Craib
Token Sales
- What is REX?
- WeTrust interviews some of their community members
- iEx.ec Virtual Machine Management
- Why it’s tough to game Lunyr
- This week I gave a talk titled “So you wanna be a VC?” about Ethereum’s democratization of both (A) who gets to be a VC and (B) access to capital. Video to follow soon
- Right before my talk, Naval Ravikant goes on a tweetstorm about how Ethereum is disrupting VC, eg this tweet and this one)
- The same day, Fred Wilson says he is “a true believer. Full stop” in crypto projects
- Harvard Business Review, a few days later: What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care
- Right before my talk, Naval Ravikant goes on a tweetstorm about how Ethereum is disrupting VC, eg this tweet and this one)
MSM mentions
- Bloomberg feature on EEA and “post-Bitcoin”
- Wired on Augur: Forget Bitcoin. The Blockchain Could Reveal What’€™s True Today and Tomorrow
- Ethereum in Mashable
- ABC sitcom references Ethereum
General
- Tools and technologies in the Ethereum ecosystem
- Auth0’s Intro to Ethereum smart contracts post
- UN expanding Ethereum program for humanitarian spending
- ING and Mercuria have an energy trading platform on Ethereum
- Trafigura with Hyperledger PoC for energy trading
- Trafigura with Hyperledger PoC for energy trading
Dates of note
[For ongoing sales, check previous week]
- Mar 29 – Lunyr sale begins
- Mar 30 – WeTrust price change
- Mar 31 – Centz sale begins
- April 2 – Matchpool sale begins
- April 5 – Sikoba sale begins, with the an interesting pre-sale twist that is already open
- April 6 – Cosmos sale begins
- April 6 – Humaniq sale begins
- April 10 – Blockchain Capital “bookbuilding” begins
- April 12 – iEx.ec sale begins
- April 15 – Ethbits sale begins
- April 17 – Boscoin sale begins
- April 24-25 – Rice Blockchain for Business conference. [Registration open]
Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don’t use Ticketleap for event registration, I’m much less likely to include your conference.
[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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