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- Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (EEA) launches. Press release
- NYTimes compares EEA to Hyperledger for supply chains.
- Tyler Smith: Supply chains will be production before finance, due to data sensitivity requirements. [Context]
- Tyler Smith: Supply chains will be production before finance, due to data sensitivity requirements. [Context]
- Microsoft announces Quorum: EEA Implementation on Azure
- NYTimes compares EEA to Hyperledger for supply chains.
- Vlad Zamfir tweeted a polemic: “Ethereum isn’t safe or scalable. It is immature experimental tech. Don’t rely on it for mission critical apps unless absolutely necessary!”
- Context: the euphoria that happens in some parts of the Ethereum community when there’s a price runup.
- Arguably his comments to Bloomberg should have been equally as anti-euphoria. [But boo to the reporter for using Vlad’s intellectual integrity as a gotcha]
- Ethereum Foundation priorities: 1) more revenue [not as much a concern now after the price runup], 2) more researchers [double the team?], 3) better communication
- I imagine there will be significant FUD in coming months about this Vitalik quote, so let’s print it in entirety:
- “I would only endorse [mutability] in the gravest of circumstances (a fair schelling point is IMO when the value at stake exceeds the cost of a 51% attack, which was incidentally pretty close to $50 million in my estimates back when the DAO fork took place, though IMO it’s not a good idea to have any level at which the possibility of fork recovery is 100% for moral hazard reasons”
Stuff for Dapp developers
- Kovan, a Proof of Authority testnet to replace Ropsten
- uml to solidity, v 1.0.10
- Solidity plugin for IntelliJ platform
- Remix tutorials
- How Aragon approaches identity using Ethereum Keybase Resolver
- web3j, 2.0
- Truffle boilerplate for running ethereum testnet
- Ethereum client RPC API compatibility table
Protocol (Pirapira style)
- Proving the correctness of a contract: Ethereum Virtual Machine for Coq, v 0.0.2
- Formalization of the EVM in Lem
- Vitalik: Minimal Slashing Conditions (and Reddit thread)
- More Vitalik: Safety Under Dynamic Validator Sets
Ecosystem
- Videos of the Edcon talks are now available. I’m watching the PoS panel as I finish this issue. (Get the slides.)
- Source – mesh networking built on Ethereum
- TheBitcoinPodcast talks with Monolith’s Mel Gelderman about the Tokencard (ERC20 debit card)
- Piper Merriam: My trip down the rabbit hole to working in ConsensysLand
- Latest issue of Etherian: curation of slack/gitter for individual projects
- How Smartpool reduced gas costs for viability
- Ethplorer 2.0: more features for getting token data
Project Updates
- Status, v 0.9.3 released
- Swarm City Financial Status
- Contingency’s sale is over and is now hiring
- Akasha, v 0.5.1 released
Token Sales
- Why The Rudimental is doing an Equity Crowdfund and not a token sale
- Interview with Gilles Fedak, iEx.ec CEO
- Zeppelin’s security review of WeTrust’s code
- WeTrust jumped out to near 20% in first day, but after first day bonus ended, it has stalled out at 21.5%. That’s the danger of early bonuses with very short timeframes.
- WeTrust jumped out to near 20% in first day, but after first day bonus ended, it has stalled out at 21.5%. That’s the danger of early bonuses with very short timeframes.
- Intellisys/Mainstreet sale started but had technical issues. It was cancelled and will be rescheduled.
- Qtum has had some negative PR, but Anthony Di Iorio made a forceful statement in favor
General
- Not useful, but a pretty visualization of the Ethereum chain
- Vinay Gupta in Harvard Business Review: A brief history of blockchain
- Iuri Matias on why we need web 3.0: “Amazon S3 [widespread outage] currently making the case for the need of decentralized platforms such as ethereum’s swarm [& IPFS]”
- Futurism: Ethereum Is Poised to Become the Global Blockchain of Choice
- Coinranking: a mobile-friendly alternative to Coinmarketcap (currently uses CMC’s api)
- FastCompany: Ethereum voted as one of the best innovations in finance … though Venmo – founded in 2009 by a TicketLeap employee – just made the list this year?
Dates of note
- Mar 9 –WeTrust price change
- Mar 14 – Ethereum Name Service (ENS) released on public chain
- Mar 16 – Qtum sale begins
- 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
[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.]
Let me know how if dates have changed and I missed them: weekinethereum@gmail.com
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