Top News and Links

• It’s conference time, with accompanying price rise. Ethereal was amazing last Friday, currently the Consensus Coindesk conference, and then Token Summit on Thursday.
• Arthur Falls on Coindesk conf: “If there was ever a sign that CoinDesk is living inside a bubble, this has got to be it.”
• Some Ethereal video highlights: Joe Lubin, Brian Armstrong on Token, supply chain panel
• Parity UX bug: do not use 0x00a329c0648769A73afAc7F9381E08FB43dBEA72
• Ethereum’s network security is more or less equal to Bitcoins, depending on which metric you use
• With Ether price rising, please remember the ‘Safe Low’ gas price. Quick summary in this issue.

Protocol, compilers, DELEGATECALL opcode

• Vlad’s Casper mind map
• Building and installing LLL and Solidity compilers
• DELEGATECALL forwarders: save ~50–98% on gas costs

Stuff for developers

• ConsenSys Academy: 10 week Solidity dev bootcamp with job offer for graduates
• “A data delivery system that stores zero data onchain”
• Nick Johnson: Get yourname.gimmethe.eth in one transaction
• Oraclize’s random number generator is out. See also Reddit thread.
• Bob Summerwill: EEA Working Groups need you
• Both Token and Status are each having $25k virtual hackathons in early June. The timing is unfortunate, but we should all learn from Carl’s attitude in assuming good faith with each other.

Ecosystem

• State of the ENS: week 2, with charts
• Quick guide: getting an ENS name and setting it up
• Linda Xie’s beginner’s guide to Ethereum tokens
• Neufund’s ESOP is on the Ropsten testnet
• Etherian’s weekly dapp updates
• Now you can send Eth to anyone without knowing their address: TipEth
• Bancor and Status partner to make it easy to issue your own tokens. [All about Bancor’s smart tokens]
• If you’re in DevOps and want to work in Ethereum, check out the Infura job listings

Project Announcements

• Grid +: distributed electricity provider built as a layer above existing grid. See also Alex Miller’s Rice talk
• Shapeshift releases Prism, a way to buy cryptocurrencies and tokens using Ether. Built on the Ethereum public chain — though still in invitation-only beta
• Dharma Protocol — p2p decentralized lending
• RocketPool — Ethereum PoS pool in alpha
• 1protocol: use idle computational power for staking

Interviews and Talks

• Nick Johnson and Alex Van de Sande talk ENS on Epicenter
• Nick Johnson talks to the Bitcoin Podcast
• Blockchannel chats with Luis Cuende of Aragon
• Status interview series of Mr. EthTrader: Jeremiah Nichol
• Crypt0 talks to MEW’s Taylor. Plenty more conference videos and chats on his channel. It’s aamazingwhat she puts up with helping MEW users.

Project Updates

• Augur announces design partnership with IDEO
• SingularDTV announces its 11 modules
• Simon de la Rouviere: Code for Curation Markets meme trading
• Ox decentralized exchange protocol is running on Kovan testnet
• iEx.ec development update #1
• Kibo lotto on the testnet
• What Oaken is up to (TechCrunch coverage)
• Part 2 of How Melonport can help prevent financial scandals
• Send >0.01eth to Rouleth.eth with 180k gas to bet on red and see if you won.

Token Sales

• Basic Attention Token raises its cap from 15m to 24m. Crowdsale code audits: Dapphub. Zeppelin.
• IPFS launches Coinlist for the sale of compliant securities of token pre-sales. Laura Shin Forbes coverage
• Coinbase’s Reuben Bramanathan on token sale structures
• Storj founder Shawn Wilkinson is transitioning from CEO to CTO
• Aragon does $25m in about 25 minutes. Also: Corey Petty looks at the Aragon token distribution
• OmiseGo draft white paper
• The Cofound.it priority pass

General

• Fred Wilson predicts The Flippening will occur in 2017
• Also, Laura Shin got it slightly wrong: it was Fred Wilson who said Token is blockchain’s “Netscape moment”
• Andre Anjos (RAC) is a hodler and wants to release music using Ethereum
• Bloomberg on the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance onboarding 86 more companies, with hundreds more currently in the process of joining. (Also: EEA press release)
• Gavin York on why ether.camp’s Hacker Gold project appears to be (temporarily?) abandoned
• The Observer talks BAT
• Stratechery: Tulips, Myths and Cryptocurrency

Dates of note

[For ongoing sales, check previous week]

• May 25 — Token Summit at NYU
• May 30 — Mysterium sale begins
• May 30 — Bancor Network sale begins
• May 31 — Basic Attention Token sale begins
• June 1 — DCorp sale begins
• June 1 — Prospectors sale begins
• June 7 — Cofound.it sale begins

Bias transparency: if you host a blockchain conference and don’t use Ticketleap, I’m much less likely to include your conference, unless you have a good reason as to why we’re not a good fit. But I doubt there is one, because we’re likely a great fit. /shamelessplug

[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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