News and Links
Top
- Ethcore announced PolkaDot – a way to link public, consortium, and private chains. The company is renaming itself as Parity.
- Crowdsale coming: “Melonport plans to launch a Melon token pre-sale accepting Ether contributions that will go towards the building of Polkadot and Melon”
- Crowdsale coming: “Melonport plans to launch a Melon token pre-sale accepting Ether contributions that will go towards the building of Polkadot and Melon”
- Golem sold out its crowdsale in about 30 minutes.
- As there is no hurry, there has been no HardFork 2 block announcement yet.
Tech
- Vitalik announced Viper: a pre-alpha Python syntax-based HLL. Also: followup clarifications.
- Automated bug bounty framework for Ethereum projects
- Tutorial: Creating an Upgradeable Token with Dapple and Dappsys
- Building Ripple on Ethereum
- uml to solidity 1.0.8: model smart contracts in uml and generate solidity code
- Oraclize straight from your browser.
- Parity 1.4.2 (beta) now released with warp-sync, wallet, and ready for HardFork2. And Parity 1.3.11 (stable). Geth 1.4.19 and 1.5 will be released next week.
- Swarm has now been merged into Geth (develop).
- Swarm has now been merged into Geth (develop).
Ecosystem
- Maciej Olpinski announces Userfeeds is live on the testnet: content curation through PageRank-style voting. They’re starting with Twitter.
- The Evolution of RexMLS
- Velocity is shutting down: “we concluded that real time data oracles are not plausible on Ethereum.”
- Video Interview with Truffle’s Tim Coulter
- FlightDelay video Q&A
Token Sales
- Daniel Zakrisson has joined ICONOMI.performance as Head of Investment Evaluation.
- Interview with vDice founder
- I got a chance to talk with some of the VirtuePoker guys this week. I think there’s a decent chance this will be the first big dapp.
General
- Hudson Jameson on the Ethereum Foundation’s communications policy.
- TheDAO hacker continues the slow cashout.
- Joe Lubin: How the Blockchain Will Disrupt The Election System
- More Devcon2 videos still trickling in
Dates of note
- Nov 15 – vDice crowdsale begins
- Nov 25 – 27 – Canadian regulator hackathon
- Nov 29 – Arcade.City crowdsale ends
- Dec 1 – approximate (not yet announced) beginning of Gnosis crowdsale
- Dec 7 – Inchain crowdsale ends
- Dec 15 – vDice crowdsale ends
[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. This is not investment advice; that is expensive.]
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