Ethereum News and Links
Parity multi-sig frozen
- Parity postmortem. Parity will look to unfreeze the multi-sig funds through the EIP process. Frustratingly, Ricardo Guilherme Schmidt had flagged the init issue on August 3rd, so the init fix “was to be deployed in a regular update at a future point in time.”
- The web3 Foundation reiterated that it has 45m and will deliver Polkadot, but without an unfreeze would have to curtail planned spending on Whisper, Swarm, tooling, etc
- Yoichi argues for only public discussion of unfreezing options. “A curtain is enough to create a political structure.“
- Gitter channel to discuss technical options
- Alex Miller: toward a multisig standard
Protocol
- Vitalik on ”Applying Stateless Clients to the Current Two-Layer State Trie“
- Latest Casper standup
- Vitalik’s zk-STARK explainer
- Semantics of Viper in K
- ERC721: non-fungible token standard
- Preston Evans proposes Pentagonal Exchange as a source of randomness
- Parity and geth devs discussed light clients at Devcon. Will continue experimenting before standardizing. Also, light clients can’t be servers for other light clients. But if you’re running a full node, please include the –lightserv flag.
Stuff for developers
- v3.1 of web3j supports ENS and Truffle
- purescript-web3 from FOAM – more static guarantees than web3js
- Truffle replaces testRPC with Ganache
- Easy local testnets with Dapphub
- Solidity linter
- Solidity to gRPC service
- A Walkthrough of the adChain Registry TCR in Solidity
- Smart Contract Watch from Neufund – monitor events happening on your code
- ”Smashing the EVM for fun and extensibility“. Great comment: “I heard you like VMs so we put a VM inside your VM”
- A Remix + React + MetaMask tutorial in 4 parts. Plus, set up a light client with React
- Hydra Project: security development framework from IC3 presented at Devcon3
- Some Truffle testing snippets
- ‘Hello World’ with Viper
- Christian Reitwießner answers “deep questions” about Solidity.
Ecosystem
- microRaiden set to be released to main net on November 28th
- Blockapps compares solutions for enterprise
- The roadmap for the Moon Project
- Metamask Security Advisory and Bug Bounty for Seed Phrase Concern
- uPort to officially register first Zug citizen on Ethereum
- The second edition of Token Summit is December 5th in San Francisco. Use discount code WENTS17 for 18% off.
- How to claim your DNS name on ENS
Exchange
- A WETH standard for wrapped ether
- Interesting discussion on Reddit on 0x/IDEX/relayers between Phil Wearn and Kevin Day.
- LocalEthereum with a timeline on centralized exchanges getting hacked.
Project Updates
- Akasha update. May only let alpha and beta testers participate in their token sale, if they do one. Right now they have by far the most complicated token design in our entire ecosystem. Also helpfully provided: a tl;dr from Mihai Alisie
- Aragon Q3 Transparency Report
- Guide to SingularDTV launches
- Making blockchain accessible to the masses through CryptoKitties
- Iconomi October update
- Six hard problems Livepeer is working on
- Melon Mail — secure messaging service hosted on IPFS
- The ZeppelinOS roadmap
Project Announcements and Whitepapers
- Trustology – Alex Batlin joins ConsenSys to work on custody and fund admin.
- Happta – CMS/blog publishing platform using MetaMask/Mist and IPFS. live on main and testnets.
- {Set} – tokenize tokens. a protocol to create baskets of tokens
- Liqudity Network. Plus Jeff Coleman in the reddit thread on payment channels.
- Gems – decentralized Mechanical Turk
- TrueBit whitepaper addendum
- Dharma whitepaper 2.0. “open protocol for generic tokenized debt agreements“ blog post.
Interviews, Videos and Talks
- The D1Conf on decentralized insurance has the first batch of videos uploaded, so you can check out Nexus Mutual and i-Chassis from Consensys.
- Silicon Valley’s Chris Diamantopoulos talks to SingularDTV
- Joe Lubin 30m interview on CNBC International
- Epicenter Devcon3 wrapup
- Preethi Kasireddy on Changelog
- Rhys Lindmark interviews with Nick Johnson and Mike Goldin
- Fabian Vogelstellar on the Status Devcon video interview series
- Griff Green talks Giveth on the same Status series
Token Sales
- “I have yet to see an ICO that doesn’t have a sufficient number of hallmarks of a security” – SEC Chairman Jay Clayton in remarks at securities regulation conference. Ryan Selkis reacts to those remarks: the need for transparency.
- “Proof of Confidence” from Liquidaeon. Token buyers lock Ether and receive tokens based on how long and how much Eth was locked up.
- European Securities and Markets Authority: “ICOs may fall outside the scope of the existing rules and thus outside of the regulated space.”
- Dan Finlay writes a user guide for token sales
- Jordan Cooper thinks killer apps may be close.
Token Sale Projects
- Etherisc: What is parametric insurance and why on a blockchain?
- Virtue Poker promo vid
- Jesse Leimgruber from Bloom on 5minCrypto
- Oracles Network proof of authority with staked identity
- Cofound.it announces the 6 final teams for Nov 30 playoffs event
- Apply to get paid to evaluate potential Cofound.it projects
General
- The Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash communities tend to be friendly. Also why Ethereum didn’t get built on top of Bitcoin – a serious possibility at the time, as BTC maximalists were saying that all innovations would get incorporated into Bitcoin. Amusing to see how the world has changed.
- 150k r/ethereum subscribers
- Visual timeline of Linux forks. Quite possibly our ecosystem will look like this, because…permissionless. To quote Vitalik: “I am now so confident in crypto [because] there are so many different teams trying different approaches.”
- Kerfuffles this week: Bitcoin maximalists trying to take some Vitalik tweets waaaay out of context. Plus Vinay Gupta yelling lots of things at Twitter alternative Gab. But “permissionless” means we can’t actually stop anyone from building on Ethereum if they choose to.
- Vitalik Buterin and Olaf Carlson-Wee are both in Forbes 30 under 30 for finance
- Square Cash is experimenting with letting people buy Bitcoin
- Singapore’s Project Ubin releases a report on phase 2 of its inter-bank settlement mechanism
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar.
Upcoming token sale start dates:
- November 17 – Neufund ICBM
- November 17 – Realisto
- November 20 – FundRequest
- November 21 – Dopameme
- November 21 – Gizer
- November 25 – Rocketpool
- November 25 – Relest
- November 26 – CanYa
- November 27 – Jibrel Network
- November 28 – Gazecoin
- November 30 – Debitum
- November 30 – Nous Platform
- November 30 – Bloom
- December 1 – Oracles Network
- December 4 – Aurora DAO from IDEX
- December 5 – Token Summit in San Francisco. Use discount code WENTS17 for 18% off.
Ongoing token sales:
- Aigang
- Hirematch
- Guts
- TokenBox
- SimpleToken
- Snov
- ScriptDrop
- RockChain
- PayFair
- SeedsTokens
- Sense Token
- Leverj
- Duber
- Crypto.Tickets
WARNING: list may include or even likely includes scams and quasi-scams. Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk. Read disclaimer below.
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[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 somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]
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