Ethereum News and Links
Protocol
- Jon Choi published a bunch of frameworks for Casper parameterization. Plus Vitalik on possibly adding sinks. See also Vitalik discussion on Reddit.
- v0.1 code for Vlad’s correct by construction Casper
- Cosmos compares Casper and their own Tendermint
- Plasma implementation by BankEx
- Alex Miller’s proposal for standard multisig API for second layer application
- Core dev call last Friday. Hudson’s recap.
- ING claims they reduce zero knowledge gas costs by a factor of 10: github. press release.
Stuff for developers
- Mythril automated vulnerability scanning of Solidity code
- Truffle and Next.js box
- How Infura solves Ethereum’s other scaling challenge
- Zeppelin on designing the architecture for your dapp
- web3.py now supports ENS
- Typescript, tool to help avoid runtime errors
- Blockparty on push vs pull
- dether.js – javascript library to interact with Dether
- dappscratch – CLI for building dapps
- Upgradable Solidity Contract Design achitecture from Rocketpool
Releases
- Geth v1.7.3 – v2 light client protocol, PoA testnet mode, etc
- Py-EVM now supports Byzantium
Ecosystem
- A plain explanation of Maker’s Dai stablecoin
- de la Rouviere: Curved Token Bonding in Curation Markets
- The best white elephant gift: Ether.Cards Christmas logo is out and 100% of profits to Worldbuilders charity
- Alex Batlin’s FlexiTime token
- ENSListing is giving out free yournamehere.thisisme.eth subdomains
- ΞXTΞND – a Chrome extension for buying Reddit gold or tipping with Eth
- Niavura issued a bond denominated in Eth that settles on public chain. Regulated in UK
Project Updates
- YouTubers can now earn BAT
- Digix code freeze to happen by Dec 8 for auditing to begin
- Dharma Protocol in a nutshell
- Etherisc’s legal structure. Also: going to conferences? Flight delay insurance from Etherisc is live
- Melonport integrates uPort to KYC investors to Melon funds
- Gitcoin’s project theses. Gitcoin has also joined ConsenSys and has a bunch of bounties open
- Dether talks about the motivations behind their app
Project Announcements and Whitepapers
- Choon – music streaming on Ethereum from DJ Gareth Emery.
- Project Entropy – floating hackspaces eventually governed by a DAO
- Tip – Q&A on Ethereum. blog post
- Ink – reputation system from Listia
- Velcron – multi-party state channels
- EthMailer – messages stored in IPFS and hashes broadcasted as events, live on Ropsten. somewhat similar to MelonMail
- Juncture – choose-your-own-adventure using IPFS and Ethereum
- GhostKat – p2p media using webtorrent (Swarm in future) and Ethereum
- ToastyCoin – the continuation of burnable payments
Interviews, Videos and Talks
- Status Devcon3 video interviews: Jordi Baylina, Greg Colvin, Christian Reitwiessner, Aron Fischer
- Video Q&A with Nick Johnson in Stockholm
- Fireside chat with Kai Chang from Digix
- ConsenSys roadshow in Singapore
- Aron Fischer podcast interview about Colony
- More D1conf videos on decentralized insurance
- Matthew Di Ferrante video talk on using ring signatures to preserve KYC privacy
- Rhys Lindmark podcast with Luis Cuende and Taylor from MyEtherWallet
- Conrad Barski, MD video on using Ethereum in medicine to manage data
Token Sales
- Cardozo Law’s Aaron Wright argues Cooley’s SAFT paper was overly broad legally
- Hollywood product plans security token for movie finance on BankEx
- Seasteading is planning some kind of token as well
- Vitalik says down with volume bonuses.
Token Sale Projects
- Cofound.it Playoffs: Seed stage crowdsale details
- The FitVitalik joke/art project
- Air New Zealand is buying tokens in Winding Tree’s token sale next year
- Virtue Poker adds Phil Ivey. Huge for them and for our space.
General
- Coinbase Custody for institutions. 10m minimum, 10 basis points a month, 100k setup fee. Brian Armstrong talks about it on CNBC
- Bloomberg tells us that Ether derivatives are coming
- Bitfinex and Tether shadiness gets Nathaniel Popper’s attention at the New York Times.
- ConsenSys held a launch party for its London office and now has 450 members worldwide
- Richard Branson has bought Ether
- History and context of cryptoeconomics
- Dominic Williams tweetstorm on conensus and Dfinity
- “Ethereum is now processing more transactions a day” than all of BTC, BCH, ZCash, Dash, Litecoin, Monero, ETC, Doge put together
Dates of note
From Token Sale Calendar.
Upcoming token sale start dates:
- November 25 – Rocketpool
- November 25 – Relest
- November 26 – CanYa
- November 27 – Jibrel Network
- November 30 – Cofound.it Seed: Legacy, ENTX, Aversafe, Mediasifter, Datafund, Unico
- November 30 – Nous Platform
- November 30 – Bloom
- December 4 – Aurora DAO from IDEX
- December 7 – Debitum
- December 10 – Gazecoin
Ongoing token sales:
- Neufund ICBM
- Realisto
- FundRequest
- Dopameme
- Gizer
- Aigang
- Hirematch
- TokenBox
- Snov
- ScriptDrop
- RockChain
- 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.
[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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