Week in Ethereum News

Ethereum News and Links

• Byzantium hard fork is October 16.  Update your clients – geth 1.7.2 and Parity 1.7.6 (post-publication edit: Parity has released some hotfixes and the current version is now 1.7.6. Geth also released a new version)
  

Protocol

• Ethereum Foundation development and research roundup over the last 2 months
• Core dev call last Friday.  Agenda.
• EIP 726: EVM inside of EVM
• Fabian Vogelsteller: identity standards.  Good EthNews article

Stuff for developers

• Common holes in Solidity code (video)
• Mythril: A framework for bug hunting on Ethereum
• Get started with Ethereum & Solidity on Windows
• install Raiden on a Raspberry Pi 3
• Unity3D + Nethereum + Infura tutorial
• Manage recurring payments
• Truffle v4.0.0 beta
• Oyente v0.2.7
• Updated version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to Solidity
• Brian Armstrong opensources the Week in Ethereum Toshi app – an “example to collect donations for any RSS feed”

Ecosystem

• Front-running Bancor in 150 lines of Python (mostly patched, but worth a read)
• Ethfinex & Cofound.it Announce Collaboration
• More on the Ethtrader Dappening tokenization
• IoT Alliance: adds Streamr and accepts its first code the MQTT-Trusted protocol from Oaken 
• EscrowMyEther is live.
• Giveth introduces Decentralized Altruistic Communities
• Simon de la Rouviere: Exploring the Power of Token-Curated Registries
• Toshi had 5000 transacting users in September, despite not getting to the main net until the end of the month.

Exchanges

• Radar Relay is live on mainnet
• The 0cean roadmap
• IDEX: One-off state hop with on-chain settlement
• Dether adds 1200 exchangers with Blueshyft in Australia

Project Announcements

• Reality Check: “crowd-sourced smart contract oracle”
• StakeTree: timed release of staked Ether to fund projects.  Somewhat similar to Catallax Trust.
• Dopameme: meme trading platform
• Kiosk: ecommerce platform, live on Kovan.
• Centre: Circle’s pivot is a protocol for payment apps to talk to each other (ie Venmo talks to AliPay)

Project Updates

• Basic Attention Token Mercury preview
• AragonOS: modular, upgradeable and extendable organizations
• Slovenian rapper Gramatik is tokenizing himself with SingularDTV
• Iconomi monthly update – they’ve added 12 DAA managers
• Melon monthly update
• More on Jaak’s plans for a marketplace for music data
• district0x quarterly report
• Balanc3 showcases financial statements from Gnosis, Digix, and Aragon
• Legacy: the legal problems of property transfer
• Enigma Catalyst post-sale update

Interviews and Talks

• Print Q&A with Joe Lubin talking banks, token sales, regulators etc
• Vice 5 min video with Olaf Carlson-Wee
• Status Q&A with Nick Brody of Cent
• Ether Review: Kik and Element Group
• Nick Johnson – ENS talk at London meetup
• Not much of it was new, but sure I’d like to listen to Naval and Olaf talk about putting value at risk.  I also agreed with Jordan Cooper’s comments: many of these are going to zero within a decade.
• My podcast with Alex Miller and Karl Kreder from Grid+ (I’ve gotten lots of feedback that I should highlight my own podcasts, so perhaps this parenthetical statement does the trick)

Token Sales

• Vitalik: “what I am against is protocols that really do not need to have their own tokens for any technical reason shoving a token into their protocol”

Token Sale Projects

• Grid+ announces partnership with TEPCO, Japan’s largest utility
• Lufthansa partnership with Winding Tree
• Cofound.it Seed: first five candidates are MediaSifter, Unico, Legacy, Blockie, Aversafe
• 5 kinds of Leverj users
• Raiden talks Dutch auction mechanics
• Overstock CEO claims that the token sale for its new utility token for its security token exchange platform will happen before Thanksgiving.  He also thinks he’ll raise 200-500m USD which seems very optimistic to me. Their stock rose about 20% more than the S&P 500 since the announcement.
• Petkanics: PROPS, Livepeer, and the complementary road to decentralization
• SpankChain + District0x = Red Light District
• Mercury Protocol vision: Social Networking 2.0

General

• Bloomberg on Crypto Valley Zug – jurisdictional competition at work
• Fidelity is mining Bitcoin and Ethereum. Given that I’m guessing they didn’t buy an ASIC box, I imagine their Eth mining has done much better.
• Polkadot is live in some sort of countdown.  I don’t really know because they block my US IP address.
• Novogratz CNBC hit
• Daniel Zarkisson: stainless steel multi-sig wallet
• Bloomberg on zk-snarks: ‘Mind-Boggling’ Math Could Make blockchain Work for Wall Street

Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:  

Upcoming token sale start dates:

• October 5 – RNDR
• October 5 – Crypto.Tickets
• October 6 – VuePay
• October 10 – AirSwap
• October 10 – Air Token (registration Oct 5 -7)
• October 10 – Notary Platform
• October 11 – Duber
• October 11 – Fintrux
• October 13 – Streamr (registration Oct 6-9)
• October 13 – Request Network
• October 15 – Paypie
• October 16 – Raiden Network
• October 16 – Horizon State
• October 16 – Sense Token
• October 17 – Ripio Credit Network
• October 18 – Leverj
• October 19 – Privatix
• October 20 – Gizer (SaftLaunch presale already open)
• October 20 – WandX
• October 21 – Synapse
• October 24 – SpankChain
• October 24 – TokenBox
• October 25 – Mercury Protocol (registration opens Oct 10)
• October 28 – Gatcoin
• October 30 – Grid+
• October 30 – Snov
• October 30 – Stayawhile
• October 30 – Swarm Market
• November 1 – Kudos Project
• November 1 – Winding Tree
• November 1 – ScriptDrop
• November 1 – RockChain
• November 1 – Debitum
• November 1 – PayFair
• November 1 – LevelNet
• November 3 – Dmarket
• Novemer 6 – Media Sifter
• November 13 – Sharpe Capital
• November 13 – Gazecoin
• November 20 – FundRequest

Ongoing token sales:

• Snip
• Self Pay
• Enjin
• Ethino
• RefToken
• DFS
• Hirematch
• Etherparty
• Doc.ai
• Customization Basic Income
• Assistive Reality
• CarTaxi
• Opakeco
• EthLend
• Jibrel Network
• MatchPay
• Gimli
• Databroker DAO
• Relest
• Wolk
• Spheris
• Aeron
• Maecenas
• Bitjob
• Matryx
• Atlant
• Avalon
• PowerLedger
• Paragon
• Agor

WARNING: list may include or even likely includes scams and quasi-scams.  Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk.

Want to be included?  If you are building your project on Ethereum, email weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com with 1) your URL, 2) sale date and 3) a brief but convincing description of how you are using Ethereum, preferably with a link to your Github repo.  Listings are free.  But please make sure to follow those instructions.  If you don’t follow the instructions, you likely won’t get a response.

[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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