Week in Ethereum News September 12, 2017

Ethereum News and Links

Raiden Network developer preview. Demo video.
China issues another pronouncement against token sales, as well as platforms and exchanges involved with them. As with any opaque regulatory body, it remains to see what they actually enforce and for how long.

Protocol

Hudson Jameson’s notes from Core Dev meeting. Youtube. Agenda. Tentative date of October 9th for Byzantium hard fork.
Casper standup call
EIP706: Snappy compression for devp2p would reduce bandwidth by 60-80%
EIP712: “Standard for machine-verifiable and human-readable typed data signing with Ethereum keys”
ERC20 formalized as EIP20
Vitalik explains pruning
Current disk size of Ethereum: state is only 2 gigs, history is 10gb. You don’t need more than 20gigs to run a node, despite the Bitcoin maximalist obsession with the size of a full archival node – currently about 300gb. Good Reddit thread on the subject.
3 ENS improvement proposals: Auto reveal, Allow slow deposit withdrawal and Utility Rent
- DomainSale: an on-chain secondary ENS market

Stuff for developers

Off-Chain Computation Solutions for Eth devs
adChain open sources partial-lock commit/reveal voting implementation. Solidity code.
Perigord: Truffle-like framework for Go
Solidity code for Althea’s multihop payment channels
Preparing for an Ethereum code audit
Nick D’Andrea: Interval trees in Solidity
Ethereum DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services
Tutorial for beginners on spinning up a 3 node local network
Raspberry PI and Ethereum tutorial
Write clean Solidity code using function modifiers
Decentralized eBay on Ethereum & IPFS
- Take the course to learn how to build it

Ecosystem

VariabL derivative trading platform is in open alpha
ETHNews talks to Marley Gray about how Microsoft got involved in Ethereum
Ethfinex is bringing Tether to Ethereum
Pretty solid intro to Ethereum to send to your friends
Infura now running an authority node on Rinkeby
Watch the progress of the OmiseGo airdrop
Preview of Around the Block documentary featuring Alex Van de Sande

Project Announcements

Sweetbridge – liquid supply chains. White paper.
Escrow My Ether – escrow agent for offline transactions, on Ropsten.
Art of Ethereum – original art tagged with a Chronicled nfc chip
Solidified – audit platform for blockchain code

Project Updates

0x updated roadmap
Iconomi August update
End of summer Bancor update
SingularDTV’s plan to produce original content
Cofound.it improving Priority Pass based on lessons learned from Musiconomi and Maecenas sales
FunFair debuts video poker
Check out the Gnosis UI
Mysterium progress update
Poker pros Dan Colman and Brian Rast join Virtue Poker as advisors
- Ryan talks Virtue Poker with Omar Bham

Interviews and Talks

NYC Ethereum meetup: LivePeer, CoinFund on media, and Kik Q&A with Jesse Walden
Berlin meetup: Golem, Plasma, Qubes, Streamr, OmiseGO. Love seeing meetups finally capturing better quality audio.
Q&A with ConsenSys Capital’s Kavita Gupta about new $50M Venture Fund
Conrad Barski: cryptography for cryptocurrency
I started my own Ethereum podcast. Episode 1 with my favorite Redditor: Dunning_krugerrands
Brendan Eich talks BAT at Facebook

Token Sales

Casper, Plasma, and the Grid+ Agent
Enigma diluted their holders 50% at the last minute
Etherisc: enabling a wide range of insurance applications
Primoz Kordez: Network Output and Velocity of Tokens
William Mougayar: Safe ICO Practices. Excellent writeup, though I strongly disagree that a Dutch auction is too complicated.

General

Fred Ehrsam: Accelerating evolution through forking
Joe Lubin: “incidents like the Equifax hack cement a societal need for decentralization”
Hypercatallaxy for hurricane disaster relief?
America’s crappy immigration laws: before starting Ethereum, Vitalik almost worked for Ripple in 2013 but couldn’t get a visa
Can a blockchain save healthcare?
R3 sues Ripple over deep in the money option to buy Ripple
Finance Minister tells reporters that Russia will regulate cryptocurrency
Carly Fiorina is all-in on cryptocurrency as the next wave of innovation

Dates of Note

From Token Sale Calendar:

Upcoming token sale start dates:

September 14 – Streamr
September 14 – Privatix
September 15 – Kyber Network (registration August 31 – Sept 10)
September 16 – MatchPay
September 16 – Gimli
September 18 – Databroker DAO
September 18 – Circles
September 18 – Relest
September 18 – Wolk (ongoing pre-sale)
September 19 – SmartContract
September 19 – Air Token
September 19 – Spheris
September 19 – Aeron (ongoing pre-sale)
September 21 – Digital Asset Power Play (Cofound.it Priority Pass presale: Sep 19)
September 21 – Opakeco
September 25 – EthLend
September 25 – Jibrel Network
September 28 – Doc.ai
September 29 – Snip
September 29 – Customizable Basic Income
September 29 – Assistive Reality
October 1 – Hirematch
October 1 – Etherparty (pre-sale ongoing)
October 2 – Rhea
October 2 – WandX
October 2 – Horizon State
October 3 – Enjin (ongoing pre-sale)
October 3 – Snov
October 10 – Swap
October 10 – Notary Platform
October 15 – Paypie
October 30 – Grid+
November 1 – Winding Tree
November 1 – ScriptDrop

Ongoing token sales:

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

[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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