“If the helicopter has any reputation at all, it is because of the men and women who fly them.” –Igor Sikorsky, helicopter designer

If blockchain technology has any reputation at all, it is because of the people behind it––the developers who write the code, the security experts who audit smart contracts, the designers who simplify UX, the historians and systems theorists who remind us of humankind’s power to reorganize, the social impact teams who are providing faster, frictionless aid, the creatives who hash art to the chain, the storytellers who have dramatized the stakes of making it to Web3, and the users and adopters who are already working peer-to-peer.

Last month, we came back from Devcon IV determined to confront the technical challenges and opportunities that stand before the Ethereum ecosystem. So we’re building, testing, shipping, iterating. More projects are making their way to the market––some from concept to prototype, others from alpha to beta, and still more from testnets to mainnet. Legacy institutions are breaking out of their silos to join consortium networks and work together––in trade finance, supply chain management, energy distribution, and other global industries. Governments and enterprises get it. Ethereum is the IT infrastructure and business model of the future.

All the while, the engineers who are closest to the machine are attending to the protocol itself and layer 2 solutions to deliver throughput and privacy at scale. Ethereum clients are becoming more flexible, maintainable, certifiable. Encryption tools are more robust, and lighter-weight. Multi-sig wallets are going mobile.

November was the month for thanks. We’re thankful to all those who have helped Ethereum make a name for itself. As Thomas Edison once said, “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” For those of you who have used Ethereum to uncover the potential of human networks, the blockchain owes its reputation to you.

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Hub and Spoke Model

The ConsenSys “hub” spawns, incubates, and accelerates “spoke” ventures through development, resource sharing, acquisitions, investments, and the formation of joint ventures. These spokes benefit from foundational components built by ConsenSys that enable new services and business models to be built on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Our blockchain venture studio. Labs incubates the best teams of Web3 across the globe, providing them capital, mentorship, and access to ConsenSys’ network of top-tier projects and talent.

Our educational institution. Academy’s mission is to develop the global blockchain ecosystem by bridging the Ethereum knowledge gap.

Our enterprise arm. Solutions brings blockchain to businesses, helping enterprises, governments, non-profits, and startups across the globe build, test, and deploy public and private blockchain solutions. Solutions offers education, advisory, and development services, as well as opportunities for joint ventures and co-creation.

ConsenSys Social Impact is leveraging emerging technologies to solve the world’s most pressing issues.

Capital is our constellation of financial service offerings for digital assets and blockchain-based companies, and also includes token sale advisory and a venture capital studio.

Token Foundry. A global platform that enables anybody to safely, securely, and fairly buy vetted tokens and digital assets.

A global platform that enables anybody to safely, securely, and fairly buy vetted tokens and digital assets. ConsenSys Ventures. Helps entrepreneurs in the blockchain ecosystem scale businesses through strategic capital and a worldwide network.

ConsenSys Diligence is committed to improving and protecting the Ethereum ecosystem by facilitating technical excellence, security guidelines, legal precautions, and ethical business practices.

Ethereal Summit brings together builders, philosophers, policy makers, artists, and humanitarians from around the world for two days of storytelling and knowledge sharing around how we can build our decentralized future together using blockchain technology.

Alliances and Initiatives

An initiative started by ConsenSys’ Balanc3 team that is driving innovation in the accounting industry and also educating businesses and organizations on accounting for blockchain-based digital assets.

An industry-wide initiative to promote token-powered economic growth and consumer protection.

The industry’s first global standards organization for delivering an open, standards-based architecture and specification to accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum.

An open source Web3 design system spearheaded by ConsenSys Design.

A think tank initiative for designing technically and functionally sound consumer tokens and business models.

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