Projects updates

ZRX holders can now move their stake at any time during an epoch! Check it out:

The team released a stop-limit order pattern, leveraging price feeds operated by Chainlink:

Launching Aragon Court:

Aragon was announced to the world on February, 10th 2017 — three years ago. That’s why February 10th has been denominated as Fight for Freedom Day by Aragon community.

In these three years, the team has created and launched the most advanced platform for decentralized organizations — counting more than 1,000 DAOs created with $8M under management. But that’s not everything. That’s just the beginning.

The vision for Aragon is to create a digital jurisdiction. A place on the Internet where people can self-organize in a free, peaceful, sustainable, and inclusive way.

The first step was to create the tools for DAOs to exist. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) allow for borderless, non-violent organization. Smart contracts give DAOs their great properties, but they also constrain them.

In 2017, the team figured out that DAOs need to grow outside of their blockchain and machine-powered smart contracts. DAOs need subjective agreements. DAOs and their users need an equivalent of the legal system, but fully native to them.

And that’s how the idea of Aragon Court was born — a new efficient, borderless, and secure dispute resolution protocol for the Internet era.

Aragon Court works by drafting human jurors to review disputes and motivating them with financial rewards and penalties to adjudicate well.

The demand-side of the market comes from DAOs and users who rely on Aragon Court as a dispute resolution provider if members of their organization come to a disagreement. The supply-side of the market comes from users who stake Aragon Court’s token (ANJ) to serve as jurors, adjudicate disputes, and earn rewards.

During the pre-activation period, more than 1,000,000 ANT has been staked into the system, with 247 jurors signing up.

After this historic launch, community members will be conducting a precedence campaign — a series of simulated disputes to stress-test the system.

The next step will be to transition the governance of the entire protocol to ANT holders, who will work on governing the protocol in exchange for a portion of the revenues of Aragon Court.

Evolving Aragon Network governance: With the Aragon Network launch underway, the team is beginning to plan for the next and final phase of the launch process. Read about the Aragon Association’s proposal for evolving Aragon Network governance.

Augur Weekly — New Hampshire to Nevada: A Look at the Week in Political Betting, Augur News, and More.

Further Reading:

Augur Weekly — What Happened in Iowa(?): A Look at the Week in Political Betting, Augur News, and More.

Sponsored Images now available on all Brave platforms, rewarding users who opt into Brave Rewards with 70 percent of the ad revenue: Sponsored Images are now live on all Brave platforms, and they reward Brave users with 70% of the ad revenue when they opt into Brave Rewards. Check out the current campaign with Brave launch partnerBlockFi.

OK Google, don’t delay real browser privacy until 2022. Web browsers should protect your privacy, even when sites want to track you. Using Brave will get you third-party cookie blocking today, and their privacy protections go way beyond third-party cookies. Brave is private by default. Chrome is not.

Brave uncovers widespread surveillance of UK citizens by private companies embedded on UK council websites.

New desktop browser released (1.3.113) with New Tab Page Sponsored Images (70% revenue share for the user), the ability to opt in to privacy-respecting Brave Ads for over 30 new regions, a Chromium upgrade (80.0.3987.87), and many fixes:

Margin trading is now available on Coinbase Pro: Starting February 13th, Coinbase Pro customers in 23 U.S. states can access up to 3x leverage on USD-quoted books.

Digital Gold, Scarcity, and Bitcoin Halvings.

Coinbase Reports: Black Americans & Crypto: Black Americans surveyed by Coinbase are twice as likely to have been negatively impacted by the current financial system; are also more interested in learning about crypto.

Coinbase resources for 2019 tax returns.

Coinbase UK adds support for Cosmos (ATOM).

Trade NFTs on the new Decentraland Marketplace: Premium LANDs and special edition NFTs to be won in launch trading event.

ID goes DI: Introducing a new decentralized identity system for Decentraland.

Matic joins the Decentraland Treasure Hunt 20.02.2020: Score $3000 USD worth of MATIC tokens.

CryptoKitties join the Decentraland Treasure Hunt: 5000 digital cats invade the Metaverse!

Technical updates — 4 Feb, 2020: Releases, improvements and fixes from the Decentraland engine room.

MANA has been added to Coinbase Pro in New York as a fully tradable asset:

The New Dether App is Now Available in Spanish, Russian and French.

District0x’s District Registry is live on mainnet, a TCR for its community.

More than two years ago, the team published a blog post introducing their plans for the core design for The District Registry. At the time, token curated registries (TCR) were still a new and untested concept, with many open unanswered questions about their operation. Fast forward to current time, and both within the district0x project and certainly in the cryptocurrency space at large, they’ve seen a number of examples of TCRs working in a variety of schemes. They are thrilled to add to that history with the launch of their newest dApp, the District Registry, which will house all future districts on the district0x network, and serve as the hub through which all governance processes surrounding the operation of those districts is conducted.

https://registry.district0x.io/

The District Registry is a TCR utilizing the district0x Network Token (DNT) in an incentivized community voting game, determining which marketplaces are in the district0x network, and which aren’t. Voters risk nothing, but are incentivized to be right, while district creators and challengers are putting their DNT at risk of loss to the winning side. On the registry voting side, it’s similar to the DANK registry from Meme Factory.

Submissions for new districts are permissionless, requiring only some relevant identifying information (a website, logo, twitter handle, etc.) and a bit of DNT to get started. However, unlike Meme Factory, a submission to the District Registry is open to challenge at any time.

When districts enter the registry, an Aragon entity is automatically spun up according to the name provided. This entity acts as the surrogate for all governance activity. Through the District Registry interface, DNT holders can stake DNT to any active district, and in doing so, receive voting rights to participate in polls conducted on that particular district’s Aragon entity. These voting rights are minted in proportion to a mathematical “curve”, which the district’s creator selects during the submission process. In the future, the app will support more complex curves to enable even more unique organizational structures.

In short, the District Registry allows DNT holders to put their tokens to work in both policing and governing the network of marketplaces being built in the district0x ecosystem.

The District Weekly — February 15th: News and updates from the district0x Network.

The District Weekly — February 8th.

district0x Dev Update — February 4th, 2020: Development progress and product changes from district0x.

Gitcoin team announced its partnership with Ethereum Classic Labs at ETHDenver last weekend:

Gitcoin Announces Weekly Mini CLR Rounds: These new weekly mini CLR rounds will be funded by Gitcoin’s 10% bounty fee (around $200 a week) and any earning on the platform is eligible for matching:

Tokens, Gaming, and Forking Gardens: How prediction market tools like conditional tokens can change gaming. This post is part of an ongoing Gnosis Ecosystem Fund series on application use cases. If you’re interested in their grants program, get in touch.

Bots on Ethereum, if you can’t beat them, join them! Meet gelato: a no code bot to automate your Ethereum tasks. Tutorial.

Decentralized storage and zkSNARKS — Golem joins the Filecoin trusted setup ceremony: The team thinks that decentralized storage is a key part of the future, and of the internet of the future — as well as decentralized compute, such as the one they build here at Golem.

The shiny new Task API, fleshed out: Now it’s time to dig a little bit deeper into what this is, and what it means for the Golem users. To make this article more dev-oriented, to give Glem users a deeper dive into the API.

tBTC is live on testnet!

Kyber Automated Price Reserve (APR): Capital Efficient, Low Slippage Market Making: Most efficient liquidity contribution method for token teams and individual token holders.

Anatomy of a Bridge Reserve Smart Contract Vulnerability (and how we fixed it).

Kyber Ecosystem Report #11:

Network Stats: What a way to start the year, highest unique number of addresses, highest first time addresses, highest ETH and USD volumes, and highest total number of trades in a single month!

With activity across Kyber reaching all time highs, many integrations saw equally strong growth with Fulcrum and MyEtherWallet both reaching over 250% month-on-month growth:

Loom Universe Bi-Weekly Highlights:

LOOM is now available for trading on CoinbasePro in New York:

Governance Polls: Adjustments to DSR Spread, Dai Stability Fee, Debt Ceiling, Sai Stability Fee, and Surplus Auction — February 17, 2020: The Maker Foundation Interim Risk Team has placed a series of Governance Polls into the voting system which presents a Dai Savings Rate Spread adjustment, a Dai Stability Fee adjustment, a Debt Ceiling adjustment, a Sai Stability Fee adjustment, and a Surplus Auction adjustment.

A Guide to Crypto Wallet Types: This is part four of a six-part Welcome to Crypto series, which will cover everything from the advantages of digital assets and how to buy crypto to how to read cryptocurrency price charts, and why they matter.

Catch up:

Part 1: The Benefits of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology

Part 2: How Does Cryptocurrency Have Value, and Why Should I Care?

Part 3: The Different Types of Cryptocurrency Tokens Explained

Executive Vote: Activate the Sai Debt Ceiling Adjustment and Suspend Monetary Policy Votes for Technical Fixes: The Maker Foundation Interim Governance Facilitator has placed an Executive Vote into the voting system, which will enable the community to approve alterations to the protocol:

The Executive Vote (FAQ) will continue until the number of votes surpass the total in favor of the previous Executive Vote. This is a continuous approval vote.

Dai Integrated as a Payment Option on Coinbase Commerce, Offering the Stablecoin to Millions via Shopify, WooCommerce, and Other Merchants: Last week, Coinbase Commerce, a popular platform that helps merchants accept cryptocurrency payments in a completely decentralized way, has integrated Dai as a payment method. Merchants around the world can now accept Dai as a payment for goods and services in minutes. Moreover, merchants do not pay a fee to use Coinbase Commerce, making onboarding free in addition to simple and secure.

New White Paper Describes the Multi-Collateral Dai System and the New Features of the Maker Protocol.

Pundi X and MakerDAO launch the Crypto Merchant program in LATAM markets:

Data viz on Maker’s Sai to Dai migration success.

MetaMask Monthly: January 2020: Lots of updates from the MetaMask team including an overview of their recent ‘MetaTransaction Challenge’, recapping the recent drama around the MetaMask app being removed from the Google Play Store, what’s new in MetaMask development and more.

How to Swap Crypto in MEW, in 3 Steps or Less.

Introducing Blockchain Powered Marketplace to Monetize Logistics Data: dexFreight and Ocean Protocol are building the first Web3 marketplace for logistics industry to unlock and monetize data.

dexFreight and Ocean Protocol Partner to Enable Transportation and Logistics Companies To Monetize Data: First Web3 omnichannel data marketplace for logistics industry.

Motivation for the Global Initiative on AI and Data Commons: Address to the Global Initiative on AI and Data Commons, at United Nations ITU Headquarters.

Unleash the Potential of Ocean Protocol, Unlock the Power of the Data Economy: The winners of the inaugural Ocean Protocol Data Economy Challenge.

Understanding the Importance of a Smart Contract Audit with Quantstamp!

OMG Network Audit Reports Simplified.

Built on Substrate: KILT Protocol.

Contributors Join OpenEthereum

Town Hall #51 — February 17, 2020: The team launched V1! This week Town hall has a quick thanks from Jarrad and an update on funding. And updates from PeopleOps, Marketing, Ambassadors

Announcing Status Version 1.0! Status version 1 is live — combining a peer-to-peer messenger, cryptocurrency wallet, and Ethereum-enabled browser into a single decentralized, private and secure communication and payment tool.

The Status Mobile App Technology Stack: Status is an open source, decentralised messaging platform, non-custodial crypto wallet, and web 3.0 browser, designed to act as a network node which interacts.

The Status Network Quarterly Report — Q4 2019: The team is recapping thehighlights of 2019 in the Q4 report — a tour through The Status Network looking at all of their work across development, community, and ecosystem.

Managing your ENS name in Status v1: How to reclaim your existing ENS nameRegardless of whether you registered an address in Status, directly through the Ethereum Name Service, or through another provider,

Building Nimbus on Android: Part 2 / Eth 2.

2020 in the Cloud: Predictions from Storj Labs.

Use Cases for the Decentralized Cloud.

Maximizing Bandwidth Earnings for Storage Node Operators.

Quarterly Update: Storj Town Hall January 2020.

Do people want to sell their data? Insights on how to build a successful Data Union. Do people want to sell their data? Will they act collectively to pool and trade their information? New research unlocked answers.

Dev Update, January 2020. Learn about the work going into the Streamr Data Unions (DU) developer framework and more in January’s dev update.

Zilliqa:

Zilliqa Monthly Newsletter — January 2020.

Other project’s updates:

DeFi hit $1 billion USD equivalent locked up!

A spreadsheet of admin keys in DeFi.

DeFi Saver Integrates 0x: DeFi Saver added 0x to the list of decentralized exchanges that they support.

The Colony Public Beta is Live!: Colony is in public beta live on mainnet. Try it now! This is Colony getting started guide. Here are some answers to questions they’re sure will come up. Come and join the conversation on Discord.

Colony Network’s BetaColony — the experimental version of the MetaColony.

The First 10,000 zkDai: The Aztec team created 10,000 zkDAI by depositing $10k DAI into their contract (“skin in the game”).

CelerNetwork releases multi-hop state channels and open sourced the state channels node, as well as launched the testnet for its guardian watchtower network.

Matic’s incentivized testnet is live:

Mattereum’s asset passports are live on mainnet.

Enjin Live on Mainnet: The Enjin all-in-one blockchain development platform went live on the Ethereum mainnet this week.

AirSwap Delegates is live on mainnet. Configure automated trading rules, onchain limit orders, liquidity integration with Kyber, and ability to add new tokens.

China’s Coronavirus Whistleblower Is Now Memorialized on Ethereum: Someone has just created a smart contract on ethereum with source codes in the shape of a monument in memory of Dr. Li Wenliang, the whistleblower of China’s coronavirus outbreak, who died of the disease.

Etherisc to Leverage Chainlink Oracles For Decentralized Flight Insurance Product: Etherisc’s flight insurance app returns on Rinkeby testnet using Chainlink.

Announcing Idle Finance v2: A DeFi rebalancing protocol (an autobalancer similar to Staked’s RAY).

Collateral Swap — swap between Maker collateral (eg, ETH<>BAT) with Aave + Uniswap:

List of DeFiZaps — one click to do a bunch of DeFi actions.

Gauntlet’s analysis of why Uniswap is a good oracle.

Credentify, an API to issue standard European education credentials stacked into ECTS.

Circles’s universal basic income is live on Kovan testnet:

Maple Loans undercollateralized loans through communities with the option to slice up the risk CDO-style.

Zero Collateral loans with cDai, live on mainnet:

Dharma’s dtokens: dTokens are wrapper tokens, similar to rDAI, around Compound cTokens. In short, dTokens are interest-bearing stablecoins denominated in Dai or USD Coin that are backed by their respective cTokens on Compound. 10% of the interest earned by dTokens will be given to Dharma.

Dharma iOS App Live: Dharma’s new iOS App lets you earn 7.3% APR on your dollars by simply linking up your debit card to the app.

Set Community Update #7 — January 2020: Social Trading launched, partnership with DEXTF formed, the ETH 26 EMA Yield Set went live and more from the Set team.

PoolTogether Raises $1 Million: The investment round was led by IDEO CoLab Ventures with participation from ConsenSys Labs and DTC Capital. How PoolTogether selects winners.

DEX.AG Generation 2 Now Live: Key improvements include judge market vs CEXes with live charting, judge market depth to optimally split up orders and see potential arbitrages when markets get crossed.

GridPlus Update: February 7, 2020: Justin Leroux from GridPlus updates us on all the progress that the team has made over the last month including Lattice1 updates, a new web wallet, updates to GridPlus Energy and more.

Ramp Gets Open Banking License in Europe: Ramp, a Warsaw-based start-up, is the first crypto company to receive an Open Banking License in Europe after being authorised by The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (“KNF”). This will allow for faster, simpler and cheaper processing of crypto transactions in the entire European Union.

Introducing Zap Out: Zap Out lets you seamlessly go in and out of liquidity pools on Uniswap with DeFiZap.

mStable Announced: mStable is a protocol for unifying and securing tokenized assets on Ethereum. They’ll be going live on mainnet in the next few months and will include an open reward pool to bootstrap liquidity, utility and a decentralized community of governors.

High Priests Announced: High Priests is a website that allows you to donate money to open source projects on Gitcoin by delegating your funds to “high priests”. The real magic is that these are no-loss donations as only the interest generated on your DAI is donated to projects (through rDAI).

Offchain Labs’ Arbitrum rollup is live on testnet, supports Solidity compiler.

Optimistic Virtual Machine Alpha: how Optimism will offer full EVM support in their optimistic rollups.

Perun’s Ethna: Channel Network with Dynamic Internal Payment Splitting.

StateChannels reduces gas cost by ~75% by reducing all storage to a minimum bytes32 slot.

Opyn Now Live on Mainnet: Opyn allows users to protect their Compound Finance deposits against both technical and financial risk by introducing a two-sided marketplace for tokenized put options called oTokens.

Metacoin. Ameen proposes a solely-ETH collateral, onchain Uniswap oracle, and governance minimized stablecoin.

Nuoscan, a Nuo Network explorer.

AdEx is out of beta, now live for everyone. Advertising platform with instant Dai payouts using unidirectional payment channels.

bZx had an extreme arbitrage event, using flashloans to push the oracle down. bZx will use their admin key to stream the remaining collateral to iEth holders. Check out the data visualization of the transaction from bloxy.info:

Notify Announced: Notify is a notification dapp that works with all Ethereum wallets. You can use it to notify users of updates like liquidations, kittys mated with or whatever you want. Simply call the contract and the user gets the message as a token.

Authereum Now Live: Authereum is an Ethereum wallet interface that comes packed with features and integrations. This week, they went live on the Ethereum mainnet so you can check them out now. They also announced raised $1.1mil from investors.

1inch Releases Leverage Aggregator: 1x.ag is an leverage aggregator with automated trading strategy, lowest price slippage and gas costs. 1inch claims that they can achieve the best results by using flash loans and a liquidation bot.

tBTC on Ropsten: tBTC was launched on the Ropsten Ethereum testnet this week which means users can now play around with the dapp and mint tBTC.

Introducing Splunk Connect for Ethereum: You can now ingest Ethereum node data into Splunk using the Splunk Connect app.

Introducing MetaClan: MetaClan is the first eSports DAO focused on leveraging enhanced play-to-earn mechanics to unlock value for developers, players and spectators.