Projects updates

0x:

Access all DEX liquidity through 0x API: Easily integrate with 0x API to swap tokens at the best prices.

Last week, the team introduced 0x API. They designed the 0x API to make it easy for DeFi developers like you to tap into both off-chain and on-chain DEX liquidity in a fast, reliable, and easy to use way so you can focus on what matters: your product.

With a simple GET call, you can use 0x API to fetch the best price available in the DEX ecosystem for any token. Under the hood, they aggregate liquidity from 0x Mesh and other decentralized exchange networks like Kyber, Uniswap and Oasis, and use smart order routing to find the best prices for you — saving you time and connecting you to more liquidity than any single source can provide. As they build more bridge contracts and more liquidity becomes available, the 0x API automatically upgrades without any additional work on your end.

With 0x API you can:

Get the best rate in the DEX ecosystem for your desired swap with a simple GET call.

Easily execute a swap in your smart contracts with a transaction constructed on your behalf.

Contribute to and access liquidity on the 0x Mesh network through a REST API endpoint.

Abstract away protocol fees and complete transactions on behalf of your users.

Reduce your product development and go to market time.

Leading open finance projects including Nuo, bZx (Fulcrum), Zerion, Topo Finance, DeFi Saver, and more have already begun integrating with 0x API. Join the growing number of projects building on 0x by getting started today at 0x.org/api!

Announcing 0xpo: Win a free ticket to our upcoming conference!

To engage with the builders, investors, and influencers in the ecosystem, the 0x Core Team will be hosting 0xpo, their inaugural conference in San Francisco.

The event will take place on February 7th, 2020 and is invite-only, as their venue’s capacity is limited. However, the team will be recording all of the presentations and posting them on 0x YouTube channel shortly after the event.

They confirmed an amazing speaker lineup, including leaders such as Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Burniske, Linda Xie, Joey Krug, Arianna Simpson, and more. For invitees, the team hopes you can join them for a day of networking and presentations about 0x vision of a tokenized world.

Check out our fantastic speaker lineup and agenda at 0xpo.com

0x Team Hackathon II: A recap of 0x’s internal hackathon — December 2019

0x internal hackathon was limited to 24 hours and the entire 0x Core Team was encouraged to participate. There were no specific guidelines or restrictions around what teams could build. In the last hackathon, projects ranged from smart contract implementations to an educational video. After all the projects were submitted, the 0x Core Team voted on winners in several categories:

Best Technical Project: Awarded to the most impressive technical project.

Best Non-technical Project: Awarded to the most impressive non-technical project.

Most Ready to Launch: Awarded to the project that could potentially be shipped tomorrow.

Most Liquid: Awarded to the project that has the highest potential to increase liquidity for 0x and the DEX space.

Judges Choice: We were honored to have Jill Carson (Principal at Slow Ventures), Linda Xie (Co-founder & Managing Director of Scalar Capital), and Robert Leshner (CEO of Compound) join us as our judges. They reviewed all the projects and selected their favorite.

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Aragon:

Discover Aragon Fundraising: Aragon Fundraising is a key pillar of Aragon Court — it allows people to get ANJ by continuously locking ANT. Thanks to the flexibility of aragonOS, Aragon Fundraising can be configured to accommodate different funding and governance mechanisms.

For example, in Aragon Court’s case, the locked ANT stays in the bonding curve, so ANT always backs ANJ. However, you could configure Aragon Fundraising so that the members of a decentralized organization can vote to withdraw some of the bonding curve’s assets to support the development of the project, reward contributions, pay salaries…

Aragon Fundraising enables myriads of use cases — from the native token of a crypto protocol such as Aragon Court, patronage, and donations to accountable fundraising or even continuous organizations.

The smart contracts behind Aragon Fundraising have been audited and already power Aragon Court. A frontend and template are also launching, which are experimental. Aragon Fundraising smart contracts are covered under the bug bounty program up to $250k.

You can now try Aragon Fundraising by creating a decentralized organization on Aragon and choosing the “Fundraising” template.

Read intro to Aragon Fundraising | Read documentation for Aragon Fundraising

Augur:

Augur v2 Bug Bounty Program: The Forecast Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the public Augur v2 bug bounty program. Security is the number one priority in the Augur contracts, and now they’re seeking help from the community in finding bugs and vulnerabilities prior to deployment.

Augur Weekly — Expert Political Trader Shares His Iowa Predictions & 538 vs. Markets: A Look at the Week in Political Betting, Augur News, and More.

Around the Ecosystem:

Augur v2 Bug Bounty Program. The Forecast Foundation is seeking the community’s help in finding bugs and vulnerabilities prior to deployment. Critical bugs pay $25k.

Augur’s Flippening. Ben Davidow of The Augur Edge details the effects of liquidity at both extremes, its exponential nature, and how it relates to Augur v2.

Sports Betting Markets & Crypto Market Thoughts w/ Pantera CIO Joey Krug.

Aztec:

Launching Aztec: privacy on Ethereum has arrived. On February 2nd, the Aztec team launched its privacy network on Ethereum! You can incorporate zkDai into your dApp today using their SDK.

Over the coming six weeks the team will release other zk Tokens onto the network, and in two months’ time they will remove restrictions so you can make completely private custom assets from scratch.

Aztec has deployed the two core components of its technology today:

Aztec Crypto Engine (ACE) — Aztec smart contract validator on Ethereum mainnet, checking the correctness of every private transaction

Privacy SDK — abstracts away the complexities of Aztec’s cryptography, so developers can integrate privacy into their dapps with ease

Basic Attention Token:

What’s Brave Done For My Privacy Lately-Episode #1: Web Resource Replacements (replacing tracking code with privacy-preserving code that keeps sites working well).

Brave 1.0 Performance: Methodology and Results.

Google and IAB’s inadequate proposals to reform RTB.

Coinbase:

Coinbase Custody Officially Launches Internationally: Coinbase Custody will now offer its institutional-grade crypto asset storage to clients through Europe via a regional base of operations in Dublin, Ireland.

Welcome Surojit Chatterjee, Coinbase’s Chief Product Officer.

Decentraland:

Avatar Wearables Design Contest: Your outfit design could be made virtual by the Decentraland Art Team.

Back to the polls. Two new Agora votes!: Decide on crucial Marketplace and LAND weight issues.

Decentraland Public Launch. On 20.02.2020 fully decentralized shared virtual world becomes a reality. Decentraland, the first-ever blockchain-based virtual world, is going live to the public.

The launch includes the establishment of the Decentraland DAO, full decentralization of the world’s infrastructure (communications between users and the serving of content), and, most importantly, public access to the very best the Metaverse has to offer. From now on, no single agent will have the power to modify the rules of the software, curate LAND content, modify the economics of MANA, upgrade the LAND smart contract unilaterally, or prevent others from accessing the world, among other decentralization features.

The team is celebrating the Public Launch with a gigantic ‘in-world’ Treasure Hunt.

It’s a four day event where you will explore their first metropolis, Genesis City, to find collectible NFTs and tokens from a host of cool crypto partners.

While it’s the culmination of over two years of development, testing and amazing contributions from the dedicated community, the Public Launch is also the beginning of an exciting new era for Decentraland.

Stay tuned for more announcements and information. And if you haven’t done so already, remember to create your Decentraland Avatar.

Dether:

district0x:

The District Weekly — February 1st: News and updates from the district0x Network.

The District Weekly — January 25th.

district0x Dev Update — January 21st, 2020: Development progress and product changes from district0x.

Gitcoin:

Gitcoin Grants Round 4 Results:

As a reminder on the structure, there were two pools of funding to allocate in Gitcoin Grants Round 4 using the Liberal Radicalism mechanism.

The Media Pool ($75,000). Supports media, community, and marketing projects

The Technology Pool ($125,000). Supports Ethereum infrastructure projects spanning ETH 2.0, decentralized finance (DeFi), crypto wallets, UX.

With $200,000 for grabs, here’s what happened in just over two weeks, from January 6th, 2020 to January 21st, 2020.

$143,642 in funds were committed by the Ethereum Community. This, plus the $200,000 in matching funds results in $343,642 to Ethereum projects for this CLR round.

5,936 contributions were made to 230 open source Ethereum projects

1,115 unique Ethereum community members participated in the funding round

This was a huge jump from Round 3 (see Vitalik’s review here), almost doubling all major numbers. From 80 projects to 230 projects. From 477 contributors to 1,115 contributors. From 1,982 contributions to 5,936 (!).

Before looking ahead, let’s take a closer look at the top five projects from the tech and media rounds to see who the community rallied around in highest concentration.

The Top 5 Tech Grants:

Media Round:

Gitcoin’s 2020 CLR Plans:

First and foremost, Gitcoin plans to distribute the funds for Gitcoin Grants Round 4 no later than 2/3/2019.

From there, Gitcoin looks — with the support of the Ethereum Foundation and other matching partners — to run at least quarterly rounds in 2020, with a planned 4 CLR rounds. The hope is the regularly scheduled rounds will help grantees use these funds not only as additional donations, but as a strong source of funding for their operations in the Ethereum community. A rough schedule for the rest of the year is below.

Q2 Match: March 16th — March 30th

Q3 Match: June 15th — June 29th

Q4 Match: September 14th — September 28th

The goal is to allocate at least $1.5MM (via matching + community contributions) to Ethereum infrastructure during this time — and the team is well on their way with $344K with developers in the first month.

Gnosis:

Announcing the first dFusion Bug Bounty: Find the bugs, get rewarded. Earn up to $50,000 for every bug you report.

Gnosis in 2019, 2020, and Beyond: The year in review and a hint of what’s ahead.

In the glow of futures imagined three decades prior, 2019 was a learning experience for Gnosis. The team worked hard and launched several products.

dxDAO Decentralized Governance: They initialized and stepped back from the dxDAO in Q2 of this year. During the initialization period, over 400 participants locked 20 million USD equivalent in ETH and ERC20s to earn voting power in the DAO. Today, the dxDAO is run by a small and dedicated independent community who have rebranded the DAO and continue to use it as a tool to govern DEXs (decentralized exchanges). In fact, only weeks ago, Kleros and the dxDAO published a joint announcement about their TCR and DEX token listings. The team is proud that the dxDAO was one of the first in hopefully a long line of experiments to give governance of software protocols over to their users, or in the words of Nathan Schneider, providing an option for platforms to “exit to community.”

DEXs: In Q1, Gnosis team deployed on Mainnet their first proof of concept DEX, the DutchX trading protocol. The DutchX uses an auction mechanism designed to handle large volume orders with minimal slippage. Today, the dxDAO governs the DutchX, including parameters such as its auction thresholds, token listings, and interfaces. While they’re glad the DutchX trading protocol’s use continues with the dxDAO, the team did not find the user base they anticipated while designing the protocol. This launch was ultimately our most valuable lesson of the year, reinforcing the need to build more modular tools that are more closely aligned with the community’s needs. You can read more below on how the team is incorporating this lesson into development cycles for the launch of the new DEX protocol in 2020.

Sight Prediction Markets: In Q4, the Sight prediction market platform launched in closed beta. Sight is the first regulated, blockchain-based prediction market platform, providing users with peace of mind regarding source of funds and market resolution. Sight builds on the conditional tokens framework, which means that its outcome tokens are interoperable and can share a liquidity pool with other prediction markets built on the framework. The team hopes to see conditional tokens become an open standard for prediction markets and many other use cases that require complex events to be registered on a blockchain.

Gnosis Safe Multisig: Additionally in Q4, the team launched the Gnosis Safe Multisig, the successor to the community-favorite, original Gnosis multi-signature wallet, which currently stores over 1B USD equivalent in crypto funds. The Gnosis Safe Multisig boasts of added security, with audited and formally verified contracts, usability, with over six months of user testing, and modularity by design. They strongly recommend moving your funds from the original multi-signature wallet to the Gnosis Safe Multisig for continued maintenance and new features, like the support of new ERC standard tokens. You can set your Safe Multisig up in less than 60 seconds here: https://gnosis-safe.io.

Gnosis Ecosystem Fund and Community: The team held their second annual DappCon, a conference in Berlin focused on Ethereum development and applications, and tickets for DappCon 2020 will go on sale in March. Their co-founded workspace for blockchain and web 3.0 initiatives Full Node continues to be the heart of the community in Berlin, and this year they’re excited to announce a new, monthly public event series. Finally, the grants program the Gnosis Ecosystem Fund received 40 applications and funded 12 projects building on Gnosis.

Read more>>>

Golem:

Brass Golem Beta 0.22.1: In case you missed it, just two weeks ago the team released Brass Golem 0.22 and with it, launched the Concent Service and the usage-based marketplace to mainnet and our new Task API to testnet.

Keep Network:

Kyber Network:

Kyber is coming to ETHDenver, USA!: Build with Kyber! Take part in our ETHDenver hackathon bounties from 14–16 Feb.

Ampleforth (AMPL) is now available on Kyber Network!

Global Digital Content (GDC) is now available on Kyber Network.

Loom Network:

Maker DAO:

Making Maker: January 2020.

Executive Vote: Activate Sai Debt Ceiling, Sai, and Dai Stability Fee Adjustments.

Governance Polls: DSR Spread Adjustment, Dai Stability Fee Adjustment, Debt Ceiling Adjustment, Sai Stability Fee Adjustment — January 27, 2020.

The Benefits of Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology. The new year arrived on the heels of Multi-Collateral Dai, which has attracted many new people from around the world to Maker. To help these new users learn all they can about crypto, blockchain tech, Dai, and everything the Maker Protocol has to offer, the team begins a 6-part Welcome to Crypto series. The series 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. Dig in!

MetaMask:

MetaTransaction Hackathon Winner!

Judging the Generalized MetaTransaction Contest.

MyEtherWallet:

Welcoming Unstoppable Domains to MEW! Have you gotten yourself a blockchain domain name yet? No more excuses–make your wallet more secure, AND make it fashion.

Blockchain Domain Names Leading Crypto Out of Obscurity. MEW is preparing for the ENS registry upgrade, with a release going out in the next few days. Users who own domains don’t need to do anything, however, please be aware that MEW’s ENS manager will be disabled February 3rd through February 5th to support the migration.

Ocean Protocol:

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

OmiseGo:

OmiseGO January 2020 Roundup: The team hits a major milestone this month by completing the audits of the contracts in their plasma framework. They engaged two auditors to find issues in their implementation and check the voracity of the contracts. The audit reports are ready and they’ll be releasing these to the public in the coming weeks. To know more about what they’re up to next, read blockchain update 35.

This month, the team attended the 4th edition of Bangkok Enterprise Blockchain. Organised by Atato, this meeting focused on sharing real-world experiences of using blockchain for business, and how user experience can be improved to encourage adoption.

There, OmiseGo Head of Commercial Units, Alexei Schaller, gave a presentation on “Enterprise Applications of the OMG Network.” He spoke about the ways OMG Network can help big businesses with things like exchange of assets, auditability requirements, and more.

OmiseGO — AMA 29 with Vansa & Kasima:

Parity:

Check out our biweekly update on Polkadot.

Check out our biweekly update on Polkadot.

Raiden Network:

Status:

February 3, 2020 — Town Hall # 50.

Nimbus Awarded Follow-up Grant from Ethereum Foundation to Continue R&D on Eth2.0 Client and New Expansion Projects. The Nimbus team has been awarded $650k to continue work on the completion of a public multi-client ready testnest, further auditing, and preparations for production use.

Status V1 the messenger of choice 2020.

Storj:

Announcing Early Access For Tardigrade:The team announced their Tardigrade decentralized cloud storage service is finally ready for production workloads. They’re welcoming the first paying customers to experience the advantages of decentralized cloud storage with an early access release (RC 1.0). They expect a complete production launch this quarter, at which time the team will remove the waitlist and open user registration to all.

With this release, Tardigrade users can expect:

Full service level agreements: For both the early access release and the production launch, Tardigrade users can expect 3 9s of availability (99.9%) and 9 9s of durability (99.9999999%).

1TB credits for storage and bandwidth: All users who signed up for the waitlist will receive this credit after adding a STORJ token balance or credit card to their account. All waitlist credits will expire after one full billing cycle after Storj production launch, so claim them now so you don’t miss out! After users utilize their credits, they’ll be charged for their usage.

1TB limits on storage and bandwidth: During this early access period, all accounts will have limits of 1TB for both their static storage usage and their monthly bandwidth. Submit a request through our support portal if you need to increase this limit.

Backward compatibility: Developers building on top of Tardigrade can expect their applications to have full backward compatibility with the general availability production launch.

Streamr:

News: The Avast scandal shows us that users need to capture the value of their data themselves.

Zilliqa: