October 4, 2017

Ethereum News and Links



Project Transparency: “voluntary initiative aims to encourage disclosure of wallets controlled by a project and provide a voluntary explanation of any expenditure greater than 0.5%” Participant list so far: Aragon, Cofound.it, District0x, Encrypgen, Etherisc, Hcash, Iconomi, Indorse, Lykke, Santiment, Dappbase, GATCOIN, Iconiq Lab, Virgil Capital, Musiconomi and Maecenas. This exercise in industry self-regulation is being led by Santiment. Hopefully more projects join.





Protocol

Casper finality gadget with one message type, and simpler fork choice rule

ELI5 the finality gadget by Nate Rush



Light client protocol v2

Vitalik: “Plasma trades off in a different direction: if there is an attack, then it will take O(N / C) time for everyone to withdraw back to the root chain, so the higher the scaling the more an attacker can cause delays”

Vitalik: “quadratic sharding is largely figured out at least theoretically”

How does Ethereum work anyway? by Preethi Kasireddy was fantastic If you want to brush up on the basics of Ethereum. Or send to your friends.





Stuff for developers





Releases

Geth v1.7.1 - now with Snappy compression

Mist v0.9.1 - security fix and light client integration





Ecosystem





Project Announcements





Project Updates





Interviews and Talks





Token Sales





Token Sale Projects





General





Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:

Upcoming token sale start dates:

Ongoing token sales:

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.

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 If you’re interested in what I do, you can find my somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]





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